6 posts and columns on month

Sprint Expands $10 Data Surcharge to All Smartphones

in Mobile on January 18, 2011 at 11:32 am PT

Starting Jan. 30, Sprint plans to charge all new Android, BlackBerry, Instinct, Palm and Windows Mobile data customers the extra fee. The charge had previously applied only to the carrier’s 4G phones, such as the Evo and Epic.

Rhapsody Starts Its New Life With Price Cut and an Investment From Universal Music

in Media on April 6, 2010 at 6:00 am PT

Rhapsody starts life as an independent company this month and the music subscription service is marking the occasion with a price cut by lowering the price of its all-you-can-eat offering from $15 to $10 a month.

Mobile Data Traffic: 3.6 Billion Gigabytes a Month by 2014

in News on February 9, 2010 at 2:00 pm PT

It’s a truism that mobile data traffic these days is growing at an extraordinary rate. But that doesn’t make the findings of mobile data growth by Cisco any less dramatic. According to the company’s Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Forecast, worldwide mobile data traffic could hit 40 exabytes by 2014, or 3.6 exabytes per month.

The New York Times Officially Starts Construction on Its Pay Wall: “Metered Model” Coming 2011

in Media on January 20, 2010 at 6:39 am PT

After much consideration, the New York Times has finally decided to start charging readers for access to its Web site. But not for a while: The Times says it will introduce a “metered model” for NYT.com in 2011.
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The Secret of Chad Hurley and Steve Chen’s Famous “Two Kings” Video. Revealed!

in Media on October 9, 2009 at 4:00 am PT

Three years after the Google deal, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley explains some of the cryptic language in the clip that defined the Web 2.0 era. Also, he’d like you to know his site is generating more than a billion views a day.
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More Not-Bad News From Time Inc.: People.com Booming

in Media on December 10, 2008 at 12:39 pm PT

While it’s true that Time Warner’s magazine unit is embattled, there are bright spots in the portfolio. Take People.com: The gossip magazine has always been one of Time Inc.’s strongest performers. Now its companion site is, too. Who gets credit? Some of it goes to celebs like Ashlee Simpson, and their babies.