CES: Bitbop Inks Deal To Preload Its TV App On Verizon’s LTE Devices
Is there life after News Corp.? (NSDQ: NWS) Bitbop, part of the Fox Mobile division that was recently sold to the Jesta Group, believes ther… Read more »
CES Wire: T-Mobile; Samsung; Hulu; MobiTV; Scanbuy; Panasonic
–T-Mobile, the fourth largest mobile operator in the U.S., will not be left behind in the CES 4G cavalcade. It may still be holding off fro… Read more »
@ CES: Studios Host Pep Rally For UltraViolet
Hollywood held a coming-out party at CES on Thursday for its digital-content initiative, UltraViolet, complete with toasts from distribution… Read more »
CES: Verizon Shows Off 4G Devices With Preloaded Rock Star, Skype And More
Verizon, and its handset partners, have been spinning out information about devices for its LTE network for weeks now, but today, at a press… Read more »
CES: Verizon Talks Up Content With Time Warner
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If the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the premier forum to show off the latest and greatest that your company has to offer, then… Read more »
@ CES: Hollywood Digital Czars Rain On Smart TV Parade
Television manufacturers, take note: All those new sets you’ve crammed with apps and other internet-derived content experiences aren’t impre… Read more »
EchoStar Buys Over-The-Top-Startup Move Networks
More actual news tied to CES… Satellite service EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) has acquired streaming video company Move Networks, as it looks to j… Read more »
Boxee To Get CBS Full Episodes; iPad App, Vudu 3D Coming Too
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Boxee is announcing a deal with CBS (NYSE: CBS) that will allow it to stream full episodes through its over-the-top player as part of its ap… Read more »
CES: Sony Ericsson, Silent On PlayStation Phone, Launches Curvy Xperia Arc
Sony (NYSE: SNE) CEO Howard Stringer’s CES address yesterday was long on 3D being the future for the company, but short on one area that mob… Read more »
CES: Motorola Mobility Comes Out Fighting With Android 3.0 Tablet
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Mobility has come into being with a bang. On top of two exciting-looking new handsets — with AT&T, it debuted Atrix, w… Read more »
CES: NBA Digital Expands To More Connected TVs And Adds Premium Live Games
The NBA’s latest push for ubiquity and digital revenue could allow fans to bypass pay TV operators for access to live games. NBA Digital is… Read more »
CES Wire: Nvidia; Yahoo; Samsung; Google; AT&T; Asus; Mobile500 Alliance
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– Nvidia rolls out the ‘super’ chip: The company announced new phones powered by Nvidia Tegra 2, a “super” chip that optimizes network down… Read more »
CES: Ballmer On Windows 7 Phone: ‘Job Number 1 Is Showing It To People’
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) may have cracked the mobile code with its new Windows Phone 7 OS but it’s not quite there when it comes to actual con… Read more »
CES: Ballmer Mum On TV Plans In Microsoft Keynote
If the reports are true that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is preparing to make big moves in the TV space, CEO Steve Ballmer wasn’t about to tip hi… Read more »
CES: Ballmer On What Microsoft Has Coming Next
Steve Ballmer started off his Consumer Electronics Show keynote Wednesday by running down Microsoft’s product debuts in 2010, including Wind… Read more »
CES: UltraViolet Set For Mid-Year Deployment In U.S.
After 27 months of development, the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem is finally deploying UltraViolet, the digital-rights-management… Read more »
CES: Cisco Unveils TV Platform Videoscape
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Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) chairman/CEO John Chambers unveiled Videoscape, an ambitious new architecture for video that knits together the home netw… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Angry Birds Fly To Windows; HP/Palm Event; ESPN/Sprint
– Angry Birds: Rovio’s hugely successful mobile game may not yet be available on Windows Phone 7 handsets, but it is now making the move to… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Sprint/Clearwire; Motorola Split; China/Skype
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– Sprint/Clearwire: The tumultuous times at Clearwire continue. Sprint (NYSE: S) today said that it would not be buying debt from Clearwire… Read more »
HDTV Maker Vizio Wades Into Android Pool With Two New Devices
Add one more consumer electronics name to the long list of those developing Android-based devices: ahead of the CES show starting this week,… Read more »
Android’s Gaining Fast, So What Can Apple And RIM Do To Compete?
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We’ve all heard the prediction that 2011 will be “the” year for Android, with more devices — handsets and tablets — based on the OS hittin… Read more »
Can ESPN Bring Some Respect To Interactive Television?
The secret to Wayne Gretzky’s greatness on the ice was that he didn’t skate to where the puck was, but where he anticipated it might go next… Read more »
Mobile Bytes: Verizon’s LTE Device; PlayStation Phone; Moto, Palm Tablets
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– Verizon’s LTE devices: As the carrier laid out plans for its nationwide LTE footprint earlier this month, it said it would give more deta… Read more »
WikiLeaks App Comes And Goes On iPhone, But Plenty More Out There
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That was quick: the WikiLeaks app on Apple’s App Store, published only on December 17, was early today removed by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The de… Read more »
Google TV To Lay Low At CES
What could have been a big boost for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV from the consumer-electronics industry is now looking like a no-confidence vote… Read more »
More Consolidation In Mobile Content: Livewire Buys Fonestarz
More consolidation among mobile content players: LiveWire Mobile, a U.S.-based company that sells music and related content like ringback to… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.15.10
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» Hearst and Hachette execs are set to meet in the next few weeks to finalize deal talks. But before that happens, it’s losing so… Read more »
Microsoft Will Use CES To Push A Slate Of Slates
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Back in July, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer described the company’s tablet strategy as “job one urgency here.” But he declined to say when any… Read more »
MobiTV On Track To Deliver 1,400 Events In 2010, But What Does That Mean?
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Nielsen earlier this week gave us some insight into how much mobile video is being watched: more than ever before, but still not very much,… Read more »
More Than Just Google TV At Stake For Sony
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Whether the steep discounts of Sony (NYSE: SNE) Internet TV over the weekend was a savvy ploy or a sign of weakness is subject to interpreta… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11.19.10
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» If the kind of checkbook journalism employed by Nick Denton at Gawker Media “works” — in the sense that it produces stories th… Read more »
Gaspin Makes It Official: No Room For Him At Comcast NBCU
On stage at paidContent Entertainment: Battle for the Digital Home just a week ago, Jeff Gaspin refused to “speculate about the speculation”… Read more »
Punchbowl Gets Socializr To Join Its Party
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Some consolidation in the online party planning space: Punchbowl, which offers a suite of party planning services — from online invites to… Read more »
@ Monaco Media Forum: James Murdoch’s First Rule (With Video)
The Monaco Media Forum isn’t exactly Fight Club but James Murdoch, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) CEO for Europe and Asia, has a first rule: “First r… Read more »
Digital Home: Nielsen’s Stats On Tablets, 3D TV And Online Viewing
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Just how connected and technologically advanced of an audience are we? Sure, DVRs are becoming more and more commonplace and it may be intui… Read more »
Battle For The Digital Home: Our Coverage In Links
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We’ve just wrapped up our entertainment-focused conference, Battle for the Digital Home, a full-day event where we debated the issues surrou… Read more »
Digital Home: Sling Co-Founder Krikorian on Android And Innovation
Selling his company in 2007, when the U.S. stock market was at an all-time high, has put Sling Media co-founder Blake Krikorian in a pretty… Read more »
Digital Home: Netflix Balances The Benefits And Costs Of Broadband
It’s taken several more years for broadband penetration to get to the level Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) had expected, but now that it has, it’s bee… Read more »
Digital Home: Boxee’s Ronen: People Don’t Want To ‘Surf’ Their TVs
As Nielsen’s research showed during the previous Battle for the Digital Home conference panel, hardly anyone is truly cutting their cable co… Read more »
Digital Home: Nielsen’s Idell: No One Is ‘Cutting The Cord’ — Yet
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Considering the spate of basic video subscriber losses at the cable companies this past year, talk of consumers cutting the cable cord has b… Read more »
