9 posts and columns on Newsday

Viral Video: Abusing the Apple iPad

in News on September 14, 2010 at 1:05 am PT

I suppose it is too juicy a gadget not to make fun of–or, say, completely destroy. That would be Apple’s magical iPad, which has been riding a media-hype wave of huge proportions since its debut earlier this year. Thus, it is time to do a little bashing. Literally.

Don't Do This With Your iPad

in Media on September 10, 2010 at 7:08 am PT

Newsday says its new app is useful. But not that useful…

Maybe Newsday Made Its Pay Wall a Little Too Strong

in Media on January 26, 2010 at 5:16 pm PT

That pay wall that Newsday put around its Web site last year? Crazily effective–at keeping people from buying an online subscription. Since the wall went up three months ago, only 35 people–as in not quite three dozen–have paid the $5-a-week fee for Web access. What does this tell us about the New York Times plan? Not much.

Here’s a First: Man Arrested for Not Using Twitter

in Media on November 22, 2009 at 5:46 am PT

Police charge a record company executive who didn’t use the messaging service to break up a near-riot of teenage girls at a Long Island mall.
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Chinese Hackers Target NYPD Too, Says Police Commissioner

in News on April 23, 2009 at 10:16 am PT

New York City’s police department joins the Dalai Lama, the Joint Strike Fighter and the U.S. electrical grid as the latest alleged target of Chinese hackers. New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday that hackers make at least 70,000 attempts every day to access computer systems of the New York Police Department, the largest police force in the U.S.

How Much Would You Pay to Read Newsday.com?

in Media on February 27, 2009 at 4:56 am PT

Zilch. That’s the snap consensus from the Web pundits, who are baffled by Cablevision’s plan to start charging for access to the online version of Newsday, the Long Island daily it overpaid for last year. Will someone please explain what the cable guys are up to?
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Cablevision: Newsday Deal Wasn’t (Quite) as Bad as We Feared

in Media on February 26, 2009 at 6:04 am PT

From the small victories department: Cablevision says that its purchase of Newsday last summer wasn’t quite the disaster it had feared. That is, instead of taking a $450 million write-down on the $650 million purchase, the cable company is only writing off $402 million on the Long Island newspaper. Even better: The paper didn’t do that poorly in the last three months of 2008.
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Cablevision to Investors: Sorry We Bought That (Really Expensive) Newspaper Last Year

in Media on February 10, 2009 at 7:01 am PT

What happens when you pay a whole lot of money for a newspaper as the newspaper industry is in freefall? You have to make an embarrassing admission to shareholders a year later. Last week, we saw News Corp. go through this exercise when it wrote off half the value of the $5.7 billion it spent on Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. Now it’s Cablevision’s turn: The Long Island-based cable company is writing off as much as 70 percent of the $650 million it spent on Newsday last year.