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iTunes Movie Rentals, Waifish Macbook In The Air

Well, it's not going to cause quite the media-wide paroxysm the Jesus phone (iPhone, for the uninitiated or unacquainted with light-hearted sacrilege) caused last year at Macworld, but there'll probably be sufficient tremulous giddiness about the world's thinnest notebook computer, the MacBook Air.

New SEMPO Survey Open

The 4th annual SEMPO State of the Search Marketing Industry survey is now open. If you work client side, agency side or independent, be sure to take this survey and make your voice heard.

Google Announces Trends for Google Checkout

As we come up to the last days of fee-free merchant services from Google Checkout, the Official Google Checkout Blog announced yesterday that they now have Google Checkout Trends. Patterned after Google Trends, GCT shows relative revenues from Google Checkout merchants.

Google Cooler Than Ducati?

On a new “coolest brands” list, Google didn’t manage to come in first, second, or third.  Gasp!  The search giant didn’t rank fourth, either.  But Google did get fifth place, and, considering some of the other companies on the list, there’s absolutely no shame in that.

Eminem, YouTube Give Apple Some Bad Joojoo

It's been kind of a rocky month for Apple, the iPhone, and for AT&T as a lot of people have lined up to take shots at them. Who and what for? Rapper Eminem is one of the bigger names, who joins another in misplaced copyright infringement claims, while rumors, hype, and hidden costs plague the minds (and pocketbooks) of others.

So Far, eBay Sticks to Its Guns

Nobody's certain except Google and eBay how much money left Google's bottom line with eBay yanked its AdWords campaign. But one thing is certain, though Google tried to make a concession early, eBay means business and has continued not advertising on Google for a solid week.

Is This iPerv Week or What?

I didn't torture myself to investigate as to whether there was a season for weird Internet sex stories in the press, but as for 2007, iPerv Week is May 21-25.

Drivers More Active Online

People who frequently drive are more active online and savvy than the average consumer, according to Scarborough Research. They found that the top 20 percent of U.S. adult drivers in terms of miles logged were 48 percent more likely than the average consumer to have spent $1,000 or more online in the past year. Seventeen percent were more likely to have broadband and 28 percent more likely to have spent 20 hours or more online weekly.

Teens Lead On Tech, Tweens Follow

Teenagers 17 and older are leaders when it comes to adopting new technology and are twice as likely to be early users of some key new technologies as younger teens according to a JupiterResearch report "Teens and New Technology: Understanding the Adoption Cycle".

Book-On-Tape, Meet RSS On iPod

MagneticTime has launched a new version of their iNewsCaster, formerly known as the MT-Personal NewsCaster. The iNewsCaster Version 2.0 has a new look and features better functionality with a built in Web browser. The iNewsCaster allows users to listen to all of their personalized RSS feeds on their iPod, PDA, cell phone or desktop.