House Representative Ed Markey, D-Mass., on Saturday introduced the Radio All Digital Channel Receiver Act, which requires equipment designed to receive both satellite digital audio radio and terrestrial AM/FM radio to be equipped to receive digital radio signals transmitted by terrestrial AM/FM stations.
The responsibility for overseeing this new regulation would fall to the Federal Communications [...]
CBS Interactive encompasses CBS.com, CBSSports.com, CBSNews.com, the CBS Audience Network video syndication service, the CBS EyeLab site, a number of mobile properties, and digital-media acquisitions like music service Last.fm and video series Wallstrip (along with its sibling show, Moblogic.tv, which launched after the CBS acquisition).
CBS Interactive, the media giant’s digital division, has announced the opening [...]
Soon JuiceCaster photos and videos that are auto-posted to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Blogger, YouTube, and other sites will share the individual’s street name and city. Friends who keep a close eye on geotags can use that to gain contextual understanding of the scene or use it to “bump into” friends nearby. In an important distinction, [...]
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To keep users coming back, JamLegend uses an awards system that’s been ripped off the
Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero. You can gather more and more “groupies” by achieving certain feats, like hitting a 250-note streak, or scoring over certain point limits. There are also multiplayer achievements for beating others in competition. [...]
Riney says now he must wait to see how the music industry plays its hand. The labels shouldn’t wait too long. The advertising-supported Project Playlist, according to Riney, is profitable.
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He might take some comfort in knowing that the labels appear to be using litigation as a way to soften up tech companies [...]
Cmockery is unlikely to set the world on fire, but does demonstrate Google’s ongoing commitment to open source. It’s nice to see big open-source projects like Gears at Google, but the small, lesser-known projects may actually provide clearer evidence of Google’s intentions vis-a-vis open source than the big projects do.
Why? Because the small projects reflect [...]
“We’ve got much to do, and this is simply too important to simply let fail,” he said.
Longtime technology analyst Ashok Kumar, of brokerage Collins Stewart, said the macroeconomic concerns will weigh heavily on the technology industry, which is still perceived as a discretionary expenditure for both consumers and businesses.
The House voted down the $700 [...]
HP Touchsmart is an example of the company's efforts to provide a user experience on top of Windows.
The operating system would reportedly be Linux-based, but would be tweaked to be more accessible to mainstream users. Those same sources say it’s part of an HP plan to become less dependent on Windows, and to compete better [...]
Egnyte is now an “online file server.” Designed for small businesses, the pitch is that instead of going out and buying a file server for your workgroup, you instead rent server access from Egnyte. Each user gets a private folder and access to a common folder for sharing files with coworkers. Administration is easier than [...]
Said Khan in his research note:
Jim Friedland, an analyst with Cowen & Co., noted that Google hired 519 employees in the quarter, compared with 1,830 a year ago. And capital expenditures stood at $452 million in the third quarter, compared with $698 million in the previous quarter and $842 million in the first quarter.
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