May be to celebrate the 10,000 apps mark and help the searchers in navigating through the mazes of the App Store, Apple has come up with a new idea for the holiday season. They have put up a new section at the iTunes that displays the top apps (in terms of popularity) of 2008 at the App Store. The top 120 apps are there. A small chunk of the 10,000 strong brigade.
The categories chosen are:
Top Overall, Top Games, Top Entertainment, Top Utilities, Top Social Networking and Top Music. All these are organized under two categories – Top Paid Apps at Read More...
We once feared that internet radio services and those online radio applications on the App Store may just disappear because of the exorbitant royalty rate demanded by performers and copyright owners. Moreover, we also fear that the Webcaster Settlement Act that reserves Webcasters the right of negotiating royalty rate with Record Industry’s SoundExchange may not be passed due to the more burning bailout issue. The US Senate passed the (Bill number HR 7084) Webcaster Settlement Act without much hesitation to our relief.
Tim Westergren’s strategy of shooting e-mails to bloggers and appealing to Pandora listeners to contact their respective congressmen to Read More...
Pandora Radio, one of the top 10 free Apps will soon be removed from the App Store if things don't turn out favorable according to the founder of the Company. Not only App Store, Pandora will also vanish from the Web Radio Services.
The constant fights between the owners of the copyrighted works and the companies that distribute the works via internet has necessitated the removal of the application. The tension was further mounted when federal panel doubled the per-song performance royalty rate for web radio stations payable to performers and copyright owners.
According to the tariff of the federal panel, Padora Read More...
