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Netflix has restored its streaming video services, after Christmas outages related to problems with Amazon's online computing platform. Netflix users were unable to stream movies a... More

Some fans of the HBO series “Game of Thrones” may not be willing to pay a premium-cable subscription fee to watch it, but short of besieging a fleet of ships with a magical exp... More

For all the startups that have emerged to tackle the issue of social TV, only one seems to be thriving — and that’s Twitter, a social network that (paradoxically) hasn’t been... More

Doug Macdonald, Emptoris Portfolio Product Marketing Leader, at IBM, looks into the increasingly demanding role of the Procurement Officer, and how technology can help... ... More

On a gray day in February 2010, Brian Roberts sat facing the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee. The panel was holding its first hearing on a proposed merge... More

Billionaire media entrepreneur Alki David, who runs the FilmOn Internet streaming service, is among investors providing A$5 million (€3.95m) for Australian TV and movie streaming... More

Even before a cup of coffee, young people grab their smartphone. A whopping 90 percent of them use their smartphone first thing in the morning, often before they get out of bed, ac... More

Where’s the DRM outrage over e-books? Or put another way, why doesn’t Amazon care about eliminating DRM for books, when it did for music? For many industry watchers, it comes d... More

Amazon’s Data Pipeline, which promises easy, automated consolidation of data from many sources, is now available — or at least you can sign up for it. Amazon also unveiled a ne... More

Best Buy Dec. 20 quietly began testing an at-home disc-to-digital program through its CinemaNow digital movie service, letting consumers unlock an UltraViolet-enabled version of mo... More

The "small experiment" will let some people pay to have a message routed to the Inbox of someone they're not connected with, rather have it be banished to the Other folder...... More

Instead of banning illegal downloads with a three-strikes rule, as France has done, the Netherlands will levy a “private copy fee” on the sale of all electronic devices...... More

Keeping the ball rolling on TV Everywhere, Starz Entertainment announced that DirecTV customers who subscribe to the premium network’s services now have access to its correspondi... More

Probably, it should have sold to Yahoo for ~$2 billion last year when it had the chance...... More

With the original programming strategies off all the major Internet video-streaming companies now in place, the TV business is about to change drastically...... More

A jump in video equipment spending is forecast as operators respond to the need to deliver content to a range of devices, according to market research firm Infonetics Research, who... More

A proposal forbidding internet service providers from turning the data-cap meter off to grant a so-called internet fast lane to preferential online services was introduced Thursday... More

Transmedia, makers of Glide, will be introducing an updated service next week which provides a way to access all of your devices regardless of operating system, as well as content ... More

Redbox Instant by Verizon applications for both Android and Apple devices launched Dec. 19, though consumers were quick to slam the application for lack of service and incompatibil... More