On Thursday, Starz Entertainment issued a press release stating that it, “has ended contract renewal negotiations with Netflix.” As a result, “When the agreement expires on February 28, 2012, Starz will cease to distribute its content on the Netflix streaming platform.”
Articles by Danny Wool
It sounds like it could be the opening line of a whole series of jokes: “A man walks into a bar with an iPhone…” The problem is that it’s becoming a trend in the Apple community.
HP CEO Leo Apotheker has made it quite clear that he plans to get out of the PC business. How it plans to do that is a different matter altogether.
Thursday is Sept. 1, a day long dreaded by movie aficionados. Netflix is officially hiking up its prices, so that people who have gotten used to the convenience of unlimited streaming and dvd rentals for $9.99 a month will now have to pay $15.99, and they’ll only get one DVD at a time.
First there was Groupon at the core of couponery, offering great deals of the day to everything from local restaurants to galleries to spas to auto repair shops. Now there are competitors known as “groupies”.
A new startup called InStep Nanopower has developed a way to harvest as much as 20 watts just from walking. That’s enough to charge a cell phone, a flashlight, or a camera.
Yahoo is being scrutinized for Taobao, a software program created by one of the company’s partners. The program is used in China and prevents Internet users from evading web censors.
News about Tim Cook’s compensation package are beginning to leak out to the press, and it seems that he will be rather comfortable in his new job.
Just a decade ago, the word “tweet” was easily defined as “a weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird.” That may still be what it means when you’re reading a children’s book, but more savvy logophiles know that a tweet is more commonly used today to describe “a very short message posted on the Twitter Web site.”
Surrounded by lush mountains, canyons and towering redwoods, Los Gatos has homes that are not easily forgotten.
