Tag archive: Al Gore

Adding heavy weight to the rumors that Apple plans to release more than one new iPhone model this year, former Vice President Al Gore, a member of Apple's board of directors, said today that Apple has “new iPhones” due for an October release, reports The Next Web. Gore's statement, which confirms long-standing rumors of multiple iPhone models set to come out this year, was made today during the Discovery Invest… Read More

Keith Olbermann, ousted host of MSNBC's “Countdown,” may be headed online, to former Vice President Al Gore's Internet news channel, Current TV. UPDATE BELOW According to early reports, which seemed to appear simultaneously on a variety of websites late Monday, Olbermann has hired a PR team that says they plan to unveil the next chapter in the liberal television personality's professional career. “He and his… Read More

In the misty dark days before Al Gore invented the Internet and music CDs roamed in great herds across the landscape, there was a quaint-though-popular technology called “records.” Records consisted of vinyl or ceramic discs of varying sizes and capacities (typical were 7- and 12-inch sizes) which features grooved on one or both sides. By spinning the discs at pre-defined rates (typical were 33.3 and 45—occasionally 78—revolutions… Read More

Michael Moore did gun control. Al Gore did global warming. Now an independent film company is tackling the next pressing issue of our age: Internet pornography. On Monday, Living Biographies announced the release of their latest documentary, “Traffic Control: The People’s War on Internet Porn.” The film will cover the ease of access to Internet pornography and what can be done to regulate it. According to the company, the… Read More

Popular search engine Google has made another deal as a content provider, etching a deal with ABC News to provide live daily Webcasts of “World News Now” with lists of the day's top Google search terms as well as the most popular stories on Google News. Google has a similar deal with Al Gore's Current TV, which shows a brief segment every half hour highlighting popular search terms. Although unrelated to the ABC… Read More

Tying high-tech innovation to prosperity, President Bush is using a speech in a swing state to address an election-year vulnerability: a sluggish job market that hasn't rebounded with the nationaleconomy. In a speech Monday in Minnesota, Bush is urging Congress to slap a permanent ban on taxes consumers pay for high-speed Internet hookups called broadband. He also is touting proposals to makeelectronic medical records the norm and move… Read More

Basically, SCO claims that the open-source Linux operating system infringes on the intellectual property developed for Unix. If the claims were to hold up in court, the business model of providing “open” software, closely associated with Linux, could be broken. The letter, sent on May 12 to Fortune 1,000 companies and 500 other global concerns, fired a shot across the bow of the Linux user community, which reacted with angry… Read More

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