JELLI GOES LIVE IN VEGAS, WITH THE FIRST-EVER SOCIAL FM RADIO STATIONS
Radio Ink This is something totally new for over-the-air radio, a complete jelling of the web with a traditional broadcast signal. Mike Daugherty’s 2-year old Jelli team has been working for months to get these two stations up and running in Sin City and, if successful, it could be very big for his company. Today … Read more
Apple’s Final Cut Is Dead. Long Live Final Cut
The New York Times By DAVID POGUE Apple’s Final Cut Pro is the leading video-editing program. It’s a $1,000 professional app. It was used to make “The Social Network,” “True Grit,” “Eat Pray Love” and thousands of student movies, independent films and TV shows. According to the research firm SCRI, it has 54 percent of the … Read more
Study: 12 percent of US households own e-reader
PETER SVENSSON NEW YORK (AP) – A study finds that 12 percent of U.S. households now own a reading device for electronic books, such as Amazon’s Kindle. That’s three times the number of households that owned an e-reader just a year ago, pointing to rapid acceptance. The phone survey published Monday was conducted in April … Read more
Can’t ban violent video sales to kids, court says
JESSE J. HOLLAND WASHINGTON (AP) – States cannot ban the sale or rental of ultraviolent video games to children, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting such limits as a violation of young people’s First Amendment rights and leaving it up to parents and the multibillion-dollar gaming industry to decide what kids can buy. The high … Read more
A Start-Up’s Camera Lets You Take Shots First and Focus Later
The New York Times By STEVE LOHR With an innovative camera due out later this year from a company called Lytro, photographers will have one less excuse for having missed that perfect shot. The company’s technology allows a picture’s focus to be adjusted after it is taken. While viewing a picture taken with a Lytro … Read more
A Laptop, Its Head in the Cloud
The New York Times By DAVID POGUE You can say all kinds of nice things about Google’s Chromebook laptop concept. You can say it’s ahead of its time. Or that it’s thinking way, way outside the box. Or that, as failures go, at least this one swung for the fences. Last year, Google made limited quantities of … Read more
S&P’s affirms ‘BB-’ rating on Belo Corp.
NEW YORK (AP) – Standard & Poor’s ratings services said Friday that it has affirmed its “BB-” corporate credit rating on TV broadcaster Belo Corp. and changed the rating outlook to “positive” from “stable.” A “BB-” rating is below investment grade, also known as “junk” status. The ratings agency said the outlook change reflects its … Read more
Special report: Government in cyber fight but can’t keep up
By Phil Stewart, Diane Bartz, Jim Wolf and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon is about to roll out an expanded effort to safeguard its contractors from hackers and is building a virtual firing range in cyberspace to test new technologies, according to officials familiar with the plans, as a recent wave of cyber … Read more
Report: Facebook users more trusting, engaged
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP NEW YORK (AP) – Facebook, it turns out, isn’t just a waste of time. People who use it have more close friends, get more social support and report being more politically engaged than those who don’t, according to a new national study on Americans and social networks. The report comes as Facebook, … Read more
Nielsen: Online video viewers watch less TV
RYAN NAKASHIMA, AP LOS ANGELES (AP) – Americans who watch the most video online tend to watch less TV, according to The Nielsen Co., a finding that overturns a longstanding belief that people are watching more programming over all devices. The ratings agency said Wednesday that starting last fall, it noticed a segment of consumers … Read more
