Platform Music From Rogers Wireless
- May
- 27
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From exclusive live concerts to online previews of as yet unreleased albums, MTV in Canada’s partnership with Rogers Wireless is promising even more multi-platform access to popular music and related content.
Under a co-branded arrangement, Rogers and MTV will present new music oriented programming online and on TV, including:
“New technology has unleashed our audience’s demand for [...]
STARTUP TO WATCHVeodia: Gambling on a Better Way to Stream Video
- April
- 25
What It Does
Veodia, incorporated in January 2006, started with funds from angel investors and only recently had its first round of venture financing. Its service lets organizations broadcast and manage live, on-demand, TV-quality videos using the MPEG-4/H.264 standard, and they can do this without investing heavily in personnel and infrastructure.
Take customer MIT Technology Review, for [...]
Calls Against Big CEO Pay Grow Louder
- April
- 12
NEW YORK - Wall Street’s high-rolling CEOs live a lifestyle that would make Hollywood movie stars jealous — penthouse apartments, private jets, and paychecks tipping $60 million a year.Corporate boards in recent years have rubber-stamped generous bonus packages for an elite set of executives, a reflection of a go-go stock market and soaring profits. Now, [...]
Mortgage fix The clock is ticking
- April
- 4
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The Senate, in a surprise move, has agreed to work out a bipartisan housing package that could come to the floor as soon as Wednesday.
Such deals - quickly brokered between Democratic and Republican leaders - will have to be the order of the day in both the Senate and the House [...]
Microsoft Grudgingly Opens Contacts API
- April
- 3
Not Just Social
While social networking continues to make headlines, Microsoft’s move is targeted at the European Union, which has continually stung the company with massive fines for its slow movement toward interoperability, and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) , which is trying to create a hosted business application service to compete with Microsoft Office.
Microsoft has faced more [...]
MPAA Chief: Net Neutrality Hamstrings Antipiracy Efforts
- March
- 18
Day of Discussion
The notion of net neutrality has been hotly debated in recent months. Proponents have argued that regulation is necessary to keep Internet service providers from slowing or blocking access to bandwidth-intensive Web sites such as YouTube because of their higher-than-normal bandwidth demands. Some have even argued that ISPs could ultimately block access [...]
New Investors Pursuing Charter
- March
- 18
Potential new investors approached controlling shareholder Paul Allen, the cable and telephone service provider said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Allen, who cofounded Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) , gave the investors information about Charter that has not been publicly released, according to the filing, which didn’t indicate how much the parties [...]
MPAA Chief: Net Neutrality Hamstrings Antipiracy Efforts
- March
- 18
Day of Discussion
The notion of net neutrality has been hotly debated in recent months. Proponents have argued that regulation is necessary to keep Internet service providers from slowing or blocking access to bandwidth-intensive Web sites such as YouTube because of their higher-than-normal bandwidth demands. Some have even argued that ISPs could ultimately block access [...]
Study: Dark Data Shadow Follows Everyone
- March
- 18
45 GB per Person
In 2007 the digital universe was equal to almost 45 gigabytes of digital information for every person on earth, IDC said, or the equivalent of more than 17 billion 8 GB iPhones.
Accelerated growth in worldwide shipments of digital cameras, digital surveillance cameras and digital televisions are among the factors behind the information [...]
MPAA Chief: Net Neutrality Hamstrings Antipiracy Efforts
- March
- 18
Day of Discussion
The notion of net neutrality has been hotly debated in recent months. Proponents have argued that regulation is necessary to keep Internet service providers from slowing or blocking access to bandwidth-intensive Web sites such as YouTube because of their higher-than-normal bandwidth demands. Some have even argued that ISPs could ultimately block access [...]
