At Digital Hollywood today, Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks, gave a presentation on the company’s new upcoming RealPlayer11, which has generated some buzz for its video-sharing download capabilities as well…

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AT&T, the all-things-to-all-people communications company, has decided it can’t rely on entertainment companies for one business—pay TV—and continue to ignore piracy in another—the internet. On the eve of his Digital…

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My serious Digital Hollywood coverage will start tomorrow, but some other stories coming out of there: -- Panel Pushers: Inside a Digital Hollywood Panel: The funniest and most on-the-spot description…

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Coming this Monday and later, coverage from the all encompassing Digital Hollywood, which is now spread over two hotels. I’ll be there but will be covering it slightly differently this…

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One of the two competing hi-def DVD standards is finding more favor with European movie distributors than the other, FT reports. Some 35 titles are available in Toshiba’s HD-DVD format…

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One more talent agency trying to figure out this social media thing: The William Morris Agency is collaborating with online video aggregator Narrowstep to develop broadband and mobile programming for…

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There’s always some decompression after you leave TED. While you’re there, surrounded by some of the smartest, richest, and best-looking people in the world, with few day-to-day responsibilities, it’s easy…

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China’s rapidly rising online population helped Beijing-based online search company Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) post significant 4Q revenue increases. The quarter’s revenue climbed 136.1 percent, coming in at $34.8 million. Total…

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XM Satellite Radio reported a 3Q loss of $84 million, or 32 cents, down from $132 million, or 60 cents, a year earlier. Revenue rose 57 percent to $240.4 million.…

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Sony Pictures Television has extended its partnership with Arts Alliance Media to launch a download-to-own deal for 40 movies through LOVEFiLM and AOL in the UK this week. This follows…

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Day two at Digital Hollywood was a sunny, beautiful day. Some buzz and fallout from the Facebook valuation issues. BW is doing a followup to the story two days ago,…

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At DH, I spoke to Ralph Simon, arguably the father of mobile music and content industry, and now the head of MEF Americas. His work in the mobile music industry…

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My personal learning of the day? I speak in a completely different language than investment bankers and financiers. So I learned from my surprise appearance on a panel at DH.…

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It feels frothy...that’s pretty much the state of the Ocean next to Loews today (pouring down in Santa Monica today). Much like the last Digital Hollywood, it is all about…

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When it comes to Yahoo, everything swings from one extreme to another, but now, it is trying to play the balancing game....the official line is: the company never said it…

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Picked up this bit again at DH today: Intent MediaWorks, an Atlanta-based digital media distributor through P2P, has received $3 million in venture funding. Private investors led the round, and…

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Picked up this bit at the Digital Hollywood pre-show today: Google is holding an invite-only music roundtable this Thursday at its HQ with 20 of the top executives from the…

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Coming this week, the crowded Digital Hollywood conference, right here in Santa Monica. I’ll be there, covering it in all its usual detail...panels, interviews, audio, video, buzz, gossip. For the…

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This weekend and next week are busy days ahead: We will be transitioning our backend system from Movable Type to WordPress, so the site might be down for some time…

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At the Digital Hollywood earlier this week, I met with Maria Thomas, the soft-spoken VP and GM of NPR‘s new media efforts, which includes online and mobile. I was particularly…

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Some more tidbits out of the Digital Hollywood conference, which ended yesterday: -- Fox Interactive is rumored to announce a couple of more deals at Web 2.0, the big conference…

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At Digital Hollywood, had an interesting chat with Jeff Shultz, the CEO of The Concert Network, the VOD live music channel on Comcast, Adelphia and others across U.S. It is…

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Day three of the Digital Hollywood, and the conference wound up...by the end of it, everyone realized that what was said on the broadband related panel on day one was…

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Viacom’s impending buyout of iFilm, a story we broke last night, was buzzing in the hallways of the conference today. Besides just the deal points, some other macro factors are…

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-- Dave TV Launches in Beta: Dave TV, the online TV service which has been in works for a long time now, has launched online in beta...it joins the slew…

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