Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 20, 2011 at 5:37 pm PT
Revenue from mobile and social games, among other categories, is growing, but not at a fast enough clip to offset the declines witnessed in the traditional games market.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 14, 2011 at 11:23 am PT
Turns out some people are still interested in buying movies, not renting them — for a certain group of titles.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 24, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Intel will debut a new connection technology for PCs that combines a high-speed data connection and a high-quality video connection into a single cable. Its name: Thunderbolt. And Apple will debut computers using it today.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 6, 2011 at 12:01 am PT
A big “everyone but Apple” coalition of hardware and software companies might be able to make a cloud-based media service work. If Apple will play along.
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Andy Kessler, Co-founder, Velocity Capital Management in News on January 4, 2011 at 9:53 am PT
This fall, the Chinese National University of Defense Technology announced that it had created the world’s fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-1A, which clocks in at 2.5 petaflops (or 2,500 trillion operations) per second. This is the shape of the world to come—but not in the way you might think.
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Yukari Iwatani Kane, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 3, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Vizio Inc., which put inexpensive flat-panel TVs in living rooms, now is setting its sights on cellphones and tablet computers.
Vizio, which has vied with Samsung Electronics Co. for leadership in U.S. sales of television sets, plans Monday in advance of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to discuss its new mobile products.
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Nat Worden, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 24, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Blu-ray is emerging as a holiday hero for Hollywood as the film industry grapples with the rise of online video and a persistent slump in its most profitable source of revenue: DVD sales.
Kara Swisher in News on December 9, 2010 at 5:02 am PT
While the news has been be out there for a month, Miramax officially confirmed this morning that former News Corp. exec Mike Lang was named CEO of the Hollywood movie company.
What will be interesting about that for digital content players will be to see exactly what the man who was deeply involved in deals to buy the Myspace social networking site and also create the Hulu premium video service will do with Miramax’s rich trove of more than 700 award-winning films in its movie library.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on November 17, 2010 at 6:07 pm PT
Google TV, the latest attempt to integrate Web video and regular TV, is a bold effort, but it is ultimately too complicated for mainstream use.
