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Hulu is going ahead with it’s plans to provide a paid service. The announcement of the proposal came last summer and it seems that an outcry from visitors of the site was not loud enough to stop the onset of the new payment scheme. Although Hulu is a venture of a few different sources including […]

KDK Limited Beta Submit your e-mail address to get notified when the limited beta starts next month. Participants in the limited beta will be able to download the Kindle Development Kit, access developer support, test content on Kindle, and submit finished content. Those wait-listed will be invited to participate at a later date as space […]

We have seen a number of different businesses and even government & security websites that have been hacked over the years so… You have to realize that if someone wants in they are probably going to get in. There are holes in every os, db, web daemon and script… and there are lots of people […]

Right now if you publish a book on amazon you have a few options. You can take the 10% or less and publish to print or digital but often you don’t see any profits if you are an independent writer. For instance you write a great book and sell it for $10 and get $1 […]

Like many newspapers the NY Times is not alone in losing revenue. Many small papers already require registration but not payment to see current articles and others require payment if you want to see historic content… But in 2011 the New York Times will begin Paid Content. Some of their teaser content will still be […]

Boy I can’t even imagine what they would do if I showed up and started reaming the world economic leaders for all of the crap the have done in the past 50 years… But if you think you can do it without losing your lid YouTube is screening submitted videos to select a presenter at […]

In exchange for Microsoft offering 30 browsers from what seems every little developer out there the case against their control of the browser market has been dropped. Netscape a friend of Bill and TheAlGore (the creator of the Internet) brought an antitrust case against Microsoft over ten years ago and just prior to President Clinton […]

You know things don’t look so good when a large scale news website has to beg its readers for donations to keep it going. Well this is what the Miami Herald has resorted to…. With about 5 million viewers of its website publication its paper based distribution has fallen 25% causing serious revenue problems. But […]

For users of Microsoft Windows 2000 and Later Microsoft has begun their deprecating of OS support by deactivating supported plugins instead of fixing them. In an Advisory released December 8th Microsoft explains a security problem where remote control of a system can be gained if the user views specifically crafted media content that relies on […]

When a site starts the costs are very low. You can get hosted in minutes and put up a Blog application and begin telling the world your story or the story of others…. Well many gossip sites started that way but others have been attached to huge publications for decades. TMZ is one of the […]