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Current TV's plans to enter Canada on hold
Plans for Current TV, Al Gore's interactive television network, to enter Canada are on hold for now, according to the television service's vice-president.
The news organization recently laid off 80 people as part of the tough media environment in the U.
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Vid-Biz: YouTube, Comcast, Current TV
YouTube Renegotiates Another Music Contract; video site renewed its deal with Dutch royalty collector Buma/Stemra, allowing it to show professionally-produced music videos and homemade videos with music included, as well as videos embedded off-site.
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North Korea reportedly lauds soldiers who nabbed reporters
Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee arrive at Hangar 25 on August 5, 2009 in Burbank, California after being released by North Korean authorities. Ling and Lee, of San Francisco based Current TV, were both arrested by North Korea in March for
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NKorea lauds soldiers who nabbed reporters
SEOUL, South Korea North Korea has commended two soldiers who apprehended a pair of U.S. journalists earlier this year along the country's border with China.
Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, captured in March while reporting a story on North
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U.S. rights activist crosses into North Korea - reports
There has been no comment from North Korea, which usually arrests foreign border crossers on site, or from U.S. officials.
Activists told Reuters that Robert Park, 28, had crossed into North Korea from China on Friday, while South Korea's Yonhap news
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Missing US Missionary Devoted To NKorea
SEOUL, South Korea --
Robert Park is "unusually serious" about his Christian faith, with an intense devotion to prayer and ending suffering in North Korea, those who know him say.
Now, the 28-year-old Korean-American missionary is himself the focus of
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N. Korea confirms it has detained an American
After four days without any word, relatives of the 28-year-old Korean-American said Tuesday they were relieved when the communist country finally announced it had a U.S. citizen in custody - though analysts say Park's actions are likely to be seen as
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NKorea Confirms It Has Detained An American
North Korea acknowledged Tuesday it had detained an American for illegally entering the reclusive country, news welcomed by relatives of an Arizona missionary who feared they would never hear from him again after he sneaked across the border. Activists
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Mike's Blog Round Up
Man I hope this new baby year grows up to be a better one than this one has been. Ten years ago the Supreme Court told us who our next president would be and everything went to hell from there.
For a thorough (and intelligent) discussion of the Wealth
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Sony: 3D TV not until 2012
Sunday 3-Jan-2010 9:48 PM Marketing boss says don't expect to see an explosion of 3D in the home
Although Sony Electronics' chief marketing officer Mike Fasulo believes we will all be watching Eastenders in 3D at some point in the future, he doesn't
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Celebrating a Year of Highs and Lows
1Stocks posted their sixth consecutive losing quarter, with the Dow industrials finishing at 7608.92, down 13%, or 1,167.47 points. It was the worst first quarter in percentage terms since 1939. Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as Israel's prime
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Current TV's infoMania Goes On A Fun Run With Wii Exercise Games
Most gamers probably laugh mightily at the thought of sticking to a regular fitness regime, but that hasn’t stopped Nintendo from banking some serious coin by offering a slew of exercise games for the Wii.
There are so many fitness titles in fact that
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Video: Solar Phone Charger?
Have you ever wanted to charge your phone, but didn't have a plug? Shira Lazar shows us a new product called Solio, an eco-friendly portable solar charger, and also speaks with the creator.
Oaksterdam University in Oakland, Calif. is attracting
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2009 Best/Worst: TV Shows
Though "Lost" is known for its mythology and mystery, the character development is what truly shines in this inspired television show. 2009's fifth season took exceptional story-telling risks by introducing a tricky plot point: time travel. Instead of
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Darren Aranofsky Believes Immortality Will Be An Option
Darren Aranofsky is the director of such great films as Pi, Requiem For a Dream, The Fountain, and The Wrestler. Occasional h+ magazine contributor and immortalist Jason Silva and Max Lugavere -- hosts of Max & Jason Still Up on Current TV -- have
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Video: 'On the Scene': Haiti
Shira Lazar interviews Alex Counts, the president and CEO of Grameen Foundation, about the work he has done in Haiti. Counts shares how he has been affected by the earthquake.
Have you ever wanted to charge your phone, but didn't have a plug? Shira
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Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Bono To Headline MTV's 'Hope For Haiti' Telethon
Justin Timberlake, Coldplay, Alicia Keys, Bruce Springsteen, Wyclef Jean, Bono, The Edge and Jay-Z will lead the all-star lineup of performers for Friday night's "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" telethon. More than 100 stars
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NEWS: Hope For Haiti Relief Relief Telethon Fri, Jan 22
Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief will air live this Friday, January 22 @ 8pm ET/PD (7pm CT) with an unprecedented array of broadcast partners, including all the Viacom music video channels. ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, The CW,
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TELEVISION: Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief Announces Lineup of Superstar Musical Performances!
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief [dozens of networks, and online, Friday, 8/7C], today announced its lineup of superstar musical performances. The global telethon will feature performances by Wyclef Jean, Bruce Springsteen,
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“Hope For Haiti Now" Adds Celebrity To Lineup
Participants to include:
President Bill Clinton, Ben Stiller, Brad Pitt, Chris Rock,
Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jon Stewart,
Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep,
Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, Robert
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new poll
FNC forgets Haiti. You must be so proud, Greta. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Showtime, Comedy Central, Bravo, E! Entertainment, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, CENTRIC, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, EPIX,
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Current TV’s Network Science
When Max Lugavere and Jason Silva met at the University of Miami, they were two young idealists who found common ground in film, psychology, and philosophy. But when Al Gore announced his plans to start a TV network powered by a worldwide legion of
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Hope For Haiti's Total Now At $61 Million -- And Counting
The tally from the cross-network Haitian relief telethon continues to grow.
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief has now raised some $61 million in donations from the general public to date. That total, up from $57 million on a
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83M watched MTV's Haiti relief telethon
New York -- Friday's "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" drew a cumulative audience of more than 83 million viewers, MTV said.
The telethon also had a gross average audience of more than 24 million viewers in the United States.
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Current TV Tires of Twitter, Kills Off MySpace Instead [VIDEO]
The Twouble with Twitters is that the Twitter jokes are pretty much dead. It’s no shocker anymore that tweets are pointless babble. So who else can Current TV pick on with its viral video parodies?
Easy: MySpace. Or rather the death of MySpace.
In its
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iPad inside, but what was going on outside?
We were all glued to our computers watching the latest feeds of what was happening inside at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on January 27th, but what was going on outside? Thanks to Current TV's infoMania Tech Reporter
Ben Hoffman
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Venturebeat: Twitter hires former Current TV man to forge media partnerships
Robin Sloan, a former executive with Current TV, is joining Twitter to help the microblogging service develop new media partnerships.
According to the VentureBeat report, Sloan will help “producers, reporters, developers and strategists at media
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YouTube's most viewed game videos of the week
This week's top YouTube gaming videos see the March release of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 vie for contention with current favourite military shooter Modern Warfare 2 for chart space. The Angry Video Game Nerd takes two places with a Batman
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Common talks J Dilla and Lupe Fiasco freestyles
Just a couple quick-hit videos to take in this afternoon as Common leads things off with an embedded outtake - a 2+ minute discussion of the late J Dilla. I have loved the little series of videos Current TV has put together with Common and this one is
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Ocean Film Fest 2010 - Bryant Austin Creates World's First Life-Sized High Res Photos Of Whales
Image via Bryant Austin Bryant Austin is a photographer with a big goal: to save whales by photographing them. But it's not just photographing them - it is all in how he displays his work. Bryant will find a pod of whales, and then stay at the surface
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Current Taps SnapStream
Current TV is tapping into SnapStream's TV search server for its InfoMania half-hour satirical news show.
The server searches online and grabs TV clips for use in the show.
The move follows the announcement in December that two more high-profile half
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Twitter Hires Pixar Financial Chief, Preps for More Profitability
Last year, Twitter's search deals with Google and Microsoft made the company around $25 million - about $15 million from Google and $10 million from Microsoft. These two deals were enough to make the company profitable last year. For a fairly young
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Getting 'Bold Fresh' and Keeping Current in Pasadena
Today's cuppa: French Vanilla coffee
Yesterday afternoon I fought rush-hour-style traffic -- on a Saturday, fer cripes' sake! -- to get from West L.A. to Pasadena to see the "Bold & Fresh Tour 2010."
If you're not familiar with this event, it features
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Journalist Lisa Ling goes the extra mile(s) for the story
issues from more than two dozen countries. She has also produced eight PBS documentaries and co-authored the book "Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood."
reflect on that traumatic ordeal, as well as various aspects of her career.
Lisa
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Current's Bryan Safi Keeps it Gay
From checking rappers' use of "No Homo" to calling out Kathy, Tyra and their gay BFF's, Current TV's Bryan Safi is the authority on what's gay.
Bryan Safi has returned with a second season of That’s Gay, a segment on the Talk Soup-esque infoMania that
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Seat Filler: The Advocate’s Guide to Theater
Your man on the New York theater scene looks back at gay love and self-loathing in the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s before shamelessly lusting after Broadway stars Liev Schreiber, Victor Garber, and High School Musical hunk Corbin Bleu.
February may be Black
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The 100-Tuner DVR That Lets You Search TV Content
It’ll cost you around $300,000 for a digital video recorder setup from Houston’s SnapStream Media that can record 100 channels at once and can run full-text searches across the recordings. This mega-DVR would be able to hold some 300,000 hours of TV
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Rosie and Wanda Talk Coming Out
Wanda Sykes called in to Rosie O’Donnell’s Sirius radio show to talk about a wide range of topics, including how Wanda met her wife, Alex (on Fire Island), and what it felt like for both comics to come out.
O’Donnell remembered that she felt “stalked”
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Bywifi Video Downloader 2.0.2
Bywifi Video Downloader is a free program for downloading, transcoding and accelerating video streaming.
It supports downloading, transcoding and P2P accelerating videos from all video websites, such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, MySpace, Yahoo,
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McCain: Many in Military Oppose DADT Repeal
Senator John McCain appeared on Meet the Press on NBC Sunday, and told host David Gregory that many in the military do not want to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
Gregory asked McCain how his currently reluctance to change the policy squares
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Tabloid Mag: Is Angie Making Shiloh a Boy?
“Why Is Angelina Turning Shiloh Into a Boy?” the cover of this week’s Life & Style magazine asks readers. Claiming Angelina Jolie refuses to let her 3-year-old daughter wear dresses and insists on calling her “John,” the article then cites “expert”
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Bob McKinnon: Planting the Seeds of Change
We are over eight weeks into our New Year's Resolutions. If you've made it this far, you deserve congratulations. Most studies suggest it takes about this long for a new habit to take hold.
If you didn't make it, you're not alone. Almost 90% of
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Lexus Touts Hybrids in New Ad Campaign
Lexus is talking about its history in the technology avant-garde in a new brand campaign that supports Lexus' hybrid lineup. The new effort touts the RX 400h, GS 450h, LS 600h and HS 250h. The recently announced Lexus CT 200h -- not featured in this
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Lexus Hybrids Hit 5.5 Billion Mile Mark - VIDEO ENHANCED
Click PLAY to watch the Lexus 5.5 Billion Mile TV Commercial
Click PLAY to watch The Auto Channel's Roadrip episode featuring the Lexus 250h
Click PLAY to watch The Auto Channel's Roadrip episode featuring the Lexus RX
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Lexus Spells Out Hybrids' History
Lexus has introduced a new campaign that showcases its hybrid
vehicle line and reminds customers of the company's five-year
history of putting hybrids on the road.
One TV commercial tells viewers that when Lexus built its first
hybrid in 2004, YouTube
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Music Icon Bootsy Collins to Launch Online "Funk University" For Bass Players Worldwide
Funk's most recognizable bassist Bootsy Collins unveils plans for 2010, the debut of the world's first Funk University where he will serve as Professor.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 11, 2010 -- It began with a simple message on Bootsy Collins'
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"Glee", "CSI" among TV shows "with a conscience"
''Glee'' creator Ryan Murphy (C) and the cast celebrate backstage with their award after winning for best television series-comedy or musical the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California January 17, 2010.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
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'Glee', 'CSI' have a conscience
Los Angeles - The wheelchair episode of musical comedy Glee and a CSI programme tackling race and prejudice in the police were among eight shows named on Wednesday as examples of "television with a conscience".
The Academy of Television Arts and
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'Glee,' 'CSI' Among TV Shows 'With a Conscience'
The wheelchair episode of musical comedy "Glee" and a "CSI" program
tackling race and prejudice in the police were among eight shows
named on Wednesday as examples of "television with a
conscience".
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences said the
