Los Angeles
– Mail.com Media Corporation’s Deadline.com entertainment industry news site
announced on Tuesday that it has hired Nellie Andreeva, TV editor at The
Hollywood Reporter, to cover the television industry. Andreeva will report to
Nikki Finke, Deadline.com’s general manager and editor-in-chief. Deadline.com
has also recently hired journalists to be based in New
York and London.
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El Segundo,
Calif. – Satellite TV provider DirecTV (NYSE: DTV)
said on Tuesday that it will add the ESPN 3D network to its lineup in June. ESPN
3D will offer minimum of 85 live sporting events in its first year, including
up to 25 World Cup matches, the X Games, ACC Championship, BCS National
Championship, college basketball and NBA games. DirecTV said it will also offer
N3D, a channel from Panasonic delivering 3D content from a range of producers,
in addition to a 3D pay-per-view channel and a 3D DirecTV on Demand channel in
June.
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New York
– YES Network, a regional sports network that has the rights to offer live
streaming of New York Yankees baseball games, has signed a deal with Time
Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), Multichannel News reported. TWC customers will be able to watch
live, in-market games on computers or portable devices for $69.95 for the full
season, or $19.95 per month.
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(Multichannel News)
New York
– Billboard magazine has launched a new series of digital music sales charts,
which will track the top songs in 21 specific genres based on Nielsen SoundScan
data. "The digital genre rankings are a great way to drill down beyond the
overall top-selling download titles to see which songs and artists are the
hottest in a multitude of specific genres," said Silvio Pietroluongo, Billboard’s
director of charts.
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Stockholm
– Aspiro Music said on Tuesday that it has submitted a streaming music
application to Apple for approval for distribution in the App Store for the
iPhone. The WiMP streaming service, currently offered in Norway on computers and Android-based
phones, offer unlimited access to millions of songs and offline access for 99
kroner ($13.61) per month.
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Palo Alto,
Calif. – Facebook plans to remove
a button that allows users to "Become a Fan" of businesses, instead
replacing it with a "Like" button, the company wrote in a memo to
advertisers, published by the blog All Facebook.
The company said that the move
is "part of a larger effort to improve user experience, increase
engagement and promote consistency."
It is not yet clear whether users of
the site will still be able to become fans of non-businesses, such as
entertainment figures and productions.
Facebook called the action of clicking
"Like" a more "light-weight" way for users to connect with
a business, and expects the move to spur more connections across the site.
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(All Facebook)
Washington
– A coalition of privacy groups, technology firms and academics on Tuesday
petitioned Congress to update electronic privacy law to address advances in
mobile and cloud computing. Members of the Digital Due Process initiative
include tech giants Microsoft (NASD: MSFT), Google (NASD: GOOG), AT&T (NYSE: T) and Intel (NASD: INTC), and varied interest
groups including the ACLU, Americans for Tax Reform, Electronic Frontier
Foundation and Progress and Freedom Foundation. The parties hope to persuade
Congress to update the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which
currently provides more protections to data stored locally than data that is
stored on mobile devices or Web-based servers.
CNET notes that recent cases
have shown law enforcement obtaining mobile location data without needing to
first obtain a warrant.
The Digital Due Process initiative outlined four
principles it believes should apply to government access to data stored by
Internet and telecommunications companies.
The principles state that law enforcement must
obtain a search warrant in order to gain access to a user’s mobile location or
communications "not readily accessible to the public"; that added privacy
protections be afforded before calling records are released; and that subpoenas
for mobile data be limited to a single account or individual.
"The
traditional standard for the government to search your home or office and read
your mail or seize your personal papers is a judicial warrant," said Jim
Dempsey, vice president of public policy at the Center for Democracy and
Technology.
"The law needs to be clear that the same standard applies to
email and documents stored with a service provider, while at the same time be
flexible enough to meet law enforcement needs."
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Shanghai – A week after the company stopped censoring its
search results in China,
Google (NASD: GOOG) says that its mobile services are now being partially blocked in the
country, Reuters reported.
A website created by Google to track availability of
its services in China
shows that mobile services have been partially blocked for two days.
Reuters
said some users in Shanghai it talked to
reported no problems, while others in China said they have experienced
problems with Google’s mobile services ever since it stopped censoring search
results.
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