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Chatting with Rupert Murdoch at an investor conference some weeks back, I asked the News Corp. (NWS ) chairman where things stood with his long-awaited Fox business channel. “We’re hiring people,” he said–note plural–with an eye toward an ’07 launch. This conversation came just a few days after the announcement that former nbc on-air star …
The full hour of this Sunday’s 60 Minutes “will be dedicated to the memory of correspondent Ed Bradley,” CBS announced this afternoon. The memorial edition will include Steve Kroft’s conversations with Bradley’s closest friends; Morley Safer’s review of Bradley’s contributions to 60 Minutes; Lesley Stahl’s look back at his life; and a trumpet solo by …
The new Bose Triport IE headphones are guaranteed to give you excellent quality and real sound as one would wish for but generally at the cost of wearing bulky and flashy headgear. But there are the times when in-ear headphones are more welcome for many reasons. Thankfully, Bose have come out with its Tri-Port in-ear …
NBC is hoping to ride the wave of so-called “Web 2.0” with its participatory, multiplatform talk show iVillage Live. The woman-focused weekday show, which will launch Dec. 4 at noon on NBC’s owned-and-operated stations, will also be streamed live on NBC Universal-owned website iVillage, where viewers will be invited to chat about what they are …
According to Microsoft, Windows Vista contains hundreds of new features including advanced speech recognition software. Vista’s speech recognition software can be “trained” to understand a user’s voice, activate commands in any Windows application, and to enable voice dictation. It also supports multiple languages. Sounds great right? Well maybe not. What until you see this video …
AT&T INC. AND FOX NEWS Channel, a division of News Corp., announced a distribution agreement to deliver FNC programming as part of the AT&T U-verse TV channel lineup. Under the agreement, AT&T U-verse TV customers will have access to FNC’s live programming–covering breaking news, as well as political, business and entertainment news.
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While there has been much focus on the developing battle between Blu-Ray and HD DVD, it seems that both formats are underperforming with consumers in the early going. Thus far, only $30M has been spent by consumers on the new formats, $25M on hardware and $5M on software, as reported by Reuters. read more | …
That clever Mr. Moore has his law proven correct on a regular basis, but we’re not so sure he was accounting for the blistering byproduct a chip emits when speeds increase and efficiency doesn’t. While CPUs and GPUs alike are kicking our kilowatt meters into overdrive, IBM researchers have been developing a newfangled method to …
Want to be a rebel and break the law in the United Kingdom? It’s easy. All you need is an iPod and a CD. Here’s how: Step 1: Pop a CD into you computer.Step 2: Import the songs into iTunes.Step 3: Sync the songs onto your iPod. Millions of people in the United Kingdom break …
Your next CD player may be a computer It looks and acts just like a CD player. It plays CDs and hooks into your stereo system. I’m not sure where to get a look at one of these but when I do a thorough review will follow! In the meantime, you can check out a …
When Apple joined the Blu-Ray Disc Association in March 2005, the move was seen as a coup for Blu-ray and a blow to the competing HD-DVD format, but documents recently obtained by Think Secret indicate that Apple may in fact be planning to support both formats equally. While members of the Blu-ray camp, which include …
(Fortune Magazine) — What makes Tiger Woods great? What made Berkshire Hathaway (Charts) Chairman Warren Buffett the world’s premier investor? We think we know: Each was a natural who came into the world with a gift for doing exactly what he ended up doing. As Buffett told Fortune not long ago, he was “wired at …
I.B.M., the holder of the largest patent storehouse in corporate America, often finds itself defending itself against patent claims from aggressive plaintiffs, seeking a payout. But I.B.M. became the aggressor yesterday when it filed two lawsuits against Amazon.com, contending that the company has built its big online retail business on technology developed by I.B.M. The …
Even though overall crime in the UK has dropped, robbery rose by about 5% compared to last year. The reason? iPods are very attractive to robbers.
Viacom said on Tuesday that it had struck a deal to provide television and music video content to Baidu, one of China’s biggest and fastest-growing Internet companies. The alliance between Viacom’s MTV Networks and Baidu.com, one of the world’s most heavily trafficked Web sites, is the biggest effort so far to introduce American television and …
In the latest sign of the rapidly shifting forces on the Web, Yahoo Inc. acknowledged it faces increased competition for online advertising dollars from both new and established rivals. For several years, Yahoo, Google Inc. and a few other large sites have reaped the lion’s share of U.S. online-ad spending without significant challenges from upstarts. …
