Despite China’s online music market beingplaguedby piracy, the country’s online music industry saw a 14 percent increase in profits in 2010 over the previous year, 90 percent of which came from mobile downloads. According to a report released byChina’s Ministry of Culture, online music content and service providers earned around 2.3 billion yuan ($349.8 million) last year, a 14.4 percent jump from 2009. 2.02 billion yuan, or a huge 90 percent of the total revenue, came from wireless music services via mobile phones, including ringtone and music downloads — a year-on-year rise of 9....

We’re big fans of the Paris-based photo webapp,Pictarine, a service we’vereviewed in depthin the past. The webapp makes it easy to organize and keep track of all the photos that you post to various photo sharing sites includingFlickr,Picasa,Instagram, as well as create virtual albums (or as Pictarine calls them Zests) of photos pulled from all of your different online sets. With Pictarine you can easily backup your online photos, and in some cases even upload photos straight to your online profiles from Pictarine....

While Canadian web users may not necessarily want to pay for news, a recent survey indicates that they still trust mainstream media content over sources such as governments, corporations and the latest growing media trend: citizen journalists. According to areportfrom The Globe and Mail, the Canadian Media Research Consortium revealed in its latest report that approximately 90 per cent of “online Canadians” consider the information they get from traditional mainstream media (newspapers, television, radio, online news sites) to be reliable....

A video posted on YouTube recently depicting a Jordanian teacher scaring the living day out of a pupil while waving a threatening big stick caused an outcry that rippled through social media reaching HM Queen Raniavia twitter. And then some. The YouTube video was shortly removed, then resurfaced on Ikbis.com a Jordanian video and image sharing platform. Jordanian activists and reformists took to the wires, attachinghashtagsto tweets and sharing videos through Facebook....

WithIPL fevergripping millions of cricket fanatics in India, the online viewership of the ongoing IPL season has surged to a new record breaking 20 million viewers, surpassing last year’s record of 11 million viewers. According to thereport, this surge is mainly due to the various advantages the online medium offers. Unlike television where you are bound to a single place, you could watch the live stream as long as you have a computer/mobile phone with a fast internet connection....