MySpace, rumored to be on the verge of purchasing the free music streaming site imeem, is struggling to keep up with its own payments to music copyright holders, according to a top News Corp executive–a problem that has plagued every other licensed free music service.
In the evening of January 15, 2008, a 31-year-old tech consultant named Gregg Housh sat down at the computer and paid a visit to one of his favorite Web sites, the message board known as 4chan.
Valery Yarynich glances nervously over his shoulder. Clad in a brown leather jacket, the 72-year-old former Soviet colonel is hunkered in the back of the dimly lit Iron Gate restaurant in Washington, DC. It’s March 2009—the Berlin Wall came down two decades ago–but the lean and fit Yarynich is as jumpy as an informant dodging the KGB.
It had taken the better part of a decade, but Reed Hastings was finally ready to unveil the device he thought would upend the entertainment industry.
A Defense Department intelligence analyst hit with a federal computer hacking charge last week says he’s being made a scapegoat for a security slip-up that sent a password in a nationwide terrorism investigation to “tens of thousands” of analysts without the need-to-know.
Never heard of Jeremy Roenick? That’s okay. We don’t judge here. The hockey jocks at ESPN may think differently, though.
The iTunes music store sells single songs at approximately the same price, with artist presented in more or less the same way. Apple’s App Store, however, is still somewhat like the wild west (at least as far as music goes), where the rules are being made up in real time.
Kayak, the popular multi-airline airfare search engine, thinks Microsoft Bing’s new travel search engine looks so much like its own that it’s confusing Kayak users.
Imagine the odds: No sooner did Facebook swing open the doors to its fire sale of vanity URLs than a geeky frat party ensued, as members reserved prankish, clever and lewd names instead of maybe the digital alias their friends (and mothers) might have hoped for.
Here’s Sony’s Jack Tretton, speaking to Chris Morris at CNBC, on leaks:
The Army has ordered its network managers to give soldiers access to social media sites like Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter, Danger Room has learned.
Forget the new cyber security czar position that President Barack Obama announced last week.
A new sci-fi news website is growing as a resource for conservatives who feel the rest of the pop culture world is in a political galaxy far, far away from them.
Now you can kick off your Star Trek shows, climb into Star Wars bed and read the fan fiction you stored on your Transformers flash drive–all thanks to the summer’s more creative movie-marketing merchandise.
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