Former AOL, Fox execs to work with General Atlantic
August 31, 2007
Reuters - General Atlantic said on Friday that
two former high-flying Internet executives would advise the
private equity firm's media and consumer unit on investments in
the online sector.
Don Was offers free music via Web series
August 31, 2007
Reuters - Like most of the music industry,
award-winning record producer Don Was — who has worked with
dozens of artists including Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Al
Green and Willie Nelson — is struggling to make sense of the
Internet.
Google broadens access to agency news
August 31, 2007
AFP - Google is giving readers of its Internet news service direct access to the original source of stories written by major world news agencies including AFP, the Internet search giant announced Friday.
JasperSoft Upgrades Online Reporting Tools For Salesforce.com
August 31, 2007
TechWeb - Jasper4Salesforce can create, manage, share and distribute reports directly from Salesforce.com.
CBS, The TV Network For Oldsters, Tunes In To New Net Technologies
August 31, 2007
Investor’s Business Daily - If you missed Monday's rerun of "CSI: Miami," don't worry. You can always catch the show on CBS.com. Or iTunes. Or Amazon.com. Or Xbox Live Marketplace.
Microsoft antitrust compliance on track
August 31, 2007
AP - Microsoft Corp. has submitted a test version of its Windows Vista operating system with features that make it easier to use non-Microsoft programs to search PC hard drives, according to a report issued by the Justice Department Friday.
iTunes pricing spat with NBC seen as hurting Apple
August 31, 2007
InfoWorld - NBC Universal's pullout from the iTunes online store is more of a loss for Apple and points to fierce resistance among media companies to potential Apple dominance of online video sales, an industry analyst said.
Apple won’t sell NBC programs on iTunes
August 31, 2007
AP - Apple Inc. escalated a dispute with NBC Universal over the pricing of television shows by announcing Friday it would not sell any of NBC’s programs for this fall season on iTunes.
Ark. computers delete Huckabee criticism
August 31, 2007
AP - Internet criticism of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s involvement in the pardon of a castrated rapist and his heavy use of a state airplane disappeared with a mouse click.
U.N. alerts Iraqi refugees in Syria via text message
August 31, 2007
Reuters - The U.N. refugee agency is
alerting more than 33,000 vulnerable Iraqi refugees in Damascus
through text messages on cell phones, which many of them use to
keep in touch with family and friends.
