Amazon, Wal-Mart and other music retailers follow iTunes into variable pricing land
obsessable.com 4/8/2009 — Record labels succeed in forcing MP3 retailers to kowtow to their filler strategy of yore with the new popularity tax. Following hot on the heels of Apple's announcement bringing variable track pricing to the iTunes Music Store , MP3 retailers Amazon, Wal-Mart and others announced this morning ...

Amazon and Wal-Mart MP3 Stores Adopt Variable Pricing
macrumors.com 4/9/2009 — Just after Apple instituted variable pricing for music in the iTunes Store, Electronista noticed that Amazon and Wal-Mart have followed suit in their MP3 download stores. The quiet price hike confirms that Apple's unofficial switchove...

F-Secure: Swine Flu Fears Fanned By Spammers
f-secure.com 4/28/2009 — Using messages designed to exploit worries about the swine flu outbreak -- a technique known as social engineering -- spammers are trying to infect computers, steal information, and drive online pharmacy sales.

compare the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3 script
advantageousmp3.com 4/7/2009 — how does it work? download Download and install Advantageous mp3 for Windows. It is free of charge. Start Start the program from your start menu. Tray Advantageous mp3 will appear as icon in your taskbar. It is the blue cross near the time. Browse ...

Streaming Audio Recorder - The best record software to download streaming music and online music
huludownloader.com 6/4/2009 — Streaming Audio Recorder is designed for you to download and record streaming music, online music. Thus, you will never be bothered by recording streaming audio.

Amazon finds niche in iTunes-dominant market
news.cnet.com 4/7/2009 — The NPD Group just sent out some interesting statistics, based on a study conducted by its music-tracking service. "In 2008, 87 percent of digital-music buyers in the U.S. used iTunes to download music, versus just 16 percent who ...

Amazon Doesn’t Want to Sell Music to Pirates
torrentfreak.com 5/1/2009 — When we first reported on Coda.fm we praised the site for its great design and functionality. It has a full-blown recommendation engine that makes it a great tool to discover new music and its ease of use is superior to that of most industry ...

How to extract mp3 music from YouTube videos?
social.msdn.microsoft.com 4/24/2009 — This tutorial will show you how to download videos from YouTube and convert youtube to MP3/WMA/AAC format so you can put YouTube music on your mp3 player or mobile phone and enjoy them anytime and anywhere.

PSA: Advantageous auto-checks Amazon MP3 pricing from iTunes
engadget.com 4/8/2009 — So now that iTunes variable pricing is live , cross-shopping with Amazon is going to be a Thing -- and while we're certain slicker utilities will pop up soon, for right now we'd install Advantageous, which is just a little script that automates an ...

iTunes Store now infected with variable pricing, Amazon still $0.99
engadget.com 4/7/2009 — As promised, variable pricing has now been implemented at the iTunes music store. Already, we're seeing most of top 10 singles hitting the top price-point of $1.29 (encoded as DRM-free 256kbps AAC). Interesting as Amazon's uncomfortably similar top ...

Amazon.com buys Stanza e-book app maker Lexcycle — SFGate: Technology 4/28/2009
Kindle e-book retailer Amazon.com Inc. has purchased Lexcycle, a year-old company that makes the iPhone e-book application Stanza, in a move that ratchets up Amazon's presence in the electronic book market. Financial terms weren't disclosed. Stanza ...

Is Demand Slowing For Amazon Web Services? — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 4/28/2009
In the first quarter of 2009, Amazon's net sales surged 18% to $4.9 billion, fueled by sales of electronics and other general merchandise, which jumped 38% compared to a year ago. Holding the company back, however, was its "other" sales category, ...

Amazon Acquires Stanza E-Book Reader: Superior Selection Meets Superior Software — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 4/28/2009
The other day, I tweeted that it would be awesome if the Amazon Kindle store sold books through the Stanza iPhone app. Yesterday, Amazon acquired Lexcycle , the company behind Stanza. I must never use this power for evil.

Amazon eats open ebook reader — The Register 4/28/2009
Doubles up on iPhone Amazon has acquired Lexcycle , maker of the popular Stanza (iTunes link) ebook software for the iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, Windows PCs - and Amazon's own Kindle 2 .… Whitepaper - Protecting small business server and other ...

Amazon to offer free cloud services to academics — Latest from Computerworld 4/29/2009
Amazon is offering students, researchers and lecturers use of its hosted computing services.