iTUNES ECONOMICS

Nov 7, 2003 | Apple, audio, business

The Register’s article today helps us understand the online music services. Apple’s iTunes store charges 99 cents per song. Apple claims it is the most popular of several competing services selling authorized downloadable music. Apple is losing money on...

KAISER AND YOUR HEART

Sep 20, 2003 | business

This has nothing to do with technology, but these statistics are too extraordinary to miss. Kaiser Permanente shed its poor reputation decades ago and is now well known for the high quality of its health care. The National Committee on Quality Assurance recently...

FLOP MOVIES: IT’S OUR FAULT

Aug 22, 2003 | business

This summer featured a high percentage of failed blockbuster movies (The Hulk, Charlie’s Angels, Gigli, and lots more), and the industry has a new theory to explain why the movies flopped. No, it’s not poor quality, lack of originality, or a general failure to...

AMAZING HONDA COMMERCIAL

Jul 8, 2003 | business, video

You’ve just gotta see the Honda commercial airing in the UK. Here’s a page where you can view the commercial in your browser – Flash required. It’s about 4Mb total, so it may be jerky or slow to appear on a dialup connection. Here’s an article about how the commercial...

ICANN, VERISIGN, AND AMERICAN CONTROL OF THE “WORLD WIDE” WEB

Jun 23, 2003 | business, Internet

ICANN was intended to be an autonomous, independent body charged with making decisions about the World Wide Web, particularly concerning registration of domain names. Its main benefactor is Verisign, formerly Network Solutions, the company that at one time had a...

AMERICA’S TWO BOOK MARKETS

Jun 18, 2003 | business

Hillary Clinton’s memoirs had the highest opening day sales in the history of nonfiction. The fifth Harry Potter book will undoubtedly have the biggest launch ever for a work of fiction. But the publishing industry is in trouble and most publishers are struggling...