Save Access

Last fall, Apple Inc.'s head of Internet services began making the Hollywood rounds with a proposal to launch a subscription television service that would offer a package of broadcast shows for $10 a month. But the plan fizzled when several of the biggest studios rejected the concept out of hand. read more

Brian Roberts, chief executive of Comcast, on Tuesday said he was not concerned about increased regulation from the Federal Communications Commission. read more

A TV communications satellite is drifting out of control thousands of miles above the Earth, threatening to wander into another satellite's orbit and interfere with cable programming across the United States. read more

A Q&A with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski. read more

Facebook is catching up to rivals Yahoo and Microsoft in selling display ads. read more

How angry is the world at Facebook for devouring every morsel of personal information we are willing to feed it? read more

As the healthcare system braces for a new age, using technology to develop interoperable, patient-centered health information technology systems could yield billion of dollars in savings, a report predicts. read more

What is the biggest scandal of 2010 so far? Allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation from Goldman Sachs? An oil spill that poses a threat to our environment and economy for generations? Mining operators freely ignoring safety violations and treating workers as disposable? Each of these is bad. But perhaps the biggest political scandal is the one that aids and abets these others -- the pay-to-play system that buys up Congress, pollutes our political system with special-interest cash and deep-sixes the kind of bold reform agenda that we voted for and need. read more

Over the last couple of weeks, a number of high-powered parties, including Federal Communications Commission member Robert McDowell, have written letters to Congress raising legal questions about the proposed regulatory reclassification of broadband service. Public Knowledge sent its reply Monday (May 10). read more

Local TV broadcasters supported by the National Broadcasters Association have launched a major lobbying campaign in Washington to preserve their current retransmission consent rights and protect their spectrum. read more

CBS (including CBS's 29 television stations and 130 radio stations) and Fox Broadcasting (including 27 owned-and-operated Fox Television Stations and the MyNetworkTV programming service) have rejoined the National Association of Broadcasters. read more

Contrary to longstanding received wisdom, the large majority of viewers of live television do not leave the room, nor do they change the channel, when the TV program they are watching goes to commercial. read more

In another sign that advertisers are growing more interested in determining what types of people watch their ads -- rather than just how many -- market-research shop Millward Brown is partnering with TiVo in an effort to pair information about specific segments of consumers with data on how people watch television. read more

Libraries that choose to filter Internet access are not engaging in censorship, according to the Washington Supreme Court. read more

The cable industry weighed in on the Federal Communications Commission's Future of Media inquiry in comments Friday (May 7) and the message was essentially: the future is now. read more

By now we are quite aware of cable companies' plans to offer 100 Mbps connections to their customers... read more

Google displaced iPhone maker Apple to become the second most popular provider of smartphone software in the United States during the first quarter. read more

Even with the best intentions, Facebook is flailing -- and failing -- to defuse the controversy arising from its new Open Graph. read more

Facebook privacy settings are eroding. read more

The Federal Communications Commission released a report presenting data on the percentage of households with telephone service on a state-by-state basis for various income categories. read more