Samsung has acquired the media software (and now hardware maker) startup Boxee for $30 million. The Israeli company had been looking for a buyer for the last few months after it appeared raising for money would be tougher than expected. “We can confirm that Boxee will be joining Samsung. We’ll have a formal statement on […]
Facebook is holding a press event later this week, in which it is expected to announce something big for its platform. The most cited rumor is that Facebook will update its popular photo-sharing app Instagram to include short video sharing, just like rival application Vine. Facebook’s event is on June 20th, but the social networking […]
Microsoft has caved to criticism from gamers and others in the industry, killing plans to require Internet connection for Offline play and limiting the ability to play used games. The announcement has come from Microsoft just one week after E3, where the new Xbox One system was unveiled by the company, before the PS4 was […]
Samsung has inadvertently confirmed the existence of the Galaxy S4 Mini via their own Samsung Apps website. The S4 Mini, true to its name, has a smaller 4.3-inch sAMOLED display with qHD resolution (540×960, 256 ppi) compared to the new S4’s 4-inch 1080p display. Under the hood is a 1.6GHz dual-core processor, 2GB RAM, LTE […]
Google Drive for Android has received a pretty hefty update in version 1.2, bringing it up to par with rival Dropbox in terms of functionality. The company’s cloud storage offering has been steadily improving, but until now the Android app was less than optimal. Not only does version 1.2 bring a brand new interface, with […]
YouTube subscribers with Channels claiming more than 1,000 subscribers might be eligible to enable YouTube Live. Over the past year, many YouTube channels were able to take advantage of YouTube Live for sports events and music events and so on. Now, YouTube is expanding YouTube Live to far more users. Basically, if a channel has […]
Last week we reported that Yahoo would be placing a bid to purchase video streaming site Hulu. Today, ATD is reporting that the bid will be between $600-$800 million, depending on what kind of content deal terms it can get from Hulu’s owners, Comcast, Disney and News Corp. (NBC, ABC and Fox on broadcast). In […]
According to Sandvine, the broadband servicing company that tracks traffic, Netflix continues to account for one third of U.S. Internet traffic, and nobody else is even close. Netflix’s share of “prime-time downstream traffic delivered over ‘fixed networks’” was 32.5 percent in the most recent report, down marginally from 33 percent in November. Amazon dropped from […]