Increasingly, it’s becoming a necessity for people to watch their favorite sports beyond the confines of a traditional TV, which is why this year’s Wimbledon tennis tournament is doing just that for its championship matches with the help of Ooyala.…
The New York Times will soon be available in full on the iPad and iPhone via Flipboard‘s online media app.
The announcement is a big deal for online media startup Flipboard, which has finally scored a big publisher to give …
Amazon will take on Netflix, Hulu, and traditional television companies by creating its own slate of original TV shows, starting with one children’s show and three comedies. The move was expected.
Amazon’s new Studios arm intends to produce several TV …
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Since Spotify‘s U.S. launch a year ago, the startup has turned into one of the best streaming music services available today. And with the company’s transformation into a platform for music-focused apps, the service has gotten even better.
Spotify’s desktop …
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Before Reddit became the revolutionary powerhouse of truth, justice, and random acts of pizza, it was just a couple of dudes trying to attract people to their idea of launching a link-sharing site that featured democratically curated news from the …
Flipboard, the app that turns your tired old RSS feeds and social streams into a slick digital magazine layout, is finally coming to Google Android platform with a brand new phone application, the startup announced today.
The Flipboard service initially …
The major broadcast networks won a bit more freedom today, thanks to a Supreme Court decision involving the Federal Communications Commission’s rules for keeping swear words and naked people off live broadcast television.
The high court ruled (PDF) that the …
Someone should really explain to Microsoft’s legal team that trying to eliminate information once it’s been leaked online is more difficult than eliminating a cockroach infestation from a dilapidated frat house.
Try as you might, you’ll never manage to kill …
Most people who see a $1.65 billion exit of their company would be content to retire from the business world, but that’s rarely the case in the tech industry, as YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley demonstrates.
Hurley is scheduled to launch …
Last year, Redbox turned its sight on video game rentals in a big way, and has shared some recent stats from that endeavor with GamesBeat.
Remember that Steve Jobs comic book? Welp, we got more where that came from.
Bluewater Productions, the team behind Steve Jobs: Co-founder of Apple has just sent us word about a new trio of graphic novels about tech founders. Think …
Fashion-forward types seem infatuated with photographing their outfits. You can scoff at the practice all you want, but the overwhelming number of fashion blogs tells us that sharing outfits is popular, especially in a world with Instagram. Cloth, an iOS …
Siri is a smart little whippersnapper. Smart enough to know things she’s not supposed to know. And even smarter to hide what she’s not supposed to tell.
The China Real Time report at the Wall Street Journal reports that Tiananmen …
The days of being able to rip an MP3 file from the audio of a YouTube video are numbered as far as Google is concerned.
The search giant apparently sent a letter to one of the biggest offenders, YouTube-MP3-.org, to …
Popular digital magazine app Flipboard is getting some attention from Google in the form of Google+ API support, the company announced today at the Le Web 2012 conference in London.
The support will give Flipboard users access to content streams …
Streaming music startup Spotify has added a Pandora-like radio service to its iOS applications, finally giving free Spotify users in the U.S. a reason to download the Spotify app for their iPhones and iPads.
Spotify has offered its own radio …
Earlier today we caught our first glimpse at the Microsoft Surface, Microsoft’s new Windows 8 tablet, at a press event in Los Angeles (check out our full live coverage). After the event I got some hands-on time with both Surface …
The Swedes are the first to get their hands on the new HDTVs from Swedish furniture store Ikea. The Uppleva TV, an all-in-one TV/cabinet/audio system is now on sale at the company’s Stockholm store for roughly $1,000, and will trickle …
The Online Publisher’s Association just released the results of a new study on tablet owners’ use and purchase habits. The news is good if you’re a magazine, not so much if you’re a newspaper. But it’s all good if you’re …
Update: This post has been updated with clarification from Netflix about the API changes.
Netflix made some pretty significant changes to its developer API Friday.
The changes rip away key pieces of information that could be useful for third-party Netflix …
