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StarTrek.com Team Fired; Reorg Cited

Four days after participating in "Star Trek Day" on the Writers Guild of America's picket lines at Paramount, the StarTrek.com production team received its walking papers from CBS Interactive.

CBS Radio Wants To Expand On Web

The old media vs. new media arguments are usually based on the idea of print vs. the Internet.  CBS Radio is also looking to update itself, however, by embracing and expanding its online branches.

Truveo Brings Video To CBS Radio

Media continues to mesh into an amalgam of all kinds of content, the latest example coming in the form of a deal between AOL's Truveo video search and CBS Radio.

CBS Unwires Manhattan With Wi-Fi

An experiment by CBS enables people with Wi-Fi-capable devices to access the Internet for free, at 5Mbps speeds, as the network tries out a wireless initiative in the Big Apple.

CBS Mobile Partners With Medio

CBS Mobile has partnered with Medio Systems to add search capabilities and search advertising to its CBS Mobile Web sites.

CBS Horrifies Net Audience With 'Dodge The Kills'

A charming series of short videos entitled "How to Survive a Horror Movie" links CBS and author Seth Grahame-Smith's recent book of the same name.

CBS Picks Up Dotspotter

$10 million could buy a lot of stuff - cars, recliners, you name it.  Or it could - and apparently did - buy one celebrity gossip site.  The $10 million came from CBS, and went to Dotspotter.

CBS Experiments With Video Content

CBS is apparently really working to find something that will stick. Two weeks ago they were talking about social networking and making their content more portable. Now they’re working on “EyeLab,” a studio dedicated to turning glossy 30- to 60-minute shows into bite-sized web clips. Even more revolutionary, CBS is also planning to involve users in not only watching video clips but making and uploading their own mashups of CBS clips.

TV Networks and Online Networking

NBC isn’t the only one making moves online. ABC, CBS and MTV are also in the news today for their online strategies.

CBS Apologizes To Blogger

A senior executive at CBS News Corporation has issued an apology to a viewer who complained via email about anchor Katie Couric's reporting from Iraq and was insulted in CBS's reply.