Technology News

Seattle Paper Shifts Entirely to the Web

Source: Michael Ricci
March 16, 2009

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper will produce its last printed edition on Tuesday and become an Internet-only news source, the Hearst Corporation said on Monday, making it by far the largest American newspaper to take that leap. Enlarge This Image Kevin P. Casey for The New York Times In Seattle, boxes holding the city’s two major dailies. On Tuesday, The Post-Intelligencer will produce its last printed edition and become an Internet-only news source. But the P-I, as it is called, will ...

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Many See Privacy on Web as Big Issue

Source: Michael Ricci
March 15, 2009

As arguments swirl over online privacy, a new survey indicates the issue is a dominant concern for Americans.

More than 90 percent of respondents called online privacy a “really” or “somewhat” important issue, according to the survey of more than 1,000 Americans conducted by TRUSTe, an organization that monitors the privacy practices of Web sites of companies like I.B.M., Yahoo and WebMD for a fee.

When asked if they were comfortable with behavioral targeting — when advertisers use a person’s ...

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Feds Demand Prison for Guns N' Roses Uploader

Source: All About Jazz
March 14, 2009

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are pursuing a 6-month prison term for a Los Angeles man who pleaded guilty in December to one misdemeanor count of uploading pre-release Guns N' Roses tracks, according to court documents.

Kevin Cogill was arrested last summer at gunpoint and charged with uploading nine tracks of the Chinese Democracy album to his music site — antiquiet.com. The album, which cost millions and took 17 years to complete, was released November 23 and reached No. 3 ...

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Google's Tim Armstrong to Run AOL Has He Lost His Mind?

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2009

Of all the people who have lined up thinking they could fix AOL, Tim Armstrong, Google's head of US ad sales, is certainly the most prominent.

He's been at Google almost from the beginning — originally working out of his house in Connecticut — and he has played a huge role in making Google the ad juggernaut it is today. Thanks to all that work he's probably worth more than $500 million now. All of that will be good for ...

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Apple to Preview iPhone 3.0 Next Week

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2009

The iPhone is set to get a facelift. Apple will show off a new version of the iPhone operating system, iPhone 3.0, on March 17, along with a new version of the phone's software development kit.

While details are scanty, iPhone 3.0 could include features such as universal search, multi-media messaging and an updated user interface.

Apple will unveil the new SDK and OS at a media event for reporters and bloggers at Apple's Cupertino, California campus, starting at at ...

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Vocalist PJ Parker Climbing All About Jazz Charts

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2009

Powered by reaction to her latest CD release, Dreams Are Meant For Two, jazz vocalist PJ Parker is rising up the ranks of several All About Jazz lists. Her free AAJ download, her own composition “So What Do You Say?" has been the number one ranked download for the last 10 and last 30 day categories for more than a month, and ranks in the top five or six for the remainder of the ranking categories: 60, 90, 120 and ...

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Twitter Adds New Search and Trends Tools Plus a Hypebot Twitter Contest

Source: HypeBot
March 12, 2009

Twitter has begun adding new tools that music marketers should find useful to some user profiles and is expected to roll them out system wide soon. A search box allows you to track recent activity on the hugely popular mobile social networker. Type in a band name and see what the latest tweets are saying about you. A new trends tool shows shifts in the hottest topics being discussed on Twitter. Chris Brown was a recent chart topper.

THE CONTEST ...

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Times Techie Envisions the Future of News

Source: All About Jazz
March 11, 2009

Nick Bilton, an editor in the New York Times research and development lab, doesn't think much of newspaper. In fact, he doesn't even get the Sunday paper delivered to his house.

Thankfully for Bilton and his employer, he's bullish on news. It's just the paper he hates. “Paper is dying, but it's just a device," Bilton told Wired.com ahead of his talk Tuesday at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference in San Jose, California. “Replacing it with pixels is a better ...

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