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With smartphones and tablets becoming commonplace, the second screen is a recognized trend even in India. Many people watch TV as a background activity while surfing the Net, or up... More

Popular devices like Google Android smartphones and tablets like the iPad Mini from Apple were among the bright spots in the consumer electronics market in 2012, though overall sal... More

FlixFling, the Philadelphia-based transactional and subscription video-on-demand service, Feb. 19 said it signed content license deals with Magnolia Pictures and Image Entertainmen... More

Here it is: the fourth and final piece of the Ubuntu puzzle. We've seen the OS on smartphones, on TVs and of course on desktops, but the tablet version has spent a little longer in... More

In a bid to re-architect and improve upon how online video ads are inserted, this morning Akamai is announcing Ad Integration Services. With Ad Integration Services, online video a... More

On Wednesday, Sony is expected to pull the wraps off of its next-generation PlayStation console, codenamed Orbis. Five years ago, a new console would have been a very big deal. The... More

European Union authorities are preparing to take action against Google by the summer unless the company moves to allay concerns about privacy of user data. French data protection w... More

Forrester Research has just released its “2013 Mobile Trends for Marketers,” a smart report about the mushrooming mobile business that predicts $4.6 billion in mobile ad revenu... More

The future of media may be mobile but on-the-move television is still in its infancy accounting for three minutes of viewing a day, according to industry figures. The average UK vi... More

Just how big a role might Ericsson ABplay in the software-defined networking (SDN) revolution? You won't have noticed the Swedish vendor making any SDN acquisitions or declaring an... More

In mid-January, Michael Powell, current president and CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), made an admission about Internet usage-based pricing. S... More

Well, that was interesting. On Saturday, I wrote an article about the challenges facing Sony and Microsoft's next generation of consoles. I put forward the hypothesis that there's ... More

Anthony Bay reportedly is out as head of Amazon’s video division, effective March 1. Bay, who was previously CEO of digital kiosk operator MOD Systems, had been with Amazon about... More

Innovations in technology, a multitude of connected devices, and evolutions in the media distribution landscape have provided more ways than ever to consume media across different ... More

LG Display has said today that it is going to spend 706 billion Korean won to construct an eighth-generation OLED TV panel production line in an existing plant in South Korea. Mone... More

Wouldn't it be great if you could push a button at night, and all of your doors would lock, your lights would turn off and your alarm would set automatically? That kind of "smart h... More

"Our goal is fairly modest," said Robert Malnati, vice president of marketing for Cedexis, somewhat tongue in cheek. "We want to make the internet better for every user." Cedexis a... More

The UltraHD industry is in need of market champions to develop the ecosystem as uncertain market acceptance and revenue potential has led to a lingering hesitation in investments t... More

What took HBO decades to build, Netflix thinks it can achieve in a much shorter time. As the online streaming service tries to become the next HBO by focusing more heavily on origi... More