It’s been very difficult to monetize, sell, make money from newspapers. The Internet has come along, the Internet is perceived as free, and people who are working very hard to produce very high-quality journalism have not been able to get paid properly. – Google CEO Eric Schmidt in the Wall Street Journal, February 16, 2011
Barely had the ink dried on Apple’s press release yesterday announcing its subscription service when Google threw down the gauntlet today with its rival One Pass service for the struggling community of content publishers. At first glance, One Pass (powered by Google’s CheckOut payment system) looks like a better option for content publishers compared to […]
Given the notorious propensity of our Bollywood film makers to unabashedly steal from Western sources and the imminent release of some Hindi movies, we ordered Woman Times Seven (1967) the other day from Netflix. Directed by Vittorio De Sica, Woman Times Seven is different from your run of the mill 90- or 100-minute movie. It […]
Apple has rolled out a new subscription service that lets users of its popular iPhone, iPad and iPod touch gadgets subscribe to content like news, video, music et al from its AppStore digital media repository. Publishers of content-based apps like Netflix, Amazon, Wall Street Journal et al can set the price and length of subscription […]
The mucho awaited 2011 SI swimsuit issue is here. (Schmucks, by SI we mean Sports Illustrated not your favorite blog SearchIndia.com.) And as you can see below, folks, the wait is, yummmm, most definitely worth it. Irina Shayk is the first Russian model to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated popular annual swimsuit issue. Pronounced […]
For all ye schmucks hooked on to the gaming nonsense, there’s cause for cheer. Sony Ericsson announced today its new Xperia Play PlayStation Certified gaming smartphone better known as the PlayStation Phone would be available on the Verizon Wireless network in Spring 2011. Xperia Play is powered by the latest version of the Android platform […]