The Virtual Economy Research Network reports on a new Swedish tax ruling that signals the beginning of virtual world incomes being taxed.
On April 7 2008, the Swedish Tax Agency posted a ruling on their website, titled “Virtual worlds — value-added tax” In it, the agency states that in-game transactions may incur liability for both value-added tax [...]
Cast back to the recent Eye in the Sky post about Cubans being allowed personal mobile phones for the first time history.
Ten days after the March release date, the state’s official mobile phone company ETECSA registered 7,400 new phones on the network. Staggering, considering a typical mobile phone contract costs about $120 to activate, which is half a year’s wages [...]
According to Nielsen New Media Research, the average American Idol participant voted via text message 38 times in April 2008. Women tend to vote via text with greater frequency than men: in April 2008, female voters of American Idol submitted 44% more text message votes than their male counterparts.
Voting by text is only available to AT&T subscribers. The information was [...]
The Australian reports that last week, US TV giant CBS moved to acquire online technology reviews and entertainment provider CNET Networks for $US1.8 billion ($1.9 billion). One property that could have a significant impact on the Australian market is CNET’s website TV.com, according to Darryl Nelson, the digital media research manager at research group Frost & [...]
Hulu.com is a new online video service offering popular TV shows, full length movies and clips that can be viewed anytime for free. The service is only available in the United States at this point in time, though worldwide distribution is in the pipeline.
Founded in March 2007 by NBC Universal and News Corp, Hulu offers free content based [...]
Whilst the film’s release date is still six months away, the first trailer of Baz Lurhmann’s Australia is available free on BigPond TV ahead of a wider public release Tuesday 20 May.
“The trailer presents all the elements of a truly epic movie, in the hands of one of the world’s most visionary directors and two of the world’s [...]
Jason Hill from SMH Digital Life published some exciting new stats a few days ago about the rise of women gamers. According to Jason, the average gamer in Australia is now 28 years old, up from 24 just two years ago. And despite being largely ignored by the game industry, 41% are female.
Women and older [...]
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Bosses who block access to MySpace and Facebook at work risk losing valuable staff to other companies, new research has found.
Almost half of those who use MySpace and Facebook during work hours say they would refuse a job where they were not allowed access to social networking sites, according to the study [...]
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Searches for beauty and body treatments on yellow.com.au have spiked since 2001.
A Yellow directory spokesman says the figures not only reflect the general growth in the use of the internet but provide insights into social trends. “Even the way we exercise has changed,” he says. ”For example, Sydneysiders could have burned fat in 1980 [...]
