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Runaway Radio Screenings
WATCH: Mike McGuff's "Runaway Radio" 101 KLOL documentary - now streaming on Tubi!

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

iPhone fever, Long Tail refuted, startups, XM/Sirius and a lot more

- Questions–A Baker’s Dozen of Them–About the iPhone Calling Plans
- AT&T to Sell iPhone Without Contract

Study Refutes Niche Theory Spawned by Web
A book from 2006, "The Long Tail," was one of those that appear periodically and demand that we rethink everything we presume to know about how society works. In this case, the Web and its nearly unlimited choices were said to be remaking the economy and culture. Now, a new Harvard Business Review article pushes back, and says any change occurring may be of an entirely different sort.

Ten Web Startups to Watch
Some of the most innovative ideas of the Social Web.

Senators Oppose XM, Sirius Merger
n a two-page letter dated June 27, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), along with Maryland's junior Democrat Ben Cardin and Missouri's junior Claire McCaskill, said Martin's June 16 proposal for the new satcasting entity "fail to provide meaningful competition in the [satellite radio] marketplace and would leave the merged entity in a position to exercise its market in anti-competitive ways against other media, including free, over-the-air radio."

Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel
First it was drinking. Then it was cell phones. Now text-messaging is the latest behind-the-wheel activity lawmakers are trying to curb.

BlogTalkRadio Chats About New Financing and New Plans
BlogTalkRadio, has drawn attention of late by making it easy for the talkers to start talking with nothing more than a computer and a telephone.

Google and Yahoo to Search Inside Flash Files
Adobe announced that Google and Yahoo are adding search capabilities that will enable users to look inside the content of files encoded in Adobe's Flash file format SWF.

When Your Camera Knows Where You Are
Eye-Fi Share card is a 2-gigabyte memory card ($100), compatible with most digital cameras, with a twist: it has Wi-Fi networking built in. CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post here