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...images he took of himself with the device were automatically beamed to the owner's computer.) Eye-Fi is mum about its plans, but it wouldn't be surprising if the company expands into automatic and instant video transmission as consumers seek new shortcuts for getting higher-quality video content directly...
...thumbs will return," Ebert wrote on his website. "We are discussing possibilities, and plan to continue the show's tradition." For his part, Roeper also announced his intention to return to the airwaves in some form. But for now, long-time Ebert fans will have to be content with following his movie criticism in print or on the Web. In addition to his syndicated weekly reviews and columns, Ebert has also recently launched a blog, titled "Roger Ebert's Journal," which is updated regularly...
...instead of racing to build its own superhighway, Disney is spending about $1 billion this year -- 66% more than last year -- to turn out films and TV shows it thinks people will want to watch. Declares a rival media-industry executive: ''The single most important thing you need is content designed for the consumer marketplace, and they ((Bell Atlantic and TCI)) don't have it.'' Whether the new Bell Atlantic actually comes into being depends on regulators in Washington. To help win approval of the deal, TCI plans to spin + off cable systems that it owns in Bell Atlantic...
...free. The firm, based in Nyack, N.Y., launched a pilot project Monday to supply four business and economics textbooks online at no charge to several hundred undergraduates on at least 15 campuses nationwide. By giving away content through the Web, Flat World aims to upend the $5.5 billion textbook industry. "Nobody's satisfied with the status quo. Students, faculty, authors - their feelings all range from ambivalent to extremely unhappy," says Flat World founder Eric Frank, a former executive at Prentice Hall, the nation's largest textbook publisher. "Why not try something different...
...Flat World's offerings won't differ much from a typical textbook in content. All have been authored by established academics and peer-reviewed before publication. It's the distribution method - via the Internet - that is a radical change. Video and audio clips are embedded in most texts, often adding timely examples from real-life practitioners. Plus, the texts are produced on an open-source platform, meaning they can be updated easily and professors can customize each textbook to match a particular lesson plan. Those are major advantages over paper editions, says Dana Lanham, an advertising professor at University...