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YouTube Unveils New Section for TV Episodes and Feature Films
“YouTube Shows" is designed to draw marketers that aren't comfortable advertising against a 30-second clip of a teenager crashing his skateboard. The website known for its user-generated videos will showcase Hollywood content in an effort to boost revenue and compete with the growing popularity of Hulu. Once considered the scourge of traditional entertainment, YouTube is making ...
Colbert Gets a Treadmill, Not a Space Station
NASA on Tuesday named its new living quarters on the International Space Station “Tranquillity," denying television comedian Stephen Colbert his attempt to get the new Node 3 named after himself. Astronaut Sunita L. Williams, appearing on “The Colbert Report" on cable TV network Comedy Central, said NASA will name the new module Tranquility, instead of Colbert ...
Directv, Comcast Violate Their Own Do Not Call Lists
Federal government to DirecTV and Comcast cable: What part of Do Not Call didn't you understand? Satellite television provider DirecTV Inc. agreed to pay $2.31 million to settle charges that it made more than 1 million calls to its customers who had -- as was their right -- placed themselves on a Do Not Call list, ...
'We Are Haunted' Fantastic New Way to Find Hot Music
A new, playable music chart is like a Billboard chart for the P2P generation -- and you can play anything on it with a single click. It would take an army of listeners to keep tabs on all the music being recorded and posted to MySpace, YouTube, BitTorrent and the like. How to filter it all? ...
Internet Providers Want to Meter Usage
Customers who like to stream movies, TV shows may get hit with extra fees. If Internet service providers' current experiments succeed, subscribers may end up paying for high-speed Internet based on how much material they download. Trials with such metered access, rather than the traditional monthly flat fee for unlimited connection time, offer enough bandwidth that ...
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Youtube.
Hannah Pauline Tarley, a ponytailed 17-year-old violinist, smiles for the camera. Then she plays the opening notes of an excerpt from Brahms' Symphony No. 4 as she sways in a room decorated with stickers and posters of the Beatles and the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Tarley filmed herself in her bedroom in Cupertino, Calif., using ...
Obama Builds Tech Bridge to Cuba
What better way to ease relations with Cuba than iPhones, Twitter, and satellite TV? President Obama on Monday unveiled a plan that will allow U.S. residents to send cell phones, computers, satellite receivers, and more to friends and family in Cuba, and also allow U.S. telecom companies to do business in the country. Obama has “directed ...
Mobile Music: Band Geeks Play iPhones, Not Instruments
Once upon a time, orchestras required instruments. Then computers reproduced the sounds of symphonies. Now, band geeks are playing iPhones. Stanford University's newest ensemble is called MoPhO, short for Mobile Phone Orchestra. Its conductor, Ge Wang, is a veteran of Princeton's Laptop Orchestra (see issue 14.04) and is obsessed with making electronic music as mobile as ...
Pandora: Putting the "Me" Back into Mass-Media
Kyle Bylin, Associate EditorIntroduction - At the rate of twenty-two million regular listeners and a billion hours streamed last year, Pandora is leading individuals astray from the masses and giving them a new direction. Since their debut on the iPhone, approximately three million people have activated the application and in addition to that, about ...
Stumbleupon Goes Independent, Again
Less than two years after eBay purchased StumbleUpon for $75 million, the recommendation engine is a standalone company once again. In a blog post, co-founder “gmc" reported that the company is “now a startup again". Gmc, co-founder Geoff Smith, and “several great investors" have taken the comp-any independent again. Terms were not disclosed. “This change will ...
