Warner Bros.’ entertainment magazine TMZ has created a free application for Apple’s iPhones and iPod Touches, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The ad-supported application includes a full-screen video player, the trade paper says. —Aimee Picchi
Major League Baseball and the National Football League may have protected themselves from a possible bankruptcy of Sirius XM Satellite Radio by arranging to have future payments placed in an escrow account, the New York Times says. Sirius has put…
Cadbury’s Trident gum is trying to mount a viral marketing a campaign that involves videos posted to a web site for a fake TV show called “That’s Not Fake,” but is finding the going difficult, the Wall Street Journal said….
Facebook is discussing forming a partnership that would put parts of the social network into some Nokia phones, the Wall Street Journal says, citing people familiar with the matter. One application would integrate contact information from Facebook with the phone’s…
ABCNews.com saw its number of unique visitors increase 24% in January to 22.1 million from the previous month. Driven by coverage of the presidential inauguration, ABCNews.com page views increased 14% to 214.1 million, while video views were up 50% from…
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VH1 is the latest cable programmer to launch an iPhone application, with the news today that it’s rolling out celebrity photos and show clips this month to the popular cell phone. VH1’s effort follows iPhone app introductions earlier this week…
The FCC has begun approaching church leaders and other community figures to help spread the word about the digital TV switch, the Los Angeles Times reports. FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein asked members of the Baptist Ministries Conference of Los Angeles…
Hulu.com viewership is becoming younger, signaling that the site may be entering its mass-adoption phase, the Wall Street Journal reports. When the site launched last March, 47% of the site’s visitors were over the age of 55, the newspaper notes….
Lifetime Networks and game publisher Merscom are teaming to create four new casual games based on Lifetime’s original shows. The deal includes the production of two hidden-object adventure PC games, a downloadable PC simulation game and a game created exclusively…