All posts by MESA News

Tip-toeing Towards A Multi-Screen Future (MediaWeek)

The real opportunity around multi-screening is that it leaves the big screen to do what it does best and directs all of the interactivity and personalisation of the experience to t... More

Verizon CEO Says No To Dish Spectrum Deal, Big Acquisitions (Reuters)

Verizon Communications, majority owner of the biggest U.S. mobile service, is not interested in buying spectrum from Dish Network and does not plan to make big acquisitions, its to... More

A Third Mobile Platform? There’s No Room for One. (All Things D)

Kantar Worldpanel ComTech says that Apple’s iOS recently ousted Google’s Android as the most popular smartphone OS in the U.S.? Not so, says comScore...... More

Coinstar Cashes In on Redbox Kiosks (Fortune)

Coinstar has been taking on Blockbuster stores with its Redbox kiosks.  Now it's taking aim at Netflix on the Web...... More

Internet Hangs in Balance as World Governments Meet in Secret (Wired)

There’s a lot of sky-is-falling doomsday predictions about the World Conference on International Telecommunications, which opens Monday in Dubai with some 190-plus nations discus... More

Microsoft-Intel Push to Combat Apple in Tablets Sputtering (Bloomberg)

A push by Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. to combat Apple Inc.'s iPad in the $63.2 billion tablet market is getting off to a slow start ... More

Motorola Fails to Win Xbox Ban in US and Germany (BBC News)

A US judge has ruled that Google's Motorola unit cannot ban sales of Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console because of a patent dispute...... More

Retail Frenzy: Prices on the Web Change Hourly (NY Times)

The day before Thanksgiving, Amazon was offering a discounted price of $49.96 on a popular Xbox game, the same price as Walmart and 3 cents lower than Target. Then the holiday pric... More

Hallmark Enters Movie Streaming Biz (Variety)

Hallmark has a gift for Netflix and other subscription VOD services just in time for the holidays: competition...... More

Console to Mobile: A Return to the Frontline (Games Industry Intl.)

Scopely's Travis Chen on one developer's reasoning for leaving the stagnant home hardware market behind to dive into a future of multiplayer on handsets...... More

News Corp. Shutters The Daily iPad App (All Things D)

The Daily, News Corp.’s attempt to create a newspaper for the iPad era, is shutting down after less than two years...... More

Google Fiber Puts the ISPs to Shame (InfoWorld)

Now that the traditional Internet providers are in Google's cross-hairs, will they finally upgrade their decrepit networks?...... More

Nokia Speed Advantage Opens Way to Holiday Gain on IPhone (Bloomberg)

Nokia is vying with Apple and Samsung for European shoppers’ holiday budgets and an early foothold in the market for LTE smartphones, which are faster and often have bigger scree... More

Forecast: Internet Ad Spend Will Outstrip All Print in 2015 (PaidContent)

Mad Men are moving their money – the internet will take more advertising dollars than newspapers and magazines combined by 2015, according to latest forecasts... ... More

Best Buy Broadens CinemaNow ‘Legacy’ (HMM)

Retailer gives consumers’ early digital access to ‘The Bourne Legacy’ on CinemaNow with the Blu-ray Disc pre-order ... More

Mitsubishi Drops DLP Displays: Goodbye RPTVs Forever (CEPro)

Mitsubishi Electrical Visual Solutions America, Inc. (MEVSA), the group in charge of the RPTV and other video product lines for both residential and commercial markets, has sent a ... More

Redbox Instant Video Streaming Said To Launch In December (cnet)

Leaked details reveal that Verizon's service, which aims to compete with Netflix, could get introduced in a couple weeks and cost as little as $6 per month...... More

Why “Cord Nevers” Don’t Worry Me (kit digital)

The latest study to put the television business in a tizzy is a study from TDG that shows the number of “Pay TV refugees” — users who have broadband but not TV– growing ... More

How Apple Can Build the Next-Generation TV (The Verge)

In 2010 Steve Jobs sat on stage at the D: All Things Digital Conference and took a question from an audience member. “Do you think it’s time to throw out the interface for tele... More