Tag Archives: Internet

The Chinese government Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has announced that all websites — including blogs, forums and chat rooms — located within its borders have to register with the government by June 30 or be shut down. Commercial sites face fines of up to one million yuan ($120,000) if …

Batman Begins (trailers here), which opens in traditional and IMAX theaters June 15, is an an “intellectual action epic” which “respectfully ignores” the four previous Batman films and tells the story from the dark mythic beginning once again with more character and less whizbang action than its big-budget predecessors, according …

America Online released a free, Internet-based e-mail service today – the first time the company has gone outside the “garden wall” of their fee-based subscription model for substantial services. Competing with free emails services like Google’s Gmail (2.3 gigabytes of storage), Yahoo (1 gigabyte for free), and Microsoft Corp.’s Hotmail …

Music Plus TV co-founder Marc Cubas is tired of Britney Spears. “I’m tired of listening to the same stuff,” he complains. He believes he has the cure. On June 15th, Cubas and co-founder Dennis Tzeng officially launch Music Plus TV, a Los Angeles-based 24-hour live streaming web television station that …

The Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet’s main oversight body, yesterday approved a new domain for “adult-entertainment” sites — .xxx — which had been submitted for consideration by ICM Registry along with ten other potential new Internet address suffixes, including .jobs …

I am happy and honored to be appearing live and via podcast on the Subject 2 Discussion show, on LVRocks.com out of Las Vegas, tonight at 6:15 pm PT/9:15 pm ET with Shaun Daily, former Clinton/Gore 96 National Steering Committee member and interview dude extraordinaire. Shaun’s blog for the show …

Just kidding: Bo will be on tour with American Idol all summer regardless of what happens tonight. Nonetheless, the most narowly defined reality show yet is coming to CBS beginning July 11, Rock Star: INXS, which will be hosted by former Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist and …

This week is the grand finale for American Idol – will it be Bo or Carrie, or should I say “Carrie or Bo”? We are subtly and not so subtly influenced by any number of factors in our preferences and since American Idol is decided by viewer voting, such influences …

Paris Hilton wriggles in a one-piece black Shay Todd swimsuit with a Carl’s Jr. Spicy BBQ Six Dollar Burger in her hot little hand while washing a Bentley in a shot from a new 30-second TV spot debuting May 19. The woman has integrated herself into American popular culture with …

Berkleemusic adds five new college-credit guitar courses and programs to their burgeoning online curriculum – no cowbell, yet. Berkleemusic.com, the online extension school of Berklee College of Music, has added five new online guitar courses and five new college-credit guitar certificate programs to their online curriculum. Courses include Guitar Scales …