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Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category

• What’s Jay-Z’s state of mind over spoof? (AP)

  Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

  AP – An online parody of a Jay-Z hit that swaps New York’s metropolis for a modest Welsh port town has won hundreds of thousands of fans, the director of the spoof said Wednesday.

• CBS TV looks to social media for next big hits (Reuters)

  Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

  Reuters – CBS entertainment president Nina Tassler said on Wednesday the top-rated TV network was “restless, motivated and paranoid” about developing new shows and looking increasingly to social networking and the Internet for its next big hits.

• Bieber builds avid Latin American fan base via Web (Reuters)

  Friday, May 21st, 2010

  Reuters – Earlier this year, before a single Justin Bieber album had been released in Latin America, the teen star from Ontario, Canada, was already an Internet sensation south of the border.

  
  

• Teen idol Justin Bieber vs. glass door (AP)

  Friday, May 21st, 2010

  AP – Teen idol Justin Bieber walked smack into the glass of an automatic revolving door when trying to exit a German hotel, sending his fans into a blogging frenzy.

• Bret Michaels announces May 28 comeback gig (Reuters)

  Friday, May 14th, 2010

  Reuters – Rock singer Bret Michaels plans to return to live performances on May 28 — just five weeks after surviving a near fatal brain hemorrhage, according to his official web site on Friday.

• Man arrested for death threat against Japan princess (AFP)

  Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

  AFP – Japanese police said Wednesday they had arrested a man for allegedly posting an online threat to kill a royal family member, reportedly Princess Aiko, the eight-year-old daughter of the crown price.

  
  

• The top 10 singles and albums (AP)

  Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

  AP – iTunes’ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending May 3, 2010:

• Chinese Online Games Shut Down for Quake Mourning Day (PC World)

  Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

  PC World – Online games, music services and parts of other Web sites in China were shut down on Wednesday for a day of mourning mandated by the government after a deadly earthquake last week.

• Author Toibin sees novel surviving new technology (Reuters)

  Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

  Reuters – Award-winning Irish writer Colm Toibin firmly believes the novel will remain fundamentally unchanged by the Internet or other high-tech innovations, a realm in which he admits he is nearly illiterate.

• Sony partners with Lovefilm rental service in UK (Reuters)

  Thursday, March 18th, 2010

  Reuters – Sony is teaming up with European movie-rental firm Lovefilm to offer TV viewers in Britain instant access to films from the Web, as a land grab for space on Internet-connected televisions gets under way.

• FCC backs plan to speed up Internet (Reuters)

  Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

  Reuters – Communications regulators submitted to Congress a national broadband plan that aims to expand access, increase Internet speeds and shift airwaves to mobile services.

  
  

• Is your Oscar pool legal? (Reuters)

  Sunday, March 7th, 2010

  Reuters – Is holding an online office pool to predict Oscar winners unlawful gambling?

• Viewers get a channel of their own on Cablevision (Reuters)

  Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

  Reuters – New Yorkers who want to watch online videos or family photos on their TVs will soon be able to do so on their own personal TV channel if they are Cablevision Systems Corp subscribers.

• HBO debuts online video service with Verizon (Reuters)

  Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

  Reuters – Verizon’s FiOS TV customers who subscribe to HBO will be able to watch the cable network’s shows online, marking the latest effort by a big media company to stay relevant to people as they spend more time on the Web.

• Items belonging to Argentina’s Peron auctioned off (AFP)

  Friday, February 12th, 2010

  AFP – Some 14,000 items which once belonged to former Argentine president Juan Peron and his wife, Eva, including his dog’s tombstone went under the hammer Friday in an Internet auction.

• Time Warner stalwart Adler to leave (Reuters)

  Friday, February 12th, 2010

  Reuters – Ed Adler, the communications chief who saw Time Warner Inc through its tumultuous merger with AOL, is to leave the company after a transition period.

• iTunes approaches 10 billion downloads (Reuters)

  Thursday, February 11th, 2010

  Reuters – Apple’s iTunes Music Store on Thursday launched “Countdown to 10 Billion Songs,” and is planning to give away a $10,000 iTunes gift card to the customer who buys the song that turns the counter to eleven digits.

• Perez Hilton, Black Eyed Peas manager settle suit (AP)

  Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

  AP – A judge is dismissing a civil lawsuit filed against a Black Eyed Peas manager who punched blogger Perez Hilton in a nightclub last year.

• The top 10 singles and albums on iTunes (AP)

  Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

  AP – iTunes’ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending Feb. 8, 2010:

• Miley Cyrus, other celebs auction items for Haiti (AP)

  Monday, February 8th, 2010

  AP – Miley Cyrus has organized an online auction to benefit the relief effort in Haiti, and Britney Spears, Hugh Jackman, Ellen DeGeneres, Julianne Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Demi Lovato and others will donate items and experiences.

• Afrikaans rappers takes Internet by storm (Reuters)

  Friday, February 5th, 2010

  Reuters – A South African Afrikaans rap group has taken the Internet by storm with explicit in-your-face lyrics, provocative performances and using cyberspace to promote their music.

• YouTube’s Eun latest Google exec to join AOL (Reuters)

  Thursday, February 4th, 2010

  Reuters – AOL Inc said on Thursday another Google Inc executive will join its management ranks next month as the newly independent company seeks to become the leading content company for the Web.

• Hollywood loses landmark copyright case in Australia (Reuters)

  Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

  Reuters – Hollywood studios lost a landmark copyright court case against an Australia internet provider on Thursday, when a court ruled iiNet could not be held responsible for unauthorized downloads of movies using its service.