Here are the new rules on Internet access that the Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010, according to the Washington Post. Says the article, "Under the regulations, companies that carry the Internet into American…
Under a new partnership with Starcom MediaVest, DirecTV may be soon rolling out advertisements specifically targeting households based on their demographics, reports the Wall Street Journal. (Please note that the Journal is behind a pay wall and may want to…
With the Federal Communications Commissioon expected to finally tackle net neutrality tomorrow, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010, here’s what to expect regarding Internet traffic rules. "The rules would ban high-speed Internet providers like Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications from blocking lawful…
After receiving a flood of angry tweets over a Tuesday interview with Michael Moore, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has suspended his Twitter account, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The host of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" spoke with Moore about his…
"Digital whistleblower and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was Time’s readers’ choice to be the magazine’s 2010 Person of the Year with 382,206 votes, but [Time’s Managing Editor, Rick] Stengel said he considered the long-term impact of the Harvard-dropout-turned-social-network-mogul [Mark Zuckerberg]—not just…
Bloomberg has a lengthy piece by Sarah Rabil and Ian King about why the TV broadcast networks are reluctant to deal with Google TV. According to the article, "One sticking point is ads, which accounted for 63 percent of the…
"[W]ired-cable penetration represented 60.7% of households in November 2010, down from 61.7% in November 2009. The only time it had been lower was in November 1989 when wired-cable penetration was at 59.7%, writes TVNewsCheck, citing data from Nielsen. At the…
Google’s YouTube is in talks to buy a video production company, The New York Times reports. The company YouTube is targeting is Next New Networks, a web video production house, the article says. The proposed price wasn’t disclosed and the companies…
How much are 140 characters worth? In the case of Twitter, which received a new round of funding led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, it’s now valued at $3.7 billion, Bloomberg News reports. The social-networking service,…