You might have seen that Verizon uploaded a few new videos to YouTube Thursday, discussing the future of TV and video in the home. Those videos highlighted two big trends occurring in the pay TV space: Set-top boxes are shrinking, and will eventually disappear altogether, as users are able to watch video on other...
The hotly anticipated Dark Knight Rises trailer was downloaded 12.5M times in 24 hours just from iTunes Movie Trailers, according to Warner Brothers. This breaks the record for the most downloads from Apple’s iTunes ecosystem. This record is for ‘combined downloads’ that include Apple’s iTunes Movie Trailers site as well as the new iTunes...
Looking for a quick last-minute gift? Not feeling up to fighting the holiday traffic, crowds and checkout lines? Just too lazy busy to shop? Then you may want to consider giving the gift of an iOS app. You can gift any paid app from iTunes on your computer or from the app’s description page...
After outraging the Internet yesterday by declaring support for the Stop Online Piracy Act, Go Daddy has reversed its position in a smarmy press release. It tweeted the link to Ben Huh, CEO of the Cheezburger Network, who threatened to move his company’s thousands of domains yesterday in protest. In the statement published on...
The what-if scenario few in the tech world want to consider – What happens if the Stop Online Piracy Act passes into law? – may be fixed by something as simple as a browser extension. Forbes and the Atlantic Monthly are both reporting that coders are already developing work-arounds. A developer calling himself Tamer...
Human Capital Management is Hot The phrase human capital might seem cold and unappealing, but when you think of capital as something with the capacity to create economic value, then having some becomes important for anyone who can get it. The future may be characterized by the big gap between the quality of life...
Sometimes, the Internet wins after all. Yesterday, a day that domain company Go Daddy would like to forget, saw Internet legends threatening to take business away from it and moronic blog posts without commenting. All over its support of SOPA. Today, Go Daddy has reversed its stance on the “Stop Online Piracy Act”, and...
The world really does need another search engine. At least both do-it-yourself and professional investors do, according to Trefis, which is launching a new search option that it says will return only pertinent, rich data about the companies these investors follow. The new Trefis search separates the wheat from the chaff, said founder and CEO Manish...
Good news for fans of streaming media who also like low-cost tablets: Plex has ben approved for sale in the Barnes Noble Nook Store(s bks). The app should be downloadable for Nook Tablet and Nook Color users sometime within the next 24 hours, according to Plex. The version of the Plex app that will be available for Nook devices will...
The subscriptions for carriers like Verizon, ATT and Sprint will be reported as up in the first quarter of next year, but their profits will be down, reports The Wall Street Journal. The differential is being attributed to the heavy subsidies that the carriers are paying to onboard new iPhone users. The analysis, provided...