Internet, Tv | featured news

Kids less happy as they're more plugged into TV, music, Web?

Does overconnectivity make children's lives more troubled, or do troubled children simply consume a lot more media? The answer ...

 

'Pants' becomes first viral video of 2010

'Pants' becomes first viral video of 2010

A 62-year-old's rhythmic fashion review has become the Internet's first viral sensation of the new decade.

 

TV Apps Take a Cue From iPhone

A longtime quest to bring the Internet to the living room has entered a new phase, borrowing a page from Apple and its iPhone.

 

Boyle Top Star of 2009

Boyle Top Star of 2009

The Scottish singing sensation went from dowdy unknown to Internet sensation to the top of the charts, and then some!

 

Google Wants to Stream TV, for a Fee

Google Wants to Stream TV, for a Fee

YouTube, which is already trying out the movie rental business, wants to get into TV too

 

Clicker Launches with Premium TV Content from Netflix and Amazon

Television search engine startup Clicker.com has been in private beta for several months, and sees its public launch today. Positioning itself as a “TV Guide for television content online,” Clicker has indexed over 400,000 episodes from 7000 television shows, making it a veritable one stop shop for finding legally-available TV shows online.

 

Grey's Anatomy The First Disney Show To Launch On Hulu

Grey's Anatomy The First Disney Show To Launch On Hulu

Hulu CEO Jason Kilar won a big battle against Google's (GOOG) top dealmakers in April, successfully convincing Disney (DIS) CEO Bob Iger to put ABC's full-length content on Hulu instead of YouTube.

Google wanted to make Disney the cornerstone of its new focus on premium content, but Disney ended up taking an equity stake in Hulu alongside prior investors News Corp (NWS), NBC (GE) and Providence Equity Partners.

A couple months later, the fruits of Jason's labor are here in the form of mega-hit "Grey's Anatomy," now live on Hulu.

 

British Internet talent star Boyle taken to clinic

British Internet talent star Boyle taken to clinic

British internet singing star Susan Boyle has been admitted to a private clinic after being beaten into second place in the final of the popular "Britain's Got Talent" television contest, British media reported.

 

Disney to Buy 30% of Hulu

Walt Disney Co. reached a deal to buy a nearly 30% stake in Hulu, the Web-video site, and will put full episodes of ABC TV shows on it.

 

How Susan Boyle won over the world

This weekend, clips of her singing on Britain's Got Talent have notched up almost 50 million views on YouTube. Her face appears on the front pages of papers in Britain and beyond, she been offered a seat on Oprah's sofa and has been told ...

 

Subscribe to this RSS topic: Syndicate content