Brian Horowitz

According to the Bellevue, Wash.-based Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), yesterday was the 10th anniversary of [Bluetooth](http://www.bluetooth.com) technology, the short-range wireless standard that has people looking like their talking out of their ears. In 1998, it was still innovative to simply have a mobile phone, but wireless Bluetooth headsets were already in existence. According to […]

NEW YORK — The word from the panelists at Tuesday’s online video session at the [Mediabistro](http://www.mediabistro.com/) Circus here was to spread online video everywhere you possible can. Jim Louderback, CEO of Internet television network [Revision3](http://www.revision3.com), joked that distributing content is like drug dealing: You need to “get it out there everywhere you can.” He added, […]

NEW YORK — “We are in the middle of a revolution in the distribution of information,” said Jim Roberts, editor of digital news for The New York Times. That dramatic shift saw the newspaper cut its first editorial staffers, but Roberts suggested it also may have left it poised to capitalize on new and innovative […]

NEW YORK — Is blogging a new evil plaguing the Internet? Not so, according to a panel of experts here at the [Mediabistro Circus](http://www.mediabistrocircus.com) conference on digital media, but you may want to call it something else. Anil Dash, vice president and chief evangelist of blogging software company Six Apart, suggested not calling the sites […]

Minutes after I completed my [last post ](http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/05/traditional-meets-tech-in-medi.html)about CBS (NYSE: CBS) buying CNET (NASDAQ: CNET), I learn that magazine publisher Conde Nast will announce the purchase of tech site Ars Technica on Monday. Conde’s Wired.com, the soon to be sister site of Ars Technica, has [confirmed](http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/05/its-true-cond-n.html) rumors in the blogosphere. As big-time media companies gobble […]

The big media news this week was CBS Corp.’s (NYSE: CBS) [$1.8 billion purchase](/webcontent/article.php/3747156/CBS+to+Acquire+CNET+Networks+For+18B.htm) of online media company CNET Networks (NASDAQ: CNET). Two years removed from working at CNET, I have some interest in this as if I was still there. The old-time media company buying an *old* new-media company makes this merger one to […]

The gaming industry is abuzz over today’s unveiling of [Grand Theft Auto IV](http://www.take2games.com/index.php?p=games&platform=PLAYSTATION_3&title=gta4). Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software (NASDAQ: TTWO), aims to raise the bar of game design with what the company says is a lifelike interactive experience — and immersive, too. *The New York Times* [reports](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/technology/29game.html?ref=technology) that the game can take […]

Recently I [interviewed](http://blog.internetnews.com/bhorowitz/2008/02/innovations-and-email-marketin.html) Sheldon Gilbert, CEO of Proclivity Systems, regarding the company’s e-mail marketing engine, called Proclivity Mail. *Fast Company* magazine also [published](http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/125/barneys-and-friend.html) a story about Gilbert and Proclivity in its May 2008 innovation column. It had been debatable whether customers would go for the targeted spam the software sends to customers, but Barneys says […]

NEW YORK — You may know all about the trends, lingo and buzzwords in the digital media sector, but do you know how to turn them into revenue? Think engagement as you leverage what’s best for your audience, according to media and advertising executives who gathered at the Min Day conference this week. “Buyers want […]

NEW YORK — At today’s [Min Day Summit](http://www.minonline.com/mds) in New York City, several print, advertising and digital media executives laid out their tips on how to succeed in [online media](/bus-news/article.php/3741031/From+Print+Magazines+to+Online+Communities.htm). One theme of the day was engagement — that media sites need to keep their core audience in mind and engage their readership in various […]

A Web 2.0 company called [WeBook](http://www.webook.com), based in Bethesda, Md., launched yesterday a beta version of its service that allow writers, editors, reviewers and illustrators to collaborate online on books. No publishing companies needed, and the works will be sold at online retailers such as Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com, in addition to WeBook’s site. You can […]

This week we got a taste of what music files could look like on iTunes in the future. Researchers at the University of Rochester announced that they have digitally replicated a music file 1,000 times smaller than an ordinary MP3. Mark Bocko, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Rochester, developed the […]