ROY BLOUNT Jr., president of the Authors Guild, defends his organizations right to kill Kindle’s free text to speech on the grounds that authors are not getting paid ancillary rights, in an editorial in the NY Times.

Kindle 2 can read books aloud. And Kindle 2 is not paying anyone for audio rights.
True, you can [...]

Comcast, the nation’s largest cable TV provider, said Wednesday its fourth-quarter earnings fell 32 percent, hampered by a $600 million write-down of its investment in Clearwire, notes the Seattle PI.
Comcast’s revenue and adjusted earnings beat Wall Street estimates, and the company raised its dividend 8 percent. However, the Philadelphia-based company showed markedly slower growth in [...]

Cisco announced this week that AsiaBell launched its broadband Mobile WiMAX service in central Kazakhstan, based on Cisco’s Broadband Wireless gear including Cisco BWX 8300 beamforming access points and Cisco 7604 Routers.

The service is offered under the brand “AERO” and is targeting an area with a population of 1 million people, including business as [...]

C/Net’s Crave reports that the upcoming firmware update for T-Mobile’s G1, will include voice-powered search. Users can simply talk into the application to have their queries transcribed into text. Google’s voice search application is currently available for the iPhone.

The big difference, however, is that users will need to begin a voice search by tapping the [...]