Hybrid set-top boxes are rapidly being deployed by pay-TV operators worldwide, and especially on satellite platforms, to help them deliver advanced services and manage bandwidth scarcity in broadcast networks, according to AIB Research. “What we think of as over-the-top boxes right now – Roku, Boxee, et cetera. – will probably not be around in five ...

Apple’s revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are dictating the evolution of modern technology. When talking about these products and their impact on our lives, one thing will surely come to mind:  Steve Jobs, Apple’s creator and founder. Jobs experimented with a few different pursuits before starting Apple Computers with Stephen Wozniak in ...

On September 19, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings boldly admitted, “I messed up.” He wasn’t kidding at all. In the last few weeks Netflix has taken a huge beating from its subscribers for several reasons: this summer the company raised prices for streaming, split DVD rentals into a separate service and pricing scheme, came up with ...

Amazon’s latest tablet, the Kindle Fire, won’t be available until November, but it has already become the target of a patent lawsuit. Smartphone Technologies, owned by patent collecting and licensing firm Acacia Research Corporation, claimed that the Kindle Fire infringes four of its patents.  The suit comes several days after Amazon unveiled the $199, Android-powered tablet in ...

Netflix revealed today that it will abandon a proposal to separate its streaming and DVD businesses, sending its shares soaring in pre-market trading.  Last month the company said its DVD-by-mail service would be split from the company and operated via separate website, Qwikster.com, sending its shares slumping in the following weeks. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings sets ...

Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who revolutionized the way we use technology, has died after fighting advanced pancreatic cancer since 2004. In the wake of the death of tech luminary Steve Jobs, who died on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56, even rivals within the tech industry have issued condolences, statements, and messages ...

The Forrester research group has reported that consumers may have more control over their personal information that has been use by many websites. With the help of “personal data lockers,” people mandate to whom or what can see on their data instead of having their data gathered and sold without their knowledge. This possible change ...

Samsung’s been a beast in the tablet market, validating Google Android while taking a front seat in driving the tablet market beyond the iPad.  It’s no secret that Android hopes to make gains in the tablet market similar to those sucessfully taken in the smartphone arena, and as more manufacturers find benefits in this area, ...

WarCo is a first-person shooter game where players shoot camer footage instead of a gun. A work in progress at Brisbane, Australia-based studio Defiant Development, the game is a collaboration of sorts; Defiant is working with both a journalist and a filmmaker to create a game that puts you in the role of a journalist embedded ...

When you think of a hardcore gamer you probably don’t envision someone loading up their Facebook account and checking on their crops, or visiting other players’ decked out virtual rooms.  But a recent study from hardcore social games developer Kabam shatters the stereotype of the social platform game player in light of  a rapidly growing segment — ...