It may be still on the receiving end of funding, but the biggest name in music streaming is still without profitability. Pushing the labels towards a lower price might help, but will the labels bite?
Roozt is a new online shopping aggregator site. But where other sites have morally dubious consumerism at their core, Roozt is all about collecting cause-related shopping in one place.
I'll bet that the last time you called a repairman to come fix something in your house, you were stuck with a bill in the ballpark of $250 and an annoying revelation: I could have done that. After all, the dude probably just pulled some tube from his truck and slotted in to your washing machine, taking all of five minutes to do so. (Note: This actually just happened to me.) The truth, of course, is that you probably could not have fixed the problem.
I'll bet that the last time you called a repairman to come fix something in your house, you were stuck with a bill in the ballpark of $250 and an annoying revelation: I could have done that. After all, the dude probably just pulled some tube from his truck and slotted in to your washing machine, taking all of five minutes to do so. (Note: This actually just happened to me.) The truth, of course, is that you probably could not have fixed the problem.
Paywalls may be working for the New York Times, but other publishers looking for a digital lifeline may not want to rely on them. Still, what's the alternative? Google has quietly cooked one up that asks online readers to answer one market-research question as a "toll" for accessing content. Nieman Journalism Lab is calling it a "survey wall" model. It's like a micropayment, but with attention and data instead of cash out of your pocket.
Sprint is integrating Google's Voice digital telephony protocol into its cell phone network offerings. Did Google just insert an important crack in the cell phone industry that it'll lever open later?
There are millions of bad photographers with mobile devices running around documenting everything from children to street crimes and putting those photos online somewhere for safe keeping and sharing. I wonder where the business model is.
AT&T's iPhone tariffs just got a big makeover ... or possibly a downgrade in performance, depending on how you look at it. The iPhone 4 is driving the changes, and it actually tells us a lot about how we'll use 4G smartphones.
