Tag archive: Oprah

Taiwan's Asus might be best known for its motherboards, notebook computers, and seemingly endless array of Eee-branded netbook and nettop computer—and now industry reports have the company getting ready to shake up the e-readers market. The Times of London reports that Asus is prepaing a dual-screen electronic reader that can be opened and closed like a traditional hardcover book, displaying two pages at a time (or, even, a book… Read More

DVR pioneer TiVo has announced that is has implemented support for accessing hundreds of new Web-based videos from its TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and Tivo HD XL set-top boxes, including video from mainstream sources like G4, Fox, CBS, and Oprah as well as any video podcast that has a consistent URL. What's more, users who subscribe to video podcasts using TiVo's Season Pass feature can have new video episodes downloaded… Read More

The microblogging service Twitter is doing rather fabulously—signing up millions of users and landing attention via celebrities like Ashton Kutcher and Oprah. It's also rather famously not making any money: the site doesn't run advertisements (not yet, anyway) and has yet to deploy any monetized services aimed at businesses or commercial users. Now, reports are emerging that Twitter might be looking to mass media as a way… Read More

There's no denying that in the last few months, micro-blogging and social-networking service Twitter has broken out of the Web 2.0 world and into mainstream mass media, with Ashton Kutcher going to war with CNN and Oprah very publicly getting her tweet on. As such, the company has been the subject of a vast number of rumors and reports, the most persistent of which have listed Google, Microsoft, and even Apple as potential suitors for… Read More

If celebrities didn’t already have enough outlets to send messages and news out to the loving public, Facebook has offered up one more podium. On Wednesday, the social networking site revealed its new Facebook public profiles feature, which will offer Facebook users a chance to keep tabs on public figures in a manner similar to Twitter. Just as Twitter users subscribe to feeds from their friends, Facebook now allows its users to peg… Read More

The United States Senate has passed a bill that would delay the U.S. nationwide conversion to digital television from a mandated cutoff on February 17, 2009, to a new deadline of June 12, 2009, in order to give consumers more time to make the switch and obtain $40 vouchers good toward the purchase of digital TV converter boxes for analog televisions. Although the Senate's passage of the bill doesn't mean the DTV deadline has… Read More

It might have cost $359, but it was endorsed by Oprah, and that helped make Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader the company’s best-selling electronic device of 2008. It was also the most popular gift in electronics and appeared on more wish lists than any other item, according to Information Week. Amazon’s figures go by numbers sold, not revenue. So, unsurprisingly, the Wii was the top in video games, while the… Read More

The power of Oprah Winfrey's book recommendations is well-known: if the wildly popular talk show host and business magnate selects a title for her book club, the tome is virtually guaranteed bestseller status—even if some of the books she's selected have led to their fair share of controversy. Oprah has decided to focus mostly on classic titles lately, but that doesn't mean she's turned her back on new… Read More

Who says you can't take it with you? With it's just-announced Mobile TV DH01 portable video player, Motorola is hoping consumers will latch onto the idea they can take their televisions and recorded programming with them anywhere—plus tap into streamed video. “The Motorola Mobile TV DH01 is the ultimate personal media player—it allows consumers to enjoy their viewing experience at their convenience,”… Read More

Westinghouse Digital Electronics recently polled more than 1,200 consumers to ask them what features they most want to see in future HDTV televisions. The company plans to doll out insights from the polling a little at a time, perhaps to gleam more PR exposure from the poll or time the info to its own product announcements. (Who knows why? We just don't get the sense number-crunching is the cause for the delay.) In response to the… Read More

Satellite radio operators XM and Sirius have announced a definitive $13 billion merger agreement which would cut the number of satellite radio operators in the U.S. from two to one. Under the terms of the agreement, Mel Karmazin will become CEO of the combined company, while XM chair Gary Parsons will take on the role of Chairman; XM shareholders will receive 4.6 shared os Sirius stock for every share of XM stock they own. XM and Sirius will… Read More

The new "Oprah & Friends" channel will feature a broad range of talk programming including callers that can phone in to the show. XM Satellite will have exclusivety to the channel for now. Some of the guest appearances will include: Donald Trump, Julia Louis- Dreyfus, Annette Bening, Jon Bon Jovi, Nora Ephron, Carnie Wilson, Norman Lear, The New York Times' columnist Thomas Friedman, former presidential candidate Sen.… Read More

XM Satellite Radio yesterday released details on an expanded channel line up which will push their total number of channels over 170. Some of these new channels are being added as a response to arecent arbitration settlement with XM investor Clear Channel Communications in which they were required to add Clear Channel advertising in May tochannels the radio broadcasting company programs.   Overall, XM said, they now have 69 commercial free… Read More

Itching for more James Frey-esque moments while you drive? You're in luck, because Oprah and XM Radio have partnered to give Oprah her own talk show. The show called "Oprah and Friends" is part ofthe 3-year, $55 million dollar deal with the queen of daytime talk shows. XM said the Oprah deal will not affect its target to break even on a cash flow basis by the end of this year. So what can you expect from Oprah and her friends on this… Read More

“With the right pricing, the right product and the right distribution, a TiVo DVR is the gift on everyone's wish list this year,” said Joe Miller, Vice President, Sales at TiVo. “The most sought after gift for the holidays is now more affordable than ever.” TiVo is offering a $50 mail-in rebate on its industry leading TiVo Series2 models, which store up to 40 or 80 hours of television programs. With the rebate,… Read More