Dell is trying its hand at a portable music player again, after failing to gain enough marketshare with earlier versions such as DJ Ditty. The new Dell player could go…

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Kicking off the call, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings predicted that the DVD-by-mail segment would continue expanding for another 5-10 years, despite the deteriorating economics of the DVD business…

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Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO), which has snapped up companies like Linksys, Kiss and others over the last few years, has now bought out Seattle-based Pure Networks, a provider of home networking-management…

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Just before D6, Rafat and I—both Kindle users—were talking about books on our respective reading lists and how many of them, particularly new non-fiction, couldn’t be downloaded to the device. …

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The book publishing industry is not sure what to make of the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle wireless reader. The device’s creator, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, addressed the industry in front…

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Sir Howard Stringer is doing a star turn as chief salesman for Sony (NYSE: SNE). One of his top messages: Playstation 3, which was “sort of on life support before”…

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For now, EchoStar’s fate is closely tied to that of its surgically separated Siamese twin DISH, which just reported sharply lower sub growth: Total revenue grew 23.8 percent to $554.5…

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Expected this spring after an earlier delay, PlayStation Home is still not move-in ready. The real-time 3D community for PS3 consoles will stay in closed beta, although that will be…

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Martha Stewart, Rupert Murdoch and the Kindle from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). If you told me this morning I’d have been able to fit these three into the same post, I’d…

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Toshiba made official today what essentially has been reality since Warner Bros. announced just before CES that it was opting for Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) Blu-Ray over the HD-DVD format. NYT:…

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The reports were right on: Toshiba is quitting the HD DVD business, leaving Blu-ray as the last format standing. The recent history is well known, as Blu-ray has racked up…

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See update below: This would be a big blow for HD DVD, if true: THR reports, citing unidentified industry sources, that Toshiba may soon pull the plug on HD DVD,…

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As the number of children using portable digital music players has grown, so too has the demand for specialized players, accessories and child-targeted video and music content. AdAge has a…

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Twentieth Century Fox actually has two deals with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) that Steve Jobs announced today with Fox Filmed Entertainment CEO Jim Gianopulos. A lot is being made of the…

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I actually didn’t get very far into the Sands exhibition area this morning ... I wound up spending too much time at the jammed Sling Media booth, which seemed even…

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About two years into its splashy CES 2006 debut, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) is scaling back on its digital living room brand Viiv. This was Intel’s attempt at branding entertainment/multimedia-heavy computers,…

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When Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced its one-year free music offer “Comes with Music” with Universal yesterday, details were sparse. There was no word on which handset the service would be…

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Another step toward meshing video and photos on TV ... TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) subscribers with broadband-connected DVRs will be able to access and share photos from Photobucket, owned by FIM,…

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A 3G version of Apple’s iPhone will come out next year, according to AT&T (NYSE: T) CEO Randall Stephenson, in a wide-ranging interview with Forbes at the Churchill Club dinner…

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In a setback to satellite operator Echostar, (NSDQ: DISH) the US Patent and Trademark Office has upheld the validity of TiVo’s (NSDQ: TIVO) “Time Warp” patent, which covers the simultaneous…

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DVR maker TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) did Q3 revenue of $58.3 million, up 11 percent from last year’s $52.5 million. Net losses narrowed to $8.2 million ($.08 per share) from $11.1…

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Our sister site paidContent:UK reports on Reuters’ (NSDQ: RTRSY) implementation of a “mobile journalism toolkit” developed in partnership with Nokia. The first trials were with TV reporters shooting video for…

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Even icons need marketing. Greg Joswiak, the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) marketing whiz working with the iPod and the iPhone, talked with Fortune’s Jon Fortt recently about the upcoming developer’s kit…

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After today’s festivities concluded, I eventually got a chance to sit down and play with Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle. The first thing to note is that the screen isn’t like…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) turned a profit of $4.29 billion, or $0.45 per share for the quarter ending Sept. 30, compared with $3.4 billion, or $0.35 per share in the same…

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