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Disney keeps options openThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 6:51AMLOS ANGELES - WALT Disney Co's Chief Executive Bob Iger said on Wednesday that the top US media company was keeping its options open for dealing with TV network ABC and its struggling news division, including a spin-off. At Disney's shareholders' meeting, Iger noted that ABC News, which cut 300 to 400 jobs as part of a drive to refocus and recapture viewers lost to the Internet, is in a business ...

Newsgathering Done the New-Fashioned WayThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:33AMWhen President Obama sat for a35-minute interview—live, oncamera—in the White...

Conan Wouldn’t Be So Funny for Off-Net SitcomsThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 4:48AMIt will be no laughing matter forsyndicators, including News Corp.-owned Twentieth...

Mozilla to overhaul its open-source licenseWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 2:23PMThe Firefox backer wants to modernize and simplify the Mozilla Public License and sets an ambitious November deadline.

This Week in Genome BiologyWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 1:15PMIn Genome Biology this week, researchers in Australia present a scaling normalization method for the differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data . The authors write that, because RNA-seq is likely to become the choice platform for interrogating RNA, and because normalization is an essential step in the analysis, their method proves to be simple.

Enforcement Officials from Around the World to Address Trends and Policy In Competition and Consumer ProtectionWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 1:11PMCHICAGO, March 10, 2010 – With antitrust and consumer protection law and policy playing a more prominent role in public debate around the world, top enforcement officials and antitrust practitioners from the United States and abroad will convene for the 58th Antitrust Law Spring Meeting, sponsored by the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, April 21-23 at the JW Marriott Hotel and ...

Dialogic Announces Availability of the DiaStar(TM) Server, Release 2.0Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 8:42AMExpanding Asterisk/Open Source Developers' Access to Advanced Video Functionality

Dialogic Announces Availability of the DiaStar(TM) Server, Release 2.0Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 8:07AMPARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - 03/10/10) - Dialogic Corporation ("Dialogic"), a global provider of world-class products and technologies for multimedia and signal processing, today announced the general availability of the DiaStar Server , release 2.0. This new release brings a variety of video features from the Dialogic product portfolio to the Open Source/Asterisk marketplace. New / enhanced ...

The iPod generation ignores iTunes LP digital albumsWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 8:03AMWe’ve become so accustomed to cherry-picking individual songs that we see no reason to revert to buying music in pre-packaged bulk (read: albums). According to sources, lackluster iTunes LP figures have disappointed record labels who hoped the format would revitalize album sales. According to GigaOM’s Paul Bonanos, industry sources don’t see iTunes LP as being “anywhere [...]