Jimmy Fallon enlisted the Mets (and All-Star game) starter Matt Harvey to ask New Yorkers what they thought of Matt Harvey--not telling them he IS Matt Harvey. A sweet, funny man-on-the-street interview segment.
It turns out that YouTube videos showing rioting in the street following the Trayvon Martin verdict were bogus. (Some say footage came from a Vancouver street celebration following Stanley Cup championship victory in 2011. Some liberal Websites blame the phony posts on conservatives.)
E-commerce retailer Rakuten, sometimes dubbed the Amazon of Japan, has launched its Wuaki video streaming service in the UK, and plans to take it across the European continent.
San Francisco's KTVU broadcast the "names" of four pilots of the fated Asiana Airlines flight, most of them bad-taste puns. The station quickly apologized; Asiana said it will sue. The NTSB didn't provide the names, but it admitted a summer intern "confirmed" the names for the station
About 16%of Canadian adults said they no longer watch any conventional TV and strictly stream online content, according to a report by measurement firm comScore.
Time Inc has had squabbles with Apple, but even so, it took the magazine giant a while to decide to allow would-be subscribers to sample its titles on iPad before subscribing. Now, it's changed its tune.
Analyst Craig Moffett's research report says only 20% of tablets are sold with wireless chipsets. That means most tablets are used with Wi Fi wireless connections consumers typically get through home cable modems and routers.