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NBC to run fall TV promos on YouTube

NBC will use the YouTube video-sharing site to promote its fall television lineup in a strategic partnership that further underscores the Internet's growing role in generating buzz around traditional media ...

Wi-fi crusader in $5 router giveaway

FON, a Spanish start-up on an ambitious crusade to turn home Wi-Fi connections into wireless "hotspots" for nearby users, is set to unveil on Monday a plan to hand ...


With Online Music, It’s a Buyer’s Market

For years, old recordings have piled up in the archives at Verve Records, including beloved jazz tracks that had no market big enough to justify pressing new discs. But thanks ...

Powering up Tomorrowland

Earthlink is betting on urban Wi-Fi — and Anaheim In the past decade Garry Betty has experimented with just about every possible way of connecting his customers to the Internet — ...

Niche TV growing quickly online

If you have a hobby or interest you are passionate about, the chances are that you have already found a website or a blog dedicated to it. But with the spread ...


Study: Internet partly to blame for your lack of close friends

Increased use of the Internet, along with the number of hours people are spending at work, are factors contributing to a drastic decline in the number of close friends that ...

Mobile broadband – Israel getting show on the road

Mobile broadband is making watching television anytime, anywhere, much more of a reality, and one Israeli company is committed to that vision of TV all the time. "Our motto is 'enabling ...

Why don’t they tell us ending Net Neutrality might kill BitTorrent?

Last week's column was about Bill Gates' announced departure from day-to-day management at Microsoft and a broad view of the Net Neutrality issue. We'll get back to Microsoft next week ...

N.Y. lawmaker drops Google porn lawsuit

A Long Island politician has dropped a federal lawsuit that had claimed the search engine company Google Inc. profits from child pornography. Jeffrey Toback, a member of the Nassau County Legislature ...

Wireless Piggybacking Lands Man In Trouble

Brewed Awakenings, with its pithy name, artful drinks and wireless Internet service, has found itself unexpectedly percolating on the forefront of high-tech law. "He doesn't buy anything," Manager Emily Pranger says ...

Will the internet die in September?

There will be much to discuss at ICANN's Marrakech meeting which kicks off this Saturday, but one question rises about all others: what will happen to the internet on 30 ...

Broadband usage growing, and growing

Nearly three-quarters of Web surfers in the United States have broadband Internet connections at home, up from just 57 percent a year ago, according to a study released on Wednesday ...

Internet phones must pay into subsidy fund, says FCC

Consumers who use wireless or Internet-based telephones could see their bills rise, as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved on Wednesday a new plan for funding phone service subsidies. The FCC ...

MySpace tightens age restrictions

Social networking website MySpace.com plans to introduce restrictions on how adults contact teenagers on the site. The changes aim to make it more difficult for users more than 18 years old ...

Some Sites Off Limits, Even in a Newsroom

Last month, Bennett Haselton, the founder of Peacefire.org, a Web site that promotes open access on the Internet, got an e-mail message from a Los Angeles Times reporter who was ...

Sony Music wants bloggers to promo videos, music

Sony BMG Music Entertainment wants to give bloggers free music and video--sort of. The music conglomerate is promoting a new site, called Musicbox Video, that showcases videos, artist interviews, behind-the-scenes footage ...

China film piracy ‘costs $2.7bn’

Piracy in China cost the film industry $2.7bn (£1.5bn) in 2005, according to a study by a major global movie body. Around 93% of all films sold in China are pirated, ...

Senator offers Net neutrality compromise

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens has offered a compromise in the fierce fight over legislation on Internet network neutrality, but stopped short of demands sought by content companies like ...

Xupiter author orders critics to cease and desist

"A culture is made - or destroyed - by its articulate voices" - Ayn Rand "The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards ...

Big Content Eyes P2P, May Destroy Internet As Result

There is little doubt that P2P will play a huge role in our non-stop-content consuming future. According to market research firm Strategy Analytics, major media players such as Disney, Sony, ...

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