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Twitter, Facebook Won't Make You Immoral but TV News Might
A new study on the neurobiology of admiration and compassion has raised some intriguing questions about the effects of media consumption. It's too soon to say that Twitter and Facebook destroy the very foundations of morality, but it's not too soon to ask what they're doing. In the paper, published Monday in the Proceedings of the ...
Congressman to Introduce Anti-Download Cap Bill
Time Warner Cable plans to test its controversial, new scheme to have users pay by the gigabyte in Rochester, New York, but the area's freshman congressman calls usage caps greedy and plans to introduce legislation to stop it. New York Democratic Representative Eric Massa called TWC's proposal to switch its 8.4 million cable broadband customers to ...
FCC Asks Nation for Suggestions on Big Broadband Plan
The Federal Communications Commission opened proceedings today to discuss the creation of a national broadband Internet system that will reach every American. The plan is due in Congress by Feb. 17, 2010. The FCC is looking for input on ways to keeps costs manageable, effectively monitor the deployment of new infrastructure and, more expansively, “use broadband ...
A Google Whiz Searches for His Place on Earth
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Wheres Sanjay? Do We Need Foreign Technology Workers? Readers are invited to join a conversation with experts about the impact of immigration policy on skilled workers and the industries that rely on them. The question comes from one of dozens of engineers around a crowded conference table at Google. They have ...
Congress to Investigate Bandwidth Caps
Time Warner Cable is trying to protect its lucrative cable TV business from the threat of online video with its plan to charge its broadband customers by the byte, consumer advocacy group FreePress charged Friday, and it wants Congress to investigate. After a torrent of criticism from its customers and a skeptical press, Time Warner Cable ...
Open Mobile Internet Now!
NEWS ANALYSIS -- More than likely, your wireless carrier likes to advertise its data network as open, limitless and liberating. If so, those are lies told by companies more interested in wringing every last dollar from their customers than running a real mobile internet network. Just ask Skype's government affairs director, Christopher Libertelli. His company's cheap ...
Universal Music, YouTube Forge Partnership
The music giant will provide videos from its biggest acts for a new channel on YouTube. U2 lead singer Bono, well known for his ONE campaign against poverty, has turned his focus to a charity case closer to home: the ailing music industry. The rocker is credited with bringing together Universal Music Group, the world's biggest ...
Doubletwist Gets $5m to Help You Share Music and Media with Your Friends
Startup doubleTiwst has received $5 million in second round financing from former CAA and Disney chief Michael Ovitz and former Warner Music Head of Digital Strategy Alex Zubillaga among others according to tech journal VentureBeat. After loading the application, users can drag and drop their music and other media files to any device or to a ...
Facebook Divorces Pirate Bay
Facebook is blocking Pirate Bay torrents from being shared on the popular social-networking site, a week after Pirate Bay unveiled a feature to allow Facebook users the ability to link torrents on their profiles. Beginning Wednesday, the “Share on Facebook" bookmarklet does not function. Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt told TorrentFreak on Wednesday that the social-networking site ...
Amazon, Wal-Mart Follow iTunes, up MP3 Prices
That was fast. One day after iTunes upped the price for some of its DRM-free digital downloads to $1.29, Amazon.com and Wal-Mart have also increased their prices to $1.29 and $1.24, respectively. Of the top 100 MP3 downloads currently listed on Amazon.com, eight of them are now priced at $1.29, up from 99 cents. Those include ...
