Forbes.com Special Report: Digital Music

The world of digital music is a mess. The renegade startups that pioneered the industry have failed to offer viable, mass-market services. And in their place the record labels have done no better. The labels are, of course, terrified of piracy, while performers and composers fret that they’re not being compensated adequately by the labels for music that’s digitally delivered. And consumers still aren’t getting … [ Read more ]

New Payment Methods Give Old-fashioned Checks and Credit Cards a Run for Their Money

Anyone with a Starbucks “stored value” card knows how easy it is these days to pay for his or her café latte. But the stored value card – like its higher-tech cousin the smart card, where value is stored on the card’s computer chip rather than on a server – is just one of the emerging technologies now gaining momentum while paper check usage is … [ Read more ]

The e-Learning Jump Page

This is probably the most complete web site devoted exclusively to e-Learning, that also professes to use the internet as the delivery channel. You’ll find lots of useful e-learning information on related web links, conferences, press releases, articles, research topics, reference sources, and organizations. [Babson Insight Annotation]