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New York Times on the Future of Free Online Access to Newspaper Content

March 14, 2005

There is quite a lot of discussion around the web this morning of Katherine Seelye’s article in The New York Times (which, ironically, will disappear behind NYT’s firewall sometime soon) about the future of free online access to newspapers. I agree with Techdirt that making people pay for online access is a really dumb idea. [...]

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Some Advice for Sir Howard

March 7, 2005

Well, things have gotten desperate at Sony, because yesterday the company announced that its board of directors voted to elect the British executive Sir Howard Stringer (currently CEO of Sony Corporation of America) as its new chief executive and chairman of the board. The final decision will come after a shareholder vote in June. Stringer [...]

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“Napster To Go” – Away? Bankrupt?

February 7, 2005

In its inimitable fashion, The Register takes down Napster’s ludicrous new Napster To Go service. So, they really think that people are going to be happy only being able to access the music they have downloaded if they continue to pay the monthly subscription fee? What I wonder is what kind of idiots dream up [...]

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Python and Bit Torrent

February 6, 2005

Inspired by a press release from Nokia announcing the launch of the powerful Open Source Python programming language for the Series 60 Platform, allowing developers to create to execute Python commands and run Python scripts and applications on Series 60-based devices, James Enck muses that a little tinkering with Python and Bit Torrent might lead [...]

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Multiroom DVR Is On Its Way

January 31, 2005

According to Parks Associates, multiroom DVR is going to arrive as competition spurs cablecos, satellite vendors, and telcos to deploy entertainment networking solutions. They project that cable and satellite television providers will step up deployment of multiroom DVR solutions to the point that the number of units will exceed 25 million in 2009. While mass-market [...]

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R.I.P. TiVo

January 17, 2005

Om Malik describes Saul Hansell’s excellent article in today’s New York Times as an obituary for TiVo. Hansell profiles TiVo as a company in turmoil, desperately grasping for any strategy it can find. He says that blowing a deal with Comcast probably cost CEO Michael Ramsey his job, and TiVo its future. When the story [...]

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More Than 200-Million Americans Online

March 18, 2004

Some of the optimistic forecasts of the late 1990s do actually seem to have been pretty much on target (or even a little low). Case in point: today, Nielsen/NetRatings, reported that its survey from February showed 204.3-million people or 74.9 percent of the over-two population of 272.8 million now have Internet access from home. This [...]

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Death of the Webmaster

August 4, 2003

Blogging software and other personal publishing tools have unleashed the ability to communicate from the need for the technical mediation of the webmaster. Luigi Canali De Rossi provides a thought-provoking perspective. Link.
Posted by Charles at 12:08 PM

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Web Has Become Primary Media Hub for US Teens

August 2, 2003

Teens and young adults ages 13 to 24 now spend more time per week on the web (16.7 hours) than they do watching TV (13.6 hours), according to a new Harris Interactive and Teenage Research Unlimited poll. Web numbers don’t include e-mail, which makes the numbers even more impressive. Survey findings also showed that teens [...]

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More RIAA Backlash

August 1, 2003

Sen. Norm Coleman started an inquiry to check the RIAA’s tactics on attacking online music swappers. He believes the RIAA’s tactics may not be taking into consideration the damage they do to innocent people. Link.

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