ABC’s livestreaming TV app comes to Kindle Fire

Following its initial launch on iOS, broadcast television network ABC is bringing its livestreaming app "Watch ABC" to Amazon's Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD, the company announced today.

China blamed for hacking Australia’s spy, foreign affairs, defense, and government agencies

The breach in ASIO reportedly revealed all the plans to the spy agency's brand-new headquarters, which would give significant advantages to spies attempting to infiltrate the building, either physically or electronically.

Mind the facts: Quick tips to stay vigilant while reading news

It’s easy to become caught up in tweets or Facebook posts alleging a story is true when there is very little to back it up. Recent events like the Boston Marathon bombing and fertilizer plant explosion in Texas incite a …

ABC could be the first broadcaster to livestream its TV shows via mobile apps

Except for high profile news coverage and sporting events, media networks give first priority of their TV content to the traditionally TV viewing audience, but that could be changing soon.

How a Sith Lord spends the day at Disneyland

Darth Vadar. You were just purchased for over four billion dollars. What are you going to do now? Obviously, the answer is go to Disneyland in this video.

Finally, reason from network TV: Dr. Who episodes available online hours after global release

Finally, someone at a major television network gets it: unreasonably restricting access to great content drives piracy.

Unfortunately, the major television network is in Australia.

As legal battle with TV networks escalates, Aereo launches in NYC — We tested it, and it rocks

I’m sitting in my office (by which I mean my kitchen) watching Rachel Ray on my iPad and Kathy Lee on my laptop. These aren’t clips or day or old episodes. It’s live programming that’s streaming to me via Aereo, …

Aereo says people have a legal right to rabbit ears and DVRs, countersues the big TV networks

Aereo, the New York startup that is building a new system for streaming and recoding live TV, is countersuing the big TV networks that filed a lawsuit against it at the beginning of this month. The company, which is backed …

Streaming service Aereo ready for legal war with TV networks

Incumbent industries have a history of challenging new technologies that disrupt the established way they do business. For example, AT&T sued to keep everything from the answering machine to the Hush-A-Phone out of the market. Yesterday’s news that all the …

Apple, Foxconn and the FLA respond to ABC’s “iFactory”

Apple, Foxconn, and the Fair Labor Association have each responded to ABC’s “iFactory: Inside Apple” news special, which aired last night on ABC.

The iFactory Nightline episode told the story of Foxconn, a Chinese factory that produces iPads, iPhones, and …

ABC’s rare look inside Apple’s Foxconn factory

What is it like inside a factory that makes Apple iPads? Tuesday night, an ABC Nightline special called “iFactory” gave us the first peak at actual factory working conditions and the people living on the assembly line.

Bill Weir, a …

ABC News gets rare access to Apple’s troubled plants in China — will you watch?

ABC’s “Nightline” news program will air a special report Tuesday night that will give an “unprecedented” look into the Apple production lines at the troubled Foxconn plants in China. Labor conditions at the plants have drawn the ire of critics …

Netflix renews ABC deal, gets a dose of something new

Netflix has renewed its contract with Disney to keep episodes of ABC shows available through its streaming video service, the company announced today.

Just like its previous agreement with Disney, the deal will give Netflix subscribers access to all the …