Apple "A Little Help from My Friends" - Social Media, Not Search, Drives Sales of Beatles on iTunes Billboard has released the sales figures from the first week of the Beatles in the iTunes store: more than 450,000 albums and 2 million individual songs have been sold via iTunes worldwide. The Beatles were one of the best-known holdouts whose music was not available on iTunes, and while the response from consumers may or may not be what it… Audrey Watters View comments
Real World Waiting for the End of the World, Korea-Style The artillery shelling of the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong on Nov. 23 has captured the attention of the world - then set it on edge. In a media-saturated era like our own, we have no end of resources for staying current with the continuing, and increased, conflict between North and South on the Korean peninsula. But a surfeit can be… Curt Hopkins View comments
P2P Swedish Court Upholds Conviction in Pirate Bay File-Sharing Case The verdict against three people assoiated with the BitTorrent tracking site Pirate Bay was upheld by the Swedish Appeal Court today. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström were found guilty of "contributory copyright infringment" in April, but the group appealed the sentence - which included one year in prison and a sizable fine… Audrey Watters View comments
Nokia Weekly Poll: Are Nokia's Changes Working? This week, Nokia provided an update on its Ovi Store's momentum, in terms of downloads. The company said it's now seeing 3 million application downloads per day, up from 2 million back in September. Over the past 12 months, 400,000 new developers have joined its Forum Nokia developer network and its Qt Software Development Kit (SDK) has been… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Browsers Google Chrome to Support Multiple Simultaneous Profiles If you ever share a computer with a friend or family member, you've probably experienced the challenge of remembering who is logged in to accounts on Google or other services. Users of Google's excellent Chrome browser will be happy to hear that now in the works is a simple feature that will allow multiple browser windows to run different Google… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments