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Gmail Outage Creates Hiccup, but Google Says It's Resolved (Updated)

April 17, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 5 weeks ago

Gmail outage sends users scrambling -- "Add me on Facebook," suggests Justin Bieber in a tweet

  

Google Co-Founder Rips Hollywood on Anti-Piracy Efforts

April 15, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 5 weeks ago

Google co-founder Sergey Brin says that Hollywood "is shooting itself in the foot, or maybe worse" with its current anti-piracy lobbying

  

Former MPAA Tech Officer Now Opposes Anti-Piracy Legislation

April 8, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 6 weeks ago

Paul Brigner, a tech officer who has left his post with the MPAA, explains how he changed his mind and why he now opposes SOPA and PIPA

  

Cord Cutting is Real: 1 Million TV Subscribers Lost to Streaming Services (Update)

April 3, 2012 By Brent Lang 7 weeks ago

Netflix and Hulu are convincing users to toss out their cable packages, according to a new study

  

Movie Review Aggregators Grow in Popularity, But Do They Matter?

February 17, 2012 By Joshua L. Weinstein 14 weeks ago

Rotten Tomatoes is the best known of three movie review aggregators, but Metacritic and Movie Review Intelligence are increasingly in the mix

  

Super Bowl Pre-Game: Feds Seize, Arrest Online Sporting-Event Pirates

February 2, 2012 By Peter Voskamp 16 weeks ago

Days before the Super Bowl, a Michigan man was arrested for streaming live events, and 16 sites seized

  

How the Pirates of the Internet Are Killing Hollywood's Golden Goose

January 19, 2012 By Edward Jay Epstein 18 weeks ago

MPAA chief Chris Dodd is earning $1.5 million to arm-twist Congress, but the powerful tech industry has other plans

  

MPAA: It's Time to Stop Obstruction on Anti-Piracy Legislation (Updated)

January 14, 2012 By Lew Harris 18 weeks ago

MPAA responds to the White House's statement that legislation working its way through Congress must not curtail innovation or freedom of expression

  

Think Tank: Anti-Piracy Legislation Would Not Lead to Censorship

December 6, 2011 By Peter Voskamp 24 weeks ago

Washington group finds complaints over two Congressional bills "completely unfounded and without merit”

  

Online Piracy Act Dead? Nancy Pelosi, Darrell Issa Both Come Out Against (Updated)

November 17, 2011 By Peter Voskamp 27 weeks ago

"Need to find a better solution than #SOPA #DontBreakTheInternet," the Democratic House leader tweets

  

Obama: I'll Veto GOP's Attempt to Overthrow Net Neutrality Rules

November 8, 2011 By Peter Voskamp 28 weeks ago

Thursday's vote could overturn new regulations that prevent ISP's from charging for premium service

  

Writers Guild Signs First Ever Internet News Writer-Producer Contract

August 24, 2011 By Joshua L. Weinstein 39 weeks ago

The three-year agreement with CBS in Los Angeles includes increases in minimums and wages, among other items

  

Chamber of Commerce, 750 Organizations to Press Congress for Anti-Piracy Bill

July 13, 2011 By Cassie M. Chew 45 weeks ago

Seek to revive PROTECT IP act, introduced in May but sidelined by Oregon senator

  

Studios, Internet Providers Adopt Punitive Piracy Warning System

July 7, 2011 By Brent Lang 46 weeks ago

Illegal downloaders could have their service temporarily stalled after multiple infractions

  

7 Reasons to Lowercase 'Internet'

June 21, 2011 By Dan Bloom 48 weeks ago

When the New York Times and the Associated Press finally issue the press release, we will no longer be behind the curve

  

News Corp.'s Failed Social Experiment: Why MySpace Didn't Deliver

June 15, 2011 By Brent Lang 49 weeks ago

News Corp. is expected to sell the once dominant platform for a fraction of what it paid six years ago

  

Lisa Kudrow, Zach Galifianakis Win Webby Awards

June 13, 2011 By Steve Pond 49 weeks ago

The web stages its own awards show -- which turns out to be as clunky as many of those old-media awards shows

  

Online Advertising Racks Up Record $7.3B First Quarter

May 26, 2011 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

Revenue for digital spots jump 23 percent in the first three months of 2011

  

House Republicans Vote to Kill FCC's Net Neutrality Rules

April 8, 2011 By Brent Lang & Cassie Chew 1 year ago

Vote aims to overturn controversial regulations that prevent internet providers from charging fees for premium services

  

Sick of Charlie Sheen? Download a Charlie Sheen Blocker for Your Web Browser

March 8, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Plug-in removes ubiquitous, troubled actor's name and face from the Internet

  

A Thought for Women’s Day: Lucky, and Thanks to the Web

March 8, 2011 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

The internet has brought women another quantum leap forward -- the web doesn’t stare at your ass

  

NBC Staffer Said to be Fired Over Posting Vintage 'Today' Show Clip

February 4, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Footage of Katie Couric asking, "Can you explain what Internet is?" goes viral, gets uploader reportedly canned

  

White House to Egypt: 'Turn on Social Networking and Internet'

January 28, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Updated: Sec. Clinton calls for "restraint and reform"; CNN, BBC crews attacked by police

  

Facebook, Twitter and the Bubble of 2011: Why It's Different

January 3, 2011 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

Social networking sites are worth megabillions without making billion dollar profits, but this isn't another dot-com bust

  

AOL Launches Hollywood Patch

January 3, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Company's hyped hyperlocal network expands to L.A.

  

FCC Passes Net Neutrality Rules

December 21, 2010 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

With the support of Democratic members, commission passes new rules, but a court challenge is likely

  
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