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Comcast unveils online viewing of cable TV shows

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Comcast subscribers can now watch several cable TV shows and movies on the Internet.


Swedish service performs your last online wishes (AP)

Swedish service performs your last online wishes

Technology / Internet

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Sunniva Geertinger was devastated when her boyfriend took his life early this year.


AP sources: Comcast to pay $13.75B for NBC stake (AP)

Comcast aims to reshape entertainment with NBC

Technology / Business

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Comcast Corp. announced Thursday it plans to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal for $13.75 billion, giving the nation's largest cable TV operator control of the Peacock network, an array of cable ...


Broadcast pioneer NBC prepares for cable takeover (AP)

Broadcast pioneer NBC prepares for cable takeover

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast television's decline.


News Corp. exec sees Hulu charging fees for access

Technology / Internet

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Hulu, the free online video site where television shows and movies can be watched in their entirety, will start charging fees at some point, one of its owners said.


Music blog to offer high-quality song streaming

Technology / Internet

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Consumers seem reluctant to sign up for online music services that charge subscription fees, yet a music blogging site is hoping to reel in music lovers by offering unlimited access to a catalog of high-fidelity ...


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Twitter to offer business accounts with expanded features -- and fees

Technology / Internet

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Without advertisements or subscription fees, the micro-blogging service Twitter has had many wondering how the site makes money.


Want to read all about it online? It may cost you (AP)

Want to read all about it online? It may cost you

Technology / Internet

created Sep 20, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 11

(AP) -- With their advertising revenue drying up, newspaper publishers spent much of the spring and summer debating whether to cut off free online access to some of the material they run in their shrinking ...


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Anti-theft software could create security hole

Technology / Software

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- A piece of anti-theft software built into many laptops at the factory opens a serious security hole, according to research presented Thursday.


The World Intellectual Property Organization

Science publishers offer journals for free to poorest countries

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Science and technology journal publishers have agreed to offer free access to their journals to academics in the world's poorest countries, the World Intellectual Property Organization said Thursday.


Review: Blacksocks.com is as simple as it sounds (AP)

Review: Blacksocks.com is as simple as it sounds

Technology / Internet

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Every week or so I undertake a rigorous mental challenge: matching my socks.


News Corporation founder Rupert Murdoch

Murdoch leads charge to get readers to pay online

Technology / Internet

created May 09, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (10) | comments 20

As US newspapers shrivel up and die, an unlikely figure is emerging as their potential savior: News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch.


AOL names yet another head of online ad business

Technology / Business

created May 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- AOL, the struggling Internet unit that Time Warner Inc. is likely to spin off, said Thursday that it will put a new executive in charge of its online advertising business - making him the fourth person to hold that ...


Netflix ups fees for Blu-ray amid rising demand

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Online DVD rental leader Netflix Inc. is raising its prices for Blu-ray discs in a change that will triple or quadruple the high-definition surcharge on Netflix's most popular subscription plans.