Reuters - FremantleMedia has found another way to bring "American Idol" into people's homes. Sony Media Software signed a deal with FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide Americas to develop two new products designed to extend the popular show's reach.
AP - Sayeed Habibi considers himself a marked man. The reason: his Internet blog that challenges some of the policies of Iran's theocracy.
Reuters - Twentieth Century Fox will start to sell movies including "X-Men: The Last Stand" and TV shows like "24" from Web sites owned by parent News Corp. in the company's first step in the online movie market.
FT.com - Less than a year before he snatched Cable & Wireless Hong Kong Telecom from rival bidder Singapore Telecommunications, Richard Li had his eyes on a different prize - the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's leading English-language paper.
PC Magazine - In-the-wild attacks against a Windows Server Service vulnerability have started, using malware that hijacks unpatched Windows machines for use in IRC-controlled botnets.
AP - Pete Leathard, the CEO for energy services firm Veco Corp., thought his round of golf was going bad last weekend — but it got worse when his cell phone rang as he approached the 15th hole.
AP - Hay and beans have fueled this rural economy for years. But it's fiber of another kind that city leaders believe is key to Powell's future.
Reuters - YouTube, the popular online home video site, has an unexpected star -- a septuagenarian British widower -- whose soft-spoken, humble manner has won the hearts of users of the youth dominated Web site.
When you look at what is happening in the UK you have to realize that the USA is really lagging in many ways. While we initially had the lead in broadband technology, too many political and internal corporate agendas, as...
More and more cities are looking at the prospect of being broadband providers. My instincts are that they will begin providing access to private companies rather than be able to do it themselves. Om has a post about San Francisco...
AP - Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has announced that an ambitious project to provide low-cost laptop computers to all of Thailand's millions of elementary school students will begin in October.
AP - When friends ask Bill Tyler what Hurricane Katrina did to his cottage in Bay St. Louis, he sends them a link to the online video sharing site YouTube.
AP - A federal judge has ordered personal items seized in 1996 from Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski's Montana cabin to be sold online.
Reuters - An Indian village has uploaded itself onto the Internet, giving the outside world a glimpse of life in rural India.
NewsFactor - Based on a new media research report that says neither the HD DVD nor its Blu-ray contender will deliver a "knock out" punch in the digital video ring, consumers may well think twice before upgrading their home theater system.
Pal Paul Kapustka caught up with me last week and included me in his new weekly video segment where I talked about WiMax....
Reuters - "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski's journal, as well as axes, typewriters and books seized from his Montana cabin will be sold in an Internet auction to help pay restitution to his victims, a federal judge has ordered.
Reuters - Dell Inc. is offering refunds to customers in China who sued the company saying their laptops had different microprocessors than advertised.
Last Tuesday at the VoIP Developer's Conference KTVU's Pam Cook was on the scene looking into the story of Mobile VoIP. I ended up being one of the people interviewed and got to show off a series of phone's and...
Upfront let me say that since February, SightSpeed has been a client of my agency, Comunicano, so I'm biased. But given the comments by my brother bloggers to date about how they enjoy and concur that SightSpeed is the brand...
TechWeb - The homepage now shows links to search the Web, images, video and news, and a link to its mapping service.
