Cablevision Gets Ok For Remote DVR

A federal appeals court has ruled that Cablevision Systems Corp can move forward with its plan to launch a new digital video recorder (DVR) service that film studios and television networks said would infringe on their copyrights.

Cerf Proposes Alternate Strategy To Comcast

The broadband network management question has been at the center of the Network Neutrality debate for sometime, but recent scuffles between Comcast and the Federal Communications Commission have brought the issue more scrutiny. Vint Cerf, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, weighed in on that issue today, suggesting a new model for dealing with cable capacity issues.

YouTube To Get Some Olympic Content

Thanks to the International Olympic Committee and YouTube, sports fans in Botswana, Cambodia, and Mongolia - along with 74 other territories - are set to have a better-than-expected August.  The two organizations have paired to air clips of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Faking Out The Twittersphere

Just as always on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. You could be, as far as anybody can tell, an Exxon Mobil flack spreading good news in turbulent, record-profit times via Twitter. Who could tell otherwise? Exxon could, and did, disown "Janet" as not one of their official tweeters.