Mar
16
2011

Netflix going up against cable with original series deal

Netflix may be known for offering some of our favorite TV and movie streams, but the company is about to step up its game ...
Mar
15
2011

Amazon looks on longingly as Netflix delivers 61% of digital video

The digital video market continues to grow as DVD sales tank, and Netflix is currently king. According to the latest data from the NPD ...
Mar
09
2011

New indie film site hopes to "replicate the film festival experience"

Online video sites are a dime a dozen in 2011, but a new site called Fandor hopes to make it into your daily rotation. ...
Mar
09
2011

Live MLB and NBA games come to Apple TV via software update

Sports fans can now get their baseball and basketball fix directly from an Apple TV. On Wednesday, both Major League ...
Mar
08
2011

Virgin Media UK Begins Throttling P2P Traffic

An anonymous reader writes "The ISP which advertises itself as 'The fastest in the UK' and offers speeds of up to 100mbps has said it needs to throttle file sharing traffic to prevent slowness in other areas such as online ...
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Mar
04
2011

Report: DoJ looking into possible anti-WebM moves by MPEG LA

The US Department of Justice has reportedly launched an investigation into the MPEG Licensing Association (MPEG LA) to see whether the organization is trying ...
Mar
04
2011

Unlimited music re-downloads may come as part of MobileMe revamp

iTunes music buyers may soon be able to re-download their purchased music tracks to all of their devices if Apple's latest negotiations are successful. ...
Mar
04
2011

Posting AC – a Thing of the Past?

c0lo writes to point out an article from the Indystar. From the article: "A Marion County judge has ruled, for the first time in Indiana, that news media outlets can be ordered by the court to reveal identifying information about ...
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Mar
01
2011

Random House caves on agency e-book pricing, may join iBooks soon

Monster publishing house Random House has finally given in over the so-called "agency model" e-book pricing and will begin implementing the pricing changes on ...
Feb
25
2011

Apple’s Lala purchase appears to have been "insurance"

Apple isn't planning to replace its traditional music download model with a streaming model anytime soon—or at least that's what the company has reportedly ...
Feb
22
2011

iTunes may upgrade to 24-bit files, but why bother?

In the age of highly compressed music files playing on iPods and even lower-quality Pandora streams playing on iPhones, some artists, music producers, and ...
Feb
22
2011

Amazon takes on Netflix with movie streaming service for Prime

As expected, Amazon has announced its new and improved Amazon Prime service that now offers more than 5,000 streaming TV shows and ...
Feb
18
2011

Goodbye, HD Component Video

glogger writes "Jim Willcox, the video expert at Consumer Reports, bids farewell to our ability to get high-definition video via the analog component-video connections on Blu-ray players. Thanks to Hollywood pirate-paranoia, potentially millions of law-abiding viewers will have their choices ...
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Feb
18
2011

The Hurt Locker lawsuits branch out across the country

The US Copyright Group, also known as Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver, is making good on its promise to put the hurt on P2P users. ...
Feb
17
2011

Bug lets humans grab Daily Double as Watson triumphs on Jeopardy

Note: In this article, Jeopardy's "answers" are referred to as "questions" and vice versa. The humans tried to hold on in ...
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Feb
16
2011

Creators: Watson has no speed advantage as it crushes humans in Jeopardy

Watson, the computer built by IBM to play Jeopardy, outdid itself in the second half of its first official game ...
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Feb
16
2011

Proposed Standard Would Address Video Buffering

Lucas123 writes "Sony, SanDisk and several other technology providers have formed a group and proposed a standard that would use predictive software to pre-load content onto mobile devices in order to preempt buffering issue due to bandwidth bottlenecks, which industry ...
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Feb
15
2011

Jailbreak your iPhone? iBookstore purchases may be unreadable

As hackers push to crack Apple's iOS security checks, Apple appears to be pushing back. One user recently discovered that, after applying the latest ...
Feb
15
2011

The perils of being Pandora

The online world is buzzing over the news that Pandora online radio is going public. After 11 years of operation, the company will ...
Feb
15
2011

Jeopardy: IBM’s Watson almost sneaks wrong answer by Trebek

Watson, the IBM computer designed to take on humans in the quiz game Jeopardy, made its television debut last night. Positioned between two past ...
Feb
12
2011

DailyMotion Now Streaming Live News

An anonymous reader writes "Beet.TV reports that DailyMotion has begun streaming live news from Al Jazeera, BBC, and France 24 among others. They write, 'Paris-based Dailymotion, the world's second biggest online video site, has integrated with London-based live news portal ...
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Feb
07
2011

Free Last.fm service on mobile devices turning into subscriber-only feature

If you're a fan of Last.fm's mobile apps to stream free music to your phone or home entertainment system, get ready to be disappointed. ...
Feb
06
2011

Are Flickr Images Abused By Foreign Businesses?

eldavojohn writes "My friend Drew was notified via Twitter that one of his Flickr images had been selected as poster child for freeloaders who abuse the benefits system in an Elsevier news story in the Netherlands. The original image clearly ...
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Feb
02
2011

News Corp. and Apple Unveil The Daily

RedEaredSlider writes "The Daily, the digital publication designed specifically for Apple's iPad, is now available on the App Store. The publication's launch came during a press event at New York's Guggenheim Museum. News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and Apple Vice President ...
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Feb
01
2011

Amazon expected to roll out Netflix-like streaming service soon

Move over Netflix—Amazon wants to get in on the instant streaming action. The company briefly indicated that it would begin ...
Feb
01
2011

Change in Apple policy has e-book fans worried about their apps

The Kindle app—and other e-book apps like it—may disappear from the App Store if the latest buzz about Apple's policies ...
Jan
25
2011

Ongo: a "curated" online news service for $7 per month

Those who follow news online know that it can be hard to sift through the cruft to get to the ...
Jan
24
2011

Canada wants unedited "Money for Nothing" back on the radio

Canada's official telecommunications regulatory agency is unhappy about the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council's
Jan
24
2011

Freedom! Danger! Talking heads sound off about net neutrality

It's August 2010, and MSNBC's now former host Keith Olbermann is revving up for Story Number Four on the evening Countdown. "Here on the web ...
Jan
18
2011

Righthaven Adds Forum Posters To Copyright Suit

eldavojohn writes "The last time we discussed the Las Vegas Review-Journal and their litigating attorneys at Righthaven LLC, they were suing all the websites that had violated their news copyrights. Well, they've now added seven individual message board posters that ...
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Jan
17
2011

Universal, Sony get a clue with "on air, on sale" policy

Two of the music industry's biggest labels, Universal and Sony, have committed to fighting piracy by making new singles available for sale the first ...
Jan
10
2011

VLC for iOS vanishes 2 months after eruption of GPL dispute

It's official: the iOS version of VLC has been yanked from the App Store. Though Apple didn't offer any reasons for its removal, the ...
Jan
10
2011

Supreme Court: online music price-fixing lawsuit can proceed

The US Supreme Court won't stop a lawsuit accusing the four major music labels of conspiring to fix music prices. The Supreme Court made ...
Jan
05
2011

Appeals court flushes FCC fine for NYPD Blue butt shot

The New Year arrives with yet another satisfying rebuke to the Federal Communications Commission's indecency rules. Nearly three years ago, the FCC threw the ...
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