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The crux of the government's case against Apple is that it acted as the "ringmaster" of a conspiracy among the publishers to raise the price of ebooks above what Amazon was selling them for. But what the government calls a conspiracy in restraint of trade, Apple calls standard operating procedure for entering a concentrated media market. Read more »

While the proposed Unlocking Technology Act would certainly address the controversy of cellphone unlocking it would quite a bit farther than previous bills to deal will phone locks, and farther than the White House called for in its statement, both of which were narrowly targeted at allowing consumers to move their phones from one network to another. Read more »

Viewing habits are changing, inexorably. Insofar as the networks' business model remains premised on traditional linear TV viewing, they are vulnerable to disruption. But vulnerable doesn't necessarily mean doomed. Read more »

Unlike Apple TV, which is largely about on-demand content, Amazon has a number of assets that could significantly enhance the linear TV experience if incorporated into a set-top box that worked in conjunction with a tablet. Read more »

Aereo has no plans to start recreating the full pay-TV bundle by layering on channels that predominantly carry programming for which live access adds little value. Read more »

Over-the-top video has become a prize in the ongoing and escalating tug-of-war between the networks and pay-TV service providers over carriage fees. Each side sees in OTT a potential point of leverage over the other. Read more »

This week, Google announced they were going to create a new fork of Webkit called Blink. Among the reasons given for the move by Google was that it was a complicated and resource-sucking task maintaining two architectures, including the multi-process rendering engine at the heart of Chromium. From the Chromium blog: Chromium uses a different [...] Read more »

A federal district court in New York last week handed publishers a major victory in a lawsuit brought by the Associated Press against online clipping service Meltwater News. In an unusually sweeping ruling, Judge Denise Cote held that not all uses of copyrighted content in search results automatically qualify as fair use. Read more »

Should Rovio's distribution strategy for "Angry Birds Toons" succeed, it would mark a coming of age of mobile apps as a genuine alternative to traditional OTT or browser-based platforms as a means of distributing and accessing video content. Read more »

Out of the gate, Netflix is facing problems like account-type mismatches and social-TV fatigue. Read more »