Time Warner Pulls Channels From iPad App, Blames "Feeble" Whiners

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Time Warner Cable has pulled a bunch of channels from its popular iPad app after being threatened with lawsuits from programmers.

The app, which launched earlier this month, has already been downloaded 300,000 times.

But programmers like News Corp, Viacom, and Discovery are not happy, and apparently want Time Warner to pay them extra for the right to stream their content to the iPad.

Time Warner believes it's in the right, but instead of fighting it has agreed to pull the following channels:

  • Animal Planet
  • BET
  • CMT
  • Comedy Central
  • Discovery Channel
  • FX
  • MTV
  • National Geographic
  • Nickelodeon
  • Spike
  • VH1

Time Warner compared the whiners to a group of people trying to fight the current of a river with "feeble karate."

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Microsoft's Eric Hautala apologizes, provides more NoDo info

Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:57:00 EDT by Richard Edmonds

Updating a post which he published little more than a week ago, Eric Hautala, Microsoft's GM of Customer Experience Engineering, apologizes for the sheer amount of disappointment currently felt by end users and reiterates that the update is being rolled out.

This was brought to the public eye after a mass of 500 comments (at the time of writing) swarmed his original post, majority being complaints and angered views. What can only be summarized as a carefully constructed apology, Eric reached out to those who are still awaiting the NoDo update and produced further detail with regards to the page of the update.

I know many of you are disappointed, even angry. You certainly have a right to be. We’ve fallen far short of your expectations, and our own, and for that I’m truly sorry. We didn’t set out to let you down. But it’s clear we did. Whether you’re someone who has followed our progress from the start, or are new to Windows Phone, you deserve the updates we’ve promised. My job is to get us on the right path and deliver them.

I'm not sure whether we require yet another apology, sure the drama is still present and most of the community is still highly irritated, but after Joe Belfiore's response to negative comments and criticism and UK developer Danny Tupenny receiving a phone call, we would very much like to see more action than words. The update is rolling, just not fast enough for most. Putting forward the somewhat over-asked question, have you received NoDo yet? How do you feel about the continued stream of apologies, and do you believe Microsoft has learned some valuable lessons?

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It's not every day pirates get called out for breaking the laws, but a new Android application does just that.

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Google is taking steps to ensure that fragmentation and "willy-nilly" customization doesn't slow the growth and success of Android. According to roughly twelve executives spread across various players in the Android space, they have begun clamping down so much that Andy Rubin personally approves who gets early access to software. According to these anonymous inside [...]

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Those "Fun" Companies Like Zappos And Google? Yah, They're Actually Kind Of Evil

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We’ve all been there — your inbox chimes, you open a chipper email from your manager announcing some “fun” activity to boost morale, and your heart sinks as you start wondering if you can develop the flu by then.

Whether it’s a company picnic, a team-building retreat or a training full of silly activities, officially sponsored “fun” at work strikes a lot of people as somehow deeply miserable.

Why is this? Scientists recently revealed some preliminary clues as to what exactly is wrong with mandatory fun at work.

British researchers Peter Fleming and Andrew Sturdy investigated an unnamed Australian call center which promotes itself as a fun workplace where youthful agents can be themselves, make friends and not worry about their tattoos. The scientists wrote up their findings in Human Relations.

Amongst all the office flirtations and bring-your-surfboard-to-work days, nearly half the 33 employees who spoke at length to the two researchers felt there was a darker side to the mandatory good times and reported that the need to maintain a constantly cheerful facade added to the burden of an already difficult job.

The British Psychological Society Occupational Digest blog summarizes the way the company’s tight control over their employees went hand-in-hand with its “fun” atmosphere:

As the authors put it, “employees enjoyed liberties mostly around the work task…rather than so much in the task itself.” Indeed, one HR manager made the telling admission that “we need to make up for the kind of work that is done here."

By this account, the company does alright, having their monotonous, wearing work completed, and escaping any real backlash by buying the employees off with a facsimile of social life. The young employees do less well. As we see, some are disillusioned that the promises don’t line up with reality. Others may be drawn into dependency, as they’ve been encouraged to draw their social world from the same well as their pay-check. Work equals friends, romance, even identity; for the company, it’s ultimately ‘just business’. And overall, the individuality culture discourages ways of thinking that cultivate solidarity across the workforce.

In short, all those beers after work are just a mask behind which the company hides deeper and more worrying management mistakes. Of course, not all fun at work is about whitewashing unpleasant practices.

Zappos, for example, has won praise for its fun-filled office culture and there doesn’t appear to be any dark secrets lurking behind the happy exterior. But this study will be food for thought for all of us who have groaned upon hearing of the latest “fun” initiative to roll down from head office.

What’s your opinion: is forced fun at the office more likely to be enjoyable or excruciating? And how often is it a red flag, alerting you to deeper, unaddressed problems that management is ignoring?

This post originally appeared at BNET.

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