Big Data is nothing less than fascinating, as many books on the subject evince. There are so many applications, so many facets of our lives that will ...
Here's the most important thing: The majority of them aren't worth seeing or reviewing. There used to be filters for this kind of thing. They were called film festivals.
Last week, about 40 members of the CNET.com editorial staff met at the CES trade show in Las Vegas to select the website's official Best of CES product.
Here is a relatively obscure snippet of news, which could have made the corporate honchos of the leading makers of DVR like TiVo, Motorola, RCA, Sony,...
Watching television tends to be a private affair between you and those on the couch in your living room, but Verizon is looking to change that by crea...
NEW YORK -- A new survey finds that digital video recorders are now in more than half of all U.S. homes that subscribe to cable or satellite TV servic...
The first week of the broadcast season was its lowest-rated in history, while on cable Here Comes Honey Boo Boo drew nearly three million viewers. Oh, how the TV landscape is changing!
NEW YORK (AP) — The maker of a new DVR that lets consumers zap away broadcast TV commercials at the touch of a button suggested Tuesday that the net...
In the late ‘90s, when the name brand precursor of the DVR, the TiVo, was being designed, its creators made sure that the machine’s fast-forward f...
In just the past five years, we've seen the emergence of true streaming television, the arrival of the iPad and ascendancy of Snooki. TV is like the weather in Florida -- wait a minute and it will change.
My prediction: You will be able to buy television by the channel. You will be able to watch it live, or watch it from the cloud using live streaming for any channel any program any time slot over the last 30 days.
When it aired on television from 2003 to 2006, "Arrested Development" was a ratings disaster. The beloved Fox comedy's second season averaged out at a...
Here we go again. People who aren't "broadcasters" are messing around with the broadcast signal, all to make it more convenient to "watch TV." You know what that means -- lawsuits.
But the more I see the growing number of screens and the behaviors of those who stare at them, the more I think the future may be less about compartmentalization and more about total immersion.
CBS's premiere of its reconstituted cop show "Hawaii Five-O" -- starring Alex (Third Time's a Charm) O'Loughlin -- is officially the most DVR'd show o...
Could you sit through an hour-long radio news program today? I could. But only if it came with either (a) a DVR or (b) an online summary.
Brian Williams is telling viewers to DVR the "NBC Nightly News" in a new commercial, the New York Times reports. One of the reasons ratings for the n...
Advertising is a piece of a puzzle and an agency can not pick and choose when their work has value. They must either accept partial responsibility for any outcome or none.
DVR usage and other forms of time-shifted TV consumption may be even more wide-spread than previously thought with a majority of Americans saying they...
Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. I try to unplug all my ap...
DVR is a great device for consumers, but we do pay a penalty. If you take a show on FX, we get paid, from an advertiser standpoint, for about 75 percent of the people actually watching the show.
ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" was the broadcast primetime show helped the most this TV season by a full week of DVR viewing of its original episodes. The sho...
Ina recent interview, we spoke with Microsoft's Jason Suess about the implementation of Silverlight for the Olympics.
My fear is that my son's future won't include the rapid pace of innovation that we have enjoyed in recent years. What if decades roll by and innovation stands still?
All this late night entertainment can have a significant impact on healthy sleep, one of our most fundamental biologic needs.
