News tagged with video devices

Nintendo posts loss on strong yen, weak sales

(AP) -- Nintendo Co. sank to losses for the April-December period, battered by a price cut for its 3DS handheld, a strong yen that erodes overseas earnings and competition from mobile devices such as the ...

Technology / Business

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Humbled Netflix CEO still thinking, talking big

(AP) -- To hear Netflix CEO Reed Hastings tell it, the bone-headed decisions that have dragged down the Internet's leading video subscription service during the past five months eventually will be forgotten like a bad movie ...

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created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

This holiday season, the tablet goes mainstream

'Tis the season of the tablet. Despite the gloomy economy, shoppers are expected to shell out for tablet computers this December, making them about as popular as candy canes and twinkling lights.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hulu shows heading for Nintendo Wii and 3DS

Nintendo said Friday that online video service Hulu Plus will stream movies and television shows to Wii and 3DS videogame systems by the end of the year.

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created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nvidia says Kal-El chip will have five cores

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia says its upcoming Kal-El chip (Tegra 3) will have five cores, not four. The news appeared this week when the Santa Clara company announced a white paper describing the architecture of this system-on-a-chip for mobile computing. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Researchers use new video gaming technology to detect illness, prevent falls in older adults

Many older adults lose their independence as their health declines and they are compelled to move into assisted care facilities. Researchers at the University of Missouri and TigerPlace, an independent living community, have ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Skype buys messaging startup GroupMe

Skype, the Internet communications group set to be acquired by Microsoft, announced plans to buy the mobile messaging startup firm GroupMe for undisclosed terms.

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created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hulu to launch subscription video service in Japan

(AP) -- Online streaming site Hulu.com plans to launch a subscription video service in Japan this year.

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created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

YouTube to stream Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits

(AP) -- YouTube will live stream Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits in the video site's continuing push to bring music festivals to digital screens.

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created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nielsen: Online video viewers watch less TV

(AP) -- Americans who watch the most video online tend to watch less TV, according to The Nielsen Co., a finding that overturns a longstanding belief that people who watch more programming do so over all devices.

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created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US TV ownership down for first time in 20 years

The number of US homes owning television sets is falling for the first time in two decades, the Nielsen Co. said on Tuesday.

Technology / Telecom

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

YouTube is top website with smartphone users

YouTube video-sharing service is the most popular website among smartphone users, accounting for 17 percent of mobile data traffic, according to a report released Tuesday by network firm Allot Communications.

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created Feb 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

YouTube mobile video viewing tops 200 mln a day

YouTube has said it is serving up more than 200 million videos daily to smartphones and other Internet-linked mobile devices.

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created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Skype buys smartphone video star Qik

Skype on Thursday closed a deal to buy Qik, a California startup that specializes in letting people use smartphones to stream video to Internet-linked friends in real time.

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created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

US video game sales rise 8 percent in November

(AP) -- U.S. video game sales in November rose 8 percent from a year ago to $2.99 billion, helped by Microsoft Corp.'s new motion-detecting controller, Kinect, and hot sales of the first-person shooter "Call of Duty: Black ...

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