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Who Hates the National Broadband Plan?
Are you ready for more Internet? That's the question that U.S. regulators will soon be asking, as Reuters is reporting that the Federal Communications Commission is set to reveal the National Broadband Plan on March 16. While some details of the plan remain to be seen, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has already mentioned a few of ...
A Dream for Music, but Label's Nightmare
THE Apple iPad, which goes on sale April 3, will access video, applications and Web sites wirelessly no cords or cables needed. But to move your trusty old music collection onto this wonder gadget and take it with you to work, or on vacation, you'll have to pull out a U.S.B. sync cable, plug the device ...
Federal Court Rules Against Cable Providers
Major cable providers lost a key battle with government regulators on Friday, as a federal appeals court ruled that companies like Cablevision and Comcast must continue to make programming they own available to satellite companies. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. ruled that the Federal Communications Commission could continue its so-called “program access ...
Apple: Free iPad with Every Replacement Battery
In a support document, Apple tells us that when you eventually send your iPad in to have its battery replaced, Apple will just send you a new iPad instead. The Battery Replacement Service will cost $100. Ever since Apple ditched the floppy-drive with the original iMac, people have kicked up a fuss about each new hardware ...
March 15, 1985: Dot-Com Revolution Starts with a Whimper
1985: Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company, registers symbolics.com, the internet's first domain name. The market for these unique addresses would not heat up for years, but this click heard 'round the world would eventually provide just about anyone a place in cyberspace to call their own. Owning your own domain is nothing to brag about anymore, ...
Improve Your Facebook Pages with RootmMusic
RootMusic enables the seemless creation of robust Facebook band pages and then allows fans to add thew artist as a tab to their own existing Facebook Page. And unlike standard Facebook pages where the music stops when the fan begins any other activity; with RootMusic, they can listen while they read news, comment,etc. Artists can also ...
EMI Loses to Pink Floyd in Online Sales Battle
A UK judge has ruled that a mid 1990's contract between Pink Floyd and EMI that includes maintaining the artistic integrity of each album release does not allow EMI to sell single tracks on iTunes and other online outlets. But the court stopped short of making EMI pull the tracks down. An EMI statement said: “Today's ...
Effort to Widen U.S. Internet Access Sets up Battle
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine the nations media and technology priorities by establishing high-speed Internet as the countrys dominant communication network. The plan, which will be submitted to Congress on Tuesday, is likely to generate debate in Washington and a lobbying battle among the telecommunication giants, which over ...
A Battle for the Future is Getting Personal
Three years ago, Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, jogged onto a San Francisco stage to shake hands with Steven P. Jobs, Apple's co-founder, to help him unveil a transformational wonder gadget -- the iPhone -- before throngs of journalists and adoring fans at the annual MacWorld Expo. Google and Apple had worked together ...
Apple's iPad Would Read Out Loud...I SAID.. ..Oh never Mind
When it began taking pre-orders for the iPad this morning, Apple also published some new details about how the tablet device will function as an e-book reader. It turns out the iPad will read books out loud to you with audio dictation, a controversial feature that caused some trouble for Amazon's Kindle last year. Also, Apple ...
