• Apple cuts copy protection and prices on iTunes (AP)

  AP - Apple Inc. is cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online store to as little as 69 cents and plans to make every track available without copy protection.

  
  
  

• Even in recession, CES to have stuff worth seeing (AP)

  AP - The recession figures to tone down the flashiness of this week's International Consumer Electronics Show, but the lineup of innovative products likely will measure up to those of past years.

  
  
  

• Apple's Jobs has hormone imbalance, will stay CEO (AP)

  AP - Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer whose gaunt appearance in the past year has alarmed the Mac and iPod lovers who look to him as an oracle, said Monday he has an easily treated hormone imbalance and will remain in charge of the company.

  
  
  

• Bruce Clay, Inc. Releases New Free SEO Tools - Earthtimes

  Author : Bruce Clay, Inc. SIMI VALLEY, CA -- 01/06/09 -- Bruce Clay, Inc. has created two new search engine optimization tools that are available for free on their Web site ( http://www.bruceclay.com/web_rank.htm ). These new tools are the Search ...

• SEO and PPC Cannibalization - ClickZ

  My column, " Organic Versus Paid Search ," sparked some debate. Some argued that you should never have to choose between these two activities -- that both should always be employed. Yet others sided with my view -- the most appropriate and cost ...

• China blogger population exceeds 50 mln: report (AFP)

  AFP - China now has more than 50 million bloggers as increasing numbers of people seek an outlet for their views, state press reported.

  
  
  

“The Republicans are worried about the flag, gay marriage and the terrible burden of the estate tax on the rich. The rest of us are obviously unnecessarily worried about war, peace, the economy, the environment and civilization. Another reason to vote Republican - they have a shorter list.” - Molly Ivins

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g, men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” - Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics