The Electronic Frontier Foundation has found that the new Silk browser in Amazon’s forthcoming Kindle Fire tablet, which speeds browsing by routing users’ traffic through Amazon’s cloud servers, does not pose a privacy threat to users.
“We are generally satisfied with the privacy design of Silk, and happy that the end user has …
Google is continuing to try and make the world a better place—and, of course, promote its own product—with the announcement of the next two programs from the YouTube NextUp initiative: YouTube Next Chef and YouTube Next Trainer.
Each program will allow 16 selected students to participate in a three month virtual class on making …
If you’ve ever found yourself frustrated at the thought that you can’t share in the results of Twitter or Facebook’s efforts to monetize social media, fear not: There’s an app for that. The only catch? You’ll have to join yet another social network.
UberMedia, the company behind apps Echofon and Twidroyd, has created new social …
Watch out, Netflix: There’s a new player in the online video space, with the kind of past history that should probably make you a little nervous. Introducing VDIO, the new streaming video-on-demand service from the people who brought you Skype. And Napster. And Apache. You’ll find some Microsoft veterans in there, too.
The news that Warner Bros. has purchased a movie pitch as the result of posts made on Reddit shouldn’t come as a surprise to many people; if there’s one thing that social media has proven over the years, it’s that it exists as fodder for the creation of “mainstream” media like movies, television shows and music—as well as numerous news …
How many publicly traded companies need to improve their cybersecurity? How much danger are those companies in of actually being hacked? The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants you to have a better idea, especially if you’re a shareholder of one or more of the companies.
Late last week, the SEC introduced a new set of …
Not content going head-to-head with Netflix and iTunes by offering streaming video-on-demand movie rentals, YouTube is rumored to be close to announcing a $150-million plan to unveil multiple new channels of all-original content in the hopes of becoming a rival to major television networks
The project, which according to Deadline New …
If you think being audited by the IRS is scary, imagine how Google is feeling. According to Bloomberg, the company is undergoing a private audit over its offshore subsidiaries and their use in avoiding federal income taxes.
The agency has requested information from the company about offshore deals following three large acquisitions, …
To everyone who entered a bid to try and buy Hulu: Apparently, you didn’t offer enough. According to a statement released yesterday by Hulu joint owners the Walt Disney Corporation, News Corporation and Providence Equity Partners (as well as senior Hulu management), the owners have “terminated the sale process” for the company, due to …
If you’ve recently realized that your guilty television pleasures run to shows such as Supernatural, Nikita and The Vampire Diaries, then congratulations: You’re a fan of the CW network. And thanks to a new deal announced yesterday, it’s going to be easier than ever to catch up with your favorite shows starting later this month, when …
If you consider the move towards predominantly digital media to be a slow but inevitable one, recent events in the worlds of movies and comic books might make you want to reconsider that last part.
In the past week, protests by movie theater owners have pushed Universal to scrap plans to test a premium video-on-demand release for the …
Jake Sully may have saved Pandora from destruction, but it doesn’t look like he was able to do the same for the American movie industry. Just two years after being released, James Cameron’s Avatar has been named the most pirated movie of all time in a new study by TorrentFreak.
At an estimated 21 million downloads, Cameron’s …
