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...longtime foe, as "a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes." News Corp. hired an American adviser last year to help China's state-run TV station spruce up the propaganda on its English channel, which is carried on News Corp.'s DirecTV (as well as Time Warner cable systems...
Instant messaging is already well established, of course. Yahoo!, MSN and AOL (owned by TIME's parent company, Time Warner) have offered it for years. And Net telephony provider Skype has 51 million people using its system. So why would Google, with an $80 billion empire built entirely on search, bother playing catch-up on a product that seems unlikely to earn it much money? The same reason a hotel offers free wi-fi, says Scott Cleland, CEO of Precursor, an investment research firm. "They're not doing it to make money on wi-fi. It's to get people...
PICTURE AND VIDEO Now that still and moving images are increasingly digitized, they too can be searched with a click. Singingfish, acquired by America Online (which is owned by Time Warner, TIME's parent company) two years ago, can search AOL's video library of 15,000 titles, plus millions more over the Web, by looking for their titles and other attached identifying text, known as their metadata...
...charge. File-sharing services will be plugging into Snocap within the year, and in June the company opened its registry, allowing artists and labels to submit songs. So far, three of the four major labels--Universal Music Group, Sony BMG and EMI (Snocap is still in talks with Warner Music)--as well as many independent ones have agreed to participate in the database, already half a million songs large. Because of copy protection, the tracks aren't iPod compatible. Snocap and providers are hoping restrictions will loosen...
Mystery author Kate White's day job is to die for - she's the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the largest-selling women's magazine in the world. Yet she finds time to write delicious, best-selling novels as well. Her super-charged new mystery, ?Over Her Dead Body? (Warner), involves the murder of the temperamental editor of a celebrity gossip magazine. Galley Girl met White between deadlines at her office building in Manhattan...