Schmidt Reckons Most TVs Will Have Google TV By Mid-2012
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What with self-driving cars and such, Eric Schmidt is not averse to some blue-sky thinking. But one new prediction may be a moonshot too far… Read more »
Android Store Opens In Oz, But It Won't Have The Galaxy Tab 10.1 Just Yet
One superstore step forward for Android in Australia, but another step back for Android-maker Samsung. Today saw what could be Google’s answ… Read more »
Industry Moves: Sony Music's Hesse, Sky's Jonesco, Capgemini, RBI, O2
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– Bertelsmann: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music’s global digital head Thomas Hesse is leaving to join Bertelsmann in February, tasked with its digita… Read more »
Black Friday Roundup: Strong Start, But Will Sales Hold?
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Despite warnings from groups like the OECD that Europe and the U.S. are heading into recession, the flurry of online and mobile activity tha… Read more »
An E-Book Gifting Campaign, Starting On Cyber Monday
photo: Open Road Integrated Media
In a holiday season when e-readers are more popular than ever, many consumers still don’t know how to give them to others as gifts. So today… Read more »
Interview: FilmFlex CEO To Netflix: Bring It On!
photo: FilmFlex
The UK PPV movie JV owned by Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Disney (NYSE: DIS) is on an aggressive expansion that will see it unleash up to 10 white l… Read more »
Next Issue Media Expands Digital Newsstand Beyond Samsung Galaxy
Next Issue Media, the digitized magazine and newspaper newsstand, has added several more titles from company backers Hearst and Time Inc. (N… Read more »
Report: Google To Put A Piece Into Its Music Puzzle With Universal Deal
On the heels of news last week that it has secured EMI’s recorded music division for nearly $2 billion, Universal Music is again in the news… Read more »
Comparing E-Readers And E-Reader/Tablets: Kindles, Nooks, Sony, Kobo
Just last month, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) rolled out its Kindle Fire, the first Kindle designed as a full media device — not an e-reader with so… Read more »
EMI Group Split Between UMG And Sony
Four years after the whole label sold to Terra Firma for £4.2 ($6.69) billion, now one half of EMI Group – the record music division, EMI M… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-08-11
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» NYT Digital Head Martin Nisenholtz Retiring; Won’t Be Replaced; (paidContent; paidContent)
» New York Times (NYSE:… Read more »
Kantar: Android Was The Only OS Whose Sales Grew In All Markets It Surveys
We have seen time and again how the growing number of Android-based handsets from a plethora of OEMs — and the popularity of some specific… Read more »
Google TV 2.0 Rolls Out But No New Hardware Til 2012
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A year after the much-hyped launch of *Google* TV with partners Sony (NYSE: SNE), Logitech, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) and Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH)… Read more »
CW Cuts Another Streaming Deal: Current Season Shows To Hulu, Hulu Plus
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Gossip Girl is headed to Hulu Plus. On the heels of a past-season, library deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) that could be worth as much as $1… Read more »
Sony Buys Ericsson Out Of JV To Make ‘Four-Screen Strategy’ With Mobile
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has confirmed it is buying Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) out of their Sony Ericsson mobile handset-making joint venture for €1.05… Read more »
ARM Chip Offers Cheaper Smartphones With Longer Battery Life
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The Cambridge chip design company ARM has unveiled a chip design that it say uses could mean cheaper smartphones with battery lives five tim… Read more »
Samsung Inks Deal With Yandex For Smart TV, Bada Mobile Services In Russia
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Looks like Russia’s search giant Yandex is following in Google’s footsteps once again. Yandex is taking its services to new screens by inkin… Read more »
Sony Ericsson’s Move To All-Smartphones Cannot Come Soon Enough
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), the JV between the consumer electronics company Sony and mobile equipment giant Ericsson, may be the… Read more »
Sony Hacked Again, But This Time, Comes Clean Quickly
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*Sony* was lambasted last spring after it took seven days to disclose that an attack on its video game network had led to what some called t… Read more »
Netflix Gets Exclusive Streaming Rights For AMC’s ‘Walking Dead’
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) continues to roll out programming deals to buff up its streaming service. The latest is a multi-year licensing deal wit… Read more »
Sony Gives A Big “No Comment” On Sony Ericsson Buyout Reports
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has declined to comment on reports that it is considering a bid to buy out Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) from its Sony Ericsson han… Read more »
Report: Sony Plotting To Take Full Control Of Sony-Ericsson
One of the mobile industry’s longest-running but increasingly stale marriages is reportedly near an end. Sony (NYSE: SNE) is in talks to buy… Read more »
Steve Jobs: A Tribute In Links And Quotes
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We’ve gathered together a selection of some of the stories and tributes been written for Steve Jobs in the last several weeks — with a part… Read more »
Updated: Comparing E-Readers: Kindles Vs. Nooks Vs. Sony Vs. Kobo
photo: Amazon
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) introduced the first Kindle four years ago, the e-reader market barely existed and e-books were almost a novelty. S… Read more »
Sony Ericsson Demonstrates How Clinging To Android Is Not A Silver Bullet
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), the joint venture combining the wireless expertise of Sweden’s Ericsson with the branding and media… Read more »
Comparing E-Readers: Kindles Vs. Nooks Vs. Sony Vs. Kobo
photo: Amazon
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) introduced the first Kindle four years ago, the e-reader market barely existed and e-books were almost a novelty. S… Read more »
Major Android Vendors Line Up Behind Isis Mobile Payments Venture
Major names in the mobile industry continue to line up behind mobile-payments strategies, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may be perturbed to see a… Read more »
Netflix Gains DreamWorks Animation But Faces Stiffer Competition In Brazil
I don’t know many video subscribers — TV or or streaming — who make decisions based on whether or not their package includes Shrek 2. But… Read more »
Documentary Streamer SnagFilms Adds Drama, Wider Mobile Distribution
Indie documentary video streaming service SnagFilms making good on some of the changes it proposed earlier this year, when it raised $10 mil… Read more »
Amazon Kindle Users Finally Can Check Out (Some) Library E-Books
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Roughly five months since Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) promised library lending that would work for Kindle, the service is live at more than 11,000 U… Read more »
Sony Swaps Future’s Paid Playstation Video For Free Alternative
After apparently achieving low take-up for FirstPlay, the £0.99-a-week video magazine it launched on PS3 last year, Future is on Wednesday… Read more »
Industry Moves: Appia; Qualcomm; SonyEricsson; mxData; Appitalism; GoldSpot
» Appia has appointed Craig Forman as its executive chairman. He joins the white label app store company from his position as chai… Read more »
UK’s Waterstones To Wade Into The E-Reader Market With Kindle Killer?
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Waterstones — the leading UK bookseller that was recently bought by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut — is taking a tip from its U.S. co… Read more »
Tapjoy Takes On Ex-Sony PlayStation Network Chief As Its New CMO
Tapjoy has long counted the gaming industry as the primary customer customer base for its in-app marketing and distribution services; now it… Read more »
Sony Brings Its E-book Store To Europe
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Five years after launching it elsewhere, Sony (NYSE: SNE) is finally ready to open up its electronic book store in Europe.
Reader Store fir… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-01-11
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» Hulu Japan Launches WIth Movies, TV From CBS (NYSE: CBS), Sony (NYSE: SNE), Fox (NSDQ: NWS) & More But No Ads (paidContent)
&#… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-1-11: Missing iPhone; MobiTV; Microsoft; Samsung; Nokia
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Another Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone protoype has been left behind in a bar, a… Read more »
Sony Kisses Qriocity Branding Goodbye, Forms Sony Entertainment Network
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Many consumers were never completely sure of the correct way to pronounce it, and it has had mixed success as a household name synonymous wi… Read more »
Buy Sony’s New E-Reader, Get…A Coupon For One Harry Potter E-Book
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) has officially announced its new e-reader, the details of which leaked out earlier this week. It’s called the Reader WiFi a… Read more »
HTC, Sony Launch Tablets In Bid To Take A Bite Out Of Apple’s iPad Reign
The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad controls around 80 percent of the tablet market, which has seen just in the last month one high-profile casualty… Read more »
