Digital Entertainment

April 4, 2011

How Mattel Can Get Into Your Head

Mattel (MAT) plans to release a game called Mindflex Duel in August, which will let players move a ball through an obstacle course, using only the power of their ...

March 28, 2011

How E-Books Are Coming Full Circle, Thanks to Tablets

As tablet sales, led primarily by Apple's (AAPL) iPad, gain momentum, it seems everyone wants in on the market. Not only are traditional computing and smartphone ...

March 7, 2011

Will Youku Become China's Netflix?

If you want to understand the Chinese media market, Youku.com (YOKU) Chief Executive Officer Victor Koo told me last week, you'll have to look back. Way back. Think ...

January 19, 2011

Apple Conference Call: Six Things You Should Know

Unlike last quarter, Apple's (AAPL) conference call on Tuesday, Jan. 18, regarding quarterly results did not include a cameo by iconic Chief Executive Officer Steve ...

January 14, 2011

Sundance Tries to Feed Bandwidth-Hungry Mob

The Sundance Film Festival is a showcase that draws about 50,000 people to Park City, Utah—all toting cell phones, tablets, and computers, and all expecting to ...

December 20, 2010

'The Annoying Orange' Needs More Captions

When Julia Childs' The French Chef appeared on PBS in 1972 with captions, it marked the first time TV had ever been accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing. Nearly ...

December 16, 2010

EA's App Store Tactic: Dirty Trick or Just Business?

Electronic Arts (EA) (ERTS) has a lot of games in the App Store (AAPL), and a huge chunk of them are now available for only $0.99 (via Touch Arcade) as part of a ...

November 11, 2010

What 'Normal People' Want from TV

Most people just want to watch TV. They want it to be simple, and it should "just work." Those are some of the findings from research conducted through interviews with...

October 28, 2010

AT&T Will Let Customers Buy Digital Music, Movies with Phones

(This story was updated to include other companies working with AT&T)AT&T (T) is in the early stages of a plan to turn mobile phones into credit cards. The carrier ...

October 4, 2010

Apple TV Parts May Cost Less Than $64

The components in the latest version of Apple's (AAPL) Apple TV device, selling for $99, may cost less than $64, according to market research firm iSuppli. The most ...

September 12, 2010

Sirius Looks Fit to Outgrow Howard Stern

Sirius XM Radio (SIRI) may keep adding listeners, fueling a stock rally that has lifted the satellite radio provider by 74 percent this year, notwithstanding the ...

September 7, 2010

Review: Apple's iPod Updates

It was nine years ago next month that Apple's (AAPL) first iPod music player took its first bow before an initially skeptical world. In that time its rank as first ...

September 2, 2010

Why Ping Is the Future of Social Commerce

Apple (AAPL) announced on Wednesday, Sept.1, a cornucopia of new hardware and software: sleek iPods, a brand-new Internet-enabled video streaming device, and new ...

August 27, 2010

Fans May Not 'Like' Facebook Film

Facebook's 500 million users spend about six hours a month on the social-networking website. To Sony Pictures, the question is how many will invest two hours at the ...

August 8, 2010

ASq: Microsoft, Yahoo Let Users Choose Ads

Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), and Hulu plan to make online advertisements less annoying and more profitable by letting users select which ones they'll watch. ...

August 2, 2010

Boeing Enlists Hollywood to Make Engineering Cool

On the TV show NCIS, actress Pauley Perrette plays quirky, über-smart forensic specialist Abby Sciuto. As part of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the ...

July 29, 2010

One Way to Save the Music Industry

Does the answer to music retailing's collapse lie within the computer game industry? Global music revenues suffered a 10th year of decline in 2009, with sales and ...

July 26, 2010

NERF: Hasbro's Play in the Toy Arms Race

In the beginning, there was the NERF Ball, a polyurethane foam sphere that could be tossed around the living room without threatening mom's Hummel figurines. It was ...

July 12, 2010

Smartphones Make Mobile Radio Sing

In an early sign that mobile radio is coming of age, Clear Channel Communications in January sold out its inventory of certain mobile ads. The news came as the ...

June 24, 2010

Viewers Seem To Like HTML5 Video Better Than Flash

Adobe (ADBE) Flash has long been the dominant vehicle for delivering Web video to PCs, but with the addition of Apple's (AAPL) iPad to the list of mobile devices that ...

June 22, 2010

Facebook Gamers Are Frequent Players

About 90 percent of fans of Zynga Game Network's "FarmVille"—and games made by other providers offered on Facebook—return daily to play one game or ...

June 21, 2010

Mac's Future: Death Rumors Greatly Exaggerated

Don't be fooled by the hoopla over the iPad. While Apple (AAPL) has dropped the word "computer" from its name and is swiftly using the iPad to build a market for ...

June 20, 2010

Nintendo's 3DS Opens All Eyes At E3

A year ago many analysts and video game industry pundits wondered if growth for industry leader Nintendo (NTDOY) had peaked. In the fiscal year that ended in March, ...

June 3, 2010

Skype Founders Zennstrom, Friis Begin Streaming-Music Service

Skype Technologies founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis opened an online service that sells monthly music subscriptions, taking a second stab at the broadening ...

May 27, 2010

New Web Services Put Music in the Cloud

(This story has been updated to include new information about Microsoft's Zune service pricing plans.)Peter Horowitz used to be a customer that record companies were ...

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