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The ultimate objective of record labels is an environment where music fans could stream their favorite music from their personal Web pages and post a "buy" button next to each track. The idea is to create a point of purchase and a channel for promotion by giving the site's visitors the possibility to click a single button and place that same buy button on his or his/her own site as well.
Social networks like MySpace with 70 million active monthly users alone, are enormously popular because of features like instantly connecting like-minded users based on interests, location or real-life associations. These "friends" can virally pass along content quickly and easily by simply sharing a small bit of computer code -- called a widget -- between individual profiles.
An example is allowing fans to post a stream of their latest single to artists’ individual profiles.
Snocap - MyStore
The company Snocap that offers the MyStore service, enables artists to sell tracks from their MySpace pages, and the new Spread the Word feature allows fans to copy the store to their own blog sites, Web pages and virtually any other Internet presence.
Warner Music Group (WMG) and EMI Music adopted this system, enabling selling music directly from MySpace pages.
EMI head of digital Barney Wragg said that "It just completely decentralizes it," and “Obviously you can place a 'buy' button (on) iTunes and any other retailer. But this is a real easy way for us to do something specifically for that artist."
"The music-buying experience is different from what you do on MySpace," he told South by Southwest music conference attendees during a panel in March. "We're not investing a ton of energy in that. It's not a big part of our business."
INCOMPATIBILITY ISSUE
Any digital music file incompatible with the iPod will be difficult to sell, regardless of who's selling it. In the beginning, the MyStore program focused on indie and unsigned artists who have no problems with selling their music without technical protection. Earlier this month, EMI became the first major label to adopt the platform as part of its ongoing DRM-free campaign.
The only other major label participating in the MyStore program -- WMG -- has insisted on using Microsoft's WMA technology, which even CEO Snocap's Rueff said will hinder adoption. "Your sales will follow where your content can be played," he said. "If it plays on an iPod, it's got a better chance of selling. And the only way to do that is with MP3s."
Seems that Snocap said that since December, when the service went live, the number of consumers registering for MyStore accounts has increased 50 percent per month, and the number of downloads is rising by 40 percent per month.
"Social networks are the (peer-to-peer) networks of the future," Rueff said. "They're this generation's MTV. If you want to be at a point of sale at the highest point of desire and consumption, be where the fan is."

Online dating service Match.com, part of IAC/InterActiveCorp, launches a new application for mobiles that allows subscribers to keep track of their paramours while on the go.
United States, UK and Canada will be the first markets targeted by the service MatchMobile with plans to be extended to nine more countries by the end of the year.

The service provides subscribers with text messages to their phones when they have an e-mail from another Match.com subscriber and allows them to search for potential matches from their cell phones.
MatchMobile subscribers can receive and answer e-mails from suitors on their mobile phones for an extra fee of $5 per month.
Match.com Chief Executive Thomas Enraght-Moony sais that "If you are having a conversation with someone and want to continue it on the go, you can. It cuts out the waiting," and also "As people become more and more accustomed to being able to do things while they are on the go, this becomes a more natural part of what they do."

The company cited forecasts from Frost & Sullivan, which predict that revenue from mobile dating services will grow to $215 million by 2009.

Beaverton, OR -- Tektronix, Inc. launches RFXpress, an advanced new software package that performs RF/IF/IQ waveform creation and editing of digitally modulated signals for AWG5000 and AWG7000 arbitrary waveform generators. The user interface makes creation and management of general purpose digital RF waveforms more intuitive and in the same time provides specialized UWB-WiMedia plug-ins and a library of waveforms for thoroughly testing new designs.

A critical step in the development process for modern wireless devices is signal generation for stress testing digital RF product designs, a complicated process, often requiring many hours of tedious setup and requiring multiple instruments. With RFXpress software, this has been simplified by automating many of the repetitive and arcane functions typically found in competing signal generation solutions.

In vice president’s, Mike Higashi, opinion, ”RFXpress is ideal for design and test engineers who need to perform validation and characterization of prototype digital RF wireless communication designs”. “Instead of needing to create mathematical formulas, the intuitive UI provided by the general purpose RFXpress application enables efficient use by providing pre-defined, fill-in the blank templates for frequencies, modulation schemes, etc. The additional capabilities provided by the compliance and custom plug-ins assist with performing a wide range of tests reliably and efficiently for the UWB WiMedia standard.”

The RFXpress application supports a variety of modulation schemes like QPSK, QAM, GMSK, etc., and also allows engineers to build their own modulation schemes. Furthermore, RF / IF & IQ signals captured on a Tektronix Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer or using an oscilloscope can now be modified by simply adding impairments, interference and distortions using RFXpress before they are replayed by an AWG7000 or AWG5000.

“The RFXpress Application is a great addition to the AWG platform, effectively transforming a general purpose signal generator into a powerful and easy to use RF generator,” said Ray Wang, System Test Manager, Texas Instruments. “Features such as I/Q Impairments, Distortion, and Interference Addition will help validate our products against real-life parameters. Using RFXpress, we essentially get the functionality of both a general purpose and application-specific signal generator in a single package.”

The RFXpress WiMedia custom mode plug-in enables engineers to individually configure every part of the WiMedia frame / packet for thorough characterization, limit and stress test of the receiver's PHY layer. This proves that direct synthesis is a flexible and repeatable method for creating ideal or impaired waveforms that are then directly synthesized using an arbitrary waveform generator. With RFXpress and the AWG7000, customers can directly generate band hopping signals for UWB-WiMedia Bandgroup 1 and Bandgroup 2 without the need for multiple instruments.

Allthough Steve Ballmer says that Microsoft has no other choice but to embrace the web app revolution, the company intends to do that while keeping both feet firmly on the Windows desktop.
On Thursday, in the meeting with financial analysts, the Microsoft CEO together with his fellow executives revealed details about the company’s plans to offer web-based components for its desktop software applications. This long-term plan would see a major restructuring of the way Microsoft delivers software to its customers, but it is only a half-hearted move away from the desktop that illustrates how much the company has to work in order to catch up to its fully web-minded competitors.
Microsoft is planning to roll out a multi-tiered client-server platform for its Office and consumer applications. Over the next several years it's going to use its data centers and network infrastructure already in place to offer hosted applications on its Windows Live service, as well as continue to offer desktop applications that can connect to this services platform for collaboration and data sharing. The Microsoft execs call it "software plus services," an overly obfuscated term that chief software architect Ray Ozzie attempted to fully explain at yesterday's event.
While a shift to a hybrid "web-enabled desktop" sounds positive, Microsoft is already at least a year behind the curve. This shift from the desktop as the platform to the web as the platform was recognized many months ago by Google, Salesforce and others, and they have already convinced their own dedicated user bases that the future of applications is in the browser. Key elements to the success of these apps can be considered the lack of dependence on a specific operating system and the universal access to data.
Yesterday, Microsoft's president of its platforms and services division Kevin Johnson announced that a downloadable set of applications and components meant to enhance Microsoft Windows Live, the personal information and communication service, will be available later this summer.
2.4 percent is how low Microsoft stock dropped after in the room on Thursday financial analysts had mixed reactions to Redmond’s overall plan for the future.

PdfMachine v11.05.6 is new software that besides the common features of classic software that processes PDF documents, comes also with the ability to join PDF documents together, and in the same time can be used to send any computer document from any software by e-mail. When they reach recipient, all fonts, images, and format settings stay exactly as they are in original. Features include MS Office menu integration, standard MAPI client, 40 and 128 bit encryption, document format up to DIN A0, up to 1,400 dpi resolution, and virtual letterhead. Software also adds, deletes, and moves pages.

It is true that creating, saving and sending PDF documents from any software application has never been so easy! PdfMachine v11.05.6 seems to be user-friendly and cost-effective! The user has to call up the PC document that wants to be converted on PC, select the pdfMachine printer and enter the e-mail address of the recipient, and leave pdfMachine to do the rest.
The features listing:

o Prints from Windows applications
o MS Office menu integration
o PDF as eMail attachment once printed
o Uses your standard MAPI client (e.g. Lotus Notes, MS Outlook etc.)
o 40 und 128 bit safe encryption
o Document format up to DIN A0
o Joins PDF documents together
o Converts websites complete with hyperlinks
o Resolution up to 1,400 dpi
o Virtual letterhead (First and following pages can be separately selected)
o Adds, deletes and moves pages
o Control from external applications (e.g. automatic transfer of eMail address)
o Terminal server compliant
o Several virtual pdfMachine printers can be set up (e.g. with or without official letterhead)

Regarding pricing and availability, it can be said that pdfMachine v11.05.6 runs under Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 3.x, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003, Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Home Basic x64,Windows Vista Home Premium x64,Windows Vista Business x64,Windows Vista Enterprise x64,Windows Vista Ultimate x64 and costs $72 (US). Licensed users are entitled to the fully-functional copy of the software.

Further information on the product, as well as its free evaluation copy is available from http://www.pdf-office.com. The program comes with an installer and uninstaller for easy usage, while the user interface is available in different languages (English, German).