| | Society Entertainment Lifestyle Green Living | Entertainment | | | Fat-E The new Pixar movie goes out of its way to equate obesity with environmental collapse.
By Daniel Engber Posted Thursday, July 10, 2008, at 4:46 PM ET
Pixar's new animated feature Wall-E is more than a great movie. According to the critics, it's a trenchant social commentary. New York's David Edelstein calls it "one for the ages, a masterpiece to be savored before or after the end of the world … a sublime work of art." A.O. Scott coos over "a cinematic poem of such wit and beauty that its darker implications may take a while to sink in." |
| US Broadband Users Want More Zip
MARCH 6, 2008
How fast is fast enough?
US Internet users are consuming more online video, playing more video games and generally doing more of the things that eat bandwidth.
As a result, fiber-to-the-home and faster cable modem technologies are fueling a new round of bandwidth envy
"Many consumers are actively looking for a broadband service that will increase the amount of bandwidth that they can use," said Mike Paxton, an analyst at In-Stat
Nearly 33 million US households will have broadband services with speeds of 10 Mbps or higher by 2012, up from 5.7 million at the end of 2007, according to a March 2008 report by Parks Associates.
That is fast enough to stream high-definition video. | YouTube Had 9 Billion Video Views In January
By Mike Sachoff - Fri, 03/14/2008 - 1:30pm.
Google Sites tops again
YouTube received 9.8 billion video views in the U.S. for the month of January, down slightly from December's record-breaking totals of 10.1 billion, comScore reported today.
Google Sites again ranked as the top U.S. video property in January with close to 3.4 billion videos viewed (34.3 percent share of videos), gaining 1.7 share points over the previous month.
YouTube accounted for more than 96 percent of videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 584 million (6 percent), followed by Yahoo Sites with 315 million (3.2 percent) and Microsoft sites with 199 million (2 percent).
More than 139 million U.S. Internet users spent an average of 206 minutes per person viewing online video in January. Google Sites pulled in the most viewers (80 Million), where they spent an average of 110 minutes watching video. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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