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Wait, Music Downloads Are Already Halfway to Obsolescence?
Alas poor downloads, we knew them well.
Broadcasters, Here’s How to Kill Aereo. Cable Providers, Here’s How to Make People Hate You Less.
How to improve the lives of media companies, service providers, technology companies and the consumers who are trapped in the middle of all this nonsense.
6 Apps That Turn Your Phone into a Radio
Listening to the regular old radio is a drag. You have to suffer through commercials, DJs who talk too much and songs you don’t like. But if you have a smartphone, you don’t have to put up with it.
The Children Are the Future (of Online Streaming Video)
There may be another way that streaming-video services turn themselves into a mainstream alternative to regular TV: by going after your children.
Google Play Music All Access Review: It’s Not a Spotify Competitor After All
Google Play Music All Access finally brings streaming music to Google’s stable, but it’s not really competing with Spotify at this point.
5 Things Google Play Music All Access Needs to Match (or Beat) Spotify [Updated]
Google has launched a streaming music service to rival Spotify.
Amazon Rumored to Be Prepping a TV Box for Streaming Video
Bloomberg reports “people with knowledge of the matter” as saying that Amazon is working on a TV box for streaming on-demand video. The rumored box will apparently be available later this year and looks to compete with the likes of Apple TV, Roku and similar streaming boxes.
Amazon Said to Plan TV Set-Top Box for Streaming Video [Bloomberg]
How Apple Could Own the Interactive TV Market
Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market-intelligence firm in Silicon Valley. He contributes to Big Picture, an opinion column that appears every Monday on Techland.
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Hulu and Netflix Begin Forays into Original Programming
It turns out the ongoing Hulu versus Netflix faceoff for streaming domination has just been buffering in preparation for the latest battle. Within one week, both streaming video giants have shed their identities as mere content …
Verizon Teams Up with Redbox to Go After Netflix
It’s a looming square-off of Shakespearean proportions: Smartphone colossus Verizon is buddying up with movie-rental-kiosk outfit Redbox to take the fight to streaming giant Netflix. Imagine Verizon’s press release articulated by …
Goodnight, Television?
We’re still some distance from a world where online streaming of content can truly challenge the dominance of television, but recent figures suggest that the number of households in the U.S. with at least one television actually …