Tag archive: show

With the Middle East upended by protests that were organized with the help of services like Twitter and Facebook, Al Jazeera English has plans to launch a new talk show that centers around social networking, Wired reports. Dubbed, “The Stream,” the new Al Jazeera English program has been in the works for the past year, making its soon-to-come debut simply lucky timing, as protests in the Arab world continue to percolate. (In places… Read More

Nintendo has unveiled the full list of 3DS games it will show at Nintendo World 2011 show in Tokyo from Jan. 8-10. 32 titles have made the list, 15 of which will be playable at the show. If you can read Japanese, the list is right here. If not, then maybe this list will help ease your lingual ineptitude. Highlights of the list include a new Professor Layton title, the long awaited Kid Icarus revival, a remake of Ocarina of Time, Nintendogs +… 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

It might seem unlikely, but at the Cebit technology show in March, Fujitsu is set to debut a PC that consumes zero watts when in standby, and plans to have the product, called the Esprimo Green, on the market by the summer. The zero-watt PC comes in ahead of European legislation mandating that units like this, consuming less than a watt of power when on standby, should be standard by 2010, and joins Fujitsu’s other zero-watt… Read More

Microsoft has landed an exclusive deal to distribute the second season of the “Internet cult hit” The Guild, and will be distributing the series' 12-episode run via the Xbox Live Marketplace, MSN, and the company's Zune Marketplace. The series will be sponsored by mobile operator Sprint. The first season of the show is being re-released across those platforms starting today; new episodes will begin appearing once a… Read More

Perennial children's programming favorite Sesame Street is taking to the Internet, with the non-profit Sesame Workshop announcing today that complete episodes of Sesame Street will be available on iTunes for $1.99 each (with 70 percent of the revenue going to Sesame Workshop), and with online video sides YouTube and Hulu also setting up Sesame Street sections featuring clips and segments. iTunes will be the only service carrying… Read More

Judge Howard Lloyd of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has thrown out a copyright infringement suit brought against Internet video provide Veoh Networks by the adult entertainment firm Io Group Inc., saying Veoh's active efforts to protect copyright owners' rights covered the company from any liability for piracy on the service under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) “safe… Read More

As litigation continues in Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google, a judge has ordered (PDF) Google most turn over the usage histories of every YouTube user to Viacom. The usage logs contain each YouTube user's login ID, the IP address used to connect to YouTube, as well as a video identifier and a start time. The court did not order the Google disclose to Viacom its search code, schemas, and other… Read More

Tech news company CNET has judged the entries at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show and come up with a list of ten.Philips gets overall best of show for its 42PFL5603D Eco TV, while consumers, in the People’s Voice Award, went for the Motorola Rokr E3 phone.   "Our editors were so impressed withthe number of innovative products that were launched at the show, but in the end they awarded the Philips 42PFL5603D Eco TV as… Read More

Washington-based Microvision believes it has a solution to the tiny displays that are currently commonplace on media players, cell phones, and PDAs: Project them instead. On Wednesday, the company unveiled plans for its SHOW pico projector, a battery-operated projector that can fit in a pocket and throw an image up to 100 inches across. First glimpses of the prototype will be shown at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las… Read More

New figures released by Eurostat show that mobile phone subscriptions in the 27 EU states increased a staggering 14 times between 1996 and 2005. At the start of the period, the average was seven subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, but just nine years later it had increased to 96 for each 100. With 158 and 127 respectively, Luxembourg and Lithuania were top of the list, with Romania the lowest, having just 62 mobile subscriptions per 100… Read More

Reality TV shows have been used to pick out the next singing sensations, models, and even Coyote Ugly bartenders. Now MySpace wants to use the medium to pick who we’ll put in office. The company announced Wednesday that it will partner with Mark Burnett Productions to produce INDEPENDENT, a reality TV show that will test participants’ political chops using input from online communities. The winner will receive one… Read More

In an unusual move, MTV announced today it is making the entire six-episide third season of The Andy Milonakis Show available via Apple's iTunes store more than a month before its debut on the company's MTV2 cable channel. Individual episodes will also be available via a plethora of digital video services, including Amazon Unbox, AOL Video, Wal-Mart Video Down,ods, Xbox Live Marketplace, and MTV's own digital video services… Read More

Are you a hard core sports fan who is always wanted to host his own sports talk show? CF Sports Talk Studio, available shortly at CampusFans.com, looks to want to bring you your chance for free. CF Sports Talk Studio is the brainchild of ESPN Founder Bill Rasmussen. This particular part of the CampusFans.com Web site gives fans the opportunity an online sports talk show as often as they like – worldwide – at no cost.… Read More

After hitting a series of power-ups which this year saw the videogame-centered E3 Expo explode to over 400 exhibitors, 60,000 attendees, and over half a million square feet of show space, the Entertainment Software Association has announced the 2007 E3 Expo will be not be the same sort of mammoth trade show, instead appearing as a “more intimate” event focused on small, targeted meetings with media, retail, and development groups… Read More