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Denver Post says it retains most RMN subscribers

The Denver Post says it has retained 86 percent of the Rocky Mountain News' former home-delivery customers.

US Cellular lost 59,000 retail customers in 2Q

Wireless carrier United States Cellular Corp. said Thursday it lost 59,000 net retail customers in the second quarter.

Netflix crosses 10 million subscriber mark

Online movie rental service Netflix Inc. said Thursday that it passed a milestone of 10 million subscribers.

T-Mobile USA adds mostly prepaid subscribers in 3Q

T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest cellular carrier in country, said Thursday that most of the customers it added in the third quarter were on prepaid plans, a unique situation for a major U.S. carrier.

Broadband growth plummets in 2Q, cable stronger

The number of new high-speed Internet subscribers in the United States fell in the second quarter to the lowest level since a research company began tracking the broadband market seven years ago.

T-Mobile USA adds nearly 1 million customers in 1Q

T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the country, said Thursday it added 981,000 customers in the first quarter, which along with an acquisition brought its total to 30.8 million.

T-Mobile Adds Nearly 1M U.S. Subs in 4Q

T-Mobile USA added nearly a million cell-phone subscribers in the fourth quarter, but full-year results fell short of its parent company's target.

XM Posts Slower Subscriber Growth for 2Q

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. reported slower growth in new subscribers for the second quarter Thursday, which the company attributed to problems with product availability and softness in retail sales.

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Microsoft Promotion Cuts Xbox Live Gold Dues by $10
Source: Gamespot

Xbox Live is widely regarded as the superior online service for this generation of consoles.

Another Kindle Projection: 500,000 Sales This Year (AMZN)
Source: Bus. Insider

Once the company gets to scale, if Amazon can get 6 million subscribers who buy two books a month (or 1 book and a newspaper subscription), Amazon could make $0.42 -- almost one-third of this year's EPS -- from the Kindle, Khan says.

Satellite Radio Is Dead
Source: itmanagement.earthweb.com

Excerpt: I hate to say it, but somebody has to: Satellite radio will come crashing down to Earth within the next two years. The newly merged Sirius XM Radio is already living on borrowed time -- and borrowed money -- and simply will not and cannot survive.

Domino's Lets TiVo Users Order Pizza Via TV
Source: MediaPost | Online Media Daily

Why get up? Now, couch potatoes who subscribe to TiVo can order a Domino's Pizza through the service, thanks to an agreement between the two companies.

A Tiny Staff, Tracking People Across the Globe
Source: The New York Times

It has an editorial staff of one and annual advertising revenues of less than $2,000. It charges its subscribers nothing and pays most contributors the same. Mapping the settlement of Latino poultry workers is its idea of a sexy piece.

RSS: Best Design Practices And Icons
Source: Smashing Magazine

RSS is extremely simple and yet so powerful. Not only does every weblog need it for content syndication; the number of RSS subscribers is a metric for weblog's popularity and its success in the blogosphere. However, although millions do use RSS, hundreds of millions don't.

VimpelCom Surpasses Forecasts
Source: CNN

A waning 40 million subscribers in Russia, but growth in Kazakhstan impresses.

Facebook continues its rise, but not in Asia
Source: The Times

A regional breakdown of social networking sites shows how hard the major players will have to work to catch 'copycat' sites in China

An Evil Way to Increase RSS Stats
Source: jonlee.ca

Earlier this week I wrote a post discussing why a huge spike in traffic will cause an abnormal spike in RSS readership. All the theories I suggested are just that, theories.

BlackBerry system failure snarls service
Source: Yahoo! News

BlackBerry system failure snarls service A system outage blocked BlackBerry e-mail service on Wednesday, frustrating users of the addictive mobile devices.

Netflix Debuts Streaming Service
Source: Wired News

I will probably not take advantage of this, and just be patient with what I got.

Goal: 75 RSS Subscribers in 2 Weeks

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NewsVine: Gamma rays and my eyeballs

By completely devious means I have fenagled myself an account on NewsVine. With a fresh Google search for 'free NewsVine invite' in my belt and the help of a generous anonymous person somewhere between Timbuktu and Bombay. I'm in!

RIM cuts blackberry subscriber forecasts
Source: Reuters

RIM recently cut subscriber addition estimates for the third and fourth quarter due to delays in new product launches.

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