Media Industry Archive

February 2009

Media Roundup: Google Tags Entire Internet as Malware, LA Times to Cut 70 and More

By Sean Blanda | Feb 2, 2009

Google tags entire Internet as malware — In a service glitch, the search engine mistakenly labeled every search result as potentially dangerous on Saturday. The error lasted for 55 minutes and was the result of human error. Google receives a list of malicious sites from a third party named StopBadware that it uses to label risky search results. The company mistakenly replaced the list of...

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Mobile Media Consumption Defies the Lousy Economy

By Catharine P. Taylor | Feb 2, 2009

Cash-strapped media companies, I know you don’t want to hear this: but mobile media consumption data shows it’s time to jump-start your mobile strategy. Everywhere I look lately, consumer usage of mobile phones as media devices rising, almost in defiance of the lousy economy. Importantly, most of the figures show mobile media consumption increasing even in the dark days since the...

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