Bear Stearns Media Research Presents...
Why Aggregation & Context and Not (Necessarily) Content are King in Entertainment — A conference call to discuss the impact of new technology on creators of content. In our view, digital technologi...
YouTube Coming Soon to Cellphones
YouTube is coming to mobile phones — or, to be more precise, a small slice of YouTube is coming to some Verizon Wireless phones. — While its explosively popular Web site is free, YouTube's phone-bas...
Wii, PS3, Xbox 360... does the Mac matter for games?
It's a tough season for stalwart Mac gamers as Sony and Nintendo launch new game consoles and Microsoft moves into year two of its Xbox 360 campaign. With so many powerful video game consoles on the ...
A Lone Sponsor for a Longer 'Nightly News'
A week from tonight, viewers of the "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" will be able to watch more news — and fewer commercials — as a result of a sponsorship deal with the Philips Electronics Nort...
Supreme Court to examine 'obviousness' of patents
Software and hardware makers have long complained that a glut of so-called junk patents threatens to disrupt the way they do business. — One key gripe about the patent process is expected to take ce...
Google Radio EXCLUSIVE: Audio Ads in pictures!
Google is nearing its one year anniversary of the dMarc Broadcasting acqusition, purchased to further Google's mission to bring "targeted, measurable advertising" to the entire world, including radio....
Grading Newspapers' Website Progress: B
Just about everyone — finally — is on board and working to address the big problem: How to transition a significant part of the newspaper business to online and new media while keeping enough money fl...
Google: 'iPod will hold all the world's TV in 12 years'
The future of music inspires the future of mobile — The idea of fitting your entire music collection into a single device the size of a packet of cigarettes might have seemed outlandish 15 years ago...
Opera Mini drives social networking from mobile phones
Opera Mini™ upgrade released today with new level of interactivity — Today, Opera Software introduces Opera Mini 3.0, the latest version of the award-winning mobile browser already used by eight mill...
'9 out of 10 e-mails now spam'
LONDON, England (Reuters) — Criminal gangs using hijacked computers are behind a surge in unwanted e-mails peddling sex, drugs and stock tips. — The number of "spam" messages has tripled since June ...
IN PRAISE OF THIRD PLACE
Fifteen years ago, the video-game industry was ruled by one player, Nintendo. The company had machines in a third of American homes, and it was Japan's most profitable electronics company. The title...
The Fuzzy Math of Big Media's Digital Revenue
Despite Different Counting Methods, It Comes to $500 Million — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — If you think upfront math is fuzzy, try asking the major media companies for a little sharper focus on how digit...
Squirrels Ate My FiOS
It's not just a catchy title. I lost my FiOS connectivity Saturday morning, rendering my Verizon (VZ) triple-play package of voice, data, and television inoperative. The culprit? Squirrels. — I b...
Zemble Your Friends To Text Spam
Zemble publicly launches Tuesday morning, after a week of letting the founders' family and friends test it out. Although certain — reports claimed that the company launched last week, co-founder Do...