Tag: KATIE COURIC

By now, you've probably seen the chuckle-inducing video of Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel on the Today Show in 1994, trying to figure out just what "the Internet" is. (If you haven't, check it out after the break.) The video was a quaint reminder of just how far we've come in the past decade and a half, but apparently someone at NBC didn't think it was so cute, even after the Today Show crew ...

Bill Gates sat down with Katie Couric for a little one-on-one yesterday, and the conversation naturally turned to the current events in Egypt. For his part, the Microsoft founder wasn't terribly shocked that Hosni Mubarak managed to shut down the Internet across the country. "It's not that hard to shut the Internet down if you have military power, where you can tell people that's what's going to ...

TV producers and news outlets have been working hard to figure out how best to leverage this whole social networking thing. So far, most efforts have been rather disappointing. Rick Sanchez kick-started CNN's addiction to Twitter and Facebook, before the network quickly veered into complete self-parody, by replacing reporting with tweeted opinions. Then, last year George Stephanopoulos used the ...