The songs remain the same? Yes, but the way you can hear them is different. The champion of free streaming music is cutting the chord to mobile service on smartphones and tablets.READ»
The goal of the Content Project, from the world's largest advertising firm, is to make premium content a viable option for consumers -- and cash-strapped publishers.READ»
The U.K.'s Times is among the vanguard of companies erecting paywalls around the websites of old-world news publications. It's a bold move. Now some early stats are out to reveal how poorly it's working.
The figures popped up on ...READ»
Please feel free to file this in the C.E.Oh-no-he-di'nt folder: News Corp.'s James Murdoch has publicly slapped plans by the British Library, one of the most venerable libraries in the world, for digitizing its newspaper archive.For ...READ»
Best Buy's movie service is primed and ready to launch this month, meanwhile Hulu's premium content system is apparently not due to arrive as soon as we'd thought it would. The net-streaming TV business is never short on drama.BestBuy ...READ»
This is it folks--the newspaper's last and best hope (so they think) for survival: paywalls. The New York Times has finally revealed the date that the wall will go up across the world's access to its news content. It's January 2011. ...READ»
Layar, the augmented reality browser, is stepping up its efforts to bring sci-fi-like AR to the world: It's just introduced in-app shopping. Yes, that's the world's first augmented reality store, and it implies all sorts of ...READ»
Disney's EVP Kevin Mayer spoke at the DeSilva & Philips Dealmakers conference today, and though he said many things, it was his words about paid Hulu content through Hulu and Apple that have got us intrigued.
That's because ...READ»
It's okay, Mr. Murdoch. We think we finally understand why you hate Google and the Net so much--you gave it away in your rant during News Corp.'s finances: It's because you really don't get technology--or people--very much.
I'm ...READ»
Boxee is clearly on a charge at the moment: After announcing an amazingly-designed set-top box last month, it's just revealed plans to launch a paid TV service that'll arrive in the Summer.
In its blog posting on the matter Boxee ...READ»
Ruh-roh...this sounds like a very sour note at the end of a year that's seen many traditional newspapers and magazines hit trouble: The Miami Herald is so strapped for cash it's soliciting charitable Web donations on a per-story ...READ»
Though Time Warner's CEO Jeff Bewkes has his own agenda to push regarding the future of TV, speaking to the Daily Beast recently he mentioned the future of free-to-air TV. He thinks it hasn't got one, and he may have a point.
Among ...READ»
Looks like the concept of paying for online content is getting a boost from a slightly unexpected quarter: Rumors are abounding that free Internet TV portal Hulu will erect at least a partial pay wall sometime next year.
As rumors ...READ»
The U.K.'s The Guardian newspaper is about to try an alternative model to charging for online content that sounds infinitely more digestible: Bonus content "member's clubs."
The idea was spawned from a survey email sent out to ...READ»
