Guyana: Officer in $5 million bribe scandal buys $8 million Audi, takes vacation
By Carlos Moore from Guyana Guardian Commissioner of Police Leslie James today revealed that the officer implicated in the removal of vital evidence from the Subryanville Hotel murder scene is on his annual vacation leave. The commissioner stated that when…
Xfaire’s plan for internet TV has almost everything
By Richard Lawler From engadget Even though Aereo didn’t make it, we’ve seen more movement towards internet TV that replaces traditional cable or antenna in the last year than ever before. This year at CES, I spoke to a startup that…
Unhappy customer: Comcast told my employer about complaint, got me Fired
By Chris Morran From Consumerist UPDATE #2: Comcast has apologized for the horrible service and billing that Conal experienced during his year-plus as a customer, but says that “nobody at Comcast asked for him to be fired.” UPDATE: Conal’s former…
Aereo shutters its TV streaming service… for now
By Jonathan Shieber From Techcrunch In an email sent at 9 AM Eastern Saturday, Chet Kanojia informed customers that because of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this week , the company would temporarily halt its operations at 11:30 Eastern…
Aereo loses in Supreme Court, deemed illegal
From Techcrunch On Wednesday (25) the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling in the legal tussle between streaming TV service Aereo and major network broadcasters. SCOTUS ruled that the decision of the second circuit, which upheld that…
The 2013-14 TV season in one really, really depressing chart
By Josef Adalian and Marisa Woocher From Vulture The 2013-14 television season has officially bit the dust and, like the one before it, the nine months that just passed were marked by steep viewership declines for most of the broadcast…