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With the launch of its iPad Mini, Apple now has a device for nearly all purposes. But the company still hasn't offered its version of the biggest home device of all -- the TV...... More

The worldwide pay-TV market is growing across all major platforms, including cable, satellite and IPTV, according to US firm ABI Research, which predicts that service revenues will... More

For streaming video, the barriers to entry are relatively low, so the competition, already fierce, will only get fiercer. Ideally, Netflix could raise prices, at least a little, to... More

More than a month after a French court convicted its first three-strikes offender under the anti-P2P regime known as Hadopi, the French government will be continuing the controvers... More

If you have $20,000 to blow, you can now get the most advanced consumer TV on the market. LG has officially launched the very first TV to be sold as an "ultra HD" set...... More

Bowker finds that 148,424 print books were self-published in 2011 — that means that 43 percent of all print books published in the U.S. in 2011 were self-published. 87,201 ebooks... More

Vox Media, the Washington, D.C., online media start-up that owns The Verge and SB Nation, is finally debuting its standalone videogame site called Polygon...... More

The popular Spotify collaborative listening app Soundrop relaunched with a completely revamped service Thursday, offering Spotify users a much tighter social integration that put... More

Buddy TV Guide a TV Guide App on iOS and Android who has taken a back seat as of recently though very popular at one time is now trying to make a comeback, they have recently worke... More

As anticipated, Apple has introduced the iPad Mini, a 7.2mm-thin aluminum-body tablet with a 7.9-inch screen that will go for just $329 for the 16 GB Wi-Fi-only version. It will st... More

TV search and discovery — as well as remote control — app Boxfish can now add the iPhone to its list of compatible devices. The team has also taken a cue from early user behavi... More

Vegas and Elementary are the top new shows of the fall TV season. But what's hot on social media? ABC's critical favorite, Nashville, along with NBC's Revolution, also the most pop... More

As many of you know, my youngest brother Steve died suddenly on Sept. 29. My thanks to all of you who expressed your concern and condolences. If this were a blog, I might post at l... More

The number of adults in Britain watching TV on demand via TV sets and mobile devices is growing, whilst on demand viewing via a desktop or laptop computer has peaked, according to ... More

Today, we watch a lot of different media on a lot of different screens. Some screens are enormous. Some are smartphones. Some connect with coax, and others with Wi-Fi. Our video co... More

The old cord-cutting argument has come around for another turn thanks to the ABI Research Technology barometer study that says cord-cutters--or at least consumers who dump pay TV f... More

Forget broadcasting. Streaming services like Netflix think the next money to be made is in narrowcasting, a strategy that both mimics and challenges the television business model..... More

Detroit-based Glocal came out of beta Wednesday with big ambitions: The website wants to be to local video what Hulu is to TV shows...... More

Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood on Tuesday asserted that the future of television is streaming during a keynote at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers' annua... More