The video and voice calling service Skype is coming to a TV near you, thanks to a new partnership with Comcast, a leading provider of cable TV services here in the U.S. This morning, the two companies formally announced a deal that will allow Comcast customers to use Skype's HD...
Internet TV platform Rokuannounced today that it has reached 15 million channel downloads from the more than one million people on its service. Roku's growth has been spurred by its expanding selection of entertainment channels and the company's recent move into U.S. retail stores. Roku is simple and as a...
One of the big drawbacks to most Internet TV systems is that the viewer has to actually make a choice, rather than sitting back and letting the glorious glow of cable TV wash over them. Roku, a simple device that brings Internet content like Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon Video-on-Demand...
During Samsung's keynote address at yesterday's Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2011) in Las Vegas, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar joined Samsung U.S. President Tim Baxter on stage to announce that Hulu Plus, the premium version of the streaming service for TV and movies, will be coming to Android devices in the...
Vizio, the electronics manufacturer known best for its flat-panel TVs and LCD displays will soon join its rival Samsung in becoming an Android mobile phone and tablet company, too. According to The Wall St. Journal, Vizio has announced its first mobile phone called the "Via Phone" and its first tablet...
Looking back on the year in Web technology, we can see that several product categories have evolved significantly over 2010. We've already written about App Stores and eReaders. Another market that progressed in 2010 was Internet TV. Among the developments: Apple announced a major overhaul of Apple TV, Google launched...
Facebook's data team proved once again today that when you analyze a large set of anonymous user data from the world's biggest social network, you can learn some very interesting things about the state of humanity.In a blog post titled What's on your mind?, the company disclosed the results of...
There's one great big difference between Internet TV and good, old cable television. Cable television, even at its most complex, is simple - you either subscribe to a channel or you don't. Once you make up your mind, you can sit back, relax, and surf away. Internet TV is a...
Having just emerged from private beta earlier this month, online video hub Hulu is now lowering the price for its premium service "Hulu Plus" in an effort to lure in more users. Previously, Hulu Plus was $9.99 per month, but today it's dropping to $7.99 per month. Current customers who...
Twitter announced a partnership with Apple this morning that amounts to this: you can now post links to song previews on Twitter from inside iTunes Ping.Most of Twitter's other partnerships are very interesting. Streamed Tweets on top of Current.tv's live Presidential Debate videos. Real-time search results inside Google and Bing....
Watching TV is becoming a more interactive experience - at least that's what a number of companies building interactive TVs and media center products are hoping. From Apple CEO Steve Jobs' "hobby" project, Apple TV, to media center startups like Boxee, there are new ways to "watch" TV that involve...
Hulu Plus, the premium version of online video hub Hulu, has now opened its doors to all interested users, according to a post this morning on the company's corporate blog. Says Rob Wong, Director of Product for Hulu, users no longer need an invitation to sign up for Hulu Plus....
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Earlier this summer we told you about Bitbop, a mobile TV subscription service that launched exclusively on BlackBerry devices. At that time, it seemed intriguing that BlackBerry phones would be the target market for mobile TV viewing, especially when other mobile platforms now offer Netflix and Hulu. The FOX-owned company...
Music videos became famous in the early 80's on MTV. Nowadays, music videos are more likely to be viewed on the Web. Seven of the top ten YouTube videos of all time are music videos - from the likes of Lady Gaga, Shakira and Justin Bieber. The increasing popularity of...
It was a busy day at the YBCA Theater in San Francisco today as Apple unveiled a slew of new products and services to its crowd, and to those watching live on the Web. We saw upgrades to the iOS software for all iOS devices (even the iPad), a new...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt made big promises of mysterious, highly-interactive new methods of monetizing YouTube in a CNBC interview today. "We believe the best products are coming out this year," he said. "And they're new products. They're not announced. They're not just putting in-line ads in the things that people...
Are the Pixies, Negativeland and early Radiohead what you consider classic music? Wether or not that's the case, you may want to check out the new Pitchfork.tv - a new music video site that just launched today. The next stage in the evolution of popular niche music blog PitchforkMedia.com, Pitchfork.tv...
MTV and MySpace have just announced a new joint venture to create a weekly TV show called "The MySpace Chart," which will be shown on MTV2 in the UK. The videos appearing on the show will be decided by votes from MTV viewers on the site's own website and by...
MTV announced that on February 1 it would end the user generated content television channel Flux, which it started in the UK in September 2006. Flux will be replaced by "MTV One Plus 1," which is a one hour timeshift of the programming on its flagship station. Though MTV is...
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