Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Internet Use Said to Cut Into TV Viewing and Socializing. The average Internet user in the U.S. spends three hours a day online, with much of that time devoted to work and more than half of it to communications. 10:57:52 PM

They're Not Worthy. This New Year's Day, a wonderful thing will happen in Europe that won't occur again in the US until 2019: Copyrights on music and television recordings will expire. After a half century of monopoly protection granted artists in exchange for their creative work, the public will get its justly earned free access to an extraordinary range of both famous and forgotten creativity. 9:19:00 PM

Streamlined Cable TV in a Card. An innovation called the CableCard, which slides into a slot on the back of many new TV sets, is meant to eliminate the cable box. So why aren't cable customers hearing more about it? 9:09:38 PM

Digital music: flat fee futures. Terry Fisher reviews the year. 9:07:15 PM

Commodore computer brand sold. WASHINGTON - The company that owns the famed Commodore computer brand has been sold to Yeahronimo Media Ventures Inc., a Beverly Hills, California, digital music distributor. 9:05:27 PM

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