Warner to send videos through YouTube
SAN FRANCISCO - Warner Music Group Corp. has agreed to distribute and license its copyrighted songs and other material through online video trendsetter YouTube Inc., marking another significant step i...
Contemplating Time Warner Without Time
COVER an industry, any industry, long enough and you will learn that the sky is always falling. Morale has never been lower, competition is beyond the pale, and the customers have lost their minds. ...
Not in the Real World Anymore
At MTV, reality has always been a moving target. Sixteen years ago, the network heralded the era of reality television with "The Real World." Three years ago, it pushed the genre further with "Lagun...
Why Paris Hilton Is Famous (Or Understanding Value In A Post-Madonna World)
I'm amused by Paris Hilton. — If Madonna was Marketing 1.0 then Paris Hilton is Marketing 2.0. — She's a real life version of what value is and how it is created today. — Every web developer sho...
IPod, TheyPod: Rivals Imitate Apple's Success
After years of watching Apple Computer Inc.'s success in digital music, rivals are ripping a page from the company's playbook. — RealNetworks Inc. today plans to announce a deal with SanDisk Corp. t...
Make Room on the Couch for Steve
Our computers have become great media devices for songs, pictures and now TV and movies. — Newsweek — Steve Jobs's talk last week was nearing an end and coming dangerously close to a letdown. The...
Cable Racks Up Over 1 Million VOIP Subs in Q2
Shattering their old quarterly record for VOIP subscriber gains, North American cable operators signed up more than 1 million IP phone customers for the first time during the spring, according to the ...
Google Losing Users In China: Study
Fewer Chinese users are seeking out Google for its search services, according to a new report by the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC). — According to the survey by China's official ...
2.5 Terabyte Hard Drives in PVRs by 2009?
My TiVo has a paltry 40 hour recording capacity while my Media Center has a slightly more respectable 160 gig hard drive installed. — Needless to say, I'm pretty much forced to delete shows almost i...
Rumor: Touchscreen iPod Before Christmas?
We're still disappointed Apple didn't roll out its touchscreen iPod last week, and so we're doubly interested in any rumors having to do with the unpredictable release of the phantom product. Now ton...
How Dare Google Send Belgian News Sites Traffic! Court Orders Them To Stop
from the not-getting-it dept — The issue of the legality of "deep linking" has gone on for many years — and while we had hoped that, by now, people would realize why there should be nothing wrong wi...
8020: American Idol of Digital Photography?
With online advertising on an upswing, it is hardly a surprise that traditional media, including magazine and newspaper publishers, are embracing the web. 8020 Publishing, Inc., a four-person San Fran...
Hewlett Review Is Said to Detail Deeper Spying
A secret investigation of news leaks at Hewlett-Packard was more elaborate than previously reported, and almost from the start involved the illicit gathering of private phone records and direct survei...
Authenticated and private feeds
Some syndication feeds are not meant to be displayed for the world to see. Our everyday lives contain private and confidential data we wouldn't want anyone else to see, and especially not search. Th...
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Pipeline Worm Floods AIM with Botnet Drones
Proactive research on security threats is the key to catching hidden threats before they can collect confidential data, deliver adware, or take down a network. When researchers grab a threat, it's us...
First Impressions: 24-inch iMac
Today I bring to you my first impressions (a pseudo-review) of the Apple 24-inch iMac, joining my first impressions of the Intel Mac Mini and MacBook. Apple is known for taking bold steps and setting...