CNet News has an interesting article by Ina Fried today in which Fried details her experience with buying a “recertified” iPod from Buy.com which turned out to have a virus.

Reuters writes that “

[o]ffering unlimited music downloads to phone buyers will make money for Nokia as well as record labels, the handset maker said, dismissing talk the move would come at the expense of profits.  ‘We expect to make money both from our traditional device sales, as well as from the Comes With Music service,’ said Liz Schimel, head of Nokia’s music business.  ‘I can assure you that we are looking out for everyone’s interests in creating these new business models, including our own.’”

According to the Register, “Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has said the band will not be repeating its In Rainbows experiment which allowed fans to download the album at a price of their choice – allegedly nothing, in most cases.  Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Yorke said:  ‘I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation. Yes. It was a one-off in terms of a story. It was one of those things where we were in the position of everyone asking us what we were going to do. I don’t think it would have the same significance now anyway, if we chose to give something away again. It was a moment in time.’  A subsequent traditional release of In Rainbows saw it top the UK and US album charts, supporting Yorke’s opinion that fans want a physical ‘object.’  In January, he dismissed the idea of net-only releases as ‘stark raving mad.’”

Internetnews.com has an interesting article on the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), which since it was spun off from Xerox in 2002 has been “dedicated not just to dreaming up new technologies but with a much clearer plan about bringing them to market.  For starters, if Xerox doesn’t want it then PARC will find a partner that will help it productize the invention.”  This, PARC hopes, will prevent it from making the GUI mistake all over again.

In a different article, Internetnews.com reports that, according to Juniper Research, “[f]ive years from now search will be a key application for one third of the globe’s mobile device users.  Of the expected 4.2 billion owners of mobile devices expected by 2013, roughly 1.3 billion will depend on mobile device searches to find and locate "local" digital information. Most searches will happen in North America and Western Europe as the countries boast good local digital information suppliers (think yellow and white pages) as well as mapping data with good coverage of points of interest, according to the report.  The trend bodes well for Web search firms. For advertising boutiques and marketers looking for signs of the mobile search market’s growth, the report could be manna. Of course, all these growth expectations are built on a good user experience, the firm noted.”