Tag: VIACOM

Time Warner Cable has pulled a handful of TV channels from its iPad app after receiving complaints from three media companies. The app, released earlier this month, allows users to choose from over 30 channels streamed directly to their iPads. Yesterday, however, Time Warner suddenly removed several of the channels (including MTV and FX), after Viacom, Discovery Communications and the News ...

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are coming back to Hulu after a nearly year-long absence. In a blog post, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar announced that his streaming company had reached a new agreement with Viacom, meaning that, as of today, 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report' will once again be available on Hulu, and Hulu Plus. The agreement will also allow Hulu to stream current episodes of shows ...

Google dodged a major bullet yesterday, after successfully beating back a billion-dollar copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Viacom. But as YouTube's proud parent celebrated the decision, Viacom insisted that this case is far from over. Arguing before a U.S. District Court in New York, Viacom had been seeking to prove that YouTube was guilty of massive copyright infringement and, in more ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Amazon has been steadily unrolling an impressive arsenal of new Kindle apps, and a sneak preview of an iPad version just appeared today. Details concerning a Barnes & Noble iPad app have also emerged, including news that it will feature customizable color fonts and quick "finger swipe" page turns. [From: Engadget] Another ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The iPad's official release date has finally been announced, and the highly anticipated gadget will be available for purchase April 3rd, with pre-orders beginning March 12th. Try not to eagerly waste any money on ridiculous peripherals just yet, because the prices will vary from $499 to $829. [From: Engadget] The Knight ...

In what The New York Times is calling "the first major fracture" between TV execs and the video streaming Web site, Viacom has decided to pull both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert from Hulu's lineup of shows. The specifics remain uncertain, but it seems that the two parties couldn't agree on how to divide the swelling ad revenue that both shows have yielded. As Hulu's Andy Forssell wrote in a ...

Alright, this is getting a little silly. First it was Gibson claiming that Rock Band and Guitar Hero violated a patent covering "simulating a musical performance," and now Konami is suing Harmonix, Viacom, and MTV Game because Rock Band allegedly violates a similar set of patents covering "simulated musical instruments" and "musical rhythm-based matching games." Filed in good ol' Marshall, the ...

YouTube-owner Google and TV mega-corporation Viacom are still at it in the courts. Everyone's favorite search engine was just dealt a painful blow, one that may or may not affect the legal case between the two, but is surely enough to make anyone who has ever watched and enjoyed a YouTube video feel a little uneasy. Google has been ordered to hand over the viewing history of YouTube's entire ...

In a potentially huge blow to the fight for privacy on the Internet,a judge has ordered that Google must hand over data about every video viewed by YouTube users to Viacom, including usernames and IP addresses. Viacom is suing Google for allowing its copyrighted content to be posted to YouTube, and hopes to use this data to prove that copyrighted material is more popular than user-generated ...

Does your 11pm bedtime make getting your daily John Stewart and Stephen Colbert fix difficult? The solution is now as close as your Web browser. Both the 'Daily Show with John Stewart' and 'The Colbert Report' are available now via Hulu, the ad-supported Web site co-created by NBC Universal and News Corp. Full-length TV shows and movies on Hulu are streamed to a user's desktop and are ...

The drama between Google and Viacom over copyright infringing videos on YouTube staggers on, despite having fallen out of focus during the last several news cycles. In the latest development, Google, which owns YouTube, has filed papers in the U.S. District Court of Manhattan,charging that Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube threatens the very nature and existence of the Internet. Google claims that ...

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) today, several major media and technology companies are joining forces to form the Masters of Evil! Wait... sorry, they are just joining forces to form an anti-piracy ring, no plots for world domination... yet. This coalition of super companies will be working together on copyright-related issues, including video piracy and ...

In what promises to be the most entertaining court trial since 'My Cousin Vinny,' Google is throwing down a challenge to Viacom, which is suing the search company cum omnipresence to the tune of $1 billion for copyright infringement. The challenge: Google wants two of Viacom's best known personalities -- Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert -- to give depositions. Before Viacom and YouTube ever ...