Peter Kafka in Media on April 30 at 9:26 am PT
After raising $27 million, Web ad pioneer Dave Morgan says his take on targeted TV ads is “very close” to profitable.
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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 3 at 11:24 am PT
Amazon
has partnered with Sony to launch Amazon Instant Video on the PlayStation 3, marking the company’s first partnership with a game console. Other services, like Netflix, work on the Xbox and Nintendo Wii. Amazon customers who pay $79 a year for its Prime delivery service will now be able to stream more than 17,000 TV shows and movies using the PS3. Previously, the videos could be viewed using some set-top boxes, over the Internet and on Amazon’s Kindle tablet.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on August 31, 2011 at 6:00 pm PT
Walt answers a reader’s question on set-top boxes streaming movies in high definition.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 1, 2010 at 6:02 pm PT
The revamped $99 Apple TV streams content from online, computers and portable devices, and allows you to rent TV shows and movies, but has a very limited selection of Internet video sources.
John Paczkowski in News on November 11, 2010 at 3:00 am PT
Cisco’s shares took a beating yesterday and they’ll likely take another one today, now that investors have had time to ruminate on the company’s latest earnings, its guidance for the next quarter and CEO John Chambers’s forthright comments about it.
Kara Swisher in News on October 7, 2010 at 5:16 am PT
Yesterday, BoomTown dragged my weary bag of bones to downtown San Francisco for the unboxing of a new consumer telepresence product from Cisco called Umi.
The networking giant is making yet another big foray into the competitive space for,
well, space in the living room.
At the event, Cisco dubbed Umi as sweet as chocolate. Is it?
Kara Swisher in News on October 6, 2010 at 9:37 am PT
In a post last week, BoomTown wrote that Cisco would introduce a consumer telepresence product.
It did today at San Francisco at a press event. It is called, inexplicably, ?mi telepresence.
I’ll be honest, it sounds like sushi I refuse to eat.
In any case, Cisco’s entry into the crowded consumer video-chat arena will be $599 with $24.99 monthly fee and can be used with a high-definition television.
Kara Swisher in News on October 1, 2010 at 10:29 am PT
No, you may
not, and that’s what I said on Leo Laporte’s terrific “This Week in Tech” online show last Sunday about why Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his recent $100 million donation to schools in Newark, New Jersey, on the same day as the splashy Hollywood movie–”The Social Network”–eviscerating him premiered.
Because the powerful television talk show host wanted him on that week, since she was focusing on education reform! And what Oprah Winfrey wants, Oprah Winfrey gets–which is pretty much my motto for life.
Here’s the video.
