CBS News anchor Katie Couric, in a 2008 Notebook segment, weighed in on whether to dump or not to dump via text message. Katie’s classy; she said “no”. Bonus points for turning tech-related injury into an insult.
Well, it appears that AFACT’s lawsuit against iiNet has persuaded other ISPs to start passing on those infringement notices to people using Bittorrent for piracy. A regular tipster has just forwarded through an infringement notice from TPG, and while we don’t condone piracy here at Giz, the bubble of fantasy that the studios (in this case CBS) are living in is just too large to not want to try and pop.
Andy Rooney was my weekly lesson in crotchetiness growing up, but I increasingly get the sense he’s a corpse animated by secret government technology to keep senior citizens in line. He loves computers. And taxes. [The Awl]
Colour TV broadcasts began in Australia in March 1975, a mere 34 years ago. But the first demonstrated colour transmission in the world happened way back in July 1928, by a gentleman by the name of John Logie Baird.
Knowing that iPhone owners like myself are drawn towards any opportunity to leverage the technology, CBS Outdoor has partnered with Clusta to develop advertising signage that interacts with our phones via Wi-Fi or 3G.
Today CBS pushed out a streaming video player for iPhones and touchy iPods, with smooth navigation of all the content available on its TV.com, including impressive full-length episodes of some, but not most, shows.
AU: Not in Australia folks. Maybe one day though, hence the local publication of the post
It’s not quite Hulu, but CBS just dropped a ton of their old favourites into a decent flash web player, serving them up for free with a couple short ad clips. Plus, Melrose Place!
‘Worst Week’ is apparently some kind of adapted British show about a guy whose life sucks, or something. I don’t know. All I do know is that this guy’s iPhone is not an iPhone.
