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Heat Ray Causes Unintelligible Yelping from 60 Minutes Reporter
Remember the US Military ray gun that makes people feel like they're on fire? Well, 60 Minutes sent out a reporter to see if he could take the heat. Standing in plain view of the ray gun made his body feel like "scalding water," so David Martin attempted, with little success, to hide behind a piece of plywood and later a mattress. Some claim they can only take the heat ray 4 - 5 seconds, so when David tried it we think he only made it 2 seconds, even if he did say, "ONE ONE THOUSAND TWO ONE THOUSAND THREE ONEEEAAHHHHRRHHR" [CBS via TechEBlog]
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Last.FM Becomes "World's Best Jukebox": Bigger Than iTunes, All Four Majors Onboard
Web 2.0 musicmeister Last.FM and CBS's "unprecedented new service" is a leveled-up Last.fm: It is "the most complete, licensed music catalog" in the world with music from all four major labels and 150,000 indie labels, or what they're calling "the world's best jukebox." It's all available on demand (right now!) without logging in, is free (banner ad-supported) and now plays full tracks from artists you can search for directly—internet radio on 'roids, basically. But of course, there are limitations thanks to label tightassness, the biggest point of suck being that you can only listen to a song three times. More »
NBC may not be big on iTunes Store downloads at the moment, but CBS and Fox think differently. [Macenstein]
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Sling Media, CBS Partner For San Francisco Surveillance
Those of you in the San Francisco area may be familiar with CBS 5's partnership with the makers of the Slingbox. Since late April they have been Slinging live footage from the field to the station, and now that cozy relationship is getting hot and heavy with Sling/3G wireless webcams going up all over the city. More »
home entertainment
You're Young, Rich and Smart (Probably)
A new study by Nielsen Analytics (as in TV ratings) claims that people who watch TV online are younger, richer and more educated than the average TV audience. So if you're watching Heroes next to Giz (like I am) congratulations, you're awesome. Actually, they're just assuming that you have broadband, so you probably have a higher-than-average income, a college education and don't quite draw Social Security yet. You can still feel free to pat yourself on the back, though. More »
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Network Fogies Getting Into YouTube-Like Racket
What do NBC, News Corp., CBS, and Viacom have in common? YouTube. In an effort to dethrone their young Web-based competition, they're joining forces on a new venture/website that would host videos from their respective video vaults. This in turn would draw traffic away from YouTube, and put extra cash in the already fat pockets of TV execs. The problem is.... More »
cellphones
Virtual Trading Cards: Real Stupid
As if enough money weren't being made through overvalued mobile downloads, CBS has added Survivor virtual trading cards (translation: wallpapers that cost more) to their mobile offerings. For a subscription fee of $7.99/month you get 12 cards at a rate of 3 cards per week - with duplicate downloads entirely possible. Not fast enough for your wallpaper...err...trading card addiction? Then download a booster pack. Still not fast enough? Then just pile up your money, cover it in gasoline and throw a match to it. And be careful! Because it would be a loss to humanity if you fell in. More »
10:23 AM on Sat Oct 7 2006
By Mark Wilson
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Latest by Plasmafire: It's like internet gambling but the odds are even worse. more »
portable media
Zune Unboxed By CBS
Chris Stephenson of Microsoft (and now CBS) fame unboxes the Zune for your enjoyment. He shows off the sleek packaging, the brown-ness, FM radio, background-changing, and Zune-iness of the device. More »
announcements
New CBS Show: Genius Bar
Yes, the Genius Bar pilot is being created by the two producers of That 70's Show. And the original concept was by Krishnan Menon, the brains behind many Apple marketing campaigns, so it is "that" genius bar CBS is referring to. More »
home entertainment
TiVo Releases CBS Sportsline Fantasy Football
TiVo and CBS just launched their Fantasy Football HME app on TiVo machines
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CBS to use Bluetooth Billboards to Promote Fall Shows
CBS will be loading up Grand Central Terminal train station in NYC with Bluetooth enabled billboards to promote their fall lineup. The billboards will beam video clips of five of their primetime shows to Bluetooth enabled cellphones, smartphones and PDAs. They will offer clips from the shows Shark, Smith, Jericho, The Class and CSI. Each show will have its own billboard. More »
home entertainment
CBS Adds CSIs, Survivor and NCIS To iTunes
As yet another sign that online distribution has hit the big time, CBS adds its big name properties to iTunes. The three CSIs, Survivor and NCIS join Numb3rs on Apple's iTunes service. Prices are $1.99 and the only shows available are from the 2005-2006 season. More »
home entertainment
CBS Launches Innertube Streaming Video Service
The nonstop diaspora of the TV networks to the Web continues with CBS to be the next shoe to drop, opening up its own streaming media service it calls Innertube. In addition to showing episodes from CBS primetime programs, the ad-supported service will also stream content from CBS kin such as CBS Paramount Network Television, King World, and Showtime. The company also plans to show episodes of series that didn't quite make it on primetime. More »
home entertainment
CBS Teams Up with iTunes for March Madness
CBS is jumping all over the NCAA hoops tourney, where first it's streaming the whole college basketball tournament for free from its own website, and now it's teamed up with Apple to bring edited versions of the games the day after they re aired for $1.99 each. If that's not enough, for $19.99 you can sign up for a Season Pass where you'll get condensed versions of all 63 match-ups. For those all-important semifinal and Final Four games, you'll be able to download those in their entirety the next day. So if you're not paying attention to sports scores, this might be a highly efficient way to stay semi-current on roundball happenings. More »
home entertainment
March Madness Webcast on CBS for Free
CBS is jumping into web video headfirst, streaming every game of the first three rounds of the NCAA Basketball Tournament live on the web for free. March Madness On Demand lets you follow your favorite hoops team from oblivion to the big show, and the only price you pay is watching the ads from one of the 20 sponsors of the webcast. CBS will also black out any game that s broadcast in your TV market, but so what? You can watch that game on TV while you watch the rest on your PC. Oh yeah, and you're required to sign up for the service, too—CBS is offering it on a first-come first-served basis, so get your name in before it's too late. More »
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Verizon Sending CBS Clips to Phones
Yesterday, we reported that European cell phones will be getting full video downloads of some of our favorite HBO shows. Today, we can tell you that Verizon Wireless has generously countered that announcement with plans to send clips from CBS shows like CSI, Survivor and Late Show with David Letterman to our mobiles. Gee, thanks. I'd much rather see a two-minute clip of Katie Holmes smiling vacantly than an episode of Six Feet Under. Not. Anyhow, the clips will only be available to customers of Verizon Wireless's V Cast video service and there really doesn't seem to be any talk about getting full shows anytime soon. Video news segments from CBS News and Entertainment Tonight are also being discussed. More »
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