Tag archive: Sacramento

On June 16, Verizon will turn on 4G coverage a a number of new 4G LTE markets, adding a number of smaller cities and metropolitan areas in the Midwest and California. In a series of press releases, the wireless carrier has announced coverage for more than 30 areas. We've gathered the press releases and organized the cities by state below. Check out the list to see if your area is getting 4G! For more detail on LTE areas, click on the… Read More

Following their breakthrough agreement with EMI, YouTube has signed a deal with Hearst-Argyle Television.Under the pact, Hearst-Argyle stations will receive a licensing fee whenever content from member stations is viewed on YouTube. It represents the first such deal involving local TV stations, andshows the way YouTube is being viewed by the media.   Hearst-Argyle is a major player in the local television market, owing 29 stations across… Read More

If you think your quirky local TV anchor has the stuff to become an Internet celebrity…he or she might just have gotten their change. In an interesting move, Yahoo and CBS have inked a video syndication agreement to put local news video from 16 CBS-owned stations on the Internet via Yahoo's enormous Internet presence. The agreement goes into effect October 17th, and is the first time network-owned stations have entered a… Read More

The words “MySpace” and “genocide” don't often appear in the same sentence—usually it's just “stalking” or “school bomb threat”—but today social networking giant MySpace announced a partnership with humanitarian organization Oxfam and nearly two dozen bands to raise awareness of—and funds for—the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur region. The… Read More

Sony's PSP is hitting the road for a cross country promo tour which will start Oct. 28 in Sacramento, CA and finish in New York City in December. Co-headlining the tour, which is also a concert called the PlayStation Presents Breed Love Odyssey Tour, are hip-hop artists Mos Def and Talib Kweli. These two hip-hop artists, Sony said, will be joined "by an eclectic line-up of up-and-coming hip-hop artists including Pharoahe Monch,… Read More

Verizon Wireless announced today it has expanded its BroadbandAccess wireless Internet service to the greater San Francisco Bay area, including nine area counties and offering a coverage area extending from Gilroy, CA, in the south to as far north as Healdsburg. The expansion makes the service, announced in August 2005, the largest broadband wireless in the United States. Verizon claims that BroadbandAccess now covers more than 140 million… Read More

Verizon Wireless today announced the immediate availability of new wireless services, dubbed BroadbandAccess and V CAST. Both services utilize Verizon's EV-DO (Evolution Data-Optimized) wireless broadband network, available in 60 major metropolitan markets and 64 airports within the United States. ED-VO is backward-compatible with CDMA, enabling graceful transitions when users leave EV-DO coverage areas. Broadbandaccess is available… Read More

The partners will sell a cobranded service at speeds of up to 384 kilobits per second or up to 1 megabit per second for $21.95 a month or $29.95 a month, respectively. Digitalpath will provide the connectivity, while EarthLink will bundle in its Web software, such as a pop-up blocker and a spam-filtering tool, the companies said. The wireless broadband service is expected to launch in Chico, Sacramento and Redding–the Northern… Read More

One of its more intriguing features will be a built-in Wi-Fi router. Rather than buying and installing a separate router to set up a home wireless network, users can plug their Internet cable into the back of the PC and the computer acts as its own router, linking up with other wireless devices in the house, said Bill Leszinske, marketing and planning director for Intel's digital home initiative. He said that will allow people to set… Read More

From comScore's press release: comScore's research revealed that San Diego has become the first metropolitan market in which a majority of Internet users connected to the Web through a broadband connection rather than a narrowband service.  Further, the analysis found that among the largest 50 markets, San Diego, Boston and New York led the nation in the usage of broadband connections.   At the national level,… Read More

But the devices, which record shows onto a computer-style hard disk and allow individuals to pause and rewind live television, have been slow to win the hearts and dollars of consumers despite a cultlike devotion. On the market since 1999, only 3.8 million of the devices will be in U.S. households by the end of this year, according to the Yankee Group, compared with more than 90 million VCRs. That may soon change, experts say. By the… Read More

The lawsuits, filed in federal courts around the country, targeted people who make songs on their computers available to others online — making a distinction between people who download and those who distribute. The suits did not name Internet file-sharing services like Kazaa, Gnutella and Grokster, which enable the downloading of millions of songs. By late Monday, no suits had been filed in Sacramento, but about 20 were filed in… Read More