Mar
16
2011
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Mar
04
2011
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
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
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 ...
Mar
01
2011
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Feb
18
2011
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
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 ...
Feb
16
2011
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 ...
Feb
16
2011
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 ...
Feb
15
2011
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
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
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
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 ...
Feb
07
2011
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
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 ...
Feb
02
2011
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 ...
Feb
01
2011
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Jan
17
2011
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
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
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
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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