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Sunlyte LLC (Kennebunkport, Maine) is joining forces with EDC (Langenhagen, Germany) and shorewood.blueprint (Middlesex, UK) to form the Sunlyte Alliance....The Sunlyte Alliance of... More

Launching the second iteration of the iPad earlier this year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs proclaimed 2011 the year of the iPad 2. So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to hear that... More

“The business we’re in today, offering first-run movies a la carte, is doing very well right now and has tripled so far this year,” Vudu General Manager Edward Lichty said. �... More

IP addresses have real uses when it comes to identifying Internet activity, but they work best when paired with targeted investigation rather than as “spray-and-pray” shotgun-s... More

Nu Image has voluntarily dismissed its case against the last remaining defendants in a high-profile lawsuit that targeted 23,322 alleged pirates of "The Expendables," the 2010 film... More

If Facebook is going to announce any sort of music product or partnership, it could come at the company's just-announced f8 developer conference on Sept. 22. There has been a lot o... More

Millenniata, a new optical disc company, says that its M-Disc recordable media provides data storage for centuries by “laser etching data into an inorganic rock-like material.”... More

The game-changer is actually buried in this week’s decision in Capitol Records v. MP3tunes, a ruling that fell solidly in favor of the DMCA and cloud-based lockers. MP3tunes foun... More

Internet radio company Pandora reported the financial results for its first three months as a public company Thursday. The Oakland, Calif.-based company confirmed that while it sti... More

The upcoming Walmart circular reveals that the mega-retailer will do a "rollback" on the price of the Xbox 360 4GB Kinect bundle, dropping it to $249 (down $50 from the current pri... More

The deadline for initial bids in the auction for Hulu was extended from Wednesday until the end of the week to allow interested parties more time to examine the online video site�... More

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