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 »
Stories for Jan. 17, 2012
Why UltraViolet Produced More Questions Than Answers At CES
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 »
The Year Of The Dumb And Dumber, Sub-$100 Smartphone – 500 Million Of Them
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 »
Sweet Success For Cut The Rope: An Interview With ZeptoLab's CEO
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 »
Former CBSi Head Neil Ashe Lands At Walmart; Will Head E-Commerce
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 »
paidContent Book Review: How To Fix Copyright
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 »
Wikipedia Shutting Down For 24 Hours To Protest SOPA Piracy Bill
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 »
Stories for Jan. 16, 2012
X Factor Maker FremantleMedia Has Beefed Up UK Digital Operations
TV producer FremantleMedia UK has created a new digital division out of the existing operations of two of its constituent production compani… Read more »
Manchester City Has Got A New Head Of Digital
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 »
Interactive TV Advertising: Not Huge Now, Will This Be The Year It Grows?
photo: Falling Pixel
Last week’s CES event brought a clutch of announcements around interactive TV services — specifically around more content getting pushed to… Read more »
Silicon Valley Taunts NYC Over Tech Aspirations
photo: Victoria Peckham
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 »
Lovefilm Adding ABC TV Show Archive In UK Netflix Fight
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 Doing Well; Now Raising $1B, Looking To Tizen To Do Better?
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 Mail.ru Launches Its Own Twitter After China's Microblog Explosion
photo: Red Square: yeowatzup (Flickr)
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 »
Illegal Books Available For Free On Google's Android Market
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Dozens of commercial book collections, including the entire Harry Potter series, have been downloaded for free from Google’s official Androi… Read more »
Stories for Jan. 15, 2012
CES: Our Coverage In Pictures
photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
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 »
Stories for Jan. 14, 2012
Time Inc. Skips The CES Bins, Sort Of; Offers Free Downloads Of All Titles
photo: Time Inc.
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 »
@ CES: No Signature Magic This Year But The Winds Are A-Changing
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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 »
Can Facebook Control 5 Percent Of Online Advertising By End Of 2012?
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 »
Motorola Wins A Round In Mobile Patent War Against Apple
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 »
eBay, Auction Houses Say California Art Law Is Unconstitutional
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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 »
The iPad 3: Quad-Core Chips And LTE Networking Expected In March
photo: Tom Krazit
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 »
Rep. Lamar Smith Says He Will Remove Controversial SOPA Item
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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 »
Never Mind Cord Cutters And Dish — DirecTV Raises Rates
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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 »
North Korea's State Newspaper Launches English Version Online
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 »
Apple Joins Labor Standards Group With Release Of Annual Supplier Report
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 »
New Law Lets Canadians Blog And Tweet Election Results
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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 »
Stories for Jan. 13, 2012
TV Piracy Links Site Host Faces Extradition To U.S.
photo: Shutterstock / Ilona Baha
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 »
Has RIM Hired Goldman Sachs To Explore A Merger Or Sale?
photo: Shutterstock / Feng Yu
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 »
E-Books Outsell Print For Majority Of Titles On USA Today Bestseller List
photo: USA Today
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 »
The Morning Lowdown 1-13-12
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» Hulu Plus claims more than 1.5 million subscribers, commits $500 million to content in 2012 (paidContent)
» From CE… Read more »
Updated: 'Mortified' Google To Act On Those Who Poached Rival's Clients
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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 Sun Newspaper Going Premium In Mobile App For £4.99 A Month
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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 »
Updated: Twitter UK Poaches BBC Sport Social Media Editor As Olympics Nears
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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 Sells New York-Based Music Magazines For $3 Million
Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) has sold off its loss-making New York operation – home to magazines including Guitar World, Revolver and Gui… Read more »
Updated: Apple Gets Egged In Beijing, Halts iPhone 4S Sales In Its Stores
photo: M.I.C. Gadget
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 »
paidContent 2012, NYC: New Speakers; Last Chance For Early Registration
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 »
Ex-Apple CEO Sculley: 'Newton Was Probably 15 Years Too Early'
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 »
Yee-ha! Domain Name Cash Grab Officially Under Way
photo: Corbis / Don Mason
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 Claims More Than 1.5 Million Subs; Commits $500 Million To Content In 2012
Hulu Plus has “materially exceeded” expectations, passing 1.5 million paying subscribers and heading closer to the point where the premium v… Read more »
