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Ask.com Redesign Seeks to Give Answers, Not Links
On Friday, Ask.com launched a redesign of the search site, with an emphasis on turning up useful answers on the result page, rather than just links. Ask.com is the seventh largest Internet property overall, with 58 million unique visitors, according to a comScore Media Metrix report in August. Ask.com president Scott Garell told PC Magazine on ...
Music-Download Royalty Rates Left Unchanged
Fear not, iTunes fans. Rumors about the death of iTunes were a tad premature. The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) ruled Thursday that the royalty rate for permanent downloads, like those found via Apple's iTunes, will remain at 9.1 cents per download, according to an organization of music publishers. The CRB also ruled that rates for physical ...
FTC Approves Napster Sale to Best Buy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retailer Best Buy has been given antitrust approval to buy digital music service Napster, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday. Napster and Best Buy, a leading CD seller with a small digital presence, are betting that the deal will give them a better chance against Apple's dominant iTunes, which has more than ...
Norway Consumer Body Challenges iTunes DRM
OSLO - A Norway consumer agency said it aims to take computer group Apple to court over what it calls unfair barriers to playing music from the iTunes music store on devices other than Apple's iPod. Consumer Ombudsman Bjoern Erik Thon told Reuters he hoped other countries would follow the Norwegian example and file their own ...
Sirius Adds Some XM Channels to Radio Service
NEW YORK - Oprah Winfrey, professional hockey and basketball games and other programing previously exclusive to XM Satellite Radio can now be heard on Sirius's service, some two months after their controversial merger was completed. Similarly, Sirius says Howard Stern's channels are available on XM's system, as Sirius XM Radio rolls out its “Best of..." feature. ...
Senate OKs Web Radio Bill, Sends to President
Internet radio got a boost Tuesday when the Senate approved a bill that says Congress must honor any royalty rate agreement reached between online radio stations and copyright holders. Senators approved the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008, which allows stakeholders to broker a deal over royalty payments without the threat of government intervention. The House approved ...
Web Radio Compromise Bill Passes House
Amid the bailout frenzy on Capitol Hill this weekend, the House on Saturday passed a bill that would give its blessing to any compromise reached between Internet radio stations and copyright holders over royalty fees. “There may now be a light at the end of the tunnel in the fight over Internet radio royalties," bill sponsor ...
Tech Leaders, Bloggers Call for Truly Open Debates
A collection of bloggers, political activists, and other technology luminaries sent a letter to both presidential candidates on Friday asking them to make the debates truly open to the public. Lawrence Lessig, the founder for the Center for Internet and Society joined Craig Newmark, Jimmy Wales and bloggers from both sides of the aisle in calling ...
Senate Passes Controversial 'Copyright Czar' Bill
On Friday, the U.S. Senate passed the controversial Pro-IP Bill, which would effectively create a “copyright czar" answering to the President. On Wednesday, Sen. Ron Wyden asked and was granted a request to remove a provision that would have required the Department of Justice to enforce copyright provisions, after the DOJ had objected. However, the bill, ...
Studios, Theaters Near Deal for Digital Movies
Walt Disney, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox and Universal are soon expected to announce a long-sought $1.1 billion digital cinema deal that Hollywood hopes will boost attendance, cut costs and enable more 3-D viewing, sources close to the deal said on Thursday. The studios declined to comment, but sources with knowledge of the talks said the deal ...
