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Last year marked a turning point in digital music It was the year that the masses started to become comfortable buying music online and Im not talking s from Amazon Spurred by the success of Apples iPod music downloads became mainstream in According to John Kennedy of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry trade group this is because online music is now easier to buy than it is to steal A new report from the agency predicts that the online music market will double again in...
Update 3: Chinese Target Web's 'Prohibited Language'
Chinese bloggers even on foreignsponsored sites had better choose their words carefully the censors are watching
Users of the Spaces section of Microsoft Corps new Chinabased Web portal get a scolding message each time they input words deemed taboo by the communist authorities such as democracy freedom and human rights
Prohibited language in text please delete the message says
However the restrictions appear to apply only to the subject line of such entries Writing them into the text with a more innocuous subject heading seems to be no problem...
Leavenworth Times: News Index
Microsofts Chinese staff could not be reached immediately for comment However a spokesman at the tech giants headquarters in Seattle acknowledged that the company is cooperating with the Chinese government to censor its Chineselanguage Web portal
Microsoft and its Chinese business partner governmentfunded Shanghai Alliance Investment work with authorities to omit certain forbidden language said Adam Sohn a global sales and marketing director for
But he added I dont have access to the list at this point so I cant really comment specifically on whats there...
Search engines fine-tune their marketing to win the battle for bucks - 2005-06-06
Theyre personalities owned by search engines in the minds of Kansas Cityarea students at Avila University Benedictine College and Keller Graduate School of Management
Students participated in the study to predict who will win the search engine advertising wars At stake are millions of local advertising dollars as Kansas City companies pay search engines every time someone clicks on their ad
Every company owns a word and a personality in the minds of their customers This word and personality predict success according to marketing gurus Al Reis and Jack Trout...
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Chinese Target Webs Prohibited Language
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China Chinese bloggers even on foreignsponsored sites had better choose their words carefully the censors are watching
Users of the Spaces section of Microsoft Corps new Chinabased Web portal get a scolding message each time they input words deemed taboo by the communist authorities such as democracy freedom and human rights
Prohibited language in text please delete the message says
However the restrictions appear to apply only to the subject line of such entries...