Depressing new research by Forrester indicates that book publishers are becoming increasingly disheartened about the state of the industry:… Read more »
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More than two-thirds of the Android phones sold on the U.S. market are now contributing to Microsoft’s bottom line. The company signed yet a… Read more »
I had the pleasure of sitting down this week with Bill Patry, one of the country’s top copyright scholars and a leading thinker on digital r… Read more »
Demotix, the user journalism and photography upload service that is part-owned by Corbis, is adding an incremental new revenue stream. Read more »
Since Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) opened up the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library to self-published authors willing to sell their e-books exclusively o… Read more »
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While some operators in some countries (like the U.S. and Japan) have already celebrated birthdays for their LTE services, 4G in the UK hasn… Read more »
Six Hollywood studios have urged the UK’s competition watchdog to throw out its assertion their Sky Movies deals are anti-competitive. But s… Read more »
Unlike its local rival Samsung, the Korean handset maker LG (SEO: 066570) has lately had more of a mixed bag when it’s come to Android devic… Read more »
Is 2012 the year of the Smart TV? Manufacturers would have us believe that. Read more »
Here’s a look at what’s been going on at the giant electronics show that is CES:
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Scandinavian news publisher Schibsted is set to buy Aspiro, a white label digital music streaming service for 340 million Swedish krona ($49… Read more »
PaidContent has learned that Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB), the business information company, has put AllBusiness.com, the information and ne… Read more »
The evolution of premium cable TV beyond the living room took another step this week, with Showtime introducing a streaming app to rival HBO… Read more »
Twitter and some pundits are crying foul over Google’s decision to exclude certain competitors from its new search and social networking hyb… Read more »
Why do Android phone makers keep pumping out slightly different versions of smartphones with custom user interfaces that frustrate developer… Read more »
The definitive gadget of CES 2011 was the Android tablet, heralded by more than one company as the answer to the iPad. A train-wreck of a ye… Read more »
Tom Hanks. Louis C.K. Lisa Kudrow. Kevin Spacey. David Fincher. Bill Maher. Jennifer Lopez. Judy Greer. Steven Van Zandt. Morgan Spurlock. E… Read more »
As expected, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has started to send out invitations to an event in New York, and now we know what it will be about: educatio… Read more »
The tablet market is still in its relative infancy and has been largely dominated up to now — both in sales and basic concept — by the iPa… Read more »
Readability, a service which lets readers of web page articles focus only on the core text, is upgrading its free tier to match its one-year… Read more »
In the world of search advertising, mobile phones and tablets continue to outpace performance of search ads on PCs, although they still repr… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing is launching a new series, “Book Lust Rediscoveries,” curated by librarian and NPR commentator Nancy Pearl. P… Read more »
Chinese online video giant Youku (NYSE:YOKU) today announced that it has inked a deal with none other than Twentieth Century Fox (NSDQ: NWS)… Read more »
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Here are some of the latest executive hirings and exits from the world of digital media business… Read more »
The space for social TV services — tweeting with other viewers during live broadcasts, for example — is still a wide-open game, with a num… Read more »
Wenner Media is filling the chief digital officer position that Michael Bloom left in November, after just six months on the job: David Kang… Read more »
Communism and capitalism are now apparently the same thing in Chinese online media. The People’s Daily newspaper, an organ of the country’s… Read more »
Dell is not among the companies announcing a new tablet this week at the CES show in Las Vegas, but it made sure to keep its name in the air… Read more »
Here’s a look at what’s been going on at the giant electronics show that is CES: Read more »
The pan-industry internet radio service RadioPlayer has joined forces with Audioboo to offer an instant listen-again service for its 300-plu… Read more »
Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has convinced a couple of big-name consumer electronics companies to jump on board with its mobile strategy. Lenovo and M… Read more »
Samsung has rolled out a new line of Blu-ray players that support Ultraviolet, thus joining the ranks of entertainment brands that support t… Read more »
Medialets, which creates rich-media mobile ads for companies including Coca-Cola and Toyota, announced Tuesday a new platform designed to pa… Read more »
This morning Google (NSDQ: GOOG) unfurled a pretty new search feature that lets users receive personalized results based on their own friend… Read more »
Today it was revealed that Paul Berry, the longtime-CTO of AOL’s Huffington Post, will be leaving his role at the news site, along with the… Read more »
Eastman Kodak announced late Tuesday that it was suing Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and HTC for allegedly infringing four of its imagining patents. Th… Read more »
The home-entertainment business has been pummeled in recent years, with revenues falling for seven years in a row, in one year a full 8 perc… Read more »
