All posts by Jeff Hyatt

AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., and Time Warner Cable Inc., are gearing up for a push to deliver video games directly to televisions, said people with knowledge of ... More

TiVo announced Monday that Verizon has agreed to pay the DVR developer $250 million to settle the patent-infringement case it had brought against the telco TV provider back in 2009... More

Just in time for the Christmas rush, Amazon is getting the bum's rush from Walmart stores. The mega-retailer announced Thursday that it no longer sell Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets... More

Speaking at an investor conference in New York yesterday, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman acknowledged what should be obvious: The revenue windfall the studios enjoyed from successive p... More

When the U.S. Department of Justice brought its lawsuit against Apple and five leading publishers in April, charging them with conspiring illegally to raise ebook prices by forcing... More

Microsoft is going Hollywood. On Tuesday, the software giant named former CBS chief Nancy Tellem to oversee creation of a new in-house studio that will create original content for ... More

The Barry Diller-backed broadcast TV streaming service Aereo got a nice write up in the New York Times this morning, which credited Aereo with walking a "fine legal line" between p... More

Apple’s new iPhone may have disappointed some who were hoping for a more revolutionary new device, but some analysts argue that the biggest innovation is not in the smartphone it... More

Pity poor Nintendo, trying to make some news today when most of the tech press was still sleeping off its Apple hangover. But the game company managed to make some anyway. At a ne... More

Ever since Starz LLC unit Starz Entertainment in February ended a controversial four-year, $120 million distribution agreement with Netflix, it has sought replacement subscription ... More

In another sign of Hollywood's bracing for the post-disc era, DreamWorks Animation is partnering with Technicolor to launch a cloud-based movie store and discovery service in the f... More

U.S. consumers watched an average of 6 fewer minutes of traditional television per day in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same period in 2011, according to the latest N... More

Having experimented last year with offering movies in a premium VOD rental window just 60 days after their theatrical debut, 20th Century-Fox is trying again, with a more modest ea... More

The iPad may finally have some serious competition, at least as a media player. At a news conference in Santa Monica, Calif., today, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled a quartet of... More

By Paul Sweeting Netflix shares took (another) hit Tuesday after Amazon announced a deal with Epix to bring Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM films to Amazon's Prime Instant Video serv... More

One year after shutting down its Ovi Music Unlimited streaming service that came bundled with its smartphones, Nokia is trying again. On Tuesday, just ahead of its official unveili... More

Adopting a cloud culture catalyzes companies to enhance their agility, revolutionize their industries, adopt a data-driven approach and elevate customer and employee experiences. C... More