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Ads to Play Bigger Role in Future Mobile Apps, Says Gartner - PC World Business Center - 0 views

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    Advertising is expected to play a larger role as a revenue source for iPhone application developers as users become less willing to pay for the applications themselves.
scwalton

Inbrics Android device to converge home media - Gadgetrepublic.com - 0 views

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    ""We believe that the near future will dictate seamless single-device applications for the consumer, which is why we are committed to the media convergence space," said Bobby Cha, chief marketing officer at Inbrics."
kkholland

The Media Equation - To Deliver, iPad Needs Content Providers on Board - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Media companies now have a new platform that presents content in an intimate way. “Looking at it through the lens of whether or not it has new features and applications misses the point,” said Craig Moffett, an analyst at Bernstein Research. “It is nine times larger than an iPhone, and that is fundamentally a new application.”
  • This is a device for consuming media, not creating it. So are the media providers ready to deliver?
  • But they also raise large questions about the business models that will drive that content to the screen.
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    Article argues the i-Pad is a device for consuming media, and that it offers a new platform for media companies to utilize. What type of business model will result from such a platform, and are there new economic models that will result from its introduction?
Julian Gottlieb

Daily News - Clear Channel Radio, Outdoor Platforms Break Innovative Ad Ground - TAXI: ... - 0 views

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    Clear Channel has created mobile "roadblocks" with advertising displays on your mobile device while it is loading applications.
scwalton

FCC Clarifies Application of the Multiple Ownership Rules After the Digital Transition ... - 0 views

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    "The context of this decision is interesting, in that the issue arose in the restructuring of Nassau Broadcasting, where its creditors were to take a controlling position in the company in exchange for a release of some of the company's debt. However, the new ownership position of its creditors, where their interests became attributable for the first time, required multiple ownership reviews in several markets, as these same investors were owners, or holders of significant debt (triggering an EDP issue) in other companies holding radio or TV licenses in nearby markets."
Rebekah Pure

StreamTransport Grabs Hulu Videos for Offline Viewing - Hulu - Lifehacker - 0 views

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    In light of our paper, this application doesn't seem like it will be around too long.
Julian Gottlieb

FCC Releases Apps To Independently Test The Speed Of Wireless Networks | paidContent - 0 views

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    FCC has created a mobile application that tests the speed and quality of broadband connection.
kkholland

FCC Mobile Plan Would Auction Off TV Spectrum - Reviews by PC Magazine - 0 views

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    PC Magazine reports on the FCC's proposal to auction off airwaves freed up by the digital conversion in an effort to increase spectrum for mobile phone application development.
Ethan Hartsell

Google Patent Auto-Converts Print Publications to E-Articles - 0 views

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    "A patent application by Google (GOOG), filed in August 2008 and only made public last week, shows that the company is working on an automated way to split printed magazines and newspapers into individual articles that it could then deliver separately. Although this could allow Google to convert stacks of periodicals into electronic archives, it potentially sends the company headlong into conflict with a famous Supreme Court ruling on media law."
kkholland

Could Court's Campaign Finance Ruling Affect Net Neutrality? - PCWorld - 0 views

  • Under the FCC's proposed net neutrality rules, broadband providers would be prohibited from discriminating against any legal Web content and applications. Some net neutrality opponents have argued that the FCC, by forcing them to carry other content, would violate their free-speech rights, and the Citizens United ruling makes that a stronger argument.
  • An FCC spokeswoman declined to comment on the Citizens United case, but Wendy is not alone in making this free-speech argument against net neutrality. Even before the Citizens United ruling, some conservative think tanks, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe have made similar
  • Free Press' Wright said those arguments confuse the role that ISPs have as Web site publishers with their role as network operators. She acknowledged that broadband providers have limited functions, such as publishing their own Web sites or blogs, that enjoy free-speech rights.
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  • But the net neutrality rules as proposed would create no limits on the ability of ISPs to publish their own Web sites, she said. The arguments that the ISPs' traffic-carrying role is speech is "so fundamentally at odds with the facts in the law," Wright said.
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    Will the Citizens United ruling impact net neutrality? This article explores the arguments on both sides, as well as the role of an ISP.
ethan tussey

mpaa organizes - Search Results - Deadline.com - 0 views

  • April 2 on an application by Media Derivatives, Inc. (MDEX) to create a designated contract market for film futures.
  • The groups said that the proposal by MDEX and a separate plan by Cantor Futures Exchange, L.P. “are based on faulty understanding of the film industry and create a risk of rampant speculation and financial irresponsibility at a time when the nation is still seeking to recover from an economic meltdown of the financial markets.”
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    MPAA use specter of financial crisis to deride the proposed creation of a "contract market for film futures."
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