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| Monday, February 9, 2009 |
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 Spring Training For Hi-Def MLB.comBaseball's spring training starts this week, and the regular season starts in less than two months. In the meantime, Major League Baseball's Web team is finishing a major upgrade of its popular MLB.TV Web video service -- which it'll use to broadcast some 2,500 games live this year. The league hopes to finish the new player in time for testing during the World Baseball Classic international tournament, which starts in early March. MLB Advanced Media, the league's Internet arm, gave us a sneak preview of the new service last week. It's the first year it'll broadcast hi-def video. And MLB.com is cutting prices to sign up more subscribers this year. Their "premium" service will cost $110 for the season, down $10 from last year. It includes the following features. Read > | |
| New York Times Nuts Not To Charge Subscription Fee On the News Corp conference call, Rupert Murdoch hammered home our point about why the New York Times should charge an online subscription fee. Murdoch noted that the Wall Street Journal, which charges a subscription fee, generated $120 million of online ad revenue last year. The New York Times, which doesn't charge, only generated about $150-$175 million (our estimate). Read > | |
| Google Next Victim Of Creative Destruction? The web has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to evolve and leave embedded franchises struggling or in the dirt. Prodigy, AOL were early candidates. Today Yahoo and Ebay are struggling, and I think Google is tipping down the same path. This cycle of creative destruction -- more recently framed as the innovators dilemma -- is both fascinating and hugely dislocating for businesses. To see these immense franchises melt before our very eyes -- is hard to say the least. Read > | |
| AOLers Threaten Riot If Falco And Grant Get Bonuses We got a call from a reader who says he's an AOL employee. His voice mail: "There are no bonuses at AOL for 2008, across the board. Zero, from top to bottom. After the Bebo acquisition for $800+ million. Kind of ironic. Who should be punished for this?" So far Time Warner's online division AOL has announced layoffs and the departure of Platform-A boss Lynda Clarizio. But other than saying "we will also forgo merit pay increases in 2009," AOL hasn't made many noises about cancelling employee bonuses. Lots of commenters have, though. Read > | |
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Is the red-hot smartphone market slowing down? It is for one company: Taiwanese HTC. Read > Roku's $99 Web TV Box Getting YouTube, Too? Nice spot by digital media blogger Dave Zatz: It looks like Roku's $99 Netflix streaming box is getting access to Google's YouTube, too. That's in addition to Amazon streaming TV and movie rentals, which the companies announced early last month. (Roku's device lets you watch Web video on your TV set without a computer.) Read > SAP: HP Consultants Know What They're Doing, IBM And Accenture Don't Last week SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker struck out at the consulting practices of Accenture and IBM, essentially accusing the two companies of sending so-called "experts" who have no idea what they're doing to perform the difficult task of integrating SAP software into businesses. He went on to propose consultants should be certified to prove their competence. Read > Rupert: Oops, The WSJ Is Worth Half What We Paid News Corp. took a $8.4 billion writedown. According to a SEC filing, $2.8 billion of that is assigned to Dow Jones, which cost News Corp. $5.7 billion to acquire in 2007. Read > Verizon Not Completely Bailing On 30-Day Test Drive Verizon Wireless is not completely getting rid of its 30-day money-back guarantee, as a mobile blog had reported earlier this week. But it is tweaking its consumer-friendly "Test Drive" program. Read > | |
 Source: Salesforce.com 'Trimming Fat' With Exec Firings, Q4 Looking GoodVerizon Pushing BlackBerry With Buy One, Get One Free SaleMaryland General Assembly Bans Myspace And Facebook | |
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