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...expansive catalog to offer ringtones to its 74 million users, adding to its premium services - which generate most of Skype's revenues. The Material Girl, Green Day and Mike Jones are headlining Skype and Warner's landmark debut into the $1.2 billion ringtone industry. In fact, at $1.50 a pop, ringtones are like "found money" for both parties, says music-industry analyst Charles Golvin of Forrester Research. "Neither has to do a whole lot of work - just license, sit back and count the money rolling in." Some of that instant cash may find its way to FON, an ambitious...
...game that lures millions of sporting souls into the office pools, to figure out the preferences of the 6,500 Motion Picture Academy members. Yet of all the pop-cultural horse races, from the Super Bowl to American Idol, the Oscars are the one we know the least about. Only the winner is announced, not the runner-up or the margin of victory. It's as if all you knew about the 2000 election was, "And the Presidency goes to ... George W. Bush...
This Brooklyn band released its debut without money--or tinkering--from a record label, and you can hear the absence of both. From Alec Ounsworth's thin, David Byrne-like vocals to the miles of ether between the pop hooks, the album is not exactly market friendly, but abstraction has its rewards. They include the floating ecstasy of the break-up song Over and Over Again (Lost and Found) ("Now where's the woolen sweater/ You mentioned in the letter?/ Imply/ The other guy") and the partial fingerprints of Joy Division and R.E.M. on Upon This Tidal Wave of Young...
There's still a lot to cheer about. The Board of Economists' direst predictions last year--that the dollar would tank, long-term interest rates would rise sharply and the housing bubble would pop--didn't come to pass. Indeed, the dollar rose in value, and the yield on 10-year bonds barely budged, despite a series of interest-rate hikes by the Federal Reserve that were followed at year-end by a rate hike by the European Central Bank. Most significant, there's still no strong evidence of a resurgence of inflation, even though oil prices have more than...
...expansive catalog to offer ringtones to its 74 million users, adding to its premium services--which generate most of Skype's revenues. The Material Girl, Green Day and Mike Jones are headlining Skype and Warner's landmark debut into the $1.2 billion ringtone industry. In fact, at $1.50 a pop, ringtones are like "found money" for both parties, says music-industry analyst Charles Golvin of Forrester Research. "Neither has to do a whole lot of work--just license, sit back and count the money rolling...