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When Guadalupe Zambrano registered his Web site in 2004, he probably thought he'd struck digital 'oil.' The Texas real-estate agent found a domain name that would attract thousands and thousands of users -- thejaylenoshow.com. Just one problem one problem: a certain large-chinned comedian now wants his name back, and it looks like he'll get it, too. According to Reuters, the World Intellectual ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Gettin_jiggy_with_Surface_Al_Roker'; What do you get when you cross a music-mixing Microsoft Surface with a sleep-deprived Al Roker? Answer: Pure comedy gold. Video after the break, skip to the 48-second mark to hear DJ A.R. do his thang. Bonus: check out the last 10 seconds to hear him compare a drunken Ann Coulter to Popeye's Olive Oyl. ...

We're all feeling the pain of the economic crunch, and being frugal is quickly becoming the newest national fad. One area that would be easy for many Americans to start cutting costs would be on entertainment, yet subscriptions for satellite and cable TV have not dropped off. But unless you absolutely have to watch live sports you can ditch the pricey TV packages for free or cheap Web-based ...

Despite having signed off on User Generated Content (UGC) principles, which endorse fair use of copyrighted content in protected free speech, several networks have sent takedown requests to YouTube over politically-themed videos that use short clips from copyrighted broadcasts. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) earlier this week sent letters not only to YouTube, but also the networks ...

Last night, the 2008 NFL season kicked off and along with it came NBC Sports' first ever streaming of live football games -- sure, you can plop down on the couch for the game just as you've done for years, but now you'll be able to tune in live from your computer. Thursday night's entry to live online football was the New York Giants stomping the Washington Redskins, and, according to reports, the ...

In a bid to provide more digital content, the NFL will stream 17 live, regular season games on NBCsports.com and NFL.com. This is the first time that NFL games have ever been streamed live. Football Fans Rejoice! The video will be courtesy of the NBC broadcast feed, and will feature announcers Al Michaels and John Madden, two of the most respected announcers in sports. The NFL and NBC will ...

NBC has announced that Jimmy Fallon will be testing out his hosting chops in a trial run online this fall before debuting over the airwaves as the new host of 'Late Night' in the spring. Broadcast networks and cable channels typically air their top programs first and then redistribute them online through their own Web sites, video streaming sites like Joost or Hulu, and online download stores ...

Just in case it didn't really sink in last August, NBC is gearing up to air 3,600 hours of Olympics coverage this year. Yeah, 3,600 hours. So, how are mere plebeians supposed to watch that much content? With a couple HD DVRs, you ought to have no troubles at all. Hailed as the "most ambitious single media project in history," NBC Universal will be broadcasting across seven different NBC ...

Good news travels fast, but bad news travels faster. That's the lesson learned by the folks at NBC when news of their colleague Tim Russert's death found its way onto the Web before the network had made an official announcement. Immediately following long time political reporter and NBC News Washington Bureau chief Russert's sudden collapse on the job, the NBC News team made a decision to keep ...

You might remember that last summer NBC announced that it would be pulling its shows off iTunes because it wanted to saddle its videos with more restrictive Digital Rights Management (DRM) and be able to jack up its prices. Regardless of its motives, fans of NBC, Sci-Fi Channel, or Bravo shows who also had iPods and iPhones were out of luck. But five months after the official end of the iTunes ...

You might remember Hulu, the video streaming service backed by most of the major networks, being touted as the legitimate answer to watching episodes of your favorite shows (in 6 pieces) on YouTube. Now in some sort of delicious, cosmic irony, Hulu has dragged the networks back to YouTube where it has created its own channel and is hosting clips from shows from Fox and NBC that can be seen in ...

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) today, several major media and technology companies are joining forces to form the Masters of Evil! Wait... sorry, they are just joining forces to form an anti-piracy ring, no plots for world domination... yet. This coalition of super companies will be working together on copyright-related issues, including video piracy and ...

Just days after backing out of its proposed deal with Apple, NBC has just jumped into bed with superlover Amazon.com to sell television show downloads online. The likes of 'The Office,' 'Heroes' and '30 Rock' will now be available through Amazon's Unbox digital video download service, where individual episodes will cost $1.99 a pop (the same as they were on iTunes). The won't be playable on ...

Is iTunes the Titanic? First it was Universal jumping ship, then Eminem sued, now NBC is giving its walking papers. Apparently the network is unhappy with the iTunes pricing scheme, and it isn't alone. Content providers have been complaining for some time about Apple's flat-fee-per-download pricing scheme, favoring instead a system in which more popular songs, movies or TV shows can be priced ...

NBC is gearing up to launch its second YouTube competitor, Didja.com. The first is a yet-to-be-named joint venture with FOX to offer TV shows for download. So, what's Didja, then? Didja will show only advertisements. Sure there's a certain irony to a Web site that will sell advertising space on a site designed to show ads, but hey, who are we to judge? Didja.com will be loaded with classic ads, ...