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David Grisman: New Website Featuring Garcia Material
NEW WEBSITE FEATURES NEW AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED PROJECTS WITH JERRY GARCIA VIDEOS, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, STREAMING RADIO & TV, DAILY DOWNLOADS NEW RELEASES AVAILABLE EACH MONTH David Grisman David Grisman has announced the arrival of his new website, www.acousticoasis.com, featuring new and previously unreleased projects that are now available as high-quality digital downloads, ...
FCC Broadcasters Guard Their Spectrum
An offer TV station owners can't refuse? Broadcasters fear that an FCC plan for them to give up some of their rights to the public airwaves would cost them future revenue. For decades, owning television stations, with their fat profit margins, was a license to print money. But the growth of cable and now broadband has ...
Twitter to Start Selling Ads
Twitter announced Tuesday that it will start showing sponsored tweets on some search pages, taking a cautious first step into a traditional advertising business model that could provide a steady source of revenue for the 4-year-old startup which doesn't make any serious money yet, but is reckoned to be worth a billion dollars. The so-called Promoted ...
Apple Updates Macbook Pro Line
Apple today updated the MacBook Pro line with faster processors, powerful next-generation NVIDIA graphics and even longer battery life. The popular 13-inch MacBook Pro features the new NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor for up to 80 percent faster graphics and a groundbreaking 10-hour built-in battery.* The new 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro models feature Intel Core ...
Apple Goes Where the Portals Failed: It's the Hardware, Stupid
Six months ago an Apple analyst told me he thought the company's long-term goal was to become the internet's cable TV company. I didn't get it then. I really get it now. Most think of Apple as a computer or consumer electronics company. I think that's becoming a means to a much bigger end: becoming a ...
Privacy Groups Want Feds to Investigate Targeted Ads
A trio of privacy groups want federal regulators to take a close look at ad networks that track web surfers' and sell targeted ads. The groups want the Federal Trade Commission to open an inquiry into whether these networks, including Google and Yahoo, are unfairly tracking Americans and profiting from their data. The World Privacy Forum, ...
15 iPad Apps You Should Download Today
The iPad's got a big screen, zippy performance and a decent web browser -- but its real potential lies in the thousands of apps -- more than 3,000 already -- that use that hardware in new and interesting ways. But as significant of an advancement as the iPad may be compared to its smaller predecessors, one ...
iPad Etiquette: The 'Official' FAQ
Etiquette on the iPad is white space on the map. It's not a smartphone. It's not a laptop. It's something new. As early adopters, the opportunity to define proper etiquette is ours. If we let them, the old guard will try to take the reins on when and how we should use this goddamned thing. Yet ...
AOL Says Bye Bye Bebo
AOL says it will sell or shut down social networking site Bebo in 2010, just 2 years after buying it for $580 million. Bebo has lost 45% of its unique visitors in the last year as Facebook, Twitter and other platforms have gained popularity and AOL is not willing to spend additional funds into a possible ...
Court Drives FCC Towards Nuclear Option to Regulate Broadband
A federal appeals court all but told the FCC Tuesday that it has no power to regulate the internet, putting large chunks of the much-lauded national broadband plan at risk. And the FCC has only itself to blame. Telecoms and many internet activists have long argued that the internet is a developing technology that was innovating ...
