Roseanne Barr is embroiled in a fight with sitcom writer Ken Levine, who has worked on shows such as "Cheers" and "Frasier," sparked by an article Barr wrote claiming that male television writers are sexist, reports New York Magazine’s Vulture…
"Apple, the reigning heavyweight of the music business, may have solved [the]…conundrum [of moving music to the cyber cloud]," Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports, adding that Apple "has reached agreements with three of the four major music labels and is close to…
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs will make his second public appearance this year on June 6, when he unveils a cloud computing service at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, reports Bloomberg. Jobs, who is battling cancer, is in the middle of…
A trust created by Blockbuster has been sued by NCR Corp., which wants to continue using the film- and TV-rental company’s name for DVD-rental kiosks, reports Bloomberg. The suit comes after Dish bought Blockbuster and rejected the NCR contract to…
A panel of scientists convened by the World Health Organization has concluded that cellphones are “possibly carcinogenic” to human beings, Time reported on its Healthland website. The scientists, who reviewed a wide range of existing studies on the topic, determined…
After PBS’s "Frontline" aired a documentary about WikiLeaks that apparently angered some of the group’s supporters, PBS.org was hacked by a group calling itself LulzSec, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Technology blog. LulzSec, combining the Web term for laughing at…
Fox has kicked off the annual upfront advertising market, cutting deals Thursday night with many top media agencies, reports Jon Lafayette in B&C. The network received price increases on the "low end of double digits," the story notes. Fox was…
Based on the volume of online discussion during a three-day window, a TV show that aired last week is the fifth-largest online event of 2011, reports B&C. The finale of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" joins the list at No. 5,…
Cable companies are used to being ripped by customers, but one of them took it a step further by taking out a full-page ad in the New York Press to blast Time Warner Cable for shoddy service, reports Business Insider….
Much of the drama surrounding Wednesday’s finale of “American Idol” apparently took place behind the scenes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Soon after the show, in which Scotty McCreery was picked as the champion for season 10, a war of…