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Google Providing Free Wi-Fi for Neighborhood Surrounding Its NYC Headquarters

January 8, 2013 By Greg Gilman 23 weeks ago

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sen. Charles Schumer look forward to all of New York City having free Wi-Fi

  

Ever Wonder What Adele Would Look Like as Mrs. Doubtfire?

November 16, 2012 By Greg Gilman 30 weeks ago

A new Tumblr shows us. And Adele makes a mighty fine Mrs. Doubtfire!

  

Team Guy Fieri Comes to the Defense, Skewers NY Times Food Critic

November 16, 2012 By Greg Gilman 30 weeks ago

Pete Wells' scathing review receives backlash from a number of notable tweets and publications.

  

Networks Seek Injunction Against Aereokiller

November 9, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 31 weeks ago

NBC Universal, ABC, CBS and Fox requested an injunction against the streaming service

  

Newsweek Passes - Will Other Newsweeklies Follow?

October 19, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 34 weeks ago

Could Newsweek have pivoted in time for the digital age? If not, then other newsweeklies like Time are probably destined to follow

  

Digital Studio Execs Insist 'Everything Is Moving in the Right Direction' for Online Video

October 2, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 37 weeks ago

Executives from Maker Studios, Bedrocket Media and NBC Universal's president of digital talked growing online video audiences and advertising revenue at TheGrill 2012

  

Ivi TV Loses Bid to Get Back Into Online Rebroadcasting Business

August 27, 2012 By Doug Halonen 42 weeks ago

Ivi TV, an online service that offered subscribers packages of TV signals from broadcasters, wasn't able to override last year's ruling that shut it down 

  

WikiLeaks Running Out of Money, Finds Loophole in Visa/MasterCard Blockade

July 18, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 48 weeks ago

The whistle-blower site spent nearly $302,450 in the first six months of 2012, but only took in $40,230

  

Comcast to Pay $800K to Resolve FCC Probe

June 27, 2012 By Doug Halonen 50 weeks ago

Comcast will also continue offering its lower-priced, Internet-only broadband service for an additional year

  

Say My .Name: Media Companies Vie for Custom Domains From ICANN

June 13, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 1 year ago

Google, Apple, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Fox, CBS, AOL and others paid nearly $185,000 for custom domain names 

  

Internet Ad Revenue Totals $8.4 Billion in 1st Quarter

June 11, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 1 year ago

The record high shows slower growth compared to 2010

  

New York Times Joins Herd of News Outlets on Pinterest

June 8, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 1 year ago

New York Times editors pin food, fashion and designs on the newspaper's new Pinterest site

  

House Takes First Steps to Block U.N. Regulation of Internet

May 31, 2012 By Doug Halonen 1 year ago

Proposals by China, Russia raise fears of censorship, taxation

  

MPAA Names Marc Miller as Online Content Protection Exec

May 21, 2012 By Doug Halonen 1 year ago

Marc Miller, the MPAA's new SVP, Content Protection, Internet will oversee the gency's worldwide online content protection enforcement strategies and operations

  

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

April 17, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

  
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