Frog Design is releasing an iPod app that allows you to talk to your friends about shows as you watch them. Called TVChatter, the app allows you to follow a Twitter stream about your favorite show and respond to other viewers with ...READ»
A new report by the Internet Advertising Bureau and Pricewaterhouse Coopers has revealed something amazing: The U.K. has become the first major economy to see advertisers spending more on internet adverts than traditional TV ones.The ...READ»
Today Yahoo! began a $100 million advertising push with the following commercial, which the company says is titled "Anthem." Can Yahoo win the search-ad wars with inundation? That's a lot of humanity for one ad: a lot of colors, a ...READ»
ESPN announced today that it is partnering with a Wharton School initiative to find solutions to the growing list of challenges presented by digital media. (Below, the Wharton campus.) The Wharton group, which is called the ...READ»
We're all familiar with Intel's tiny, low-power Atom CPU--without it the netbook revolution probably wouldn't have happened. But Intel has just pulled the covers off its next-gen Atom system on a chip, and it has a new target device: ...READ»
Steve Jobs famously poo-poohed the idea of Apple adopting Blu-ray, describing the technology as a "bag of hurt." But with hot rumors of an imminent iMac redesign, the Blu-ray drive issue is again in the spotlight. Is Apple about to ...READ»
This fall, Cadillac will be running a new TV spot entitled "Re-ignition." The commercial is meant to show consumers that Cadillac and its woebegone parent are ready to come back into the luxury fray. Instead, it does something ...READ»
Yesterday we discussed the prospect of a new Apple TV. But why watch TV on Apple's schedule when you can build your own, and have twice as many features?
If you're a Mac die-hard, follow MacWorld's DIY Mac Mini media center project. ...READ»
AT&T, your friendly ISP and cellphone provider, just became an online TV-Show and Movie network with the introduction of a new Web site. But it's not in competition against Hulu--thanks to an agreement with Hulu.READ»
Plasma televisions are already on the outs with consumers due to their energy-sucking tendencies, meanwhile LCD screens have closed the gap on picture quality and are more energy efficient. But as many TV buffs know, organic ...READ»
According to a new survey, Hulu, the online video TV channel, just beat the viewing statistics of Time Warner Cable for July. Does that mean Hulu's now the second most important TV "channel" in the U.S.? Nearly...READ»
A new survey by Pew features a couple of very interesting stats about online video viewership: 62% of adult 'net users have watched video online, a figure that's risen from 33% two and a half years ago. Meanwhile a massive 89% of ...READ»
A British tech blog is reporting that Match.com is making its services available on select TVs starting this month through a special DVR being sold by U.K. telecom provider BT (seen below). Which begs the question: why would you want ...READ»
Verizon's just added something to FiOS that's either a blessing or a curse for Twitter addicts--a live feed of your Twitter account that'll appear on your TV over the show you're watching, part of a new Widget Bazaar that also ...READ»
It sounds like something out of a sci-fi flick, but researchers at the University of York have discovered that waste material from old LCD TVs can be recycled for medical purposes.READ»
Peep behind your HDTV and you'll find at least one HDMI cable. It's the wire that lets your HD cable box or DVD player to connect with your TV screen, and it conforms to existing HDMI 1.3 standards. That means it's limited in a ...READ»
Cuttlefish are camouflage experts that can change skin color in under a second to hide from predators, or prey on others. They're inspiring more than just awe from scientists. Now researchers at MIT are working on electronic ...READ»
It may not be practical for everyday TV watching, but University of Tokyo researchers have developed a stretchy rubber-like OLED display that could provide a low-power alternative for 3D displays of all stripes. The organic ...READ»
Samsung announced this weekend that it plans to do what was once considered impossible: Manufacture an energy-efficient plasma TV. The company's HD 850 PDP "Finger Slim" is only 29 millimeters thick--just 1.15 inches from ...READ»
OLED TVs are undoubtedly the future of TV technology--they're thin, contain minimal parts, and use up to 50% less energy than LCD TVs (and significantly less than plasma, which uses as much energy as a large refrigerator). The only ...READ»
Ah, Time Warner Cable--friendly supplier of your choice of cable TV and broadband internet. Or, as residents in Wilson, North Carolina are finding out, not friendly at all: TWC is trying to close their community-based, cheap, and ...READ»
The president of Samsung’s consumer electronics division has a curious recipe for getting through the recession: buy a TV.
It costs less than a beach vacation, he says, and with Samsung’s new line of LCD HDTVs that use ...READ»
Samsung won kudos at January's Consumer Electronics Show for energy-efficient LED TVs (LED 6000, LED 7000, LED 8000) that best Energy Star guidelines. The company also claims that the TVs are entirely mercury-free from the ...READ»
