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Microsoft’s new Xbox One console can do a lot of things besides play games. It can control live TV; it can access over-the-top content; it can serve up second-screen and supplemental material while...
View ArticleFanhattan (sort of) pulls a Microsoft
Apropos this week’s Weekly Update, TV discovery app developer Fanhattan today unveiled Fan TV at the D11 conference, a nifty new set-top device with a very slick, touch-driven interface that, like the...
View ArticleThe price of success for Apple
Interesting juxtaposition right now between Apple’s ebook price-fixing trial underway in New York and its negotiations with the record companies and music publishers as it seeks to launch its...
View ArticleE-book wholesale revenues, 2002-2009
Industry-wide wholesale revenue for 2008 was $53.5 million, up from $31.8 million in 2007.
View ArticleA model for Facebook: Less Google, more Apple
Shares of Facebook started trading Friday, at a price that valued the company at $100 billion give or take a billion, the most valuable technology-related initial public offering in history. Not bad...
View ArticleToday in Connected Consumer
No company likes to be on the receiving end of an antitrust suit by the Department of Justice, but Apple is having trouble hiding its contempt for the government’s case against it over an alleged...
View ArticleNo third act likely in Viacom vs. YouTube drama
Five years after the case began, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday handed Viacom a tactical victory in its copyright infringement case against YouTube. In a 39-page opinion, the...
View ArticleToday in Connected Consumer
Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn abruptly resigned on Tuesday as the once-dominant electronics retailer struggles to cope with onslaught of digital competition from Amazon and other e-commerce sites. The...
View ArticleToday in Connected Consumer
There are a lot of odd things about the Justice Department’s antitrust investigation of Apple over e-book pricing, starting with the fact that Apple is not the dominant player in the e-book market,...
View ArticleToday in Connected Consumer
There’s no escaping the Apple antitrust story today. I’ll have more about it in tomorrow’s Weekly Update, but for now I’ll just note that there seems to be a fair amount of skepticism about the...
View ArticleWhich way OTA?
The Federal Communications Commission released its 15th annual report on video competition last week, which concluded, among other things, that the number of U.S. households relying exclusively on...
View ArticleCourt in Aereo case blesses Sling
The Second Circuit’s ruling in the Aereo case yesterday was obviously bad news for broadcasters, but it was particularly bad for Fox. In its separate lawsuit against Dish Network, Fox recently asked a...
View ArticleVerizon’s net neutrality chickens come home to roost
Verizon just couldn’t leave bad enough alone. Back in 2010, when the FCC issued its Open Internet Order, many consumer advocates complained the rules did not go far enough to preserve and protect net...
View ArticleTV networks getting that sinking feeling
That softness in the TV advertising market that first appeared during this spring’s sluggish upfront season is starting to look like a sinkhole. Third-quarter earnings reports from several big media...
View ArticleNeutral no more
Advocates for net neutrality confronted FCC chairman Tom Wheeler in his driveway this morning as he tried to leave for work. It turned out to be a harbinger of what turned into one helluva Monday for...
View ArticleRegulating peering
Thanks to Barack Obama, the net neutrality debate has now morphed into a bare-knuckles political brawl over the technical legal question of whether to reclassify broadband service as a Title II common...
View ArticleThe mis-measure of Netflix
Netflix hasn’t said anything publicly about reports that Nielsen will begin passively measuring some Netflix and Amazon viewership next year using some sort of audio recognition technology. Whether...
View ArticleAs linear TV viewing falls, NBC tries some pixie dust
Nielsen reported data this week that confirmed what most people in the TV industry already knew: People are spending ever-less time watching TV in the traditional manner and ever-more time watching...
View ArticleFCC moving closer to Title II?
Federal Communications Chairman Tom Wheeler has taken a lot of heat from net neutrality proponents over his resume, which includes stints running both he main wireless industry trade association in...
View ArticlePreparing for TV’s mobile-first future
Mobile first” has been a watchword for both online publishers and developers for several years now. As mobile devices increasingly become users’ primary means for accessing the internet, developers...
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