Hulu Adding Music Video Channels, Recovery.gov Provides Made-Up Stats
Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
- Rumors that Hulu may start charging for content have elicited negative responses from many of the site's loyal viewers, but new additions may actually make the content worth a monthly subscription fee. The site is expected to announce today that it will introduce music channels, beginning with one devoted to singer Norah Jones [From: The New York Times]
- Recovery.gov, the site which provides data on stimulus spending and unemployment rates, has earned heated criticism for reportedly listing inflated and fictitious numbers. Is it possible to get a moratorium on the phrase "government accountability, honesty, and transparency?" [From: The Daily Beast and ABC News]
- Twitter has apparently relented to incessant conservative whining, and will be eliminating the site's "suggested user" list. Unrepresented California Republicans decried the list because they believed it wasn't fair, so Twitter boss Biz Stone said the site will replace it with one that provides "more relevant suggestions." [From: Beta News]
- It hasn't taken long for Microsoft's fledgling Bing to make some noise in the search engine arena, as the site's market share increased again in September, giving it an overall 9.9-percent portion. While Google continued to increase its overall lead, as well, Yahoo!'s share dropped by 3-percent. [From: Boy Genius Report]
- Google Labs is currently experimenting with a new feature known as Google Swirl. The image search function, which is in test phase, categorizes relevant images into groups based on "similar appearance and meaning." [From: Google Labs, via Google]
- How about paying for "Free" Internet? The FCC is apparently trying to force Internet providers to raise phone fees for the sake of an expanded, less expensive national broadband service. [From: The Wall Street Journal]
- Although Twitter can be an incredibly effective and efficient method of interacting with customers, a good number of the old fuddy-duddies on the Fortune 100 list still aren't using the service. While some of the big names, like Walmart and Chevron, have designated employees that tweet often, only 73 of the businesses on the list even have accounts. And some of those are certainly impostors. [From: CNET]
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