Kara Swisher in Media on December 26, 2011 at 8:52 am PT
Should Hollywood blame turkeys like “New Year’s Eve,” or all those beeping, buzzing digital devices?
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 12, 2011 at 7:33 am PT
Activision’s first-person shooter has hit $1 billion in sales, officially beating the blockbuster film “Avatar,” which took 17 days to achieve that milestone.
The release of Avatar … represented the pivotal moment for digital cinema, with digital technology forming the bedrock of the modern cinema environment.
— David Hancock, an analyst with IHS Screen Digest, names Avatar as the major catalyst in the accelerating decline of 35mm celluloid.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 22, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Though the Kinect is best known as an accessory for gaming on the XBox 360, showed how its own researchers–and others–are using the Kinect for things other than games.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 2, 2011 at 1:31 pm PT
Myspace’s time with News Corp. is coming to an end.
Then again, it’s been headed that way for quite some time–it’s just that News Corp. is now being that much more forthright about it.
Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 22, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
“Call of Duty: Black Ops” continued its streak of breaking sales records by passing $1 billion in global sales since the product was released Nov. 9, its publisher, Activision Blizzard, said.
Kara Swisher in News on November 4, 2010 at 12:10 am PT
Hollywood director James Cameron–whose “Avatar” began the explosion of 3-D in movies–has been complaining about too many substandard movies being made using the technology.
But this film, “Gulliver’s Travels,” starring Jack Black, looks like it will be terrific in 3-D and is chock-full of special effects too.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 3, 2010 at 2:53 pm PT
That big Myspace relaunch we read about last week? That’s all fine and good.
But the troubled Web property is a…really troubled Web property, its News Corp. parent stressed today. And it needs to get its act together before it gets kicked off campus.
Timothy Hay, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 1, 2010 at 8:00 am PT
Osuke Honda, a general partner with Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture firm DCM, says he has been traveling back and forth between Japan and the U.S. all his life. He spearheads many of DCM’s investments in Japanese companies from the firm’s office in Tokyo, and this week participated in a $12 million Series B funding for augmented-reality company Tonchidot Corp.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 28, 2010 at 8:30 am PT
The director says watching movies on a phone removes the “sanctity in the film-watching experience.” Hope no one shows him the promotional material for T-Mobile’s newest Android handset.
