Blockbuster to rent through new on-demand device

Blockbuster Inc. will start renting movies and television shows through a new gadget that may give consumers another reason to bypass the struggling video chain's 7,500 stores.

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ABC to Offer Shows Via Video-On-Demand

ABC said Monday it will release hit shows like "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives" for free over video-on-demand cable services, with the hitch that viewers will have to sit through commercials without being able to fast-forward.

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Amazon.com to Sell Indie Films on Demand

Amazon.com Inc. will begin selling high-definition independent films in the HD DVD format through its on-demand DVD printing service, the company said late Sunday.

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Bibliophiles who can't warm up to the idea of curling up with an e-reader or a laptop instead of a bona fide book may be heartened to hear that Google just took a significant step in the direction of making more book titles available on short notice—in the offline world.

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Google has partnered with On Demand Books to make its digital public-domain titles available to print and bind into a paperback book. On Demand's Espresso Book Machine now has access to two million Google titles.

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IT IS the hottest topic in Hollywood: is the DVD dying? Ten years ago the discs rejuvenated the film business. DVDs not only offered cleaner pictures and better sound than videotape; they also looked smarter on bookshelves.

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In an effort to save money, a village in central Germany has opted to turn off its street lights. But residents have no need to be in the dark: Using a mobile phone and code, they can order lighting for up to 15 minutes.

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The Warner Archive Collection is making thousands of rarely-seen, archived studio films available to consumers via on-demand DVD purchases.

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Excerpt: Author, comedian and Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange will be the subject of a special on Howard TV On Demand service, beginning next week.

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Last week, CBC released an official DRM-free BitTorrent of a prime time show– a first for a major north American broadcaster (see last100 coverage). Since then we've been getting hundreds of emails of support and one clear resounding message: give us more.

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Microbrew pioneer Todd Holmes is looking for his next liquidity event. So the co-founder of the Goose Island Beer Co.

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"For a lower price than a black-and-white print classified ad, Liquidus can produce and place high-quality ads utilizing the sensory power of video on TV and the Web," said Kirk Davis, co-founder and EVP of Liquidus.

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Liquidus, a Chicago-based company, refocused on untapped niche, video-on-demand advertising, and became a leader.

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Thousands of old movies are lost in the vaults of Hollywood studios and archives. They're deemed too expensive to restore in the face of limited demand from consumers.

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AtTask announced today that its project and portfolio management solution, @task, has been positioned in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio Management in the Niche Players Quadrant.

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AtTask, Inc., an industry leader in on-demand project and portfolio management software, today announced the completion of $7 million in equity funding from OpenView Venture Partners, a venture capital investment firm based in Boston.

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Salesforce.com and Cognizant has formed an alliance. Cognizant will be incorporating Salesforce.com's on-demand CRM apps and the Apex on-demand platform to its business and technology consulting services.

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Astoria Software On-Demand Gets Tapped By Siemens

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Comcast Corp., the biggest U.S. cable operator, has held talks with Hollywood studios to show movies on cable on the same day as they open in theaters, the company said on Monday as rivals also outlined plans for more premium content on television. ADVERTISEMENT

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While the cell phone industry awaits the release of Apple's iPhone, Samsung has come up with an ingenious design for an all-in-one, wireless device.

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If you're in the habit of trading green space for MySpace, its time to get excited. This morning MySpace announced its plans to go head to head with Yahoo and Google and deliver news on demand.

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Astoria Software is Platinum Sponsor at 2007 DocTrain Events

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NBC is launching their on-demand mobile solution, allowing their programs to be available for download and viewed on the cell phone through a partnership with MobiTV.

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Encouraged by four consecutive quarters of profitability BroadVision Inc has detailed a product roadmap for its web commerce technologies for 2007.

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In case there was any doubt that the future of all video entertainment is on-demand, a new report confirms the nonlinear genie is out of the bottle and it's not going back in.

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Stop Microsoft from buying the BBC

This is a link to a very dry and probably boring to some consultation paper, which the BBC has opened up to us, the license fee payers, on how to best proceed with a new on-demand, internet based content delivery system.

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