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Another Movie Rental Retailer May Bite the Dust
Movie Gallery, which owns the movie rental chain Hollywood Video, may file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and could shut down two-thirds of its 2,700 stores, according to The Wall Street Journal. Online rental services such as Netflix plus kiosks such as Redbox have changed consumers’ rental preferences. ...
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Southwest Airlines to Offer Wi-Fi on Every Plane
Southwest Airlines says it’s purchased the equipment it needs to make Wi-Fi available on all its planes. Inflight Wi-Fi provider Row 44 got the order. It provides high-speed Internet access via the Ku band satellites. Roll-out is expected to begin this year and be completed by 2012. Southwest...
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Qualcomm at the Super Bowl With 3 Ads
Qualcomm’s FLO TV will run three of those $2 million plus (that’s each) commercials on this Sunday’s Super Bowl. "All three spots introduce viewers to mobile TV and our FLO TV Personal Television, which are some of the many ways in which FLO TV lets people take live...
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‘This American Life’ App Streams Every Episode On-Demand
In the US, National Public Radio has a much beloved radio show named "This American Life," whose new iPhone app will stream every single episode of the show on-demand. The show, which has a long run in the number one spot on iTunes’ podcast chart, can be streamed...
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Pace Signs Brazilian Distributor
Set-top box maker Pace has extended its penetration into the Latin American market by signing Brazil’s Visionbyte, which will sell Pace’s MultiDweller STBs to its cable TV operator customers. ...
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Netflix: IPad ‘Not a Huge Priority’
When eyes first beheld Apple’s iPad, the mind conjured up all sorts of video options for the new leisure device which then turned thoughts to Hulu and Netflix — and yes, iTunes, too — for all that great video content in an intimate setting. As these dreams were...
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Revision3 Sees Big Uptick in Web Views
This week, Revision3, a small Internet video network, announced a strong showing in video growth — a good contrast to 2008’s downsizing at the firm. The company now has 1.5 billion minutes of viewer engagement annually and had its revenues grow 30% in 2009. Ad sales revenues for...
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1.3m See a Digital State of the Union
Nearly 1.3 million people streamed a live Web video feed of Obama’s State of the Union address last week. The speech was available on a variety of Web sites and blogs, including video giant YouTube. The White House has so far been unable to determine how many people...
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LG’s LTE Modem First to Get Approval by Japan
South Korea-based LG is the first to get its LTE modem certified by Japan. LG said Japan’s cellco giant NTT DoCoMo will use the modem in its LTE tests later this year.
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‘Google Is a Vampire’
"Google is a vampire, and you run scared. There is no reason to be indexed in Google. You haven’t gotten anything back except that you’ve turned into zombies. You’ve got to realize they’re vampires, and you can’t be the dumb blonde showing your neck." — Mark Cuban, Internet...
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Katzenberg: Home Video Sales Not Needed for 3D Films
Responding to the question whether the studios need the revenue from sales of 3D DVDs to consumers to make 3D movies profitable, DreamWorks Animations Jeffrey Katzenberg told Daily Variety, "The major releases in 3D this year made back their incremental investment of making them in 3D in the...
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