Netflix Instant isn’t offering anything that NBC hasn’t been offering for years, according to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts – but that isn’t the reason why Comcast won’t be going to go down a similar route, as it turns out.
Roberts seemed impressively calm about online video streaming in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, …
As the world around us becomes increasingly digitalized, it seems that even the stories we tell have been converted into blog posts and published on the internet. But luckily for fans of oral history, Broadcastr is keeping the joy of storytelling in its original form alive.
The site, which is currently in beta and plans to release …
Identity theft and security breaches are a top concern for New York Senator Charles Schumer, who appealed to major online companies like Amazon and Twitter to switch to a more secure protocol. The Democrat, speaking at a news conference in a New York City coffee shop, said that unsecured Wi-Fi access aids hackers in getting other …
Has streaming music online replaced radioplay? As some British music labels are moving towards offering songs to buy online as soon as they’ve been played on the radio, REM seems to be moving in the opposite direction, releasing their new album Collapse Into Now to stream for European fans through Spotify a week before it’s available to …
A. If the book in question is a library e-book from HarperCollins, you should be putting your money on Hershey’s.
The Library Journal broke the news on Friday that all new e-books licensed from that publisher — which brought us such modern classics as Sarah Palin’s America By Heart and Justin Halpern’s Sh*t My Dad Says — will be …
If you really want to know what drives your NFL prospect internally, you’ll need to get your hands on an E39 Compression Shirt.
Weighing 4.5 ounces, the Under Armour-brand tech-heavy biometric shirt can measure heart and breathing rates, skin-surface temperature and the wearer’s force and direction.
“The guys who are training …
Starting next Sunday, March 6th, Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader will be available for purchase at AT&T’s retail locations.
It’ll cost $189 just like it does directly from Amazon, but the $139 Wi-Fi-only version won’t be available from AT&T. The $189 version uses AT&T’s 3G network to deliver books wirelessly and also contains a Wi-Fi …
The new Facebook “Like” settings have changed, triggering the always-dependable user panic we’ve seen from previous Facebook alterations like “Privacy-Gate” or the not-to-be-underestimated “News Feed Revolt.” This time, change comes to the little blue thumb.
(More on Techland: Facebook Adds “Civil Union” To Its …
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Giles Turnbull, a technology writer in the UK.
The thing that’s got Apple-watchers all hot and bothered today is the speculation around the rumor surrounding the gossip over the single newspaper article that suggests that Jonathan Ive, Apple’s lead designer, might – or might …
Last week I was in New York at TIME HQ for some no-holds-barred internal strategy sessions involving overhead projectors, calendars, spreadsheets and speakerphones.
On the way through Times Square one morning, I was informed by not one, but two gentlemen representing separate business establishments that I—and I’m paraphrasing …
The Libyan government may have had its eye on popular social networks like Twitter and Facebook, but there was one means of communication on the web that it forgot to check.
Protesters slipped under the radar by using the Muslim dating site Mawada to send clandestine messages organizing the revolution. As revealed to ABC News, the …
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Jerry Brito, a policy wonk and web developer based in Washington, D.C.
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