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Some early adopters of Hadoop, software that makes it easier and cheaper to analyze vast amounts of data, say it challenging to use and rolling it out will take time.

Kobe Bryant's connection with Pau Gasol stretches all the way to Pluto. It started before they were even teammates, in May 2007, when the Lakers lost in the first round of the playoffs to Phoenix. Bryant responded with his notorious multi-platform tirade, begging the Lakers to trade him anywhere,...

The music industry may soon be acting even more like the film business and delaying streaming songs to avoid cannibalizing sales."Windowing," says Jon Irwin, CEO of subscription-based music streaming service Rhapsody, "[is] fundamentally the wrong thing to do."

Meet Neil Blumenthal, cofounder and co-CEO of Warby Parker. He tells Fast Company how a pact over a beer at the company's inception helped its founders preserve their friendship. Last year saw 500% growth for the online eyewear brand, Warby Parker. The company is disrupting prices in a business...

If Y Combinator is the next PayPal Mafia, then Paul Graham is Silicon Valley's godfather. Graham is the cofounder of Y Combinator, the investment firm that plugs seed money ($18,000 on average) into early stage startups in exchange for mentorship and access to its ever-growing network of...

If it’s a clear night tonight, go outside about 9 p.m. and look west at the two brightest stars, beautiful as jewels, one above the other. Low to the horizon will be the planet Venus, the “evening star,” just beginning to set. Above Venus is the planet Jupiter, the gas giant with more than 60 known...

All Gannett papers, except USA Today, will be behind a paywall by the end of 2012

Five of the top 10 online video destinations - AOL, Hulu, Microsoft, Yahoo and YouTube - are joining with ad agency Digitas to launch the first-ever "Digital Content NewFronts" (DCNF). The DCNF's goal is to "shape a new and practical marketplace for connecting the wealth of...

The cable guys are getting into the Web video business. Now Google is about to get into the cable business. So what will that look like? Google has asked federal regulators for permission to sell pay TV in Kansas City, where it has been working on a broadband/fiber buildout, and the WSJ thinks it...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet service providers need to work harder to prevent hacks, data theft and other fraud, including contacting customers whose infected computers have been hijacked by organized crime and helping them clean out viruses, the head of the Federal Communications Commission...

When two proposed anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA looked as if they could become law, social news site Reddit helped organize a large-scale online protest that led lawmakers to table the bills indefinitely. But the activism didn't stop there, and now Redditors are trying to draft legislation of...

Jethro Nededog "The traditional host role on a show like this has to change into something else," the executive producer and judge says. read more

The controversy around Chris Brown and RIhanna's decision to guest on remixes of each others' songs (Brown's "Turn Up the Music" and Rihanna's "Birthday Cake") does not seem to have hampered either song’s performance at radio – if anything, the opposite has...

A new social class is emerging on the Internet and your place in it depends on your reputation.  In this world, you might be nothing, "but online you might be king," explained Betterworks co-founder Paige Craig, an angel investor in more than 50 companies. Craig said he invested in online...

Will Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘The Dictator’ Walk The Oscar Red Carpet? UPDATED 5:30 PM WITH MORE DETAILS EXCLUSIVE… BREAKING 3PM… The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has pulled actor Sacha Baron Cohen‘s tickets from the 84th Academy Awards. This means he is banned from attending the...

David Carr and Brian Stelter discuss what the debates have meant for cable television, the Republican Party and American politics.

Reimagining the Library for the Future @ The New York Public Library: For more than a century, The New York Public Library has been a fount of knowledge for hundreds of millions of users. As the Library looks ahead, it is poised to take the next step in a bold plan that will build on this legacy...

ABC’s Nightline offered viewers a rare glimpse inside the Foxconn plants that produce Apple products Tuesday night. Apple has faced increased criticism concerning the working conditions within its factories. Fair-labor and human-rights groups have petitioned Apple to change its policies. And much...

The story of late rap pioneer Heavy D will be chronicled in a documentary airing Sunday on Centric TV.

Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft on Thursday agreed to create standard privacy policies for the mobile apps they run, a sign of industry-led privacy efforts ahead of a White House effort to strengthen oversight of the Internet. Read full article >>

Who says the entertainment industry can't embrace new business models? From their ham-fisted attempts to make digital movie distribution less convenient than driving to the store and purchasing a DVD to their recent "collateral revamping" of various cloud services, the entertainment industry has...

From Dan Schawbel: Social media is often a big help when you're developing your brand. It allows businesses to connect to customers on a more personal level. But that doesn't mean it's right for every small business. Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, believes that 9 million small businesses...

Hire comes as it launches 96 entertainment "channels," a $100 million investment in original content.

Brian France sat down with Forbes this month to discuss NASCAR's prospects in the upcoming year, including their hopes for Danica Patrick.

Did you know that the French President Nicolas Sarkozy had opened a Twitter account? Its opponents certainly do, as several parody and critical accounts have been suspended by Twitter over the last days, generating accusations of censorship. This led the micro-blogging platform to publish a post...

I was awaiting Tom Smith’s new Global Web Index and I found the results fascinating. I’ll blog for the next 3 days on surprising results from the survey! The first surprise to me, is the progression of China in Social.

Electronic Arts Image from the videogame Syndicate How will the nation’s wealth be divvied up 50 years from now? The division likely will be more drastic in the future than it is today, if videogames are to be believed (which, for obvious reasons, they shouldn’t, although Madden did pick the...

Marie Colvin asked a fellow journalist to spread her article from Homs beyond paid subscribers to The Sunday Times of London, illustrating a central challenge of the Internet age: how to pay for reporters without denying access to what they report.

Big brand marketers are champing at the bit for more quality digital video inventory and more quality material to go into that inventory, said Randall Rothenberg, president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau in this  interview with Beet.TV. We spoke to him about the IAB's upcoming...

Batman is wrong to be nonlethal in the case of the Joker. This shows we can, in some cases, morally kill someone against his will. I am something of a comic fan. The medium fascinates me - though not so much most of the superhero characters and stories. I am currently writing comics myself...

David Rudolph is the founder of PlayOn! Sports, a proposed 24-hour, multiplatform high school sports network. Here is the programming he says you?re unlikely to see when it debuts: elite club youth sports, breathless recruiting coverage, reality shows, made-for-television interstate high school...

The lessons from an infant industry, including the power of cooperation and importance of regulating with a light touch abdulsatarid/Shutterstock Android, apps, iPhones, Angry Birds, iPads, FarmVille, data contracts: It's a bit jarring to realize that these terms, so familiar today, only date...

Although were not exactly sure when it went live, Apple seems to be rolling out a “Mastered for iTunes” section on iTunes worldwide that is populated with albums “specially tuned for higher fidelity sound.” Yesterday Universal Music Group announced several new additions to the section. New albums...

MONTREAL - Twitter co-founder Christopher Isaac "Biz" Stone has a message for those followers who stare at the stream of tweets on the social networking site for hours on end — don't do it. "To me, that sounds unhealthy," Stone told a Montreal business luncheon, recounting how some people have...

The cable MSOs have long been accused of lagging in product innovation while boosting prices. Meanwhile, web-based services like Netflix and Hulu have grown market share, helping create a new demographic of “cord nevers.” But over the last few months, Comcast is fighting back, unleashing a...

PaleyFest 2012 Sets Panel Schedule Beverly Hills, CA, February 22, 2012 – The Paley Center for Media today announced Hulu is a partner for PaleyFest 2012. As part of the agreement with PaleyFest, beginning March 15, Hulu will stream full-length content and short form clips exclusively on-demand...

When MTV played the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” in 1981 it launched a new era of pay television. Cable TV was no longer Community Antenna TV (CATV); now there were—or soon would be—as Bruce Springsteen put it, “57 channels and nothin’ on.” Today there’s a music video channel for any...

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In civilian life, the iPad is the clear tablet leader. But in the military, the Pentagon likes its Android devices, and has shunned Apple products. But that may be about to change, as an Air Force office buys 18,000 (mostly) iPads, giving Cupertino a new chance to win the military's OS and tablet...

The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to halt a legal challenge weighing the constitutionality of a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans? communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008.

Google's vision of the future involves touch-screen apps working on mobile devices and computers alike. Maybe. [Read more]

Just like a camera, the best store is the one you have with you. And most of us carry our smartphones with us everywhere we go and buy things all day long.

Arianna discussed the evolving role of media with JWT's Bob Jeffrey. "At the heart of the Huffington Post is engagement, and if you think of it, that's really the main shift in how consumers consume news," she said. "We're don't just take it in, we share it, we pass it on." Arianna explained...

Curtis' guest spot helped make "NCIS" the most-viewed show Tuesday night.

While the early history of the Internet is littered with the corpses of music start-ups, not all digital music companies have failed. Take, for example, Gracenote. Founded in 1998, the Berkeley based company was sold to Sony in 2008 for $260 million and is one of the real pioneers of the evolving...

CEO Timko, other top execs out as Venture refocuses on VOD...

The simple version is that physical is going digital, and digital is going towards access. The real version, however, seems to be infinitely more complicated.

? Tween-teen girls are posting videos of themselves and asking YouTube users if they are ugly, pretty or fat. Absolutely nothing good can come of this. Take a look at ?sgal901? who looks and sounds like she?s in middle school. ??She asks: ?Am I Pretty or Ugly?? ??She has over 3.5 million views and...

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. Tomahawk is more complicated, but if you’re a music fan who listens to music [...]

The role of a CEO is an ever challenging job but in a social business it may require a different style of leadership and new skills to carry out this style. The upending of strong hierarchy and leadership by command and control requires a CEO to be much more versatile, persuasive, and collaborative...

Ever-brilliant Web comic The Oatmeal has a great piece about piracy and its alternatives. (The language at the end is a bit much, but it is the character’s evil Jiminy Cricket talking.) It mirrors my opinion about Major League Baseball’s unwillingness to offer any Internet access to the postseason,...

Most piracy debates only discuss one currency: money-dollars. This is wrong because there are at LEAST four: money-dollars, time-dollars, pain-in-the-butt-dollars, and integrity-dollars.

Updated: IPG’s full memo to publishers on page 2. Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has turned off the buy button on nearly 5,000 Kindle titles from distributor Independent Publishers Group after IPG refused to capitulate to Amazon’s demand for better terms. The story was first reported by Publishers...

Advertisers collect information with every digital move people make. They then target ads based on that information. Communications scholar Joseph Turow worries that advertisers will use such data to discriminate against people and put them into "reputation silos." » E-Mail This     » Add to...

Almost lost in Zynga?s disappointing fourth-quarter earnings report was one bright spot: advertising. Ad revenues jumped 230%, to $27 million in the fourth quarter?almost four times the social gaming company?s 59% rise in overall revenues. Chalk it up in part to a new, more interactive kind of ad...

Outside of the technology sector, most of the large companies that I encounter are startlingly similar. They're massively successful, indisputably recognized as world-class leaders by consumers and the business community. Their executives are all quite smart and good at what they do. They...

Stephen Galloway Heading into the first Academy Awards under Hudson's leadership, she and COO Ric Robertson reveal the Brett  Ratner backstory, address the white-male problem and discuss their ambitious agenda read more

I know we’re freaked out about spectrum shortages in the U.S. as we clutch our iPhones and download the latest cute kitten video on YouTube, but new advances in chip technology could help alleviate these concerns. Thanks to recent research at the University of Texas at Dallas and the Semiconductor...

Jose Abreu is putting up godlike numbers in the closed-off world of Cuba.

If you’ve ever shopped for a pair of prescription glasses, you’ve probably seen first hand how expensive a set can be. Warby Parker’s co-founders are right there with you. Both fed-up and puzzled over paying hundreds of dollars for a product that’s been around for hundreds of years, the Warby...

Indian outsourcers think social networks such as Facebook present too many security and customer confidentiality issues. So they've decided to create their own inhouse social media instead.

Looks like the basketball players of tomorrow will boast that they’ve got data-tracking game. A new Nike+ “pressure sensor” is coming to Nike basketball and training shoes. The sensors will track data about wearers’ movements and transmit it wirelessly to their iPhones. The enhanced basketball...

The Silicon Valley legend played a key role in creating a new institute focused on media innovation that brings together Columbia and Stanford universities.

Yahoo! has a treasure trove of unique assets that could be used well competitively by Apple if it bought the Web company.

The organizers of this year's Brit Awards have issued an apology to Adele for cutting short her second acceptance speech of the evening -- an incident which led to the singer raising her middle finger to the crowd and millions of watching TV viewers in frustration.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A series of technology companies, including security software maker Palo Alto Networks, are preparing to go public on the heels of Facebook's $5-billion filing, sensing a window of opportunity as the stock market rallies.

UltraViolet might sound too good to be true, but the service is growing. More Blu-ray titles are featuring the digital media option and consumers are at least trying the movie industry’s alternative to, well, piracy. iSupply just announced that there are now more than 800,000 household accounts, up...

Two producers and a flat-broke actor went into the ring. Rocky was their KO.

Ever since the Justice Department opened the door to the legalization of online gambling, the leading creators of social games are feeling increasingly lucky. PopCap Games just launched Lucky Gem Casino with a collection of seven slot machines themed after its brands such as Bejeweled and Zuma. It...

The tech business deserves a better press corps. By “better,” I don’t mean “friendlier.” I mean journalists and bloggers that treat technology with the same serious and critical eye that is (or should be) afforded to presidential candidates and Fortune 500 companies. The tech industry and the...

I’ve enjoyed the PS Vita for a couple of weeks now. It’s a fun device, but as John describes in our review, it feels like the last of its kind. Single function devices are no longer relevant and as much as Sony tried, the Vita is still pretty much a dedicated gaming handheld. The company launched...

Technology changes not only the medium in which we process information, but how we interpret and act on that information. The creation of cellphones was a seminal moment in the history of human communication. Barriers that were once impossible to cross are only a push of a button away. Cellphones...

Most viral online content relies heavily on social media to spread the word. Flash sale design site Fab, for example, reached 1 million users in five months thanks to a social sign up scheme. How did sites become popular before Twitter or Facebook existed? And how do you spread the word if your...

If Pinterest is attracting heat for copying publishers’ content, perhaps it’s only fair that publishers give the same treatment to the budding social pinboard curation network. To that end, Condé Nast has given the website for its UK edition of Easy Living magazine a makeover that looks more than...

Every few months, the death of a celebrity sparks a new media maelstrom about drugs. But more concerned with spectacle than substance, much of the press ignores the real issues behind America's deadliest epidemic, as well as its last famous victims. Just minutes after Whitney Houston was found...

A year after AOL acquired The Huffington Post for $350 million, sources say AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is getting frustrated with working with Arianna Huffington, who became President at AOL after the deal.   So is Arianna on her way out? Is Tim? A source close to AOL and its chief concedes that...

Sections IaaS and private clouds Platform solutions Big data cloud platforms compared Conclusion Big data and cloud technology go hand-in-hand. Big data needs clusters of servers for processing, which clouds can readily provide. So goes the marketing message, but what does that look like in...

(Reuters) - Nearly 12 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2011, an increase of 13 percent over 2010, according to a report released on Wednesday by the research firm Javelin Strategy & Research.

18 months in prison for selling computers to the terrorist state of Iran but 97 months in prison for stealing high-frequency trading code?

It could be a bit idealistic to call a self-publishing platform whose success is primarily based on Justin Bieber fan-fiction ‘the next sanctuary for the hopes and dreams of teenagers’. But the young people using a new platform called Movellas write about divorce, heartache, homosexuality,...

The headline, the tweet, and the unfair significance of Jeremy Lin.

As Beijing bureau chief for CNN in the late 1990′s, Rebecca MacKinnon witnessed first-hand the arrival of the Internet in China and the Chinese government’s struggle to control a technology some predicted would help bring about the end of Communist Party rule. A decade later, as Ms. MacKinnon...

The European Commission, facing steep opposition, is suspending efforts to ratify an international anti-counterfeiting agreement and instead referring it to Europe's highest court to see whether it violates EU rights.

The Global Innovation Series is supported by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. It delivers more than purpose-built electric vehicles — it delivers smart mobility services. Visit bmw-i.com or follow @BMWi on Twitter. If modern technology is a...

Netflix has announced that its movie and TV streaming service is landing on Sony’s new PlayStation Vita (PS Vita) today, making it the first Sony handheld entertainment system to feature the service. The PS Vita is the successor to the PlayStation Portable, and was released in Japan and other...

If you want to see what your friends or contacts are up to, you can check out Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Instagram for a realtime feed. But what if you want to read news about your friends? That’s a little bit trickier, which is why Newsle was born. Axel Hansen and Jonah Varon created the site...

The three parts of the "Nature" extravaganza are fascinating when they look at things like mating habits, but they become even more so when they explore the communication ability of these animals.

There's more evidence that ad dollars in analog media become dimes in digital, where marketers can gather audiences on the cheap.

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