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The "Second Screen" is quickly becoming an industry buzzword, and with good reason. It will change the entire television industry. That is not hyperbole, it is already happening. F... More

Consulting firm Ernst & Young interviewed 34 chiefs of media companies as part of a comprehensive survey of their attitudes and priorities. The firm’s report, released Wednes... More

The iPhone 5 is just 7.6 MM thin, the thinnest iPhone yet. And at 112 grams it’s also the lightest as well — 20 percent lighter than the 4S. Its 4-inch screen boasts a 16:9 asp... More

The Kindle Fire HD offers improved speed, improved screen resolution, and a superior industrial design. In short, the Fire HD is the Fire reborn. And at $199, it gives most similar... More

The Fire HD has no camera on the back, no GPS navigation, no speech recognition, no to-do list or notes app. It trails the iPad in thickness, screen size, screen sharpness, Web s... More

Former Disney executive Bob Lambert, a digital media trailblazer who played a central role in the development of computer animated features and in the transition from film to digit... More

To borrow from Mark Twain, “The report of [discs’] death was an exaggeration.” Sales of Blu-ray Disc movies and catalog DVDs have shown significant resilience in 2012 — de... More

Back in March, VEVO rolled out a huge new redesign, which saw the major-label-owned music video giant add continuous playback and beef up its personalization and social features. ... More

Has FCC chairman Julius Genachowski changed his mind on the acceptability of data caps? As far back as 2010 he defended the idea of wireline ISPs using broadband usage caps as pa... More

Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that "we've had a bunch of missteps on [mobile]," specifically referring to its mobile app s... More

Google announced Tuesday morning the release of its own free YouTube app, now available immediately in the App Store. The launch comes just ahead of Apple's expected launch of... More

The television market struggled through a second consecutive down quarter this year, new data from NPD DisplaySearch has revealed. The research firm reported today that total TV... More

Dolby and Philips have been showing a new format at IBC that brings full HD 3D to glasses-free 3D devices. Although 3D has fallen out of the headlines, work continues on technologi... More

The10-foot UI hopes to help Valve's content distribution portal get comfortable in front of your couch, offering gamers access to their favorite PC titles from a gamepad-friendly ... More

After several weeks of high drama, troubled Digital Domain Media filed for Chapter 11 in the U.S. and Canada and agreed to sell its production business to Searchlight Partners Capi... More

The broadcasters may have underestimated how much they'd make from retransmission consent revenues, according to a new research report, which could ratchet up the pressure on pay-T... More

In the run up to the Nov. 6 presidential and general elections, the Motion Picture Association of America Sept. 10 — in a memo sent to the House of Representatives and U.S. Senat... More

Nielsen announced in May that more than half of U.S. mobile owners now owned smartphones. Today that metric has grown again, going from 50.4% to 55.5%. But the more interesting ... More

Just four days after a federal judge approved the Department of Justice’s settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster for allegedly colluding with Apple to... More