digital content

T-Mobile USA Inc announced a new purchasing program Direct Carrier Billing to allow customers to make purchase of digital content and services from their Internet connected devices. Using Direct Carrier Billing customers of T-Mobile can charge purchases of digital games, gaming and social networking credits, music, videos and other digital content offerings directly to their existing T-Mobile account right from the Web browser using their PC, smartphone, netbook or computer tablet.

Mazooma announced the introduction of its new micropay-in-a-box solution that features as much as a 71% reduction in merchant fees for digital content merchants.

Micropay-in-a-box solution is available for Discover’s direct merchants using the Centinel® Universal Merchant Platform through CardinalCommerce Corporation.

Hollywood is getting more optimistic about its future revenues after a period of losses suffered due to copyright infringement and pirated content downloaded by the so-called Napster generation. The optimism comes from the new trends set by a younger community of users who show willingness to pay for digital content.

Traditional freelance writing procedures involves coming up with a sellable idea, writing up a query letter, and finding a publisher that might accept the idea. Then, instead of the lightning fast email of today, writers had to send off their queries through a snail mail. (Otherwise known as“regular mail”.) After doing all that, the writer then had to wait at least a month before hearing back to see if their idea was accepted or rejected.