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A new device being featured at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is being touted as a workaround to circumvent the current constraints on TV Everywhere. Re/code reports that the device, Dish Network’s HopperGo — which Dish says…
In a report on the state of ultra high-definition 4K television technology in The New York Times‘ Personal Tech section, Brian X. Chen is advising consumers to “wait at least another year or two before buying it — the hype…
The refrigerator is on the verge of what could be its biggest tech advance in decades, or as the New York Post puts it, “Refrigerator technology is about to get way cooler.” Samsung previewed its new Family Hub refrigerator Tuesday…
NBC announced that it has brought aboard a new senior VP of corporate communications for NBC Entertainment. Variety reports that the network hired PR exec Allison Rawlings. Rawlings comes from the public relations department at DreamWorks. Chip Sullivan, executive VP…
“It was a secret that had finally become too burdensome to keep,” The New York Times reports in a new story tracing the events that led up to actor Charlie Sheen’s revelation on NBC’s “Today” show in November that he…
“Elizabeth Swados, a composer, writer and director who fashioned a unique style of socially engaged musical theater, drawing on a global menu of musical styles and a street-level engagement with the politics of the dispossessed, died on Tuesday in Manhattan,”…
Twitter has a new initiative set to roll out soon that could raise the service’s 140-character limit by a whopping 7,043%. Re/code reports that the new feature, which is said to be targeted for launch around the end of the…
The founder of a rock band that had a string of hits in the 1970s was charged today with assault. The AP reports that Donald Fagen, a founder of Steely Dan, was charged with assaulting his wife at their home…
A number of major-market NBC-owned TV stations are expanding their lineups of news programming. TVNewsCheck reports that WNBC-TV in New York and KNBC in Los Angeles, the company’s stations in the top two TV markets, are adding 4 p.m. newscasts,…
A media veteran has been named to the newly created position of senior vice president, strategy and business development, for Time Inc.’s People and Entertainment Weekly. The company announced today that Bruce Gersh will get the job. “Gersh will lead…