blinkx Brings Premium Online Video to Sony Connected Devices

SAN FRANCISCO, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that a blinkx app is now available on Sony Internet-enabled home entertainment ...

Boston-area video game company Turbine acquired

By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff Turbine Inc., one of the Boston area's biggest video game companies, has been acquired by...

Why Hollywood is doomed

The only way the film industry can survive, according to entertainment lobbyists, is for Congress to pass a series of escalating, alphabet soup laws. I’m referring to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 and the recent attempts by the entertainment industry to push sister anti-piracy bills — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the Senate and the Protect Intellectual Property Act ...

Hollywood hopes rise as Blu-ray, digital offset DVD decline

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood may be seeing a turnaround in a seven-year decline of home video sales, thanks to double-digit sales growth of Blu-ray discs and online movies and TV shows, an industry trade group is expected to announce on Sunday night. The Digital Entertainment Group, a trade group whose members include studios, consumer electronic companies and others, will report that U.S ...

Hollywood Legend Dick Clark Lives On In New Social Video Game

The man who helped turn rock & roll mainstream through "American Bandstand" and later became a TV fixture on New Year's Eve, Dick Clark, has left us. But the Hollywood legend lives on in a new social video game from Entertainment . Clark serves as the virtual host of Retro World, a new Facebook game ...