Starbucks has finally begun to offer free wifi. The no-charge, limitation-free and no-registration wifi initiative will take place in both the US and in Canada. Starbucks has been working on it’s own network, called Starbucks Digital Network, in partnership with Yahoo!. The idea of the network will be to offer a seamless entertainment service for [...]

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A United States piracy list pointed to China, Russia, and Canada as the top three worst governments for enforcing copyright policy in the world (in respective order). China’s Foreign Ministry stated that these claims were “groundless” and says that China is doing a lot to combat piracy in copyrighted films, music, video games and other [...]

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The NY Times will begin charging for online content. This plan has been long in the making for the Times, and it will certainly set a new trend if even moderately successful. A formal letter was sent out to NY Times print customers along with a full page ad on the back of the business [...]

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Only cable companies are distributing set-top boxes that can access all of the digital cable and video on-demand services available through their networks. Consumers can access the internet through many possible devices, yet MVPD’s services are only available through the set-top boxes distributed by cable companies. The FCC may potentially rule against the cable companies [...]

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Cisco, EMC, and VMW have formed a partnership to create corporate-focused product called V-Block. Essentially the partnership will sell and provide maintenance for a new integrated data center that uses the capabilities of the three companies combined. The cloud infrastructure for the product will be built by all three companies. (Background information: EMC owns almost [...]

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Barnes & Noble will launch a Google Android powered wireless device that they hope will make them competitive with Amazon.com. The device will have a 6-inch touch screen and virtual keyboard. In July, Barnes & Nobles announced that it would be returning to the e-book market with some type of digital-book store.

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