Cable companies to give clues on Internet impact
By PETER SVENSSON NEW YORK (AP) – Are people really cancelling cable to watch TV and movies from the Internet instead? It’s a question that has dogged the pay-TV industry for a year, and a spate of quarterly reports over the next few weeks, starting with Time Warner Cable Inc. on Thursday, could provide important … Read more
Internet privacy controls challenge tech industry
JOELLE TESSLER WASHINGTON (AP) – The federal government has put Google, Microsoft, Apple and other technology companies on notice: Give consumers a way prevent advertisers from tracking their movements across the Web – or face regulation. Yet for all its innovative know-how and entrepreneurial spirit, the technology industry has yet to agree on a simple, … Read more
China officials find 5 fake Apple stores in 1 city
BEIJING (AP) – Chinese officials have found five fake Apple stores in the southwestern city of Kunming, and ordered two of them to suspend business while they’re investigated, a local government website said Monday. Officials couldn’t do anything about the other three stores – which prominently displayed Apple signs and logos – because they did … Read more
Verizon pulls in subscribers with iPhone; new CEO
By PETER SVENSSON NEW YORK (AP) – Verizon is seeing a big boost from the iPhone, adding more new subscribers on contracts in the second quarter than it has in two and half years. Yet AT&T, which had been the exclusive seller of Apple’s iconic phone, still activates three iPhones for every two Verizon does. … Read more
SKorean students ditch paper for digital books
By SAM KIM, AP GOESAN, South Korea (AP) – Outside the classroom a hot summer day beckons, but fourth-grade teacher Yeon Eun-jung’s students are glued to their tablet PCs as they watch an animated boy and a girl squabble about whether water becomes heavier when frozen. The small scene in this rural town is part … Read more
Seeing Promise and Peril in Digital Records
The New York Times By STEVE LOHR TECHNICAL standards may seem arcane, but they are often powerful tools of economic development and social welfare. They can be essential building blocks for innovation and new industries. The basic software standards for the Web are striking proof. Safety is also a potent argument for standards. History abounds … Read more
Internet Use Affects Memory, Study Finds
The New York Times By PATRICIA COHEN The widespread use of search engines and online databases has affected the way people remember information, researchers are reporting. The scientists, led by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia, wondered whether people were more likely to remember information that could be easily retrieved from a … Read more
Netflix Raises Price of DVD and Online Movies Package by 60%
The New York Times By BRIAN STELTER and SAM GROBART DVDs are not dead yet, but they are going to cost more — at least for customers of Netflix, the popular entertainment service, which said on Tuesday that it was sharply increasing the price of its Internet-plus-DVDs-in-the-mail plan. What cost $10 a month — online … Read more
Court restores ban on newspaper, TV ownership
By JOELLE TESSLER – AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has restored a longstanding ban that prevents media companies from owning both a newspaper and a television station in the same market. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said Thursday that the Federal Communications Commission didn’t give the … Read more
