That's especially good news for late-night talk-show hosts, who should find an anxious audience waiting up for them when they return to the airwaves in early January.
Comcast ( CMCSA - news - people )--not to talk your ear off on all this stuff, but Comcast just came out with a software that works on the iPad that acts as your remote control, acts as a preview device.
The merged company--to be called Sprint Nextel --promises to mesh the best elements of each company, including Nextel's (nasdaq: NXTL - news - people ) push-to-talk technology and strong corporate customer base, and Sprint's (nyse: FON - news - people ) high-speed data network.
The company delivers free and subscription-based access to millions of songs and hundreds of expert-programmed stations, plus news, sports and talk, on the web, mobile devices, in-car infotainment systems and consumer electronics platforms.
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Also news of a block trade in Christian Dior (other-otc: CHDRF - news - people ) Tuesday night sparked talk that Arnault could be looking to increase his stake in Carrefour.
Billionaire Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), and CNN talk show host Larry King are among those who have signed on to have their genes sequenced as part of the Archon X Prize.
Ultimately, better management could set the stage for software applications sold not through big packages but by use of discrete parts of an overall package--much the way IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), HP and others talk about selling computing not by individual machines, but by how many processors a customer actually uses.
For years push-to talk has been a function available from Nextel (nasdaq: NXTL - news - people ), the wireless-service provider best known for catering to businesses where instant communication is useful.
General Motors' (nyse: GM - news - people ) situation is particularly noteworthy, since its stock recently hit a 50-year low amid increased talk of bankruptcy.
While Democrats consume more television, they tend to dominate genres like local news, prime-time scripted shows and the late-night talk shows.
Westwood One supplies radio and television stations with programming and information services, including national news, sports, music and talk shows, plus special-event programs.
ImClone and its U.S. partner, Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ), issued a statement saying they will talk with the FDA about trying to get U.S. approval as well.
Still, Republicans are starting to get their sea legs after spending months of serious soul-searching and having to watch the likes of Palin, Steele and conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh dominate the news cycle -- for all the wrong reasons.
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You smelled diesel fuel and Port-a-Potties and heard the echoes of talk radio and Patriot News.
As the news sank in, shock gave way to incredulity and talk of a set-up.
Early on Tuesday evening, a shocked-looking Bill O'Reilly, a firebrand conservative talk-show host, went on the Republicans' favourite news broadcaster, Fox News.
After months of--you're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
All those questions (from faculty members, too) followed my 40-minute talk about how FORBES is disrupting the traditional media model for news.
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It's also a way for pundits, bloggers and talk-show hosts to elevate themselves during the 24-hours news cycle, says Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture history at Syracuse University in New York City.
For music enjoyment anytime, anywhere, all three units are SiriusXM-Ready for SiriusXM's commercial-free music, premier sports and live events, comedy, news, exclusive talk and entertainment, and SiriusXM Latino, the most comprehensive Latin music, sports and talk programming in radio.
Meanwhile, as some of the real talking heads on television become little more than cue-card robots, there may be a spot for a synthetic talk show host or news anchor.
The trial quickly snowballed into a made-for-the-tabloids drama, garnering daily coverage from cable news networks and spawning a virtual cottage industry for talk shows, legal experts and even Arias, who used her notoriety to sell artwork she made in jail.
Over the next half-decade Seacrest added a countdown show, a morning radio show, a daytime talk show, a celebrity news show and a plum spot on every red carpet in town--which earned him a scene-stealing cameo in 2007's summer box office hit, Knocked Up.
Apple had plenty of good news to tout during its fourth-quarter earnings call this afternoon, but ever-feisty CEO Steve Jobs preferred to talk about how screwed the competitors are.
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