The future of magazine publishing may be digital, but that future is further away than you’d think, according to Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, who believes that the publishing industry’s push towards digital publishing is a “rush to throw away [the] magazine business [through] just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.”
Oh, and …
It’s like a special singularity just for the internet: Facebook and Netflix are apparently in talks to integrate content and, presumably, take over the world as we know it.
Netflix was just one of multiple online companies, also including music streaming service Spotify, mentioned by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg as being in discussions …
Forget the Moon, we’re going to an asteroid, and this time, we’re bringing a piece of the rock back.
So sayeth NASA, who just announced they’ve approved a robo-spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx (that weirdly translates as “fertility king,” in case you’re wondering) to swing by near-Earth asteroid 1999 RQ36 and scrape a few bits …
Congratulations, Comcast! Your On Demand service has just passed its 20 billionth view since its launch in 2003. For comparison, iTunes has sold around 12 billion songs since it was launched in 2001 – and, even though you’re celebrating with a sweepstakes that will offer winners tickets to movie premieres or walk-on roles in 30Rock (Note …
If all goes to plan, next year’s Academy Awards will be more up-to-date and allow voters the chance to see more of the nominated movies before choosing their favorites – or, perhaps, things might just go horribly wrong, and some entirely unexpected choices might walk away with Oscars that they didn’t actually win.
The uncertainty …
Are American audiences quietly realizing that they don’t actually care about 3D? Hidden in the box office returns for this weekend’s Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is a clue that, yes, that might actually be happening after all. Maybe.
Deadline is blaming what was said to be an underwhelming – although only in context of …
The iPad may be the mobile device that most magazine publishers are enthusiastically embracing, but it’s possible that they’re moving in the wrong direction: Female magazine readers, it seems, may prefer Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color.
The New York Times reports that Nook sales of magazines like Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health and O, The …
Jake Gyllenhaal doesn’t want you looking at him in his underwear.
Actually, that’s not necessarily true. What he doesn’t want is you looking at pictures of him in his underwear that he claims are actually just his head Photoshopped onto someone else’s body… and he’s willing to take legal action to make you stop.
Lawyers for the …
We’re kind of creepy, but not that creepy—the gist of Google guru Eric Schmidt’s public scorn-pouring on technology that’d allow a company to recognize and identify your face, or my face, or anyone’s face.
How? By storing pictures of said faces in a massive photographically encyclopedic database.
That Google would create …
Android users jealous of Apple’s magazine apps can breathe a sigh of relief today, as Next Issue Media – a consortium of publishers, including Time Inc., News Corp. and Hearst – launches its first seven magazines for the mobile OS.
The magazines –Esquire, Fitness, Fortune, The New Yorker, Parents, Popular Mechanics and Time – will be …
Want to watch more web series but don’t know where to find the good ones? Join the club… but help is here in the form of a site described as a cross between Hulu and iTunes, giving original web content the promotion it deserves.
Blip.tv, which has previously worked behind the scenes to help promote original web creators distribute …
Imagine peewee satellites the size of pennies tumbling through space like interstellar insects, collecting data and transmitting it home.
Stop imagining, because three stamp-sized prototypes designed by Cornell scientists went up with space shuttle Endeavour as it flew into orbit Monday morning. Their destination: the International …
