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Google announced yesterday that it’s purchased Widevine, a video digital rights management company mostly known as the technology behind Netflix’s video protection. Widevine gives video sites the tools to license, encrypt, and distribute videos to a variety of device platforms.…
Netflix is apparently willing to shell out big bucks to acquire new TV episodes, according to a report by the New York Post.
A source tells the paper that Netflix is negotiating with studios to acquire individual new TV episodes …
Amidst the hoopla surrounding Google TV and Apple TV, Microsoft has been oddly quiet. Now we have an idea of what the software giant is up to: It’s apparently in talks with media companies to license TV networks for a …
“Potential” is the key word when discussing Google TV. It has the potential to completely reshape the way we watch TV, the potential to change the way content providers do business, and the potential to give Google the sort of …
Cox Communications, the third-largest cable provider in the US, announced today that it’s launching a mobile phone service that it will bundle with its cable and internet service, Bloomberg reports.
The cellular service is launching today in Orange County, California; …
Game consoles are becoming the portals to entertainment in the home. The latest evidence of that is the impending launch of the Vudu on-demand movie-streaming service on Sony’s PlayStation Network.
On Nov. 23, PlayStation 3 owners will be able to …
As part of a plan to expand to new platforms, on-demand movie service Vudu (owned by Wal-Mart) is partnering with online video service Boxee to debut its streaming movies on the PC and Mac computers.
Boxee has its own set-top …
VentureBeat readers already saw screenshots of MySpace’s leaked redesign last week. But now the fading social network’s millions of U.S. users will be able to experience the site’s new beta version, unveiled today. It’s focused less on social networking — …
Just like Hulu, broadcast networks ABC, NBC, and CBS have chosen to block access to Google TV — the company’s new platform that brings web video to televisions — the Wall Street Journal reports.
Google, meanwhile, is in active negotiations …
Sports fans weren’t the only casualties of News Corp. and Cablevision’s prolonged contract dispute this weekend, as Cablevision customers also briefly lost access to Hulu’s Fox content on Saturday, All Things Digital reports.
Cablevision subscribers who attempted to watch Fox …
As we predicted, yesterday’s reveal of Logitech’s Revue box was just the beginning of a flood of Google TV news.
First up, we have details on pricing and sizes for Sony’s Google TV line of televisions, courtesy of Sony Insider. …
After months of mere glimpses at Logitech’s Revue set-top box, I got a closer look today, as well as some hands-on time, with the Google TV-powered device.
The box will come bundled with a controller that looks like a typical …
Google offered ABC’s Nightline a glimpse at Google TV tonight (see video below), and with it came our first look at Sony’s proposed Google TV controller for its new internet-enabled televisions.
At first glance, the controller seems incredibly busy and …
Google has been fairly quiet on the progress of Google TV since it was announced five months ago, but now the company seems ready to spin up its hype machine once again.
In a blog post today, Google TV product …
When Ivi launched a way to stream TV broadcasts over the web earlier this month, it had a premonition that it was going to get sued. On Sept. 20, the company filed a pre-emptive suit in federal court in Seattle …
Verizon today announced several changes to its executive roster in preparation for CEO Ivan Seidenberg’s retirement. The company named Lowell McAdam (pictured to the right alongside Google CEO Eric Schmidt), current president and CEO of Verizon Wireless, as Verizon’s new …
Belgacom, which has 870,000 digital TV customers in Belgium, will invest $2 million EU in video recommendation service Jinni as part of a strategic partnership.
We previously covered Jinni when the company was named as one of Google’s partners for …
Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced at the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin that it will launch its Google TV service in the U.S. and worldwide this year, Reuters reports.
I’m not entirely sure why Schmidt had to reiterate …
Plex is media center software, from a startup of the same name, which integrates video content from local and online sources. Thus far, Plex has only been available for Mac OS X and iOS (for iPad, iPhone, iPod). But today …
Now that it has relaunched Apple TV, the next step in Apple’s living room strategy is the launch of an Apple-branded TV.
Some wags expected Apple do so yesterday at its event where it launched the new $99 Apple TV. …
