After years of complaints, last year the music labels finally got what they wanted from Apple — the ability to raise prices on their songs. Last April, iTunes introduced a “variable pricing” scheme, which gave the labels the ability to move prices from $0.99 a song to $1.29 (and for some tracks, down to $0.69). The [...] Full story...
While in Washington, D.C. last week, one of BoomTown's last stops was at the office of Colorado Democratic Congressman Jared Polis on Capitol Hill.
Google Inc. is expected to announce its next steps in China this week, according to a person briefed on the matter.
China’s state-run news media is ramping up its anti-Google rhetoric, amid reports that Google will soon announce the closure of its Chinese language search engine.
Want to read the books you bought for your Kindle on your new iPad? You're going to have to be patient.
Last week, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart spoofs Fox News' Glenn Beck in a blackboard parody that is almost as good as Tina Fey's spot-on impression of Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live.
Imagine that for $33 a month you could buy Internet service twice as fast as what you get from Verizon or Comcast, bundled with digital high-definition television, unlimited long distance and international calling to 70 countries and wireless Internet connectivity for your laptop or smartphone throughout much of the country.
GDC 2010 is now in the books, and it will be a hard one to forget because the whole conference seemed to be obsessed with one thing, which I summed up in this tweet.
Updated: I enjoy a good debate about media-related topics pretty much any time, even when I’m supposed to be on vacation with the family in Florida.
Earlier this week, Hitwise put out stats suggesting that Facebook is beating Google and Twitter when it comes to driving traffic to news sites.
BoomTown traveled to Washington, D.C. this week for festivities surrounding the 25th anniversary of the registration of the first .