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Truthiness Comes To Viacom
The irony is so thick, it's smothering. Viacom, who sued Google for a billion dollars over copyright infringement, is now being sued…
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Far-Off Googlers Spin Wheels, Americans Sit Idle
Google wants to protect the environment; it also wants its employees to stay happy and healthy. So, to address both issues at once, the search engine company is giving away around 2,000 free bicycles. Ironically, the bikes will not be offered to Google’s American employees, who (statistically speaking) are probably most in need of some exercise.
NYT Loves The Cocaine?
And we have yet another example of the distance contextual advertising has to go. When a New York Times advertisement pops up above a guide to the Big Apple's cocaine scene, there is clearly more work to be done – unless the NYT would actually endorse such a thing. The ad is covered in a thick layer of irony, informing its target market that the…
Broadband Users Not Fans Of Mobile Internet
When it comes to a preference of devices for US broadband users the PC is by far the most popular choice with 94 percent favoring their desktop, while 40 percent use their laptop and only 5 percent use the mobile Internet according to Media-Screen. Mobile users can be broken down into three categories: those who access the Internet from mobile devices (5%), those who have…
Analyst: Yahoo Gains From Video Alliance
The much discussed NBC and News Corp video alliance will include Yahoo in its net of content distributors, and that is going to benefit the portal company.
AOL Challenges iPhone With Mobile Winamp
AOL is set to launch a new mobile product next week that will allow users to connect to their PC-based music collections from their mobile phones. An extension of the hardly noticed Winamp Remote PC-to-PC media streaming service that launched earlier, the PC-to-mobile service, in effect, turns a mobile phone into a MP3 player.
