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Twitter Users More Likely to Buy Music
Written on 24 Jun, 2009 at 11:51 in Entertainment, Featured | viewed 493 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Record labels looking for customers should focus their efforts on the Twitter faithful, according to new data from NPD Group. About 33 percent of Twitter users have purchased a physical CD and 34 percent have bought a digital download in the last three months, the report said. About 23 percent of non-Twitter users bought a CD and 16 percent purchased digital downloads. Users of the micro-blogging site are also less likely to conserve their cash - people on Twitter purchased 77 percent more digital downloads than those not on the site. Full Story : Appscout.com…..
Woman fined to tune of $1.9 million for illegal download
Written on 19 Jun, 2009 at 12:23 in Featured, General | viewed 260 views times and users have made 1 comment so far
A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each — a total of $1.9 million — for 24 songs. Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s case was the first such copyright infringement case to go to trial in the United States, her attorney said. Attorney Joe Sibley said that his client was shocked at the fine, noting that the price tag on the songs she downloaded was 99 cents. Full Story : CNN.com….
Safari 4 Downloads Top 11 Million in Three Days
Written on 13 Jun, 2009 at 14:09 in Featured, Technology | viewed 221 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Apple® today announced that more than 11 million copies of Safari® 4 browser have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows. Safari 4 includes Top Sites, Full History Search, to search through titles, web addresses and the complete text of recently viewed pages; and Cover Flow®, to easily flip through web history or bookmarks. Other innovative features include Smart Address Fields for automatically completing web addresses from an easy to read list of suggestions; Search Fields, to fine tune searches with recommendations from Google Suggest or a list of recent searches; and Full Page Zoom, for a closer look at any website without degrading the quality of the site’s layout and text. Full Story : Apple.com…
Mininova Adds Another Billion Torrent Downloads
Written on 12 Apr, 2009 at 19:36 in Featured, Technology | viewed 468 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Mininova, one of the world’s most visited BitTorrent sites, broke another download record today. Just a few hours ago the download counter displayed a staggering 8,000,000,000 downloads. That’s enough for everyone on planet earth to have one - and then some. Full Story : Torrentfreak.com………
Apple Begins Countdown to 1 Billion IPhone Apps Downloaded
Written on 10 Apr, 2009 at 12:05 in Featured, Technology | viewed 301 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Apple posted a Web page on Friday counting down (or actually counting up) to the one billion app downloaded milestone on the App Store. In addition to the one billionth app download, Apple has posted the top 20 apps of all time on the App Store. Full Story : PCWorld.com….
95% of the Music downloads are illegal
Written on 30 Jan, 2009 at 18:55 in Entertainment | viewed 406 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
After a three year study in 16 countries,IFPI has determined that almost 95% of the music downloaded on internet are illegal. A staggering 40 billion music files were illegally file-shared in 2008 alone. On the positive side, digital music expanded last year by 25% to $3.7 billion in trade value. Singles track downloads which grew by 24% to 1.4 billion in 2008, drive the online music market. The growing consensus toward DRM-free music makes future of the industry little brighter. DRM(Digital Rghts Management) refers to technologies which attempt to control use of digital media by preventing access, copying or conversion to other formats by end users.
Free Crossover Mac Pro all day Today
Written on 28 Oct, 2008 at 9:51 in Technology | viewed 877 views times and users have made 1 comment so far
CrossOver Mac lets you install many popular Windows applications and games on your Intel-based Mac running OS X. Codeweavers, the creator of the software offered a lame duck challenge to George W. Bush, if the president achieved one of six “Lame Duck” goals during end of his 2nd term, codeweavers would make Windows-API enabler & WINE GUI CrossOver application free to customers for one day. Fortunately(or unfortunately) the global economic condition brought the average price per gallon in Minneapolis down to the target $2.79 which is one of the goals of the challenge. As promised Codeweavers offer all of their application free to download today. Due to overwhelming traffic their website is down right now, but you can still get a serial number which can be used for the next 48 hours to activate the applications.