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News Corp. Aims To Transform Education With Amplify Tablet Computer (Deadline)

After attempts to stake a big claim in the digital arena via also-ran MySpace and the now-defunct The Daily newspaper, News Corp. is headed into the classroom. Its new Amplify Tabl... More

Roku 3 Raises the Bar for Set-Top Streamers (Wired)

Roku today introduced the new Roku 3 set-top box, and it promises to be the best streamer on the market. Your move, Apple. In a world where content is king, the Roku 3 has access t... More

Exclusive: Apple's Cook, Music Mogul Iovine Discuss New Music Service (Reuters)

Apple Inc has held talks with Beats Electronics LLC, the audio technology firm co-founded by influential hip-hop producer Dr Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine, on a potential partne... More

Google At Work On Amazon Prime Competitor (CNET)

Amazon Prime, a service from the e-retail giant that offers free two-day shipping and discounted one-day shipping, might soon have a competitor. Google is at work on a new platform... More

Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and Other Digital Pioneers Sour on 'Pay What You Want' Music (The Verge)

Not long ago, many hoped the Internet would emerge as a music fan's Shangri-la, a utopian world where any track, no matter how obscure, was available for free, record labels were e... More

Digitalsmiths Finds Tablets a Threat to Pay TV (Streaming Media)

Is the growing use of tablets a concern for cable and satellite providers? In a 2013 Q1 research report targeted at pay TV operators, video metadata specialist Digitalsmiths survey... More

Magic Ruby on Cynopsis:Kids! Second Screen Webinar (Magic Ruby)

We're happy to confirm that Magic Ruby VP of Business Development, Cedric Arnaud-Battandier, will be a featured speaker at the Cynopsis:Kids! Webinar "Leveraging the Second Screen ... More

Viggle: Making TV a Part of Your Social Life (EPR)

You use Facebook to check-in when you go to the gym. You check-in on Foursquare when you're at Happy Hour with your co-workers. And you definitely check-in on Yelp when you're at t... More

ABC to Put Mobile First and Launches Second Screen App (AdNews)

The ABC will continue its role as Australia's broadcast innovator with the launch of its second screen 'companion app' on 20 March. The corporation is also putting mobile and table... More

The Multi-Screen Landscape Means You Need a Mobile Presence Evaluation (MLive)

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops-oh my! All you need to do is take a glance around next time you're in a crowded area to see the multiple ways people connect online and tap into j... More

Will Twitter Eliminate Social TV Apps? (MediaPost)

Twitter has become synonymous with social TV. In addition to the record 24 million tweets generated during the Super Bowl, the social messaging service served as the platform for t... More

Chase Carey: Digital No Overnight Savior to Home Entertainment (HMM)

A flat packaged media sellthrough market in 2012 buttressed with a stronger digital presence going forward should put the home entertainment business back into a growth trajectory,... More

Digital Certificates Chaos Could Cost Companies $398 Million (CIO)

More than half of organizations don't know where their encryption keys and digital certificates are deployed, how they are being used and who is using them. Nor do they have an acc... More

NPD: Cable Still King Of MVPD VOD (TWICE)

Share of the $1.3 billion video-on-demand revenue generated by multi-channel video programming distributors (MVPDs) in 2012 continued to be dominated by cable-TV operators, with 56... More

Cisco Wins First European Order for Videoscape Unity (IPTV News)

Cisco has won its first European order for the Videoscape Unity video services delivery platform it launched last Januaryat CES, from Norwegian cable operator GET. The new video se... More

TVEyes Introduces iPhone Broadcast Monitoring App (TV Technology)

The new iPhone app from TVEyes enables worldwide real-time mobile search and indexing of TV and radio broadcasts. The app also provides access to a watch list of search terms and p... More

Study: Mobile Video Ads That Include Social Media Buttons Drive 36% Higher Engagement (VideoNuze)

Fire up a video on your mobile device and you'll almost certainly observe how social media is playing a bigger role in the ad creative before or during the content. Underscoring th... More

Film To Be Distributed Via Games Console For First Time (BBC News)

An independent British film is being released via a digital games console platform, rather than through the cinema or DVDs, for the first time. Pulp, a comedy about a struggling co... More

Don’t Touch That Remote: TV Pilots Turn to Net, Not Networks (New York Times)

In the television pilot that Cheyenne Jackson taped recently, he played an aggressive young news anchor whose ascendancy threatened an older colleague. It was a fitting metaphor fo... More