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Music Royalty Debate Moves to Senate Committee
While Internet radio stations have come to an agreement over music royalty rates, the debate over whether traditional radio stations should also pay up rages on. The Senate Judiciary Committee was the latest panel to play referee during a Tuesday hearing. The current royalty rate structure means that “innovative new businesses … compete at a disadvantage ...
Apple, Labels Stir up Deluxe, Digital Cocktail
The mysterious music deal Apple is working on with the major labels is reportedly a digital music format known as Cocktail, which will bundle photos, videos, lyrics and other assets with an album's music. Downloadable music didn't kill the album cover. The CD did. By shrinking the size and visual impact of the recording industry's mainstay ...
Net Neutrality Bill Calls On FCC to Babysit Isps
Net neutrality took center stage again Friday when several House members introduced a bill intended to preserve the open nature of the Web by asking the Federal Communications Commission to keep a watchful eye on Internet service providers. The Internet Freedom Preservation Act would ban ISPs from blocking, interfering with, or discriminating against lawful applications and ...
Niche Social Sites Battle Facebook
What do you do when you're a small online social network trying to compete against a behemoth like Facebook? The answer may be to try to carve out a separate path by becoming a niche website for a specific audience base that advertisers, hopefully, want to target. While this is no easy challenge—given Facebook's intention to ...
Twitter Unveils New Start Page
The micro-blogging site has once again moved away from its initial mission statement of utter simplicity, cramming a good deal of information onto the shiny new homepage. New additions include a search bar, a list of trending topics divided by the minute, day, and week, and the tagline, “share and discover what's happening right now, anywhere ...
An Early Look at Firefox 4?
Firefox 3.5 just went gold, but that hasn't stopped Mozilla from showing vehemently non-final mockup screenshots of Firefox 4. Of the two design candidates, one bears a striking resemblance to new competitor Google's Chrome browser, with the tab controls way up above everything else. It's a design that Apple tried for Safari 4 beta and then ...
Online Video Usage Exploding, Study Says
Hold on to your bandwidth – online video is growing in popularity, according to Wednesday data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. About 62 percent of adults who use the Internet have watched video online, up from 33 percent in December 2006. Not surprisingly, online video is most popular among those aged 18 to ...
Barnes and Noble Stores to Provide Free WI-Fi
Barnes & Noble customers have had access to paid Wi-Fi hotspots at individual outlets of the popular nationwide bookseller since 2005. The company announced Tuesday, however, that it has signed a strategic agreement with AT&T to implement free and unlimited access to all of its 777 stores' wireless networks. This move seems to be intended, at ...
Time Warner Buys Google's Stake in AOL For $283m
Time Warner Inc paid $283 million for Google Inc's 5 percent stake in AOL, the Internet company said in a U.S. regulatory filing on Monday. Time Warner, which plans to spin off AOL by the end of the year, bought the stake from Google on July 8, AOL said in the filing with the U.S. Securities ...
Should U.S. Govt. Track You with Cookies?
Should the government allow federal Web sites to use web-tracking technologies like cookies? The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) within the White House is pondering that question and wants your input. Federal agencies have been banned from using web-tracking technologies since 2000, but a lot has happened in nine years, and OMB is now looking ...
