- newReed Hastings on Netflix's Recent Rise and Fall (William D. Cohan/Vanity Fair)
William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:Reed Hastings on Netflix's Recent Rise and Fall — Still bloodied by one of the worst self-inflicted corporate disasters in recent memory—last year's $12 billion wipeout—Netflix C.E.O. Reed Hastings remains adamant about his goal: moving from red envelopes to streaming video.
- 44 mins ago, 23 Feb 12, 6:55am -
- newWeb Firms to Adopt 'No Track' Button (Julia Angwin/Wall Street Journal)
Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:Web Firms to Adopt ‘No Track’ Button — A coalition of Internet giants including Google Inc. has agreed to support a do-not-track button to be embedded in most Web browsers—a move that the industry had been resisting for more than a year. — The reversal is being announced as part …
- 1 hour ago, 23 Feb 12, 6:20am -
- newDell Goes on Ultrabook Diet With Slimmed-Down Laptop (Walter S. Mossberg/AllThingsD)
Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:Dell Goes on Ultrabook Diet With Slimmed-Down Laptop — As 2012 rolls on, consumers shopping for a PC will be seeing more of the thin, light, quick-starting Windows laptops called ultrabooks. — Big names like Lenovo and Toshiba already have entered this new category, and on Tuesday …
- 2 hours ago, 23 Feb 12, 5:55am -
- newObama unveils Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights (Elinor Mills/CNET)
Elinor Mills / CNET:Obama unveils Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights — President promises privacy legislation and says Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are committed to working with Do Not Track technology in browsers. — The Obama administration plans to work with Congress to enact legislation …
- 2 hours ago, 23 Feb 12, 5:25am -
- newTomahawk, the Most Important Music App Nobody's Talking About (Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired)
Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired:Tomahawk, the Most Important Music App Nobody's Talking About — In order for a technology to take off these days, it has to be simple. Twitter, Facebook, iTunes, Spotify — each can be summed up in a sentence or so and readily understood from the very first time you use it.
- 3 hours ago, 23 Feb 12, 5:05am -
- newKT reviewing network fees on Youtube, Internet TVs (Miyoung Kim/Reuters)
Miyoung Kim / Reuters:KT reviewing network fees on Youtube, Internet TVs — (Reuters) - South Korea's top Internet provider, KT Corp plans to charge data-heavy content providers such as Google's Youtube and Internet-enabled TV service operators to subsidize costly network upgrades, a KT executive said on Thursday.
- 3 hours ago, 23 Feb 12, 4:20am -
- newSocial revolution coming to Australian TV (Asher Moses/Sydney Morning Herald)
Asher Moses / Sydney Morning Herald:Social revolution coming to Australian TV — The NICTA technology can overlay the Twitter discussion on top of any show on any channel. — Your TV experience is about to get a whole lot more social, with government researchers partnering with the ABC to bring Twitter and Facebook integration to virtually any show on any channel.
- 4 hours ago, 23 Feb 12, 3:35am -