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ArchivesEsquire 75th Anniversary Issue Features First E-Ink CoverAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 12:47pm.
Dearborn,
Mich. - Esquire Magazine this
week launched the first-ever mass distribution of electronic ink technology,
placing an E Ink electronic display on the cover of its 75th anniversary issue,
along with an ad for the 2009 Ford Flex. Esquire is distributing 100,000 issues
with the special display -- whose battery is expected to last six months -- at
Borders, Barnes & Noble and select newsstands. The same E Ink electronic
display is used in Amazon's Kindle e-book reader device.
AT&T Debuts Total Home DVR for U-verse SubscribersAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 12:45pm.
Dallas
- AT&T (NYSE: T) on Tuesday introduced a new Total Home DVR for its U-verse digital
TV service subscribers, which will allow for playback of standard and HD
recorded programs on any connected TV in the home. The service allows for
playback of up to four recorded shows at once on different TVs, and for
instance will let a viewer pause a recorded show and pick up where he left off
in another room. AT&T will initially deploy the new service in the Bay Area
at no additional charge, and will offer it to all U-verse customers by the end
of the year.
CreateSpace MP3 Places Indie Artists' Songs on Amazon MP3Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 12:44pm.
Scotts Valley, Calif.
- Amazon.com's (NASD: AMZN) CreateSpace on-demand distribution unit on Tuesday launched a
new service, CreateSpace MP3, that lets independent musicians and labels sell
their albums and songs as DRM-free MP3s through the Amazon MP3 store. There is
no setup fee for the service, which also provides the option for artists to
simultaneously sign up to sell their CDs through the CreateSpace Disc on Demand
service.
Nine U.S. Radio Broadcasters Support FM Song TaggingAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 12:42pm.
New York - Nine U.S. radio
broadcasters on Tuesday announced their support for FM Song Tagging, which
allows listeners to use tag songs they hear over the air on supported devices,
and retrieve artist data and links to purchase them. More than 450 FM stations
operated by Beasley, Bonneville, CBS Radio, Citadel, Clear Channel Radio, Cox
Radio, Emmis, Entercom and Greater Media will support Song Tagging, which was
developed by Jump2Go and Clear Channel Radio. The announcement coincides with a
Microsoft Zune update that lets users tag and instantly retrieve songs they
hear on the device's built-in FM radio.
Musinaut Introduces MXP4 Interactive Music FormatAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 12:40pm.
Paris
- French technology firm Musinaut has developed a new interactive music format,
MXP4, which allows for the embedding of data such as lyrics, images, remixes
and other content into song files, The Register reported. Different
"skins" of a song can be selected, which might change the genre,
mood, location or other categorization the artist chooses.
CBS Taps iWidgets to Syndicate TV Shows on Social NetworksAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 12:39pm.
San Francisco
- Social media firm iWidgets announced that it has partnered with CBS
Interactive (NYSE: CBS) to syndicate a range of CBS TV episodes on sites including
Facebook, MySpace and iGoogle. CBS will initially offer "CSI,"
"Amazing Race," "NCSI" and "Numb3rs," but over
the next few months plans to syndicate a majority of its programming, iWidgets
said.
ESPN Adds TV Clips to AOL's Bebo Social NetworkAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 12:37pm.
New York - AOL-owned (NYSE: TWX) social
network Bebo announced on Tuesday that Disney-owned (NYSE: DIS) ESPN is making clips of its
television content available to U.S.
site visitors. The offering will include clips of news and game footage, in
addition to "SportsCenter Right Now," "Mike and Mike in the
Morning," "Pardon the Interruption" and "Around the
Horn."
Vodafone Enables Text, Picture Messaging via FacebookAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 12:36pm.
London - Vodafone has
launched a new U.K.
service that lets its subscribers who are also Facebook users send text messages
directly from their Facebook pages for ten pence per message, The Register
reports. Users will also be able to send picture messages to mobile phones via
Facebook for 30 pence each.
Thumbplay Launches Open Mobile Portal; Partners with ComcastAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 12:35pm.
New York - Mobile entertainment distributor Thumbplay on Tuesday
launched a beta of Thumbplay Open, an online marketplace where independent
content owners can upload and sell their digital content. Users will generate
$5 - $8 per new subscriber they attract to the Thumbplay service. Separately,
New York-based Thumbplay said it has partnered with Comcast (NASD: CMCSA) to distribute
mobile content through the company's Comcast.net site.
Report: Sony Ericsson Planning Unlimited Music ServiceAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 11:09am.
London - Sony Ericsson plans to challenge Nokia (NYSE: NOK) with its own
unlimited mobile song download service set to launch later this month, the
Financial Times reports.
Google to Expand Online Newspaper ArchiveAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 10:42am.
Mountain View,
Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) has announced
plans to expand the newspaper content available via its Google News Archive service,
and is offering to digitize the archives of any interested publisher.
Report: Dems Leading GOP in Convention Web Video ViewsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 10:09am.
Boston - Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden have attracted 3.7 million views of their respective party convention speeches online (Obama: 3.3 million; Biden: 405,000), compared with 2.4 million views of Web videos of conventions speeches by Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin (McCain: 400,000; Palin: 2 million), according to a report from Internet video measurement service Visible Measures. Google to Halve Length of Time it Retains User DataAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 9:45am.
Mountain View, Calif. - Addressing concerns of U.S. and
European regulators, Google (NASD: GOOG) said that it will cut in half the amount of time
that it stores personal information gathered from users' web surfing
activities, from 18 to nine months.
Sirius XM Radio Updates Forecast, Details 'Best of Both' ServiceAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 9:41am.
New York - Sirius XM Radio (NASD: SIRI) on Tuesday provided an update on
its standing post-merger, projecting it will end 2008 with 19.5 million and
2009 with 21.5 million subscribers, with revenue expected to come in at $2.4
billion this year and $2.7 billion in 2009.
Google to Sell TV Ads for NBC Universal NetworksAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 9:08am.
Mountain View,
Calif. - NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) announced
on Tuesday that it has formed a multi-year advertising, research and technology
pact with Google (NASD: GOOG), and will sell ad time on some of its cable networks via
Google's TV Ads platform.
Apple Unveils New iPods, iTunes 8, HD TV at iTunes StoreAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 8:06am.
 San Francisco - Apple (NASD: AAPL) on Tuesday unveiled new iPod nano and
iPod touch models, HD TV shows at its iTunes Store, and the release
of iTunes 8 software, which includes new features like "Genius"
music recommendations. Also noteworthy is the return of NBC (NYSE: GE) TV shows to the
iTunes Store, following a year-long absence that NBC attributed to Apple's
inflexibility on pricing and bundling of content.
Justice Dept. Preparing to Challenge Google-Yahoo Ad DealAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 7:06am.
 Washington
- The Justice Department is gearing up to mount a significant challenge to
Google's (NASD: GOOG) planned search-advertising deal with Yahoo (NASD: YHOO), The Wall Street Journal
reported on Tuesday. The department reportedly has hired Sanford Litvack, the
former vice chairman of Disney, to examine the evidence and build a case
against the potential deal.
Music Application Developer The Echo Nest Raises FundsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 7:01am.
Somerville,
Mass. - The Echo Nest, a
developer of music search, recommendation and interactivity technology, announced
that it has raised an undisclosed sum of first round funding, led by
Commonwealth Capital Ventures and angel investors.
Buzz Watch: Ashton Kutcher's New Animated Online Gossip Site "Blah Girls"Authored by Jay Baage on September 9, 2008 - 5:55am.
Actor and Producer Ashton Kutcher has just launched a celebrity gossip animated video site called Blah Girls. NewTeeVee sat down with Kutcher and his Katalyst Media partner Jason Goldberg at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco and the interview is embedded above. Here's a look at an episode of the show. |
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