BBC to Launch Al-Jazeera Competitor: “The British Broadcasting Corp. said Thursday it will launch a 24-hour Arabic-language TV news channel to compete with the Qatar-based satellite station Al-Jazeera.”
Interesting. It seems like a smart move. The only thing I would be concerned about is whether or not it becomes simply a propaganda vehicle for the British [...]
Pat O’Brien to Leave ‘Access Hollywood’: “It’s a wrap for “Access Hollywood” co-host Pat O’Brien. O’Brien is leaving the syndicated entertainment TV show after seven years and will be replaced by Billy Bush, who now serves as the show’s East Coast correspondent.”
Interesting. Perhaps “Access Hollywood” will finally become a syndicated entertainment newsmagazine worth watching, since [...]
‘International Attack’ Hits Big Web Sites: “Several major Web sites - including Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google - were inaccessible at times early Tuesday due to what the company that distributes them online called an attack.”
The second outage to hit the domain name servers of Akamai Technologies in less than two months. The one in the [...]
Petro-Canada captures U.S. Rockies gas with $719M Prima Energy takeover: “Petro-Canada, continuing its expansion beyond petroleum and outside Canada, has announced a $719-million ($534-million US) takeover of Prima Energy Corp., a Rocky Mountain natural gas company based in Denver.”
The company also said that the deal has been approved by the boards of directors of both [...]
Google dominates Web search, but faces challenges: report: “As it readies its share offering, Google dominates the Internet search market but faces challenges as it tries to broaden its services, research firm Standard and Poor’s said.”
On the not surprising side of things, the study by S&P Equity Research Services, and conducted by online market research [...]
A Big Credit Counselor Files for Bankruptcy Protection: “AmeriDebt, a credit counseling service that has been accused of misleading hundreds of thousands of customers, filed for bankruptcy protection on Saturday in Maryland.”
Oh, the irony. Nonetheless, it serves them right. They don’t deserve their tax-exempt status — taking money from indebted consumers and raking in huge [...]
Paul Martin promises pot decriminalization when pressed on issue: “Martin was responding to a question about whether a Liberal government would reintroduce a law to hand out fines - not criminal sentences - to people caught with 15 grams of pot or less. The legislation died last month when Parliament was dissolved for the federal [...]
Shutdown rumors swirl around Interplay: “Today, however, unconfirmed reports began to surface that the publisher was indeed shutting down. Several stock- and Interplay-game-related sites claimed to have received reports from Interplay employees that they were told by the company’s human resources department to file for unemployment insurance. According to the sites, staffers were also told [...]
KaZaA, the controversial file swapping application infested with invasive adware and owned by Vanuatu-based Sharman Networks, is no longer the Internet’s most downloaded software application. On May 3rd, Ad-aware surpassed KaZaA with 1,517,622 downloads for the week to take the coveted number one spot on Download.com’s list of the most popular free and paid software [...]
