Burlingame, Calif. Here’s a figure you want to remember: 80 percent retention rate.

Approximately 80 percent of people who watched videos on the web site of broadcaster ABC (through the company’s player) could remember the sponsor/advertiser of the program, said Brad Davis, senior vice president of on the web …

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WASHINGTON–Residents of apartment and condominium buildings will have to be allowed a choice among telephone providers serving their area, thanks to new rules adopted Wednesday by federal regulators.

The Federal Communications Commission order, which passed unanimously, prohibits telecommunications companies from inking exclusive deals with multi-unit buildings that are primarily residential. …

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Following closely on the heels of the Norwegians, Canada’s public broadcasting service is adopting DRM-free BitTorrent distribution for a major prime-time show.

Later this week, CBC will begin using BitTorrent to distribute this year’s episode of its annual show Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister. This will make …

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Cell phone maker Sony Ericsson said on Wednesday that demand is slowing in Europe for midpriced and high-end handsets, and that slowing demand will hit the company’s first-quarter results, notes a story by Barron’s Tech Trader Daily.

Sony Ericsson also said component shortages for midpriced phones had hurt …

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Update at 9:08 a.m. PDT: This blog was updated to add some remarks about the hearing from FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.

Those zany regulators at the Federal Communications Commission sure like to keep us guessing.

A few weeks ago, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told reporters that he wasn’…

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Microsoft said Wednesday that the first release candidate of its Hyper-V hypervisor will be available for download.

This release will be the near-final code of the virtualization utility that Microsoft is building into Windows Server 2008. The final version will be available in August, according to Microsoft.

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Is Apple rethinking its music strategy?

As part of a deal to offer devices featuring preprogrammed music, Apple would have to agree to share sales revenue from the devices with the labels, says a source close to the deal. Cutting the labels in on …

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Users will no longer have to hack their Helio to use Opera Mini.

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For mobile service Helio, it’s a sure sign you’re doing something wrong if the most popular app among your user community is a hack. For Opera Software, the fact that it’s …

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Ubuntu is on the upswing. The signs are everywhere (including here with its tie-up with IBM). Canonical, which developed this version of Linux, has been very busy talking with the major server and desktop vendors and is making inroads with both.

One that will come as a surprise to most, …

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