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If you have $20,000 to blow, you can now get the most advanced consumer TV on the market. LG has officially launched the very first TV to be sold as an "ultra HD" set...... More

Bowker finds that 148,424 print books were self-published in 2011 — that means that 43 percent of all print books published in the U.S. in 2011 were self-published. 87,201 ebooks... More

Vox Media, the Washington, D.C., online media start-up that owns The Verge and SB Nation, is finally debuting its standalone videogame site called Polygon...... More

The popular Spotify collaborative listening app Soundrop relaunched with a completely revamped service Thursday, offering Spotify users a much tighter social integration that put... More

Buddy TV Guide a TV Guide App on iOS and Android who has taken a back seat as of recently though very popular at one time is now trying to make a comeback, they have recently worke... More

As anticipated, Apple has introduced the iPad Mini, a 7.2mm-thin aluminum-body tablet with a 7.9-inch screen that will go for just $329 for the 16 GB Wi-Fi-only version. It will st... More

TV search and discovery — as well as remote control — app Boxfish can now add the iPhone to its list of compatible devices. The team has also taken a cue from early user behavi... More

Vegas and Elementary are the top new shows of the fall TV season. But what's hot on social media? ABC's critical favorite, Nashville, along with NBC's Revolution, also the most pop... More

As many of you know, my youngest brother Steve died suddenly on Sept. 29. My thanks to all of you who expressed your concern and condolences. If this were a blog, I might post at l... More

The number of adults in Britain watching TV on demand via TV sets and mobile devices is growing, whilst on demand viewing via a desktop or laptop computer has peaked, according to ... More

Today, we watch a lot of different media on a lot of different screens. Some screens are enormous. Some are smartphones. Some connect with coax, and others with Wi-Fi. Our video co... More

The old cord-cutting argument has come around for another turn thanks to the ABI Research Technology barometer study that says cord-cutters--or at least consumers who dump pay TV f... More

Forget broadcasting. Streaming services like Netflix think the next money to be made is in narrowcasting, a strategy that both mimics and challenges the television business model..... More

Detroit-based Glocal came out of beta Wednesday with big ambitions: The website wants to be to local video what Hulu is to TV shows...... More

Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood on Tuesday asserted that the future of television is streaming during a keynote at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers' annua... More

Microsoft’s new Smartglass technology, due Friday, combined with a new update to the Xbox, puts the company clearly in the driver’s seat to control the evolution of the living ... More

The reviews are in for Microsoft's Surface tablet. And the verdict is not good. Here's a sampling of what reviewers are saying: ...... More

Dodging the issues of spectrum auctions and more cell towers, researchers at MIT have discovered that they can use an algebraic equation to improve data speeds by reducing drop... More

Consumer marketing at AMC Theaters experienced a seismic shakeup in the past three years. The theater chain, the second-largest in the U.S., ramped up involvement in digital media ... More