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Obama Taps Vivek Kundra as White House CIO
President Obama on Thursday named Vivek Kundra as the White House chief information officer (CIO). Kundra has served as the chief technology officer (CTO) for Washington, D.C. since 2007, where he was charged with technology operations and strategy for 86 agencies. He also served as Virginia's assistant secretary of commerce and technology under Gov. Tim Kaine, ...
Obama Picks Genachowski as FCC Chairman
President Obama officially nominated Julius Genachowski as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Tuesday. Genachowski is already serving on Obama's transition team and most recently worked as a venture capitalist in Washington. He was chief counsel at the FCC under Reed Hundt, who was FCC chairman from 1993 to 1997, and held executive ...
Flickr Offers Video Hosting to All Users, Adds HD
Last spring, Yahoo announced that it had added YouTube-like video hosting to its Flickr photo-hosting site—but only for paid users of the Pro version. The company has announced that now even users with free accounts can put their videos on Flickr. The service has also been enhanced with high-definition video quality, but only for members with ...
Obama's New Commerce Pick Has Tech Cred
Third time's the charm? President Obama nominated former Washington Governor Gary Locke as his pick for Commerce secretary Wednesday, a choice that drew support from the high-tech industry. “Gary will be a trusted voice in my cabinet, a tireless advocate for our economic competitiveness, and an influential ambassador for American industry who will help us do ...
Apple, Depeche Mode Launch New 'iTunes Pass'
The 1980s Britpop band Depeche Mode has teamed with Apple to launch the first iTunes Pass, a sort of one-time subscription service to content that the band has and will create. Although the blogosphere is wondering whether Apple is using the concept of the iTunes Pass to evolve into an optional subscription model, the Pass seems ...
Ticketmaster, Live Nation Defend $575m Merger
Ticketmaster and Live Nation defended their proposed merger Tuesday, painting themselves as struggling music entities that need each other's strength to survive. “Economic times have taken its toll," Michael Rapino, president and CEO of Live Nation, told the Senate Judiciary antitrust committee. “I can hope the economy gets better or I can seek a more pro-active ...
'Rotten Tomatoes' Web Site Moves to TV
"You get your friends around and it's fun to trash the hell out of a movie," Brett Erlich begins. “But it's also fun to disagree with people. A lot of people loved Benjamin Button. I, for one, wanted to kill myself at many points during that film. If it was four hours, instead of three hours ...
Have Licensed Music Services Flunked Out?
College campuses were once a prime spawning ground for new digital music services. Those days appear to be over. Closing the book on the role of campuses as digital music laboratories is the recent demise of Ruckus—an ad-supported music download service that was available for free to students at 200 universities through direct content deals, as ...
AOL Adds 'Lifestreaming' to Bebo, Enters Classifieds
AOL on Monday enhanced both its classifieds offerings as well as Bebo, its social networking service. AOL added a “lifestreaming" feature to the latter, allowing a user to post stream-of-consciousness photos and other comments. The move is an attempt to bolster the popularity of social network Bebo, which the company picked up in March 2008 for ...
Facebook Grows into a Top-Ten Web Property
Job and tax-related Web sites dominated consumers' online activity in January, according to Thursday data from comScore, but there was also a little time for social networking as Facebook cracked the list of top 10 Web properties for the first time. “January has once again seen seasonal gains in the tax, career and travel categories, reflecting ...
