Can Apple whip Hollywood?

Can Apple do to Hollywood what it did to the music industry? In a little under seven years the fashionable iPod and its clunky proprietary player software, iTunes, have become the dominant sales venue for recorded music.

Will free media kill journalism?

Why the obsession with free media? Broadcast TV, radio, commuter and community newspapers and many magazines are all free and have flourished. And just as Google re-invented the classified, new video ad models are emerging to underwrite video journalism.

Breaking: VOIP Inc. to take $24 m. hit as it closes network and loses staff

VoIP Inc. has closed down its call termination and network operations laying off 25 engineering staff and has told the SEC it is expecting to have to write off $24 million

Are VoIP users ready for Dell Helll

Dell's move into internet telephony is a significant shift from what best could be described as Dell's traditional sell-and-forget strategy. VoIP is anything but a set-and-forget technology.

New BlackBerry VoIP service

Raketu has launched a Skype-like service for the 12-million-strong BlackBerry users using a web based application that requires no download for the relatively limited Blackberry processor to operate.

Lounge room war erupts

The battle for control of the lounge room has finally begun with Microsoft releasing at CES2008 its impressive IPTV service embedded in its game console Xbox 360 powered by its Mediaroom software

TEchnology Cold War

Google's almost simultaneous announcement of its open platforms in both the mobile and social network spaces was no coincidence.

Kremlin media regulation

Before consumers and telcos rejoice about the FCC's plans to force the cable companies to unbundle their programming we should think do we realy want the Government deciding what and when we watch

Who has the most HDTV

Verizon joins the race to claim which operator has the most HDTV. Directtv and Comcast have been out all Fall claiming they have more HD than any one else. But is it HD and exactly how many channels do they have?

Viacom puts all of Jon Stewart online - what it means

Viacom has put online the entire eight year archive of its top rating comedy series, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a move which will be closely watched by all the major networks, advertisers, telcos and the burgeoning new media video industry.

Sony beats Microsoft in IPTV race

Sony has beaten Microsoft to the punch and will offer its PlayStation 3 gaming console as an IPTV set top box next month, in partnership with Korea's new high definition Mega TV service.

TV shows outrate new on the web

Watching TV shows online has surged past watching newscasts as the most popular video format for U.S. Internet consumers

Howard stares down his Cabinet: I wont go

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has lost the confidence of his Cabinet and is only hanging on to the leadership because of fears any change ahead of the imminent election would cause a massive swing to the Labor Party.

Light bulbs to be banned oin Australia

The traditional light bulb is to be banned in Australia in a world first to lower energy and emission costs.

Obama tells Howard to put up or shut up

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has been told to offer more troops or keep out of US domestic politics after criticising US presidential hopeful, Barak Obama, for wanting to withdraw from Iraq.

Poke in the eye saves white pointer shark victim

A man who was half swallowed by a white pointer shark managed to fight off the three meter shark by poking it in the eye.

Howard shuffles his front bench: Vanstone out, Turnbull in

Australian Prime Minister, John Howard has reshuffled his front bench ahead of an election, sacking Amanda Vanstone, putting Malcolm Turnbull in charge of the environment and appointing Joe Hockey to defend workplace changes.

Islamic bigotry revealed in UK

A British television documentary has uncovered hate-filled speeches and rhetoric delivered in a number of British mosques, and directed against 'unbelievers,' Jews, Christians, and gays, among others, as well as religious justifications of marriages between prepubescent girls …

Volvo is the best passion wagon

The much derided "mums car", the Volvo station wagon, has been voted Britain's best car for having sex in, according to a survey by a UK Insurer.

How to avoid Hollywood copyright mafia: buy your own island

Swedish film sharing website The Pirate Bay is planning to buy its own island in an attempt to circumvent international copyright laws.

Sheik Hilaly as helpful as Hitler

Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilaly has done as much damage to Islam in Australia as Hitler did to Christianity, a prominent Muslim leader says.

eBay buys ticket scalper for a cool US$310 million

Ticket scalper has become big money with eBay buying leading ticket scalper site stubhub.com for $400 million.

Google and MySpace continue to publish Cicarelli and Kirby sex material

Google is continuing to broadcast a judicially prohibited sex video about Brazilian supermodel Daniele Cicarelli, while another internet giant MySpace is still publishing a fraudulent sexual profile of Australian High Court Judge, Michael Kirby.

High Court Judge victim of MySpace fraud

Australian High Court judge Michael Kirby has been vilified and defamed by fraudsters who have stolen his identity to post offensive material on the popular internet site MySpace.

Flintoff given the flick

Embattled English cricket captain Andrew Flintoff has been dropped with former captain Michael Vaughan to take over for the rest of the tour.

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