UH student launches college life magazine (BizJournals) College life and music magazine UStyle Magazine debuted on Friday to more than 120,000 Houston area college students....more...Mind on Music (The Heights) Watching the new stripper-infested, booze-soaked Britney Spears video, mouth agape in horror, I could not help but think that, yet again, America is giving a giant disaster a second chance. We've done it before. Remember Michael Jackson's 2001 "comeback" album, Invincible? Yeah, me neither....more... Lawyers face sanctions in Qualcomm suit (AP via Yahoo! News) Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. dueled Friday in federal court with its hired attorneys over who shoulders the blame for what a judge called "gross misconduct on a massive scale" at a past trial....more... Online Extra: MTV Presses Play in the Middle East (BusinessWeek) MTV's Bhavneet Singh talks about the challenges of launching MTV Arabia on Nov. 16 and the iconic music channel's global strategy ...more... Clooney gets his way (The Cincinnati Enquirer) Once George Clooney took charge of his career, he became an Academy Award-winning actor and Oscar-nominated filmmaker. Now he uses his stardom to do films he truly cares about, such as the newly-released "Michael Clayton."...more... Love Music, Hate Racism (Macworld UK) October 2007 may be remembered as the month the music industry truly began changing its strategy for the digital age, with news that a large group of influential acts have begun experimenting with free music downloads....more... 19 lawyers for Qualcomm face penalty in patent trial (San Jose Mercury News) SAN DIEGO - Chip maker Qualcomm dueled Friday in federal court with its hired attorneys over who shoulders the blame for what a judge called "gross misconduct on a massive scale" at a past trial....more... Grant provided to Fredericktown High School (Democrat News) (St. Louis, Mo.) ? October 8, 2007 ? Charter Communications and NBC Universal are providing a $1,000 grant to Fredericktown High School which can be used to support digital and media arts initiatives. The grant will be given to the school in the name of Josh Hinkle who was selected as one of only 12 winners in a nationwide high school competition, NBCU on the Set; by NBC Universal and Charter ......more... Sorting options: (Poynter Institute) I don't read the print paper. You know why not? Because I'm a news junkie. If I want to know the latest from Myanmar (and I do), why on earth would I start with a big bunch of newsprint that hit my stoop at 6 am presenting a story written hours before then?...more... |