ABCNews.com saw its number of unique visitors increase 24% in January to 22.1 million from the previous month. Driven by coverage of the presidential inauguration, ABCNews.com page views increased 14% to 214.1 million, while video views were up 50% from the same time last year. Also driving traffic to...
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Attendance at the just-completed Consumer Electronics Show could be down by as much as 22% compared with last year. The Consumer Electronics Association released its attendance projection Sunday, predicting the number of attendees will be more than 110,000. If the final number stays close to the projection...
The intuitive displays and Web connectivity of the iPhone are influencing the design of television sets. Some of the biggest and flashiest TV displays at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week seemed to channel the spirit of the iPhone, and the new gadgets reflect another step toward the...
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In the new season of “Lost” premiering Jan. 21, expect a lawyer to show up at the home of Kate Austen and demand a sample of blood. Someone—he can’t say who—wants to know if Kate is actually related to her son Aaron. If you want to know more, you’ll have to tune in, but those details were...
Sony Corp. Chairman-CEO Howard Stringer delivered a list of seven imperatives to consumer electronic success at Thursday morning's keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. His seven imperatives were, in order: —Embrace the fusion of industries. —Adopt a service-enhanced...
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MySpace will be on a television set near you soon. The social networking site has partnered with Toshiba, Yahoo and Intel to develop an extension of the MySpace experience for TV, the companies announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today. The “MySpace Widget for TV” will let users interact...
The National Association of Television Program Executives will present two content panels at the MacWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco this week. The panels, which mark NATPE’s first foray into presenting panels at MacWorld, will offer first looks at new interactive mobile video technologies...
Despite a shortage of high-powered programmers as keynote speakers at January’s Consumer Electronics Show, television networks and Internet content providers have big plans to produce a number of shows at the massive convention’s 2009 edition in Las Vegas. Though the economy has turned south and the...
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