It hit two million paying subscribers in September of last year and 2.5 million in November, and now Spotify has hit another big milestone. According to the Financial Times , it now has three million subscribers paying for one of its premium services, which reportedly represents more than 20 percent of its active user base. As the FT notes, that percentage is up from 15 percent in March of last year, and Spotify says that its “active” users don’t include folks who signed up for a a free trial of its premium service but didn’t continue to use the free service.

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Spotify tops three million paying subscribers, 20 percent of its active user base

Posted by randfish Having content that goes viral can seem like the luck of the draw, but there are a number of steps you can take to improve your odds.

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How to Increase the Odds of Your content Going Viral – Whiteboard Friday

Underwhelmed by the ZTE tablet spotted yesterday?

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ZTE Optik dual-core tablet eyed up by Sprint, $100 on contract

Following on from today’s mixed bag of Nokia financials , the Espoo-based company will see some changes on its directorial board, after its Annual General Meeting in a few months. As forecast last year , non-executive chairman Jorma Ollola joined Nokia in 1985 and has been on the board through Nokia’s explosive growth into the world’s biggest handset manufacturer — and its more recent troubles . He will leave the board alongside more recent members Bengt Holmstr

Nokia released its latest quarterly earnings report today, following up on a somewhat disappointing Q3 with a similarly bleak Q4.

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Nokia releases Q4 2011 earnings report: operating profits drop, Lumia sales break one million

IBM may be the king of patents , and Apple’s patent applications grace these pages rather frequently, but Microsoft’s not one to rest on its IP laurels, either. A couple of newly published patents out of Redmond have made their way to the web: one for securely pairing wireless devices and one for 3D rangefinder camera technology. The pairing tech works via a direct connection between devices using Bluetooth or WiFi and an automated, two-step authentication process.

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Microsoft patents method for secure pairing of devices wirelessly and a 3D rangefinder camera

AT&T has released some real gems from its videos archives over the past year, but it’s truly outdone itself this week. It’s dug up a rarely-seen short film titled Robot that Jim Henson made for Bell in 1963, which was intended to explain computers and data communications to business owners at “elite seminars.” It does so with phrases like “Correction: the machine does not have a soul. It has no bothersome emotions.

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AT&T unearths Jim Henson’s 1963 Robot short for Bell

Canonical — shepherd of the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu — generally doesn’t rock the boat with its LTS releases , but things are going to be different this time around. With 12.04LTS the company is taking its assault on contextual menus to the next level by launching HUD

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Canonical bringing HUD to Ubuntu 12.04, company’s assault on menus continues

It wasn’t all that long ago that the Nook Simple Touch got a bit of freshening up thanks to some new code, and now it’s the Kindle Touch’s turn for an upgrade. Amazon has just released software version 5.0.3 for its newest e-reader that brings “general software improvements” to the device. We’re not sure exactly what that means, but we do know the update will be delivered via WiFi in the next few weeks, and anxious owners interested in grabbing it now can head on down to the source link below.

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Kindle Touch gets new software version 5.0.3

Posted by JoannaLord For the past year retargeting has been getting some serious attention. I've been fortunate enough to speak on it at a variety of shows, brainstorm over coffee with some cool companies and even blog about how to use it and how to leverage it for SEO .