Nielsen Exec Declares: "Time Spent is a Fairer Way" to Deterimine Site Engagement Last week Nielsen/NetRatings came out with a new metric to guage Web site popularity by adding in the factor...

Movie studios do not like piracy of their content. To date, they have mostly used the "sue the bastards until they stop" strategy. As they gear up for a future of high-definition DVD...

Mr Roberts finds himself awoken inexplicably in a white room. A man sits before him at a desk and in between them stands a black button. If Mr Roberts pushes it, he will receive a briefcase filled...

south korea's LG Electronics signed a deal with YouTube to enable mobile phone users to upload, view and share video clips directly from their phones to the site. LG is planning to release...

From a WSJ article letting us know how commercials are starting to pop up on cell phones.......

Here is one for you fans of Sci Fi Channel's Stargate. Apparently, the cast and crew of that show produced a movie called A Dog's Breakfast and is being distributed on iTunes and Amazon's...

NBBC may have stood for No Body But Casualties instead of National Broadband Corporation If you even heard of or followed the exploits of NBBC, the unit created by NBC Universal last September to...

"For years, everyone programmed Saturday night with originals. Now, nobody programs Saturday. Maybe that will happen with Friday?" ... a network simply "can't afford to pay for 19...

BitTorrent is responsible for 35-40% of all Internet traffic around the world. BitTorrent's new hardware approach is a smart move, precisely because everybody else is trying to build a path from...

TLC announced Street Custom, a new 6-part original series to be featured on the Discovery broadband site Turbo and geared around custom car builds. TLC is also getting into the casual gaming business...

For all you European based readers, the European Commission has launched its own site on YouTube. EUtube will be used to distribute info about EU policies, its 27 member states, news, and more under...

MediaFLO is the Qualcomm subsidiary that provides Verizon's V Cast with its mobile TV capability. By the looks of things, the two companies must think that live sports coverage is the way into our...

Want more evidence that things are really changing. I offer this little nugget: U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA) became the first member of the House of Representatives to launch his own Facebook...

Good news if you are a Cox Cable subscriber. They announced high definition (HD) movies in its On DEMAND library; currently 20 movie titles with plans to offer more HD content in the future....

John Stamos delivers a confused performance on Australian TV. Best line: "how many heads do you have on this morning?"......

You heard it here first. Paris Hilton must run for President. Of the United States. Stop laughing, I'm serious. As you may or may not know, CNN (the venerable bastion of news integrity) scooped...

CNN.com launched a new video-centric website that replaces the subscription-based Pipeline service with free ad-supported video sourced live from CNN. The new video player is Flash-based instead of...

The Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 are advanced gaming consoles. Less understood is that these devices serve another function - they are gateways into the connected home;...

Less than 2 weeks ago, YouTube "upgraded" its site. Among the changes, it tried to steer viewers to videos that the company's editors thought worthy. After a slew of angry comments,...

The DVD rental market is one place I am happy not to be competing in. Netflix Inc. lowered its monthly fee for a popular subscription plans by $1, matching a similar reduction made by rival...