The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreWhat does Simon & Schuster have that Hachette doesn't to give it leverage with Amazon? A major U.S. broadcaster as a parent company.…
Read MoreUnderlying much of the debate of interconnection fees and paid prioritization is an unspoken and largely unexamined assumption that the current power dynamic between ISPs and content providers is both inevitable and immutable. It isn't.…
Read MoreLike a lot of networks these days, HBO is hungrily eyeing the fat margins cable operators are earning from their broadband business.…
Read MoreConsumers increasingly are willing and able to assemble their own, a la carte TV bundles, through a mixture of traditional and OTT channels, while eschewing pre-packaged bundles dictated by the networks.…
Read MoreThe "large opportunity" in TV for Apple is not in TV hardware, as Icahn suggests, but in figuring out how to get the kind of TV content and services consumers increasingly want onto mobile devices as seamlessly as possible.…
Read MoreOnline video heated up, as traditional television players, tech stalwarts, and new startups all seek access to the $75 billion spent on U.S. TV advertising.…
Read MoreUnlike the traditional movie paradigm, the value of the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" sequel to Netflix will not decline over time and has no particular time "window." It is not a depreciating asset but a long term investment in audience building, which makes it a very different animal from most movies.…
Read MoreWhat makes the Weinstein Company's strategy for the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" sequel truly unusual is that the film is bypassing all transactional windows -- from theaters to DVD sales and rentals to pay-per-view -- and going straight into a subscription window.…
Read MoreTechnology companies seem to be having thoughts about their efforts to engage directly in the political process.…
Read MoreComcast's earlier swagger seems to have given way to peevishness as it lashes out at critics of the Time Warner Cable merger.…
Read MoreIntroducing the net neutrality roundtables, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler fairly begged the panelist to put aside their talking points "so that we can search for the equities in this complex issue." Good luck with that.…
Read MoreThe timing of the announcements of Apple's and Amazon's family sharing plans is not likely a coincidence. In fact, both companies have been working on the idea in parallel for several years, and the first public hints of the plans surfaced within a month of each other in early 2013.…
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