Good Morning Tech: Barton confident in bid for House Commerce chairmanship

Kerry bill would prevent future TV stand-offs. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is preparing to introduce a bill in the lame-duck session that would make it tougher for broadcasters to pull their channels off cable and satellite systems during disputes over carriage fees. http://bit.ly/9WnRYF

Video game and software sales lift Microsoft. “Microsoft reported strong gains on Thursday in its first-quarter profit and revenue because of robust sales in its mainstay business of selling personal computer software to businesses, which have increased their technology spending.” http://nyti.ms/drUMT0

SAID. “I wonder if
one or two atom bombs went off, would electromagnetic pulses erase the
world’s reading material from the servers where they are stored?”

—Author Stephen King contemplates the drawbacks of e-books in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. http://bit.ly/arHVld