According to a new report from Rider Research, the number of U.S. pay-TV subscribers grew by 362,000 in the fourth quarter of 2008. These numbers show a flight by traditional cable subscribers to new fiber offerings from Verizon FiOS and AT&T. From the release: As a group, the telephone companie...

I have been meaning to write a very long, complex and cerebral post about the seemingly exponential growth of Twitter in the last few months, but as my list of related bookmarks grows, the time to read them runs screaming, so I thought I’d try and capture a few thoughts in the next week or two in ...

Apple est en pleine phase de relance de ses produits. A la télévision, la pomme vante les mérites écologiques de ses derniers MacBooks après avoir souvent été épinglée par Greenpeace et fait la promotion de son App Store pour iPhone. Nous avons ainsi été invités jeudi à Zurich pour la p...

Rarely do you see things put so susinctly. Sometimes I could just kiss Paul Graham, but that would be kind of weird and creepy. :) He captures the inevitability of the TV vs. Internet war, the sheer obviousness and the magic and slaps it all down in a few hundred words like it was meant to be. From:...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has just released a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) in the matter of “Implementation of the Child Safe Viewing Act; Examination of Parental Control Technologies for Video or Audio Programming.” (MB Docket No. 09-26)  This NOI was required by S. 602, t...

I was involved with AC/DC in the early days of the band, when Bon Scott was the singer – I ran the Albert Productions label back then. So I take a continuing interest in the evolution of the band… At Perceptric we are preparing a report on the content and technology sectors to be released someti...

I'm sure I'm nowhere near the first to remark on this, but it has recently hit me on several levels. CNN just reported a moment ago that American newspapers are in severe trouble, partly because of the economic downturn yes, which means less people buy newspapers, but also less advertisers h...

Apparently its bad form to piss off the geeks. They don’t take kindly to “no.” In the wake of the Hulu / Boxee debacle, I found a new site that appears to circumvent some of the obstacles that Hulu has put up. UnlockHulu.com features all of Hulu’s content in DiVX format, whic...

In my opinion, there really isn't anything more awesome than a badass metal band that isn't afraid to speak up for animals—and Lamb of God is a perfect example of this! Bass player John Campbell once told us that if he could say anything to KFC CEO David Novak, he would tell him that he hoped ...

The Mobile World Congress has just ended in Barcelona and the tech press is full of stories about how the internet is now headed to a pocket near you. There were big stars in Barcelona peddling the future is mobile story, from the rapper Will I Am telling of how music is going mobile, to the actor K...