US internet retailer Amazon is opening a central London office, bringing 1,600 jobs to the capital. Amazon will move several hundred existing employees from the company's current offices in Slough to the new 12-storey, 210,000 sq ft ...
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Recent rumors suggest that Amazon will launch a streaming media player this fall to compete with the likes of Apple TV and Roku. An interesting question is whether it will offer access to Netflix, the company's fierce rival in the streaming ...
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Are you willing to give Google TV another go? If so, the latest option for adding the Google TV platform to your TV is the Asus Cube, which is now being offered for sale by NewEgg.com for $140. We first heard about the Asus Cube (then ...
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The American population's voracious appetite for digitized information and ccontinues unabated, creating a groundswell of consumers who move seamlessly between smartphones, tablets and laptops to consume digital content, often using ...
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If you're a fan of "Cupcake Wars," House Hunters," or "Bizarre Foods," you'll be interested in today's Amazon news: The company has announced a deal to carry shows from Scripps Networks Interactive, which owns Cooking Channel, DIY Network, ...
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Microsoft's Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate. The company also reported problems with its Xbox Music and Video Store ...
Following one of the most successful years in the company's 26 year history, Creative Technology (CT) are celebrating after receiving two awards in as many weeks. Delighted to have won the Event Production Awards Best AV Equipment ...
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Etisalat today signed a partnership agreement with Pacific Controls in Dubai to mark the beginning of a collaboration which will see them tackle connectivity challenges in the developing world. Etisalat and Pacific Controls, both local ...
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Cisco Systems' sale of its home networking business to Belkin International marks the end of a 10-year odyssey through the world of consumer products, but the company plans to keep reaching consumers through their carriers and cable ...
The long-awaited and much-anticipated Nintendo Wii U,the company's newest version of its Wii gaming console, finally became available on November 18 in the U.S., and I was lucky enough to get my hands on one. After playing pretty much ...
Set-top box manufacturer Humax and Entropic, which provides semiconductor solutions for the connected home, announced today an IP-based set-top box (STB) based on hardware and software specifications developed by Comcast. The Humax client ...
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Aegis Lightwave Inc of Woburn, MA, USA and Photop Technologies Inc of Fuzhou, China (both subsidiaries of II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA) have merged under the Photop brand identity. Founded in 2003 through a merger of four firms ...
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Netflix has restored its streaming video services, after Christmas outages related to problems with Amazon's online computing platform. Netflix users were unable to stream movies and TV shows from some devices on Monday, with many posting ...
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LOS ANGELES, CA, July 16, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- OTT seems prepared to completely transform the cable industry. At the present time, internet video is user-generated and low-quality, such as YouTube. Still, YouTube is fantastically ...
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Apple has confirmed that the latest version of its iOS mobile operating system will not include an app for accessing Google's YouTube video service by default. The move represents another step away from Google, after Apple previously ...
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