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Top executives from Warner Bros. and the Weather Channel predicted here Wednesday that their companies would see continued growth in tablet usage and digital and mobile revenue. In... More

Mass Relevance, the technology leader in social curation and integration, today announced it is collaborating with the Big Ten Network (BTN) on a ground-breaking social, second-scr... More

The vast majority of UK viewers possessing smartphones and tablets have tried ‘second-screen’ devices whilst watching their favourite TV shows, although many report that they a... More

Colleague Zuri Berry recently pointed out how lousy the NFL '12 app is, and I couldn't agree more. By the second week of the season, I'd abandoned it as my second screen on Sundays... More

Aussies are watching more than 100 hours of TV a month and are beginning to embrace the second screen, according to a new report. The latest quarterly Australian Multi-Screen Repor... More

Latvian telco Lattelecom has deployed a multi-screen video platform from Thomson Video Networks to provide encoding for its new range of Web and mobile TV services, as well as SD, ... More

Sovereigns of cyberspace such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter have no legislatures or courts, yet they are carrying out private worldwide speech "regulation" -- sometimes in respo... More

International revenue (that is, anywhere that's not North America) is up 35 percent over five years ago and accounted for 69 percent of the studios' box-office receipts in 2011, ac... More

YouTube will start experimenting with charging subscription fees for some of its branded content following its partnerships, announced at Mipcom, with European TV content providers... More

The deal will give Samsung a new way to promote its televisions; Spotify, meanwhile, hopes the arrangement offers a new incentive for consumers to pay for its subscription service ... More

As part of Warner's 90th anniversary celebration in 2013, the studio is converting its iconic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz from 2D to 3D for release on Blu-ray Disc 3D (BD3D), wi... More

What if your iPad could recognize you, not through passwords, retinal scans, or even fingerprints, but a simple touch? Well, that’s exactly what technology being developed by res... More

While social video can be put to use by any average Joe, media companies are taking an increasing interest in either open services like Google+ Hangout, which is drawing buzz to th... More

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has signaled a new direction for the world's largest software company, pointing to hardware and online services as its future, taking a... More

After backing out of plans to compete with Netflix, Blockbuster is all but done. That's not great news for the streaming-video space, and Netflix is in a rough spot. But Blockbust... More

In the next few weeks and months, two important cases will address the "First-Sale Doctrine," the part of copyright law allowing those who have purchased copies of movies, songs an... More

The bigger issue seems to be that Sling got its value proposition backward. It is launching with new devices that out of the box don’t add that much functionality over the previo... More

BBC Worldwide is the latest TV and movie distributor to join the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) consortium, as it looks to beef up its online content sales...... More

The Verge has obtained photos of Boxee TV, a device that aims to combine over-the-air live TV broadcasts, DVR functionality, and web apps into a single home theater solution. It's... More