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...Kill the infomercials. Rob Lowe and Alicia Silverstone appeared on stage together for no better reason than that each of them has an NBC drama debuting this week. Wanda Sykes - whose sitcom Wanda at Large appears on Fox, which aired the Emmys - plugged her show incessantly. The Emmy Awards do not need to become one giant commercial for the wonders of television. We're watching the Emmy Awards - we're already interested in television. If not, why would we sit through those lifetime achievement awards? On the bright side, the awards brought a promo that millions of Americans were anxious...
Believers in legit downloading think they can win over citizens to a new law-abiding habit. "Somebody in your neighborhood will always have pirated cable," says Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks. "But the social norm is, if you want cable, you pay for it." Yet freeloaders won't necessarily go quietly. LaTisha Knowles, 19, a Florida A&M sophomore and former avid file sharer, still refuses to buy CDs. "It's a waste of money," she says. Karen Keenan, 26, a copywriter in Chicago, downloads regularly from iTunes--but also from free file sharer LimeWire. "I have the same moral...
...allowing you to skip to your favorite scenes, and comes with an editing package that can set your 1987 high school graduation to Eminem's Slim Shady. The Movie Writer is one of 158 products HP launched this summer, and it's generating the most buzz. Notes technology analyst Rob Enderle: "Those videotapes don't age well...
...half of this year, ahead of every other group save one. The merger, says Wright, shouldn't slow profit growth. The combined NBC Universal should bring revenues of $13 billion, enough to move GE's top-line growth too. GE amassed sales of $132 billion last year. Still, says Rob Friedman of Standard & Poor's Equity Research Service, "I don't think Mr. Welch would have bought a movie studio...
...problems came to light last week when New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer, who has made a career out of reading Wall Street's dirty email, asserted that "dozens" of "very substantial" fund companies are tolerating practices that rob everyday investors of more than $4 billion a year. Spitzer blew open the lid on bogus stock research last year after uncovering e-mail showing that some analysts didn't believe their own advice. Now he's nailing fund executives who--in their email--gave the O.K. for special treatment in return for large fees...