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Qtv Teams With Widevine to Offer One Media Player for All ‘Three Screens’
- Works on More Devices Than Any Other Media Player
- Compatible With PS2s, 1,100 Mobile Phone Models, PCs, Internet-Connected TVs and Blu-ray Players
- Aimed at ‘TV Everywhere’ Service Providers
Widevine and Qtv have worked together to develop a media player that works on...
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Technicolor Bets on 3D Movie DVDs in the Home
- Lands Movie DVD Production Deal With Warner Bros
- To Sell Grass Valley Group and Other Major Operations
As part of its financial reorganization, Thomson, now renamed to Technicolor, plans to sell off several units. Technicolor says it wants to focus on content creators. Technicolor...
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Rumor Mill for IPad Keeps Churning
- Carriers, Cameras, Lawsuits
Apple’s latest product was the subject of countless rumors on the Web, and the beast is not quite dead.
Apple has released its software development kit (SDK) for the iPad; sent out a specifications sheet to various press and developers; and begun...
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AOL: Profits Up, Revenue Down
AOL, in its first quarterly report since separating from Time Warner, reported a profit of $1.4 million. The company reported a $1.9 billion loss in the year-ago quarter.
Revenue was down 17% compared with the year-ago quarter but was better than some analysts expected.
As...
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Clicker Launches Web Video Guide for UCLA
Clicker Media, developer of a Web video program guide that currently covers 600,000 episodes on 10,000 TV shows, has announced a new expansion for its programming guide that was developed with UCLA. The new catalog for UCLA will include Clicker’s existing database as well as original videos —...
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Sony Reports Quarterly Profit
Sony’s cost-cutting and changes in product strategy over the last few years are paying off. It terminated 20,000 employees and closed about 18% of its manufacturing plants during the cutbacks.
For its fiscal third quarter, profits were up and Sony cut its projected annual loss. It also...
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Comcast Adds 247,000 Broadband Subscribers in Q4
- Launches Xfinity Brand for DOCSIS 3.0 Broadband, Digital Video & Phone Service
Comcast’s fourth quarter report shows it added a net 247,000 high-speed broadband subscribers and 243,000 digital phone subscribers in the fourth quarter.
However, competition from satellite and telco pay-TV services caused Comcast...
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The Flash Stand-Off
Support for Adobe’s Flash is key to any competitor’s attempt to outshine the iPhone user experience and is, of course, one of the key Web technologies that Apple continues to spurn — even on the iPad.
This epitomizes Apple’s Achilles’ heel: the belief that its own...
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