Rhapsody has been struggling to keep its subscriber base from shrinking. A new joint service with Verizon, an MP3 store, and outreach to social networks may help. But not by much.
June 2008
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OpenTable.com, which sat 3 million diners in May, is introducing new restaurant rankings and a mobile Web site.
Mon 30 Jun 2008
A deal between Microsoft and Yahoo doesn’t appear likely to happen in the future, Bill Gates said in a TV interview on Friday.
Mon 30 Jun 2008
France Télécom said it had withdrawn its bid to buy TeliaSonera, after the board of the Swedish-Finnish telephone company said the $42-billion offer undervalued the company.
Mon 30 Jun 2008
Hewlett-Packard’s planned $12.6 billion purchase of Electronic Data Systems cleared U.S. government antitrust review, the companies said on Monday.
Mon 30 Jun 2008
A French court ordered eBay to pay $61 million to LVMH in an ongoing legal fight over the sale of counterfeit goods.
Mon 30 Jun 2008
Last fall Discovery spent $250 million buying the United States portion of HowStuffWorks; now it is striving to make the site more appealing to users and advertisers.
Mon 30 Jun 2008
AT&T said Friday it is moving its corporate headquarters to Dallas from San Antonio for easier access to customers and operations around the world.
Mon 30 Jun 2008
(RED), a nonprofit organization that arranges for companies to contribute a share of profits on certain products to fight AIDS in Africa, is starting a digital music service for that purpose.
Mon 30 Jun 2008
coderrr writes “New research could allow ISPs to selectively block or slow down your encrypted traffic even if they cannot snoop on your transmitted data. Italian researchers have found a way to categorize the type of traffic that is hidden inside an encrypted SSH session to around 90% accuracy. They are achieving this by analyzing packet sizes and inter-packet intervals instead of looking at the content itself. Challenges remain for ISPs to implement this technology, but it’s clear that encrypting your traffic inside an SSH session or VPN connection is not a solution to protect net neutrality.”
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