Wikipedia Homepage Confirms Site Will Go Black For 24 Hours
Wikipedia formally announced Monday night that the site will “go dark” this week to protest proposed anti-piracy legislation. The online enc… Read more »
Wikipedia formally announced Monday night that the site will “go dark” this week to protest proposed anti-piracy legislation. The online enc… Read more »
The UltraViolet initiative left the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with an important new retail channel in Amazon (NSDQ: A… Read more »
We’ve heard about how the boom in smartphone popularity, the dropping cost of components and the rapid rise of Android, a “free” smartphone… Read more »
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Games rank as the most popular form of mobile content today — 68 percent of tablet and smartphone app users who downloaded an app in the pa… Read more »
Neil Ashe said he wanted a break when he left CBS (NYSE: CBS) last year and he got one. Roughly a year after leaving as the president of CBS… Read more »
Copyright law can be a dry and wonky subject. Yet it often triggers the raw emotions that come with a debate over immigration policy or Tim… Read more »
Capping a flurry of recent developments in the fuss over the Stop Online Piracy Act, Wikipedia’s founder said the site will go dark for 24 h… Read more »
TV producer FremantleMedia UK has created a new digital division out of the existing operations of two of its constituent production compani… Read more »
TV and online exec Russell Stopford is the new head of digital for one of the world’s richest soccer clubs, Manchester City. Read more »
Last week’s CES event brought a clutch of announcements around interactive TV services — specifically around more content getting pushed to… Read more »
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It looks like Silicon Alley has a way to go before it’s taken seriously by its west coast counterpart. This weekend, the San Jose Mercury Ne… Read more »
In its war with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Amazon’s Lovefilm has licensed U.S. TV shows from ABC (NYSE: DIS) Studios through Disney UK under the… Read more »
Samsung is reportedly getting ready to issue some $1 billion in bonds to expand production facilities. Meanwhile, it is starting to get a bi… Read more »
Russia’s big Mail.ru portal is trying to ape Chinese companies’ microblog boom by launching its own Twitter clone. Futubra launched in beta… Read more »
Dozens of commercial book collections, including the entire Harry Potter series, have been downloaded for free from Google’s official Androi… Read more »
This past week we’ve been covering the Consumer Electronics Show, reporting on everything from Apple’s quiet tablet competitors to the unpro… Read more »
Not too long ago, grazing the magazine bins was a perk of going to a trade show. But consolidation and closures mean fewer publications — a… Read more »
Four days spent in Vegas five years after the introduction of the iPhone gives me the sense that the tech industry is at a weird crossroads,… Read more »
While many of the top Internet companies faced a volatile ad market in the fourth quarter of last year, Facebook saw its share of the overal… Read more »
Chalk one up for Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and Android: the International Trade Commission has determined that it doesn’t violate any of the pate… Read more »
Art sellers are challenging a California law that forces them to collect a five percent royalty fee every time a piece of art is resold. The… Read more »
So apparently there’s going to be an iPad 3. Who knew? I had figured they would quit while they were ahead. Apple’s new iPad will have a bee… Read more »
In a late Friday press release, the Congressman leading the much-maligned Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) said he would remove a key part of t… Read more »
Cord-cutting technology was out in force at CES this week, and main rival Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) just announced a “company relaunch” that… Read more »
As the uproar over New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane’s “truth vigilante” question continues, it’s worth noting that North Korea’s… Read more »
After a week dedicated to the fetishism of consumer electronics, it seems fitting to remind ourselves that those products are built under co… Read more »
Bowing to the reality of modern technology, Canada today said it is changing a 1938 law that forbids broadcasting election results before po… Read more »
An English student who set up a website comprising links to illegally-hosted TV shows and movies must be extradited to the U.S. to face char… Read more »
BlackBerry maker RIM’s official line has been that it is not for sale, but this week, persistent rumors that it could get bought anyway got… Read more »
USA Today is reporting a post-holiday e-book “surge,” with 32 of the top 50 titles on its most recent list selling more copies in digital fo… Read more »
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has “apologised unreservedly” after its Kenyan outfit poached customers from a rival business directory by systematicall… Read more »
The UK’s highest-circulating newspaper may not yet be going ahead with web fees but it has introduced a subscription smartphone app, priced… Read more »
Twitter looks like it is ramping up its staffing and operations in the UK: today it was announced that the company will be making a new hire… Read more »
Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) has sold off its loss-making New York operation – home to magazines including Guitar World, Revolver and Gui… Read more »
We know that consumers in China love Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) products, and that Apple is famous for the lines that form outside its stores in adv… Read more »
Our acclaimed one-day event, paidContent 2012, returns to The TimesCenter in New York City on March 1. Now in its third year, paidContent 20… Read more »
So what goes through the mind of the former Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO who championed the Newton handheld as he navigates the smartphone-and-tab… Read more »
It’s a wonder they pulled this off. An obscure agency and a number of its former officials are about to get rich by selling new internet nam… Read more »
Hulu Plus has “materially exceeded” expectations, passing 1.5 million paying subscribers and heading closer to the point where the premium v… Read more »
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