Tech Week in Review 9-30-2011
Dreamworks Dumps HBO for Netflix Need a sign that television as we know it is crumbling? In a deal estimated to be worth $30 million per picture over an unspecified number of years, Dreamworks has decided to dump HBO and pump their films and television specials through Netflix. Dreamworks Animation, the company behind movies like [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 7-1-2011
HBO Go Gives Viewers a Reason to Not Cut the Cable I would really love to cut the cable , but there are still a few reasons why I and many others can’t go through with it. It boils down to quality of programming. Netflix, Hulu, and others give you a way to watch a [...]
Read MoreGetGlue Gets Stuck on iPad
GetGlue continues to move forward with their social network for entertainment by announcing the release of their iPad app today. Fresh off a release of an Android app, GetGlue caters to iPad nation by releasing a quality app that can check-in to their favorite shows, music, movies and books, and see what their friends are enjoying in real-time. Continue reading to find out all the details for this new app.
Read MoreHBO Gets Stuck on GetGlue
Geolocation check-in apps are all the rage as of late. The numbers of people using check-in apps and why are amazing. GetGlue hopes to take the popularity of check-in apps to the “boob-tube” by allowing people to check-in to whatever they are watching at the moment. Details inside…
Read MoreConnect With ‘The Black List Project’
Documenting the multifarious nuances of the Black experience is tough. Condensing the 200+ year chronicle from slavery to today and explaining that to a reticent “post-racial” mainstream society requires tact, skill, and the possibility that even with that hard work, you may miss the mark completely. Both CNN and HBO tried in 2008, and now [...]
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