| C4, Sky, Carphone, Emap join in radio bid
Channel 4 has joined forces with BSkyB, Emap and Carphone Warehouse, and others in a bid to win a digital radio licence and challenge the dominance of the BBC. The combined group, called 4 Digital Group, submitted its bid for the 12-year licence promising to launch 10 new national digital radio stations from 2008. Channel 4 Radio would operate three national digital stations: one aimed at 15-to-29 year-olds; one on current affairs; and an all-music station. The other stations would include: Talk Radio from Ulster Television, a music station from Emap, and Sky News Radio, a joint venture between BSkyB and Chrysalis, a 24-hour news channel. Ofcom advertised for this second national digital multiplex licence in December in a bid to grow the industry. The first licence is majority owned by commercial radio group Gcap.
2007: The Year in Tech
No, not on the same level as with Vista, but it does show that Apple's not perfect. Prognosis: The rule with Apple operating systems has always been "Never adopt point-oh technologies." Leopard has already had a point upgrade, so soon all will be right with the world. Event: Daylight Saving Goes Green, Makes Everyone Crazy Going green isn't easy. A couple of years ago, the U.S. government took the proactive step of passing a law to change daylight saving time so that it begins earlier in the spring and ends later in the fall. Why? So that Americans would have more daylight hours and burn less energy. Great idea, except that everyone's technology was programmed to change on the original daylight-saving days. Microsoft sent out patches.
Microsoft and the HD Disk Fight, Dell Bursts Into Best Buy, Vanishing ...
It isn't often I'm caught with my mouth hanging open. I was after I was told Dell would be in Best Buy -- you would have needed a shovel to pick my jaw up. This required some incredibly heavy lifting because Best Buy thinks of Dell as a competitor because Dell is the second-largest online retailer behind Amazon. Vendor White Papers Featured ListingsECT News Network's directory of e-business, IT and CRM white papers provides resources you need to make informed purchasing decisions. Browse Listings. .
Scrabble Makers Want Facebook Copycat Shut Down
PROVIDENCE, R.I. The companies that make Scrabble are trying to shut down Scrabulous, an online version of the game that is one of the most popular applications on the social networking site Facebook. Hasbro Inc., which owns the rights to the crossword game in the U.S. and Canada, and El Segundo, Calif.-based Mattel Inc., — which owns the rights elsewhere — believe the Facebook game infringes their copyrights and trademarks. Scrabulous listed more than 600,000 daily active users on Facebook as of Wednesday and is one of the 10 most used applications on the site. People can also play at Scrabulous.com. - Click here for FOXNews.com's Personal Technology Center. The companies jointly issued cease-and-desist notices to four parties involved in the development, hosting and marketing of Scrabulous, according to a letter the Pawtucket-based Hasbro, Inc.
Corporations Voting Machine
America's votes are counted in total secrecy and invisibility.We need to put aside any partisan differences to realize that... Tuesday, December 4: Anthony Signorelli: Part 2: "...anonymous voter-marked ballots" The Free and Fair Elections Amendment to restore the public consensus to election outcomes depends on this critical clause: "anonymous voter-marked ballots." Part 2 in a series describing the amendment and its implications. Friday, November 30: Joan Brunwasser: "Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections" and the Power of One (10 comments) Judging from the veteran's response and audience reaction,David Earnhardt can be pleased that his message was heard at the Nashville premiere.At the pro-democracy rally in Atlanta in the summer of 2005, marchers chanted, "Keep the vote alive!" One hand-printed sign poignantly and pointedly read, "I voted.
Woster: Whalen camp draws fire for farce
Rumor has it she's pregnant, engaged to her chief of staff and is now a pro-lifer opposed to abortion rights. Baloney, you say? Well, sure. It's also a sign of how wacky things get when you mix politics into that cascading avalanche of information - some of it true, much of it not - that lands in your personal computer every day. The Herseth story landed last week by way of Wikipedia, a free, online encyclopedia that offers a little information about a lot of subjects. It's also a place that polices itself for accuracy, since readers can edit the data - and apparently do. Somebody did some creative editing in Herseth's biography page on Wikipedia. They inserted a wild bit of fiction, crediting the Democratic congresswoman with a sudden change of heart on abortion, a sudden engagement to her chief of staff (identified with a fictitious name) and a sudden pregnancy.
Full text: Bill Keller's Hugo Young lecture
I don't intend to blame the plight of the newspaper business on George Bush. He did not invent our great disrupter, the internet. (That, you recall, was Al Gore.) The Bush administration has merely fed a current of public antipathy that has been running against us for a long time, a consequence of our own failings and, perhaps, a tendency to blame the messenger when news is bad. But Mr Bush has contributed to that unwelcoming environment in at least two significant ways. First, he has rejected out of hand the quaint idea of our founders that the press has a constructive role to play in American society, and that this role consists in supplying citizens with the information to judge whether they are being well served by their government. The Bush administration believes that information is power, and that like most other forms of power it is not to be shared with those the regime does not trust.
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