Life On A Park Bench

Lindsay Lohan Celebrates 26th Birthday

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:58:00 +0000

Obama Acts to Spare Some Youths From Deportation

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:32:00 +0000

Carly Rae Jepsen on Justin Bieber and Call Me Maybe

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:55:00 +0000

Why Britney Spears is Walking Off The X Factor Set

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:35:00 +0000

Police: Man Beheads Wife Who Filed for Divorce

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 28 May 2012 02:32:00 +0000

Dynamic Views Quick Search

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:39:00 +0000

Bin Laden's Last Words Go Online

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:13:00 +0000

SlingShot Aims to be the Universal Smartphone Video Stabilizer

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:05:00 +0000

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Almost Presidential in 'Veep

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:03:00 +0000

Anna Chlumsky: All Grown Up

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:33:00 +0000

Debbie Reynolds on SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:31:00 +0000

CBC LIVE: Acting Class with Sheila McCarthy

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:28:00 +0000

MIT Working on Self-Sculpting 'Smart Sand'

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:30:00 +0000

Nelly Furtado - I'm Like A Bird

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:14:00 +0000

Lindsay Lohan Is Back On House Arrest

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:26:00 +0000

Lana Del Rey - Video Games

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:21:00 +0000

Homeless Lesson

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:47:00 +0000

Raw Video: Boy Sneaks Past Papal Security

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:55:00 +0000

Peter Facinelli & Jennie Garth Split

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:41:00 +0000

UK Police Re-arrest Ex-News International Chief

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:39:00 +0000

Billy Gardell on the red carpet at the 2012 TV Hall of Fame Ceremony

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:39:00 +0000

Stanley Livingston on the red carpet at the 2012 Television Hall of Fame...

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:24:00 +0000

Beyonce's Skin Lightened in 4 Promo Pics?

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:41:00 +0000

TV networks seek to stop FilmOn

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:53:00 +0000

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Four top television networks have asked a federal court to stop the Internet video service FilmOn.com from offering TV channels over the web and on Apple Inc's iPad for free.

FilmOn.com Plc, which claims to be the first high definition Internet television network, launched in September 2010 and was founded by British billionaire entrepreneur Alki David, who recently offered to pay $1 million for someone to strip naked in front of U.S. President Barack Obama.

"I'm not a thief," David said in a phone interview on Tuesday. "We're a bona fide business. We're not pirates."

The network's suit comes as start-ups have sought to bypass traditional media companies by offering programing to Internet users without paying fees to free-to-air channels.

The networks, eager to control the way their programs are distributed, in September sued ivi Inc, a service that offers TV channels over the Web. Some TV networks have also blocked videos on their websites from Google Inc's Google TV.

FilmOn, a Berlin-listed company, initially charged users $9.95 per month, to access "over 30 premium free-to-air television channels." But it began offering the service for free after the networks sued FilmOn days after its September 27 launch, according to a copy of the restraining order seen by Reuters.

"It's against the law to steal a broadcast signal and stream it to wireless devices and over the Internet, without the copyright owner's permission," the networks said in a joint statement. "FilmOn.com is the latest in a short line of companies that has robbed our broadcast signals and distributed them illegally for their own commercial gain."

David, whose biography on the website said he "stars in major Hollywood films and mini series as well as writing, directing and starring in his own independent movies" and who is "experienced in commerce and banking", said FilmOn was well within its rights to rebroadcast networks offered for free over the air.

"The (US copyright) rules does not require the consent of the broadcast owner," David said, according to his reading of U.S. copyright law.

David added he was in negotiations with two of the four plaintiffs in the lawsuit, but declined to name the companies.

"We'll see if we can avoid lawyers getting paid more money," David said. But, "I'm not shy of a fight ... If we're making money, we're prepared to pay. If we're not making money , we're not prepared to pay."

The plaintiffs in the case are CBS Corp, Walt Disney Co's ABC, General Electric Co-controlled NBC and News Corp's Fox, and CBS Corp.

Google showcases local businesses in a new 'place'

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:08:00 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO – The world's most popular search engine is trying to do a better job showing information about local businesses.

Google hopes to achieve the goal with a new way of processing search requests seeking information about merchants or things to do in a specific city.

Google Inc. has re-programmed its search engine so that when it detects this type of inquiry, it will automatically devote the entire results page to data about places pertaining to the request. For example, "San Francisco Mexican restaurants" might generate an entire page of results listing different places to eat, accompanied by a map, phone numbers, addresses and reviews.

The switch to a new system will begin affecting results Wednesday. It could take several days before the new "Place Search" feature is available everywhere.