Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Viacom is pulling The Daily show and the Colbert Report from Hulu effective March 9th. This is a huge blow to Hulu and a simple inconvenience for you. You can still get both show free online at their official websites. Is there an iPad in your Continue Reading →
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This week on Digital Life. Is Facebook bigger than Yahoo? Why are telcos ganging up on Apple. Amazon announces Kindle for BlackBerry, and I’ll talk with John Abell, wired.com’s NY Bureau Chief about the FCC’s new national broadband plan, plus I’ll talk with Nokia‘s branded content manager, George Linardos, about super cool stuff you can Continue Reading →
I just finished a radio interview with Kitty, a very nice talk show host somewhere in the Midwest. We did five minutes on “broadband.” She started by telling her audience that she had recently been on Twitter tweeting about her radio show and she got, “some kind of message about Twitter being over capacity.” She Continue Reading →
The FCC’s latest plan for nation wide broadband will bring 100 megabits per second to approximately 100 million households in the US. The FCC hopes that its plan “will set goals for the U.S. to have the world’s largest market of very high-speed broadband users.” HBO is readying its first move into online video. HBO Continue Reading →
What is a war? The dictionary says it's an "armed conflict between nations." The dictionary does not say what they have to be armed with. What is Cyber-Terrorism? What is a crime? Continue Reading →
In my last article, entitled: “Cyber-Terrorism vs. Cyber-Warfare: Defending The United Networks of America,” my goal was to set the stage for a way to think about America’s place in the Information Age. Will we be a super-power, Cold-warriors, a sovereign nation, a first-world or a third world entity in the 21st century? Before we Continue Reading →
Just as the FCC is getting ready to make its recommendations to Congress about the future of broadband in America, Google is going to use its extraordinary clout to demonstrate its vision of the future. Google plans to test ultra-high-speed Internet access in select towns to demonstrate what America might look like as a worldwide Continue Reading →
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It’s odd how well a cell phone lights up a space when there is no other light source. It’s a cold, robotic light that casts eerie, inorganic shadows. I thought about this last night after a television news report from Haiti. The video was so graphic; the suffering so extraordinary, it made me wonder how Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After bringing American Idol to Fox, Simon Cowell announced that he will leave the show at the end of the season. While Cowell won’t be a judge on Idol, he will continue judging young performers on The X Factor. Cowell will Continue Reading →