China Rejects US Internet Criticism
(Al Jazeera) UPDATED ON: Friday, January 22, 2010 18:08 Mecca time, 15:08 GMT News Asia-Pacific Clinton called on China to investigate allegations of cyber attacks against search engine, Google [AFP] China has rejected a call from the United States to lift its restrictions on internet usage, saying the US criticism has harmed relations between the … Read more
China Rejects US Criticism of Web Filters
Here’s a report by Al Jazeera on China’s Web filters. – Julian
YouTube Movie Rentals, The Next Step
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Movie rentals are coming to the Internet’s most popular video site. YouTube is making its debut as a rental outlet Friday to help promote some of the movies that will be shown at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. It’s part of a test that YouTube hopes will encourage more movie studios … Read more
By and about The New York Times
The Times to Charge for Frequent Access to Its Web Site Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for access. http://s.nyt.com/u/rU_ – Julian
New York Times to charge for Web access in 2011
Now, this is a huge business move! http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16036/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=N2mShs0P – Julian
Nexus One by Google
Google unveils its new phone: Nexus One. I can’t avoid noticing how every time a new phone comes out, it is always immediately compared to the iPhone… The Nexus One even looks like an iPhone. I’m still waiting for Apple to come out with a phone that has no strings attached. Here’s a review of the … Read more
America is Finally Poised to Get Mobile Television
Tellyphone Dec 31st 2009 | TOKYO From Economist.com America is finally poised to get mobile television YOUR correspondent is always miffed when he sees others taking for granted things he has waited years for. Case in point: the way the Japanese think it is perfectly normal to watch live national and local television free … Read more
Needs Vs. Wants
(NY Times) Given the craze around the iPhone, Motorola Droid, Palm Pre and Nexus One, it might seem that nearly everyone has a smartphone. But most consumers use simpler, much cheaper phones. According to data from the Nielsen Company, roughly 82 percent of cellphones in use are limited-function phones, the kind that typically sell for … Read more
Pay to Interview; The New Way to Get Exclusive Half Truths.
NEW YORK (AP) – Policies forbidding payment for news interviews increasingly seem like the network television equivalent of the 55 mph speed limit: a rule often winked at unless you’re heading into a speed trap. Three of the past month’s accidental celebrities – Jasper Schuringa, who helped thwart an attack on a Detroit-bound plane; David … Read more
Fox and TWC Have an Agreement
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Fox television network and Time Warner Cable have announced an agreement in principle on a television programming deal that will allow signals to continue for millions of cable subscribers. Fox had threatened to force Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks to drop the Fox broadcast signal from 14 of … Read more
