Just when you thought corporate America couldn't find one more way to drain your bank account, news arrives this week that at least one, if not several, U.S. cable companies are considering charging usage fees to customers with the heaviest internet usage. More and more people are consuming video via Hulu and Netflix — some have even ditched their cable subscriptions altogether — and just as Netflix tried earlier this year to separate out their streaming service to profit from the growing demand, cable companies that provide internet service like Time-Warner and Cox are said to likely be instituting new fees for excessive bandwidth usage (i.e. video watching) as soon as next year. more ›

Sports writer Ray Ratto is jumping ship at SF Chronicle. SF Weekly reports, "Word out of the San Francisco Chronicle newsroom is that Ray Ratto, the paper's longtime prolix sports columnist, is leaving the newsprint world -- a move Ratto has confirmed to SF Weekly." more ›

Heh. more ›