FilmOn founder Alki David says he plans to sue CBS and its CNET tech Web site, alleging the site allows "illegal distribution of DRM [digital rights management] removal software as well as the illegal distribution of file sharing software with…
Cable-television operators won a major victory on Monday when the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a sales tax on satellite-TV customers doesn’t violate the interstate commerce law, reports the Dayton Daily News. Satellite-TV customers must pay a 5.5% sales tax,…
The rumor that Google has asked Logitech to suspend production of its Google TV set-top box, the Revue, isn’t true, according to the company, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Technology Blog. The Revue has been advertised on television with commercials…
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has confirmed that he and his girlfriend, Playmate Crystal Harris, have gotten engaged, MTV reports. Hefner, 84, posted on his Twitter page on Dec. 24: "After the movie tonight, Crystal & I exchanged gifts. I gave…
Julian Assange, the embattled founder of WikiLeaks, has signed a $1.3 million deal involving publishers in the U.S. and the U.K. to write his autobiography, Digital Trends reports. The deal is for $800,000 from Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S….
A new type of mobile-phone ad may soon hit your mobile device, reports The Wall Street Journal. (Note: The WSJ is behind a pay wall and not all readers may be able to access this article.) Called "intercept campaigning," the…
Rovi Corp., which provides interactive television guides for cable and satellite services, has agreed to buy Sonic Solutions, which provides streaming services of shows and movies, for $775 million, reports Bloomberg News. The goal of the combined company is to…
Netflix may be heading for a fall–at least in terms of its share price, according to The Wall Street Journal’s Brett Arends. (Please note that the WSJ is behind a pay wall and not all readers may be able to…
Nielsen research shows that wealthier consumers tend to be users of digital-video recorders, reports MediaPost.com’s MediaDailyNews. Adults in homes with incomes of $75,000 or more account for almost half of all DVR users, the story says. And adults in homes…
By Chuck Ross TVWeek has spoken to Arthur Fry, the retired 3M employee who is the co-inventor of the Post-it, and his history of the Post-it is in direct contradiction to the written statement made Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010, by…