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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

A growing number of channels are fielding apps on smartphones and tablets to supplement TV shows with extra content synchronized to be relevant to what's occurring on the televisio... More

Trans World Entertainment Corp. today reported financial results for its second quarter ended July 30, 2011. For the second quarter of 2011, the company reported an $8.5 million or... More

Another month, another set of outages come along to delight those who follow Microsoft’s journey to cloud nirvana ... More

A group of music publishers that joined a class action lawsuit filed against YouTube in 2007 have reached a settlement with Google’s video-sharing site. The National Music Publis... More

comScore, Inc. today (Aug. 17) released a report on selected global retail and auction sites based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. The study found that of the desti... More

Music Beta, remember it? It’s the online music locker service that Google unveiled at I/O in May. But the keyword in the title very much remains “Beta” — as in, not in any ... More

Hollywood has made a stink about so-called "cyberlockers," file-hosting websites that allow users personal storage that often gets used to share copyrighted movies, music and games... More

According to one source who has seen internal HP reports, Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and has so far managed to sell only 25,000, or less than 10 percent of th... More

The tablet market continues to be summed up like this: the iPad and everything else. And everything else doesn't amount to much. That’s according to a recent survey conducted by ... More

According to comScore, which will start publishing data on YouTube's channel partners tomorrow, 40% of YouTube's audience clicked over in July to watch music videos, more than any ... More

European music distributors accounted for the majority of the 25 million-plus discs destroyed Aug. 8 when rioters set fire to a Sony DADC warehouse in London. But there were DVDs a... More

Yesterday (Aug. 15) Fox followed through with its previously announced plans to keep its new shows off the Web for 8 days, except for Hulu Plus and Dish Network subscribers. Disney... More

Image Entertainment, Inc., a leading independent licensee and distributor of entertainment programming in North America, today reported financial results for its first fiscal quart... More