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NIN's Music Experiment Sells Big Numbers 452

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday March 05, 2008 @05:05AM from the take-that-publishers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like Trent Reznor's new Nine Inch Nails album experiment is a success. Among the various options he gave fans, the most expensive was the $300 Limited Edition Ultra Deluxe Package. It took just over a day for that package to completely sell out, earning Reznor $750,000 in revenue from just that option alone."

Submission + - HDNet's Mark Cuban Supports Comcast P2P Blocking

Submitted by Mark Chisholm on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @11:32AM

Mark Chisholm writes: HDNet Chairman and Dallas Maverick owner Mark Cuban wrote in support of Comcast's P2P Blocking on his blog:
"BLOCK P2P TRAFFIC , PLEASE. As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are P2P freeloaders. Thats right, P2P content distributors are nothing more than freeloaders. The only person/organization that benefits from P2P usage are those that are trying to distribute content and want to distribute it on someone else's bandwidth dime."

Submission + - Ron Paul sets record $4.3 M in online fundraising

Submitted by

rebmaster

on Tuesday November 06, 2007 @07:47AM

rebmaster writes: "Sure, Ron Paul stories tend to be over-submitted (and occasionally over-hyped). But this is real, BIG news.

In one day (Nov. 5th) — Ron Paul has raised over $4,200,000.00 — mostly by online direct donations from over 37,000 individual donors. (These are not "pledges" — it is "money in the bank.")

Paul's total deposed Mitt Romney as the all-time single-day fundraising record holder in the Republican presidential field.

There's a lot of Internet major media news postings about it, but they tend to be inaccurate and/or biased. (Typical!)
The AP story is one of the more accurate."

Submission + - Former Enron Broadband CEO sentenced

Submitted by maximus1 on Monday June 18, 2007 @04:22PM

maximus1 writes: The former CEO of Enron Broadband, Kenneth Rice, was sentenced to more than two years in prison and ordered to cough up about $15 million, according to this article. Rice pleaded guilty in July 2004 to a securities fraud charge, and the $15 million will go to victims of the fraud at Enron Corp.

Submission + - MS attempts to challenge Adobe's Web design suite (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

PetManimal

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @03:27PM

PetManimal writes: "Computerworld has published an analysis of Microsoft's challenge to Adobe's suite of Web-design and development software. The MS products are part of the $600 Expression Studio, which includes a bunch of different tools such as the successor to FrontPage (Expression Web) and a competitor to Adobe Illustrator (Expression Design). The reviewer found the functionality of the individual tools to be "not bad", and the price is great, but pointed to two major shortcomings: A lack of an image editing program and the failure of the Expression Studio products to really work together:

It's hard not to see Expression Studio as less a true 'suite' than a collection of products that have been co-branded after the fact — partly because Microsoft's other suite, Office, is so tightly knit in comparison. It's tough to see how the products in Expression Studio fit into a single integrated workflow or how they can all be used together, aside from creating XAML applications for Web sites.
The review also notes that these programs support Silverlight, the partially open-source technology that is meant to go up against Flash."

Submission + - EBay pulls from Google AdWords (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

InfoWorldMike

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @03:25PM

InfoWorldMike writes: "EBay has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google AdWords network in the U.S in an eyebrow-raising move likely to be interpreted in the industry as a sign of deteriorating relations between the two Internet giants. An eBay spokesman characterized the decision to pull the U.S. Google ads as an instance in a continued experiment eBay does to determine the best allocation of its advertising and marketing budget. But a source familiar with the situation said the move is an angry reaction by eBay's management to Google's decision to hold a protest party concurrent with the start of eBay Live, the company's annual conference for merchants."

Submission + - Yahoo censors Flickr images in Germany (flickr.com)

Submitted by janoc on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @03:07PM

janoc writes: Apparently not only China is censoring Flickr. Flickr has recently introduced filters to filter out images deemed inappropriate. Unfortunately, the filters are now forced also on the German users (together with Singaporeans and Korean users). Photos marked "moderate" or "restricted" are invisible even to their own authors if they happen to be in one of the restricted countries. However, users from elsewhere can still see them just fine if they disable the "Safe search" feature in preferences — this option is not available to Germans anymore. There is a large discussion about this issue going on here: link.

Submission + - Comcast Redefines Definition of HD Channels (audioholics.com)

Submitted by SchlimpyChicken on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @02:55PM

SchlimpyChicken writes: In an apparent attempt to "one-up" DirecTV's announcement that it will have over 100 HD channels online this year, Comcast cable announced it will have 400 "HD Channel Choices" by the end of the year and a total of 800 by the end of 2008. On first blush it sounds too good to be true — apparently with good reason. The article at Audioholics reports that the problem is that Comcast has completely redefined what an "HD Channel" is — and the end result is that their claim is not much more than smoke and mirrors.

Submission + - Bush names anti-open source lobbyist as counselor (pressesc.com)

Submitted by

Citizen Pain

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @02:50PM

Citizen Pain writes: "President Bush today appointed as his counselor a man who received $820,000 from Microsoft to lobby during negotiations over its antitrust settlement as well as to oppose the use, especially within the government, of "open source" systems such as Linux. Enron also paid him $700,000 in 2001 alone to lobby on the "California energy crisis" and thwart efforts to re-regulate the Western electricity market through price controls."

Submission + - Red Planet was once Blue (www.ctv.ca)

Submitted by CowboyRaver on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @02:47PM

CowboyRaver writes: Mars, the rugged Red Planet, may have once been blue according to new research that suggests massive ancient oceans once covered a third of its surface. The discovery was made by a joint Canada-U.S. research team that says it has uncovered evidence of the shorelines of ancient seas. The team's findings are set to be released in the journal Nature on June 14.

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