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Cable Freedom Is a Click Away
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Welcome to our living room. Take a seat, make yourself comfortable. Would you like to watch a movie, or the new “Family Guy” episode?
Oh, that, over there. You want to know why there’s a pile of gadgets and wires on the floor? My wife and I usually don’t talk about that clutter. We [...]
Inventing a Better Patent System
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A great source of information on the new frontier of patents, copyright and the ongoing battles of intellectual property protection is: www.techdirt.com
GARY LOCKE, the secretary of commerce, has urged Congress to overhaul the nation’s patent law by the end of the year. Although a bill has been circulating since 2005, a fierce fight [...]
A Netflix Model for Haute Couture
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For many women, a $1,000 dress is something they admire in the pages of a glossy magazine or see draped on the frame of a celebrity — not an item hanging in their closet.
But a nascent Web site called Rent the Runway is hoping to make high-end fashions much more accessible and almost [...]
TV Stations Start Broadcasting to Mobile Gadgets
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As if you are not barraged with video choices from your cable system, YouTube, iTunes, Hulu, NetFlix, and Ye’ Olde Video Store in the neighborhood, here comes yet another way to veg out: programs beamed over the air from your local TV station right to your cellphone.
A group called the Open Mobile Video [...]
A $1 Million Research Bargain for Netflix, and Maybe a Model for Others
Even the near-miss losers in the Netflix million-dollar-prize competition seemed to have few regrets.
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