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Sony and YouTube = Friendship
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An interesting tid bit of news was revealed in a CNET podcast claiming that Sony Pictures is considering to stream some of its full length content on YouTube. If this deal comes to fruition it would definitely bring some competition [...]
Flat panel TV sales may brighten Corning: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Flat-panel television sales have stayed healthy, despite the global economic downturn, a good sign for Corning Inc (GLW.N), the world’s No. 1 maker of specialty glass, according to an April 6 edition of Barron’s.
February unit sales of liquid-crystal-display (LCD) televisions were up 39 percent in the United States over last year, [...]
Taiwan market: LCD TV shipments reach 300,000 units in 1Q
After starting the year off strong, LCD TV shipments in the Taiwan market during the first quarter are estimated to have held level on year at 300,000 units, according to market sources.
Shipments in January and February reached 240,000 units, up 14-15% compared to 210,000 units in the same period of 2008, the sources noted.
Shipments in [...]
Yahoo Net service comes to Samsung TVs
Yahoo technology to bring Internet services to TVs has fledged from the demonstration realm to become available in an actual product, Samsung TVs.
Yahoo calls the technology TV Widgets, but Samsung is branding it as Internet@TV. It provides access to a handful of Yahoo services–news, stock quotes, Flickr photos, weather–as well as the Twitter microblogging service, [...]
World Tech Update: Obama’s BlackBerry, the Pope, and More… (PC World)
PC World - In this weekâs show: the European Commission considers hearing impairment risks caused by personal music players, Obama gets to keep his BlackBerry, the Gates Foundation donates money to eradicate polio, MIT creates a seeing machine, Japan launches a satellite, the Pope gets a YouTube channel, R4 Revolution comes back for Nintendo DS and Hitachi and Toshiba show off gesture controlled TVs.
Full StoryYouTube Set for Hollywood Partnership (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - YouTube and the William Morris Agency are nearing a deal that would put the Hollywood talent broker’s clients in made-for-YouTube productions, according to a report in the New York Times.
Full StoryCorrection: Dish Network story (AP)
AP - In a Jan. 28 story about satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp., The Associated Press erroneously reported that Goldman Sachs analyst Ingrid Chung expects Dish to be near the release of new video recorders that avoid using technology involved in its patent dispute with TiVo Inc. Chung did not make that assertion. The analyst noted that a hearing in the patent case is scheduled for Feb. 17.
Full StoryDish Network shares jump after Goldman upgrade (AP)
AP - Shares of satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp. soared Wednesday after a Goldman Sachs research report suggested the company’s stock has absorbed enough bad news to expect a bounce-back.
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