November 4, 2009 With Time Warner’s earning reports coming in, Time Inc. will start to reveal details about planned layoffs. The magazine division’s revenue dropped 18 percent (to $914 million) in the third quarter, with a 22 percent decline in advertising revenue and a 13 percent decline in subscription revenue. Time Inc. will therefore take [...]
Archive for November, 2009
The Dwindling Magnate
Posted in News on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
French Wrath
Posted in Computers, File Sharing, Government, Movies, Music, Piracy, The New York Times on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
October 22, 2009 France threw itself into the same fray as Britain did a while ago over digital piracy. But unlike Britain, France appears as the vanguard of the global battle since it approved a plan to deny Internet access to people who illegally copy music and movies. The country approved a so-called three-strikes law [...]
P2P Leak Creates Frenzy
Posted in Computers, File Sharing, Government, Privacy, The New York Times on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
November 7, 2009 We all use technology without truly knowing the means of how it works and the same can be said for Members of Congress who enjoy sharing music on the Internet. Sadly for them, they’re learning the hard way about the potential dangers of peer-to-peer software. It turns out that a House ethics [...]
Card-Carrying Movies
Posted in Computers, File Sharing, Movies, Television Media, The New York Times on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Rachel Croft Now that online video streaming has become a popular method in which individuals view their videos, both legally and illegally, video rental stores have been trying to find a way to increase revenue. Blockbuster has recently launched a new plan for movie rentals on SD cards. Customers will be able to purchase [...]
Cleaning Up the Clutter Online
Posted in Advertising, Books, Computers, Old technology, The New York Times on November 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
by Rachel Croft We’ve all been there. You’re surfing on the internet and are constantly bombarded with banners, promotions or flashing and animated advertisements, which will often distract you from the content you are reading or the video that you’re watching (illegally, I might add). Fear not media junkies, for the days of pesky advertisements [...]
NBC = 30 billion dollars?
Posted in Convergence, Television on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reuters reports that General Electric has been in talks with Comcast to get rid of NBC Universal. They’ve both agreed that the value of the television network is worth 30 billion dollars. So if plans go all the way through, Comcast will own 52% of a major American network. Howeveer, Vivendi, a French media conglomerate [...]
Amazonian Idle
Posted in Amazon, Books, Computers, The New York Times on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
November 10, 2009 Amazon, the behemoth of the book industry, bumped knees with book agents. According to Matthew Flamm at Crain’s New York Business, Amazon flew a dozen of New York’s top literary agents out to its headquarters to suggest that its aggressive discounting of books and sales of e-books is designed to help the [...]
Rupert Murdoch to block Google searches
Posted in Computers, Google, News, Piracy on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Guardian reports that NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdoch may try to block The Wall Street Journal and some of his other e-newspapers from appearing in Google News. Murdoch states that Google is a “kletomanic parasite” for using NewsCorp content on their news feed. People who use the very free Google News have access to full [...]
Coming soon to a computer screen near you…
Posted in Computers, Television Media, The Washington Post on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a new sheriff in town and his name is…Hulu. “The online video service Hulu added a long-overdue feature last week: A ‘coming soon’ page designed to give the site’s millions of users a heads-up about when they’ll be able to watch the next new episode of ‘Fringe’ or ‘Parks and Recreation’ in their Web browsers. Ever [...]
