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As Film Industry Tackles Digital Downloads, Fox Charges Ahead (AdAge)
As the film industry debates exactly how to incorporate digital downloads into its business strategy, 20th Century Fox is taking the lead...... More
Boxee Partners with Opera to Bring Apps to Its Cloud-Enabled Set-Top Boxes (Next Web)
Opera Software has deepened its links to the living room after it announced a partnership with Boxee. The Opera Devices SDK will now power Boxee’s new streaming media player, br... More
How Today’s Tablets and Smartphones Will Morph Into Remote Controls in 2013 (CITE World)
Smartphones and tablets are amazing tools, but their capabilities are just starting to be fully developed. Starting in 2013, smartphones and tablets will take on important new role... More
Avail-TVN Launches ViewNow Subscription VOD Service (HMM)
Digital media services company Avail-TVN has launched a new subscription VOD service dubbed ViewNow, with Verizon FiOS becoming the first pay-TV operator to host the offering...... More
Detroit Is the Testing Ground for A New Open Source Wireless Network Technology (GigaOm)
How do you connect people who have no Internet? How do you build a wireless network outside of the official wireless ISPs? These are questions the Open Technology Institute wants t... More
Facebook Prepares to Bring Video Ads to News Feed, Aims for TV Dollars (AdAge)
Facebook is set to unveil a new video-ad product in the first half of next year in its largest attempt to date to attract big swaths of ad dollars from TV advertisers, according to... More
The Rise of Online Film Distribution – Infographic (VideoMind)
With movie ticket sales slumping and prices rising, it's no wonder that film distribution is moving toward the Web. Check out the infographic to find out how filmed enterntainment ... More
Starz Bows Movie Streaming Service with AT&T U-verse TV (HMM)
Starz Entertainment Dec. 17 said it signed a TV Everywhere agreement with AT&T U-verse, which includes the launch of Movieplex Play, a subscription video-on-demand service feat... More
Most Flat-Panel TVs Will Be Web-Enabled by 2016 (CNET)
The flat-panel TV you buy in 2016 will almost certainly be a smart TV embedded with access to the Internet, says Gartner. Production of flat-panel smart TVs will shoot up from 69 m... More
3-D Isn’t Big Draw 2nd Time Around (LA Times)
Hollywood isn't seeing as much green in 3-D re-releases as it had hoped. Considered an easy new revenue source after the 3-D re-release of Walt Disney Studios' "The Lion King" popp... More
Study: Ads in Short-Form Video More Effective Than Those in Long-Form (Video Nuze)
Advertisers and content providers continue to grapple with how to optimize ads in online video, and contributing to the dialogue, this morning AOL is releasing research indicating ... More
Global pay-TV Will Reach 907m in 2013 (Advanced TV)
The global pay-TV market added nearly 47 million subscribers in 2012 reaching a total of 864 million subscribers. “ABI Research expects that the pay-TV market will continue to gr... More
Nielsen Acquiring Arbitron in Bid to Expand Measurement Abilities (Adweek)
Nielsen Holdings has signed an agreement to acquire radio ratings and marketing research firm Arbitron as it seeks to expand its measurement abilities, the company announced today.... More
Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption (Forbes)
Amazon, the great disintermediator that put a spanner — in fact, a set of 25 spanners in a handy case, yours for just $9.99 — in the businesses of many a retailer, is going to ... More
Bad News for Standalone MDM: No One Wants You (CITE World)
Consolidation in the mobile device management market points to changes afoot...... More
Dijit’s NextGuide Has Guide for TV and Streaming Programming (Beet.tv)
Television has evolved from a live form of entertainment to one with live, time-shifting, on demand and streaming options. San Francisco-based Dijit has created a digital TV guide ... More
Social TV App, zeebox Achieves Over 100,000 Downloads in Two Weeks (Technology Spectator)
International social TV company zeebox is thriving in Australia, with the company saying its app has achieved over 100,000 downloads within the two weeks of its launch. The figur... More
Endemol, Dainty Ensure Satisfaction for Rolling Stones PPV Second Screen App (Rapid TV News)
As The Rolling Stones Official App launches on Google's Android platform after its debut on Apple's iOS, leading production house Endemol and Dainty Group have revealed their commi... More
LG Readies Second Screen Solution for CES Debut (Huffington Post)
Consumer electronics giant LG is readying the launch of a two-screen API for its content partners, allowing users to manage and interact with programming on the big screen using an... More
