We iPhone users hear this complaint at least once a day from our blackberry-using colleagues: "I’d switch, you know, if the iPhone had a physical keyboard instead of a virtual one." It looks like that will happen before the end…
ABC News President David Westin, who has held the job since 1997, said he’ll be leaving the network at the end of the year, marking an end to a tenure that’s overseen dramatic changes in broadcast news, reports the Los…
Comic Robert Schimmel, 60, has died of injuries sustained in an auto accident in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he lived. In an appreciation of the comic, who was a favorite of "The Howard Stern Show," Jim Bessman of examiner.com. wrote, "With…
The main headline on the home pageof TMZ for a time today read, "Kanye Goes on Twitter Rampage, Seeks Forgiveness." Said the TMZ report: "Kanye posted nearly 100 tweets in a little over two hours. It started innocently enough with:…
It’s not like Barnes and Noble is some great monument to independent bookselling–quite the opposite, in fact. Nevertheless, TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross, in today’s entry, tells why the closing of the Barnes and Noble bookstore across from LIncoln…
Om Malik of Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek thinks the answer is yes. Of all of Apple’s announcements on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, Malik writes that "the most impressive to me by far was Ping, the music-only social network that Apple is opening…
Rich Jaroslovsky of Bloomberg takes a look at devices designed to keep you from losing your expensive smartphone, and finds that the problem-solvers "intend to irritate, and by and large do a good job of it." There are people who…
Time Warner Cable, the nation’s fourth largest video programming distributor, and programmer Walt Disney Co. have reached a multiple year carriage agreement, Bloomberg reports. TW Cable, with 12.8 million basic subscribers (just behind Comcast, DirecTV and Dish Network in number…
"The new Apple TV will fail, just like the old one did. It isn’t Apple’s fault. It looks like the TV and movie studios just don’t want anyone disrupting their existing businesses, and this is one battle that even Apple…
The sixth and final season of "Lost" debuted as the top-selling DVD and Blu-ray Disc release the week ended Aug. 29, even though its suggested retail price cost was triple that of the average new film,reports the Hollywood Reporter. The…