Forty-two Polish publishers teamed up with Slovak startup Piano Media to create a subscription-based online publishing platform. The model is similar to cable television as in users can pay based on what type of books they are interested in. This type of project has been launched in Slovakia and Slovenia, but Poland will be the first sizable population to test this model. One challenge to the project is the fact that many people in Poland do not use credit cards, narrowing potential users.
Microsoft announced a challenge called "Bing it On" that invited users to choose between results generated by Microsoft's search engine Bing or Google research in a blind competition. Microsoft claims its site Bing yields better results, but testers at The Next Web found otherwise.
Mobile marketing and advertising is a space that has yet to reach its full potential, but social networking giants are already making huge, profitable headway into it. Twitter leads the pack, astoundingly ahead of Facebook.
Nokia blogger Heidi Lemmetyinen apologized on her blog today and confirmed that the video showed in a press conference as a demonstration of Lumia 920 capabilities was shot with a different camera. Nokia's apology arrived after outrage and suspicion from bloggers and news sources.
Microsoft announced a challenge called "Bing it On" that invited users to choose between Bing or Google research in a blind competition. Microsoft claims Bing yields better results, but testers at The Next Web found otherwise.
