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A look at 3 cloud music subscription plans (AP)

AP – A look at some of the features offered by competing subscription plans that allow you to listen to songs of your choosing while connected to the Internet over cell phone networks:

18 April 2010 at 20:47 - Comments

Government Says Data Estimating Piracy Losses is Unsubstantiated (PC World)

PC World – We’ve all heard the MPAA and the RIAA whine, whine, whine about how Internet piracy has basically destroyed the movie/TV/software/music/video game industry–citing famous studies that estimate as much as $200 billion and 750,000 jobs lost in a year. But now the government is stepping in and admitting what many kind of suspected–those studies are often misleading.

14 April 2010 at 08:50 - Comments

ESPN scores UK Premier League mobile rights (Reuters)

Reuters – Walt Disney Co’s sports TV network ESPN has acquired the rights to screen Premier League soccer highlights on UK mobile phones, the Daily Telegraph reported in its Wednesday edition.

7 April 2010 at 02:03 - Comments

Key lawmaker backs FCC’s spectrum plan (Reuters)

Reuters – A key U.S. lawmaker expressed support on Thursday for a proposal by communications regulators to give auction proceeds to broadcasters as an incentive to give up some airwaves highly sought by wireless broadband providers.

25 March 2010 at 20:41 - Comments

Belkin Adds Apps To Wi-Fi Router Lineup (PC World)

PC World – When is a wireless router not just a wireless router? Belkin’s answer: When it’s a total pain. That’s why it introduced four new 802.11n Wi-Fi routers, ranging from $50 to $130, that come with a set of applications designed to help you use your wireless network for backing up, playing music and movies, setting up file transfers, and speeding up important Internet traffic without having to muck around in arcane menus

25 March 2010 at 18:30 - Comments