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We’ve recently been following the ongoing saga of Blockbuster Video, who recently found itself on the auction block, being bid on by several different parties, including SK Telecom, Carl Icahn, and their new owner, Dish Network. And now that Dish Network owns Blockbuster Video–or will when the auction officially closes [...]

In a moment that pretty much shatters the whole “cat’s in the cradle” lament of bad parenting everywhere, soon little Billy’s piano recital might well be streaming live on YouTube, Well, okay, maybe not soon, but someday…at least, that’s how it’s looking so far.

If you happen to be one of those well-appointed photographers that happens to have an XF305 or an XF300 camcorder from the folks out at Canon, you’ll be happy to know that a recent firmware update has given them an exciting new special ability: shooting in 3D. But the downside [...]

A legal battle is in the making today, as we discover that Time Warner is turning to the court system to get its iPad app going in earnest. The Time Warner cable streaming app for iPad has caused a lot of confusion and discord over the last couple weeks, and [...]

Ah, YouTube. Home of stupid people tricks and Darwin award candidates the world over. Also home of .gif videos set to music, short films ranging from the awesome to the odious, and of course, inexplicable videos involving cats. And while there are more videos on YouTube already than any one [...]

Well that explains a lot, now doesn’t it? Just six days after we put up the news that ESPN couldn’t possibly join Time Warner’s iPad app lineup, the news emerges that instead, ESPN has built its own app, which is now reportedly appearing on iOS hardware everywhere.

I’ll lead right off by saying that this is early-stage stuff, depending on inside sources, so the whole story is hardly emerged, but what we’ve seen so far is definitely an eyebrow-archer. Apple’s been buying storage from the folks out at EMC subsidiary Isilon Systems, and buying it up in [...]

Well folks…if you still have a Blockbuster Video anywhere near you, it is now under new management. The recent auctioning off of Blockbuster and attendant assets has concluded, and the home entertainment world just got a serious shaking up as Dish Network won out.

USB 3.0 is not going away, folks, and thanks to things like those which Apple is developing (as evidenced by things like the pic below from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office), it might be a step closer to becoming as widespread as USB 2.0 is today.

Ah, the app. There’s an app for most everything any more, and if you can’t find it on your iPhone, iPad or iPod, chances are good it will instead be on your Blackberry or your Android device. But more and more, televisions are even getting into the app concept, and [...]