Single Touch Systems, a mobile media company that holds 140 patents in the market, have sent “Letters of Notification” to streaming video companies including Netflix, Disney and Hulu claiming ownership of certain technologies used by the companies to stream media […]
Hey everyone, 30% of Reddit has a girlfriend! Well, maybe a boyfriend. Rapidly-growing social aggregator reddit has surveyed 30,000 of the users of the popular aggregator, releasing some of the collected demographic data in a handy CSV file. In a […]
Fans of NBC properties like 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation and Community with iPads will be pleased to hear that the network’s iPad app was updated to allow viewing of entire episodes on Thursday. GigaOM reminds readers that it originally called the app […]
Bloggers and other users of new media can breathe a bit more easily- with each subsequent update, it seems the “copyright trolling” law firm Righthaven is seeing their widely criticized, anti-new media litigation rejected by courts and now its one-time […]
Oh, Glenn Beck. I forgot about that guy. The frog-boiling, America’s Virginity Restoring (thanks, Gawker!) conservative snake oil salesman saw his Fox News fortunes rapidly reverse after his platform and position were roundly and effectively mocked into obscurity by Jon […]
Walmart has spoken out directly about whether Netflix is a siphon for their business, saying the dominant streaming video company is not a competitor but a supplement to the service they offer with Vudu. Indeed, the opinion may not just […]
The EW Scripps Company has announced plans to bring mobile video streaming of live TV to all nine of its markets in the US. The platform- which “works very simply,” the company says in a press release- allows users to […]
Music streaming service Pandora took a hit in trading today on news Clear Channel Broadcasting overhauled its iHeartRadio service. While a simple makeover would be one thing, the iHeartRadio revamp includes the addition of some key Pandora features that up […]
Until the web came along and popularized local restaurant review outfits like Yelp and OpenTable, Zagat was the source for finding out whether an unexplored establishment might or might not have been worth the trip. But Zagat’s transition to a market […]
Recently dismissed Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz didn’t pull any punches or give her recent boot from the ailing search engine the corporate gloss-over in her first interview following the much-discussed firing. In a notably frank assessment absent of the typical […]
It seems that streaming music listeners fall into one of maybe two categories- the control freaks, who need to select every track that is played for them and prefer more micromanagable services like Grooveshark and the open-minded type that likes […]
One of the older mainstream media titles will be helping Tumblr work toward its ten billionth post, the magazine has announced. Legacy magazine Time– which has created a decent presence for itself on the web after experiencing some standard print […]
Arianna Huffington has placed her busy little fingers into another pie, adding “publisher of e-books” to the Huffington Post’s lengthy list of functions. The release of A People’s History of the Great Recession marks the blog’s first venture into ebook […]
International news agency Reuters is dipping its toe into the somewhat hot aggregator game with a new linkblog called Counterparties. Drawing more than one comparison to the Drudge Report, Counterparties will carry between 20 and 30 of the day’s more […]