AP - Hollywood has been tiptoeing its way toward letting consumers buy a movie online, burn it onto a DVD and watch it on a living-room TV.
AP - Every day, it seems, a new service pops up offering to send you video over the Internet. "Desperate Housewives," Stephen Colbert heckling the president, clips of bad dancers at wedding parties: It's all there.
AP - Hollywood has been tiptoeing its way toward letting consumers buy a movie online, burn it onto a DVD and watch it on a living-room TV. While the studios hesitate, the adult film industry is taking the leap.
PC World - Like its Windows Mobile-based sibling, the Treo 700p supports fast EvDO networks--and will be available from Sprint as well as Verizon Wireless.
AP - For years, MTV Networks Inc. sat on the sidelines while Apple Computer Inc., RealNetworks Inc. and others racked up sales of music downloads. Now the cable network group that helped popularize music videos two decades ago is entering the online music fray with URGE, a new service that makes its public beta debut on Wednesday.
AP - Internet search engine Snap.com is hoping to expand its sparse audience by making Web surfing more like channel surfing on a TV, but the startup might attract more attention with another change that further blurs the lines separating ads from listings retrieved by objective formulas.
Cable and Wireless has proposed a new bonus scheme to increase incentives for executives and transform the telecommunications group's sluggish business performance...
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Macworld.com - MTV and software giant Microsoft will launch the URGE music store this week as part of the Windows Media Player 11 public beta. The service will not be compatible with the Macintosh and more importantly, Apple’s market leading iPod, which industry analysts say could be a real problem for the companies.
InfoWorld - In separate announcements, Borland Software and Telelogic on Monday are unveiling upgrades to application testing, and enterprise architecture and modeling tools.
AP - CA Inc., a business management software company trying to steady itself after an accounting scandal, said Monday that its chief financial officer is stepping down after 15 months on the job. Its shares sank 3.5 percent in morning trading.
InfoWorld - Motorola and Eclipse will use the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week to unveil open source initiatives in mobile development and modeling, respectively.
FT.com - Cable and Wireless has proposed a new bonus scheme to increase incentives for executives and transform the telecommunications group's sluggish business performance.
PC World - Cell phones will be able to play songs downloaded from iTunes.
NewsFactor - Recent reports about consumer confidence in online banking indicate that many of those who access their accounts online plan to do so less frequently as a result of concerns about security. Many are worried, for example, that their bank's site might be spoofed. And some would rather avoid online banking altogether than risk giving their account information to criminals.
Reuters - Chinese authorities drew a veil of silence on Monday over the sacking of a professor for falsely claming to have invented a new type of computer chip, refusing to say whether he would be prosecuted.
Reuters - For information seekers, the days of culling Web search pages, ten machine-generated hyperlinks at a time, may be numbered.
Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court set aside on Monday a ruling that an injunction must be imposed on online auctioneer eBay Inc. in its patent battle with MercExchange, a developer of e-commerce technology.
Reuters - News Corp.'s MySpace.com will begin selling episodes of Fox's "24" next week as part of a plan to turn the popular teen Web site into a business rivaling Yahoo Inc. and Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes, according to the Wall Street Journal.
On Monday, the Reuters news service obtained an internal Verizon memo that may indicate the company is trying to gain the financial sector as an ally against any net neutrality legislation that might advance on Capitol Hill. In the memo, Verizon's chief congressional lobbyist, Peter Davidson, said the financial services industry "better not start moaning [...]
That's a scene from "Jurassic Park," one of so many movies made on SGI big iron.But the real dinosaurs are gone. SGI may be headed that way as well. As we have already noted, SGI filed for Chapter 11 restructuring today.This comes on the heels of the once-proud digital movie-effects hardware and software provider's stock being [...]
We all owe Rocco Commisso a big debt of gratitude for owning up to what other broadband cable providers are not willing to say. I am referring to Rocco Commisso, CEO of New York-based 1.5 million-subscriber Mediacom Communications, and the eighth largest cable television provider. In remarks at the annual Washington, D.C. summit of the American Cable [...]
As my colleague Marguerite Reardon reports today, AT&T says it will serve 5.5 million low income households as part of its initial deployment of Internet-based TV services. In fact, AT&T Chief Executive Edward Whitacre told the Detroit Economic Club yesterday that as part of the build out of the bandwidth-enhancing Project [...]
On Tuesday, it was announced that BitTorrent's file-sharing system will be used by Warner Bros. to distribute films and TV shows starting sometime this summer.There's two ways to look at this.The far more benevolent view is that BitTorrent is a highly efficient technology for mass distribution of huge digital movie files. No argument there.The [...]
Infonetics Research is out with User Plans for VoIP, North America 2006, a new study that among other findings, quantifies why enteprises are deploying VoIP. In other words, the drivers.conducted in-depth interviews with 240 small, medium, and large organizations that use VoIP products and/or services now or will by 2007, as well as 450 shorter [...]
