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Amazon + Viacom Streaming TV

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 8th, 2012

Amazon today announced a licensing agreement with Viacom that will allow Amazon Prime members to instantly stream TV shows from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT and Logo. Amazon Instant Video offers downloads or streaming for a fee, while Prime Instant Video is streamed free with an Amazon Prime subscription. The [...]

Canada to Get Apple’s iTV?

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 7th, 2012

Canada’s Rogers Communications, one of Canada’s largest mobile, cable tv, and DSL providers and Bell Canada (BCE), the incumbent local exchange carrier for telephone and DSL Internet services in much of Canada, are in talks with Apple to become Canadian launch partners for its much-hyped Apple iTV, reports the Globe and Mail. Apple’s television product [...]

Superbowl: The Day After

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 6th, 2012

U.S. viewers multi-tasked the Superbowl, says Google, watching the game on television and going online with their smartphones and tablets to look up players, halftime show performers and their favorite Super Bowl commercials. In fact, around 41% of searches related to Super Bowl ads that were made during the game came from mobile devices, up [...]

Super Streams for Super Bowl XLVI

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 3rd, 2012

When the New York Giants and New England Patriots take the field for Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium (WikiMapia) in Indianapolis, the eyes of over 100 million people around the world will be upon them. NBCSports.com and NFL.com will broadcast the entire game for free beginning at 2 p.m. ET [...]

Superbowl Goes 4G

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 23rd, 2012

In 13 days, the New York Giants will take on the New England Patriots for Super Bowl XLVI (Super Bowl 46). It will be played in Indianapolis, on Feb 5, 2012. The Super Bowl is the most watched event on U.S. television. Fox’s broadcast of the 2011 Super Bowl was the most-watched U.S. broadcast of [...]

iBooks: Cellular’s Big Bang?

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 22nd, 2012

Apple’s eTextbook rollout last Thursday was exciting. But what Apple didn’t mention was the huge file sizes of their multi-media iBooks — from 800MB to 2.77GB each. A biology textbook from McGraw-Hill contains 1,906 print pages and weighs in at 1.49 GB, while a competing Biology textbook from Pearson with 1,791 pages is 2.77 GB. [...]