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Dallas-based researcher Parks Associates says 13 percent of consumers who have broadband connections have made cutbacks within the last 12 months — with another 9 percent to come... More

Time Warner Cable, one of the nation’s top cable and Internet providers, said on Tuesday that it would subsidize some purchases of a set-top box called Slingbox that allows users... More

Yet again, research suggests that women love e-readers and men prefer tablets. A new study from Nielsen finds that 61 percent of e-reader owners are now female, compared to 46 perc... More

3net is aiming to excite children about the 3D format with a kid-friendly programming block. The "3net Three Dee Kids" Saturday and Sunday lineup will premiere on Oct. 1 with progr... More

We recently wrote about a surprising Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruling that might open the door to invalidating a lot of software patents. We received an an interesting comment on the ... More

VMware has released Micro Cloud Foundry, a fully functional version of its open-source, Platform-as-a-Service software condensed into a virtual image that runs on developers’ per... More

Reversing its previous declines in market share, iTunes in the first half [of 2011] managed to pad its leadership position in the U.S. online movie market, according to the new IHS... More

Microsoft will be unveiling a complete revamp of its Xbox 360 dashboard layout before the end of the year, making the interface cleaner and more intuitive to navigate. And speaking... More

Netflix subscribers in Latin America will be able to stream up to 1,200 hours per year of Telemundo programming under a deal announced Monday. This deal will allow Telemundo Intern... More

We are told that pre-owned game sales are bad for the industry: they deprive publishers of revenue, with the proceeds of the sale lining only the retailers’ pockets. According t... More

David Gray and Widespread Panic are the latest artists to stream gigs live to their Facebook fans—but to also charge them for watching. Both are using the Facebook Credits virtua... More

Electronic Arts confirmed reports that it will be limiting the number of digital and physical launch copies for BioWare’s upcoming “Star Wars: The Old Republic” MMO, as a pre... More

Amazon.com has quietly applied for trademarks on the name and logo of Lab126 — the internal group behind the Amazon Kindle e-reader and, by all accounts, an upcoming Android tabl... More

When consumers use their mobile phones to check the news, weather, email, or their social networks, they often have a choice between the mobile web version or a specially-created m... More

Rave Cinemas, LLC announced Aug. 17 that John Antioco, a director of Rave and the former chairman and chief executive officer of Blockbuster Inc., will succeed Charles Moss, Jr. as... More

Amazon.com today (Aug. 18) announced that Amazon Instant Video now offers customers more than 100,000 movies and TV shows, including new releases and classic favorites, available t... More

Liberty Media, the media conglomerate controlled by John C. Malone, agreed on Thursday to buy a stake in Barnes & Noble for $204 million, but declined to buy the bookseller out... More

Coinciding with the film’s Blu-ray release, fans of the Coen brothers comedy can rent the film directly from The Big Lebowski Facebook fan page. Facebook continues to gain ground... More

BSkyB will be ordered to weaken its stranglehold on Hollywood films on pay-TV after an investigation by the [UK’s] Competition Commission. In a provisional decision published on ... More