Monday, September 15, 2008
So That’s Who Uses AOL
In honor of a redesign of AOL’s home page, we asked Bits readers earlier this week, “Who Uses AOL and Why?” So far, we’ve heard from more than 380 of you.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Waiting for the Zune Generation
On Wednesday, Adam Sohn, the head of public relations for Microsoft’s Zune division, told me: “Babies are born every day without an iPod. We will get there.” That summarizes the challenge Zune faces from Apple–and Microsoft’s determination (at least for now) to meet it.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Verizon’s FiOS: A Smart Bet or a Big Mistake?
Four years ago, Verizon Communications embarked on an ambitious and expensive plan to run fiber optic cables, which can deliver ultra-fast Internet service and dozens of high-definition video channels along with old-fashioned telephone service, past 19 million homes, roughly half its territory. When it was announced, Verizon’s $23 billion planned investment in the service, called FiOS, was met by a chorus of skeptics, both on Wall Street and among rivals.
Friday, August 15, 2008
AT&T Mulls Watching You Surf
AT&T is “carefully considering” monitoring the Web-surfing activities of customers who use its Internet service, the company said in a letter in response to an inquiry from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Is NBC’s Tight Leash on Olympics Webcasts a Mistake?
For Internet television, the Beijing Olympics represent a milestone. NBC has created a site with an unprecedented 2,200 hours of live Webcasts of Olympic events. But the Olympics are also a powerful illustration of the current battle line between the big business of network television and the emerging medium of Web video. NBC’s broadcast and [...]
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Google Will Protect Users’ Identity From Viacom–This Time
Viacom and Google have reached an agreement about how information about YouTube users can be used as potential evidence in the ongoing copyright dispute. Instead of giving Viacom the user names and Internet Protocol addresses for everyone who has uploaded or downloaded a video on YouTube, Google will provide an anonymous code number that represents those names and addresses.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs
The Associated Press, one of the nation’s largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The AP’s copyright.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
AT&T: New Low Price Will Move iPhones to Mass Market
AT&T restructured its deal with Apple, said Ralph de la Vega, the chief executive of AT&T Mobility, in order to overcome resistance from mass consumers to the high $399 price of the iPhone. Now, instead of paying Apple a portion of their monthly fees, carriers like AT&T will make a large payment to Apple every time an iPhone is sold and attached to their network.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
ARM: Getting the Light Switches of the World to Chat Amongst Themselves
If you ever get the feeling that every heretofore ordinary object in your life is now beeping, flashing, counting or otherwise hinting of intelligence–benign or maybe even malevolent–blame Warren East.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Microsoft May Build a Copyright Cop Into Every Zune
If you like to download the latest episodes of “Heroes” or other NBC shows from BitTorrent, maybe you shouldn’t buy a Microsoft Zune to watch them on. A future update of the software for Microsoft’s portable media player may well include a feature that will block unauthorized copies of copyrighted videos from being played on it.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Warner Bros. to Rent Movies Online Sooner
There was good news for Apple and Comcast, but bad news for Blockbuster woven into Time Warner’s conference call with investors today. Jeff Bewkes, Time Warner’s chief executive, said that the company’s Warner Brothers studio will now release movies for video-on-demand systems on the same day they are released as DVDs.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Verizon Shows How to Make Money by Cutting Prices
If I see the balding guy in the Verizon commercial marching in front of the New Orleans Hard Hat Band one more time, I’m going to pull my FiOS TV cable out of the wall. But when it released financial results for the first quarter Monday, Verizon said this ad and the $99 unlimited talk plan it advertises were working well for the company. On a conference call with investors, the company said 13% of its new customers are signing up for the $99 plan, according to an account by the Associated Press. Previously, only 4% of its customers chose plans with bundles of minutes that cost $99 or more.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Yahoo Tries to Sell Google-Fighting Weapons
Can Yahoo win by building a coalition of losers?
BoomTown reports this morning that CNet is going to announce an expanded relationship with Yahoo this afternoon. In once sense that is a yawner. Those two have hooked up and broken up so many times over the last decade that they are some sort of dysfunctional couple who can neither commit nor leave each other.
But depending on the details, there may be a clue that Yahoo’s current strategy may be getting a tad bit of traction. As I wrote after Yahoo’s earnings call, the company seems to be trying to build its ad network among the mainstream publishers who feel most threatened by the rise of Google.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Yahoo Toots Its Horn as It Falls Further Behind
Yahoo did just well enough in the first quarter for it to be able to hold its head up high as it tries to justify its continued rejection of Microsoft’s hostile bid. … But panning back, there is still something wrong with this picture. I moderated a panel Tuesday afternoon at the Advertising Club of New York. The marketers there, like most big marketers, say they are shifting large chunks of their ad budgets from television onto the Internet. So why, in a market where money is being thrown online, does Yahoo, the second-largest seller of Internet ads, only have an increase in its online ad revenue of 7% over a year ago?
Friday, April 18, 2008
Amazon Gains Share of Shrinking Paid Music Market
If you pan back and look at how people are getting their music these days, you see that the companies fighting for the people who pay for music are battling over an ever-smaller piece of the pie.
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