Amazon.com’s deep discounting
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Amoeba arose out of that community of music lovers that wanted a better place for music than a corporate chain store
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one with the widest possible selection, better service, and more respect for people’s ideas and lives.”
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HMV chief executive Simon Fox reported that CDs currently account for about a quarter of HMV’s business
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If HMV merely maintains its share of the shrinking CD pie over the next three years, the company projects its annual revenues from CDs to fall to £120 million
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1 million subscribers in Europe already pay the monthly premium subscription fee, while more than 10 million users go the free route.
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Billboard reported that Spotify in just three weeks amassed at least 1 million total US users, and 70,000 paid subscribers in the first week
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ny labels or musicians who want to make money from CDs better wow buyers with unforgettable packaging
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consumers have demonstrated that they’re willing to sacrifice sound quality for convenience and portability.
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enough audiophiles – and videophiles for that matter – to sustain an entertainment ecosystem to cater to their needs?
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Huawei, ZTE and Ericsson to Dominate Telecom Infrastructure Equipment Market - or not? ... - 0 views
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f you look at Alcatel Lucent or Nokia Siemens Networks, their growth rate is flat or shrinking, and even market leader Ericsson has a slow growth
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ricsson is in a better position than its European- American and Japanese rivals to resist the Chinese led onslaught, as its economies of scale give it higher sales and better profit margins.
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U.S. concerns about Huawei go back several years, and focus on the opacity of its books (finances are not transparent) and ownership structure (Chinese government?)
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Digital Scotland 2020: Achieving World-Class digital infrastructure: a final report to ... - 0 views
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"4.4 Rural coverage and take-Up With a population density almost an order of magnitude greater than Scotland's, South Korea does not provide many lessons in rural coverage. However, Australia does. Its overall density is 1/20th Scotland's with vast tracks of land populated by less than one person per ten square kilometers and in some cases per hundred square kilometers. As a result Australia has not been able to escape the urban-rural digital divide, which, as already noted, is embodied in its two-track fast broadband deployment strategy. A large 93% of the population will have access to 100 Mbps service, according to the NBN plan, while the remaining 7%--in rural and remote areas-is being promised up to 12 Mbps only.[6]NBN simply assumes that rural and remote areas do not justify FTTH and that they will be served by fixed wireless and satellite technologies. On the mobile side, on the other hand, Australia has relied on competition between its mobile operators (reduced to three after a consolidation) to extend service beyond urban areas. This has generally produced limited results. Subsidies for better coverage have been applied at the state level, however, with Western Australia being an instructive example. Specifically, the Western Australia government conducted a reverse auction tender to improve mobile coverage in selected areas, which resulted in Telstra, the main incumbent operator, securing A$39.2 million in government aid (on top of committing A$106 million of its own funds) for this purpose. Like Australia, Sweden has large unpopulated areas to serve, yet cannot rely on new-generation satellites, which do not reach these areas. Initially Sweden relied on HSPA mobile coverage but it has recently added a national coverage requirement in the context of its 4G (LTE) spectrum auction. Specifically, the Swedish regulator identified rural homes and businesses that need to be covered, requiring 75% of the indicated homes and businesses to be covered by Decemb
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What is Video Streaming? | LongTail Video | Home of the JW Player - 1 views
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if the connection speed drops below the minimum bandwidth needed for the video, playback will be continuously interrupted.
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has specific server and protocol requirements, which makes it less accessible and adds significant complexity and cost
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Why doesn't the Apple App Store give download figures? Would the truth be unA... - 0 views
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This is the third in our series of six app-related articles. See also: • It’s all about the design. Essential tips from user experience gurus • Mobile applications: native v Web apps – what are the pros and cons? • What is a mobile Web app? Here’s expert opinion from the W3C • The open market approach: Q&A with GetJar, the No1 independent app store • How museums bring collections to life with augmented reality
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extra cost of adding a second and third smartphone platform is 30-50 percent of the original investment.
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, mobiThinking is not alone in querying the economics of the App Store model: see Tomi Ahonen. And this honest first-hand app experience from Tom Hume, a design director at a London agency called IDEO, is fascinating.
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What we don’t know is: was it was kept for a year, month, week or day, or did it go straight in the bin.
UK Mobile Network Operator Subscriber Data Charts and Tables - 0 views
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Overview of International Film Markets and Theatrical Distribution - Skillset - 0 views
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average number of times that each person in North America went to the cinema in 2002 was 5.7, double the frequency of attendance in the UK
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Sony Qriocity service takes on Apple iTunes with streaming music and video | Technology... - 0 views
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Femtocell, picoArray, picoXcell, wireless, 3G - 0 views
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ABI Research forecasts that the total femtocell market in 2010 will reach 2.3 million units, and will exceed 45 million within five years.
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Vudu is Apple TV's greatest threat in online movie sales | News | Rapid TV News - 0 views
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Apple's market share is slipping: it accounted for nearly three-quarters ( 74.4%) of all online movie sales in 2009. Its competitors are taking a few bites here and there: Microsoft has increased its market share from 11.6% to 17.9%. It offers titles via the X-Box 360 and Microsoft Zune. Sony, which sells movies online through the PlayStation 3 player and select Sony Bravia HDTVs, has gone from 5.7 % to 7.2% in 2010. The rest of the bunch accounts collectively for 10.4% of the market, up from 8.3% in 2009--and that includes Wal-Mart's Vudu se
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iSuppli said online movie sales increased 60%in 2010, but the company did not release actual sales numbers
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Xbox 360 Extends Lead Over PS3 | Gaming News and Opinion at TheSixthAxis.com - 0 views
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This table shows the millions of unit sales for the current consoles from The Big Three™ during each of the last four quarters and forms the basis for the first two graphs
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Kinect has undoubtedly provided a big boost to the 360′s sales it is simply a question of whether Microsoft can show enough desirable Kinect games to continue the momentum.