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Amazon Sweetens Prime Deal With More Instant Vid Titles February 09, 2012 
Amazon and Viacom have inked a licensing agreement that will bring the number of instant videos available to Amazon Prime customers to more than 15,000. The deal will add episodes from Viacom's Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and BET outlets. Titles will include "The Hills," "Jersey Shore," "The Hard Times of RJ Berger," several seasons of "The Real World," and some Comedy Central shows.
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How the E-Book Is Reinventing the Book Business February 09, 2012 
What do Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook and Apple's iPad have in common? What about authors like Stephen King, Barbara Freethy, C.J. Lyons, Amanda Hocking and Michael Prescott? If you said they represent the changing book publishing industry, you would be right. The book business is going through a major transformation. Who will the winners and losers be among publishers, stores and authors?
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iTV Looms Large February 08, 2012 
Apple ended up being the top-selling smartphone vendor for the fourth quarter of 2011, but rumors about an as-yet unconfirmed next-generation Apple TV claimed much of the company's spotlight over the last week. In a note regarding Apple, Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek wrote that Apple stock was a smart buy because the company's next entertainment device, which he called "iTV," is on its way.
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Amazon May Be Going Small With Retail Boutique Experiment February 07, 2012 
Amazon is planning to launch a retail store in Seattle in the coming months, according to reports published by Bloomberg and Good E-Reader. The endeavor is meant to serve as a pilot project for a possible chain of stores that would sell Amazon Exclusive books, as well as its Kindle Fire tablet, line of e-readers, and related accessories.
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Avid Studio: Thumbs Up on Interface, Sideways on Features, Down on Sound Effects February 07, 2012 
Back when Apple promised editing features built into the iPhone 3GS (the first iPhone to have a video camera), I wondered how a video-editing program could possibly fit into a phone. It wasn't just a question of available processing power, though that was part of it. It was also a question of screen size.
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New Player Enters Field of Streams February 06, 2012 
Look out Netflix, a new video service has swaggered into town. Rumored since December, Verizon's partnership with Coinstar, the parent company of Redbox video rental kiosks, became official on Monday. As with Netflix, customers will be able to choose between physical discs and streaming. The physical discs, however, will need to be picked up and returned to a Redbox kiosk.
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Avid Packs a Prosumer Video Editor Into an iPad February 03, 2012 
Avid is well-known for its chops as a maker of professional video editing suites, but on Thursday it grabbed some notice in consumer circles with a new offering for Apple's iPad 2. Avid Studio, available from Apple's App Store for a limited time at $4.99, brings a solid set of video editing tools to the iPad.
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Vizio's Widescreen 3D TV: Plenty of Features, Little to Watch February 03, 2012 
Vizio has unveiled a 58-inch 3D widescreen HDTV with a 21:9 aspect ratio -- far more than the standard 16:9 ratio HDTVs use. Users can set the TV to upscale 16:9 content to fill the screen. The sale price for this set will start at US$3,500 -- that includes four pairs of 3D glasses.
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Content Intent, Part 2 February 03, 2012 
It can be a little tricky talking about how and why media outlets allow, and indeed encourage, the diffusion of their content throughout the Web. For starters, people tend to be tightlipped about this strategy. No one from CNN, Fox News, MSNBC or Viacom agreed to speak on the record for this article. They are, apparently, much less eager to discuss sharing content than they are to actually share it.
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AOL Dumps a Lighter Load of Bad News February 01, 2012 
AOL delivered a little bit of something for everyone with its Q4 earnings report -- good news, bad news, and hope that its many different initiatives are on track to pay off for the company. First the bad news: AOL reported a profit of US$22.8 million, or 23 cents a share, that was down from the $66.2 million, or 61 cents a share, it earned in the same period a year earlier.
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Nintendo Greases Wii U Wheels January 30, 2012 
Nintendo's Wii U will be out in time for the 2012 holiday season and will feature NFC technology, according to the company. The next-generation Nintendo Wii will also have a handheld controller with a touchscreen that can interact with what's showing on the TV screen.
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Content Intent, Part 1 January 27, 2012 
As far as exclusive interviews go, you could do a lot worse than getting Herman Cain, and a lot worse than getting him on Nov. 28. That was, after all, the day that a woman unleashed accusations of a 13-year affair with Cain, the third racy allegation levied against Cain in a matter of weeks. And those charges were but part of the Cain saga. There was also the Nov. 15 Libya gaffe...
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Netflix Bounces Back With Not-So-Shabby Q4 January 26, 2012 
Netflix shares rose sharply after the company reported that it added 610,000 customers and that profit margins in the streaming business this quarter could widen to 11 percent. That said, there was plenty in the earnings report to worry investors and analysts -- the company's profit fell 14 percent from the same period last year and its DVD business lost nearly 3 million subscribers.
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Slinging January 26, 2012 
Slingbox lets you watch your television remotely. The Slingbox hardware device captures the source image and audio at your home and squirts it into the Internet. Proprietary software is used to replicate a television-like experience on laptops or other devices like smartphones.
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Assange to Test His Charm on Russian TV January 25, 2012 
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has plans to host a new TV show called "The World Tomorrow." The half-hour weekly episodes are scheduled to begin airing in mid-March on Russia's English-language RT channel. It will reach some 60 million global viewers.
Assange sees the series as a vehicle to discuss the issues of the day with the people who are shaping the future.
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The iBooks Profitability Puzzle January 24, 2012 
Apple's iBooks textbook initiative, launched just last week, has clearly struck a chord in the market. Ditto its accompanying textbook authoring tool, iBooks Author. Both have taken off at a significant pace, according to a report by Global Equities Research. More than 350,000 textbooks have been downloaded via iBooks over the past three days.
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