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Google Wants 'Fast Lane' for Its Own Content
Google Inc has approached Internet carriers with a proposal to create a “fast lane" for its own content, countering its previously stance of equal network access for all content providers, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. One major cable operator in talks with Google said it has been reluctant to forge a deal because of ...
Virgin Rolls out 50 Mbits/S Broadband in U.K.
Cable operator Virgin Media became the first Internet provider to roll out a mass-market super-fast broadband service in Britain on Monday, launching a 50 megabits per second offering. The average broadband speed in Britain is between 4 and 5 MB. Virgin said the new service, which had been heavily trailed, would be almost nine times the ...
Free Wireless Broadband on Hold, for Now
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Saturday it was canceling a December 18 meeting in response to a request by Democratic lawmakers that it pay more attention to a smooth transition to digital television early next year. Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Rep. Henry Waxman of California wrote FCC Chairman Kevin Martin on ...
Amazon's First Year in MP3s: Fair to Good
AAfter its first full year selling tracks from all four major labels, Amazon's digital music store has become the second-largest a la carte service, according to industry estimates. But it's a very distant second to iTunes. Major-label sources say that they had hoped the company would have fared better than it did. Amazon has yet to ...
Is iTunes the Evolution of Music? Maybe Not
It's been more than five years since Apple's iTunes store changed music retail by introducing single-track digital downloads. But it wasn't until 2008 that most musicians and labels started to wonder out loud whether selling music by the track is good for their bottom lines. Two of the year's biggest rock acts, AC/DC and Kid Rock, ...
Are Labels Charging Enough for Videogame Music?
With more than $1 billion in sales and 50 million tracks downloaded between them—on a base of only about 350 songs—the “Guitar Hero" and “Rock Band" videogame franchises emerged this year as serious moneymakers for the music industry. But are they bringing in enough per track? During a quarterly earnings call in August, Warner Music Group ...
Delta Rolls out Wi-Fi in Select Flights
Delta Air Lines is finally getting on board with modern technology, one baby step at a time. The Atlanta-based company announced today that it will begin rolling out Wi-Fi on select flights, beginning with small shuttle flights between Reagan National Airport in Washington, LaGuardia in New York, and Logan in Boston. The Washington Post points out, ...
Final Chrome Version Boosts Speed, Compatibility
PC Magazine has performed follow-up tests of Google Chrome to see how much progress the browser has made since coming out of beta. The results show that its already fast JavaScript performance on the respected Sunspider benchmark has gotten even faster and compatibility with popular sites such as Facebook has improved. The retest shows a 24 ...
Bush Opposes Free Wireless Broadband
In a letter to the FCC, the Bush Administration has said that it opposes the agency's plan to create free nationwide wireless broadband using unused DTV spectrum. In a Dec. 10 letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez urged Martin to reconsider the proposal in light of the Bush administration's position that ...
Youtube, Hulu Improve Web Video Share
YouTube reached 100 million viewers in October, up from 92 million in July, according to data released Tuesday by comScore. In total, more than 147 million Americans watched online video in October – two-thirds of which were viewed on YouTube. Fox Interactive, which includes MySpace and Fox Sports Interactive, came in second with 60.8 million viewers, ...
