customers | Kris Smith has read these articles about "customers" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "customers" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpWarner Music Sues Seeqpod: How Dare It Help People Find Stuff Warner Wishes Didn't Exist- January 25, 2008 A few months ago, Edgar Bronfman Jr., boss of Warner Music, made a bunch of headlines for supposedly "admitting" that the recording industry had taken the wrong strategy and had "inadvertently gone to war" with customers. That was a pretty big lie. That's because it wasn't inadvertent at all. Bronfman Jr., himself, had announced that he was going to send an army of lawyers after file sharing services and users way back in 2000, kicking off the war, while he was the head of Universal. As if..http://techdirt.com/articles/20080125/01330469.shtml Verizon has now turned its patent guns toward fixed VoIP services. First Target: Cox- January 24, 2008 On January 11th in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Verizon filed suit alleging Cox cable infringes eight VoIP related patents. The Verizon suit is available here. Verizon seeks unspecified monetary damages and wants Cox blocked from using the patents in the future. Below is a list of the specific patents and links to the actual patent. Four of the eight patents are ones that Verizon alleged Vonage had infringed. A federal appeals court affirmed Vonage...http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/007850.html HBO and Time Warner Seem Out of Sync- January 23, 2008 Time Warner needs to work on its internal memo mechanism, because apparently someone at either HBO or Time Warner's Road Runner broadband service didn't get one last week. At the same time that Time Warner is busy planning a trial of usage based billing for web access in an attempt to stem network congestion resulting from the growing popularity of online video, HBO is also readying trials of its streaming video and movie service. Huh The HBO on Demand service is being rolled out to...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/221141567/hbo_and_time_warner_seem_out_of_s... AT&T Unveils iPhone Business-Rate Plans- January 22, 2008 AT&T unveiled business plans for Apple's iPhone, the first time that the mobile carrier has courted corporate customers of the smart phone.Tags: business plans iphone corporate courtedhttp://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570DE00740E18882573D80000B6D7.html?ex=1358744400&en=... HBO's Baffling Broadband Plan- January 22, 2008 HBO has announced that it is finally going to start offering its content online (in a somewhat meaningful way) through its new HBO on Broadband service. But the initiative seems so unnecessarily complicated that one has to one wonder if HBO gets a sick thrill out of frustrating its customers. Here are the basics: The service is in the testing phase, and will only be available in Green Bay and Milwaukee, Wisc. To subscribe, you must already have HBO and you must be a Time Warner Cable.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/newteevee/~3/220508445/ Time Warner: The More You Download, the More You'll Pay- January 17, 2008 In a departure from the current flat fee, the company will experiment with a new pricing structure that charges customers based on how much data they download. Tags: download structure pricing charges basedhttp://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/topheadlines/~3/218303501/TIME_WARNER_CABLE_INTERNET AT&T U-verse TV Launches Interactive Features in Indiana- January 16, 2008 AT&T's U-verse TV video service is rolling out interactive services for its customers in Indiana.Tags: verse interactive indiana tv serviceshttp://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6522899.html?rssid=193 Positive Reviews of the New, Free FeedDemon- January 15, 2008 Wow - the response to the new, free FeedDemon 2.6 has been tremendous! I hope you&39;ll forgive me a little self-promotion, but I wanted to share a sampling of the reaction to the new release... Development on a Shoestring: "You need to download FeedDemon now! I don't care what other RSS reader you use, this one is better. The only reason I could conceive before now not to use it was the cost, but seeing as that's now no longer an issue, everyone needs to use FeedDemon." ...http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2008/01/positive-review.html |