from Variety.com Fox drives ’24’ bonus seg with Toyota DVD episode to bridge gap between seasons This week’s season-four DVD release of “24””24″ contains an ambitious bonus mini-episode of the show — but the segseg didn’t cost 20th Century Fox TV a dime. In order to build buzz for next month’s fifth-season premiere of “24,” […]
Read more "Season 4 DVD of “24” to feature DVD-only bridging movie"my favourite source of mashups has incurred the wrath of the RIAA.. bastards! from Boing Boing RIAA targets mashups MashupTown, a site that hosts and distributes mashups (two or more songs ingeniously mixed together to make a third) has taken down all of its files after complaints from the RIAA to its hosting partner. Mashups […]
Read more "RIAA is teh sux0r.. now targeting mashups!"from Variety.com Peeved over TiVo TiVo’s plan to allow users to download TV shows and films to Apple’s iPod and Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) could strain relations with networks and studios hoping to develop revenue streams from digital distribution. Several TV and studio execs told Daily Variety that they were considering legal action against the […]
Read more "TiVo introduces record-to-PSP, and annoys NBC"from WSJ.com Some Students Find Themselves In Principal’s Office Over Blog As parents wring their hands about Internet predators, many teens are worried about a different kind of online intruder: the school principal. Students are blogging about schoolyard crushes and feuds, posting gossip about classmates on social-networking sites like MySpace.com and Facebook.com, and sharing their […]
Read more "kids love bloggin’, schools not happy"It has now been 20 days since Apple announced it would sell selected ABC-Disney television programs via iTunes. As of Monday, iTunes customers had bought more than than 1 million videos. At first glance, these sales figures seem like another nail in the coffin of broadcast television. If we can get television content online, on demand, whenever we want it, how will networks convince us to tune in on their schedules? For that matter, how can they be certain we’ll tune in at all?
Read more "Slate article on future of “tv”"from Herald News Daily Digital revolution set to sweep Indias Bollywood Staff and agencies 28 October, 2005 By Narayanan Madhavan 53 minutes ago BANGALORE – Digital cinema is about to take off in India, home of the worlds most prolific film industry, but not without some twists and turns worthy of a “Bollywood” melodrama. In […]
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Read more "pure lol"showing they’re all about the Long Tail Official Google Blog: The point of Google Print Indeed, some of Google Print’s primary beneficiaries will be publishers and authors themselves. Backlist titles comprise the vast majority of books in print and a large portion of many publishers’ profits, but just a fraction of their marketing budgets. Google […]
Read more "Google CEO in defense of Google Print"Voice phone calls to be free within years: eBay CEO – Yahoo! News SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – In a few short years, users can expect to make telephone calls for free, with no per-minute charges, as part of a package of services through which carriers make money on advertising or transaction fees, eBay’s chief executive […]
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