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'Star Trek Into Darkness' finishes first. Yahoo buys Tumblr.

2013-05-20 07:05:00

After the coffee. Before going through two weeks' worth of mail. The Skinny: Well, I didn't win the Powerball lottery, which means I'll be heading back to the office today after a long trip to New York. Ask me around Thursday if it's good to be home....

No e-book for Stephen King's new novel, 'Joyland'

2013-05-20 08:25:00

In a move to bump up physical book sales, Stephen King will not release an e-book version of his new novel, "Joyland," the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s something of a radical move for the man who stood onstage with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos...

'Zombieland' writer announces the series is dead at Amazon

2013-05-17 11:34:00

Amazon hasn't yet announced which of the 14 pilots it released last month will be getting series orders, but there's already been one confirmed casualty: "Zombieland." Co-creator and co-writer Rhett Reese, who also co-wrote the hit film the pilot was...

Networks send SOS to Michael J. Fox, Robin Williams and other stars

2013-05-17 06:00:00

� If viewers are losing interest in broadcast TV, what can lure them back? Executives hope they have an answer: stars. Lifting the curtain on their 2013-14 schedules at the "upfronts" in New York this week, the networks behaved like smartphone-...

All hail our smart TV masters, but not just yet

2013-05-17 09:00:00

After many false starts, television is becoming an interactive medium. In a sense, it's always been one — even two channels require a choice. Long accustomed to the illusion that the screen is a window through which we are sometimes directly...

Smart TV: The industry push to keep getting smarter

2013-05-17 08:00:00

For decades we've been watching TV. Now a new generation of televisions is beginning to watch us. Technological advances are giving the old clunky "boob tube" an I.Q. injection. Some of the new breed of smart TVs comes equipped with facial recognition...

Jaron Lanier takes a hard look at the wired world

2013-05-16 14:15:00

Jaron Lanier has a research job with Microsoft. He won't go into specfics, but it has something to do with imagining the future and asking questions. Lanier is a longtime Silicon Valley insider whose primary occupation has been to imagine, think and ask...

MPAA launches website to promote legal access to movies, TV shows

2013-05-15 12:31:00

Hollywood studios are employing a new tool in their efforts to fight piracy: persuasion. After waging an unsuccessful effort last year to introduce legislation that would crack down on websites offering illegal copies of movies and TV shows, studios are...

2013 TV upfronts: CBS unveils schedule with six new shows

2013-05-15 08:20:00

NEW YORK -- Wrapping up a season in which it will finish first in both viewers and the crucial adults 18-49 demographic that advertisers favor, CBS unveiled a fall television schedule with four new comedies and two dramas. For CBS, the win in adults 18-...

Dan Brown: Happy 'Inferno' publication day

2013-05-14 09:36:00

Happy publication day to Dan Brown, whose latest Robert Langdon thriller, "Inferno," officially hits shelves Tuesday. Online, it's already declared its dominance: It's Amazon's No. 1 bestselling book -- thanks to preorders, it has been in the website's...

Sagging legacy networks seek a reversal of fortune

2013-05-13 04:00:00

NEW YORK — This week, the streets of midtown Manhattan will once again swarm with TV executives trying to woo ad buyers to their upcoming fall lineups with splashy presentations, star-packed cocktail parties and plentiful swag. But there's an...

Amazon working on smartphone with 3-D display, report says

2013-05-09 12:58:00

In an effort to expand beyond the world of online retailing, Amazon.com is reportedly working on a high-end smartphone that would feature a 3-D screen. The device would allow users to see 3-D images without having to wear glasses, according to the...

Online retailing giant Amazon.com backs the bill allowing states to require Internet businesses to collect sales taxes for them.

2013-04-25 00:00:00

"Sara Solves It," one of 14 pilots posted online this month by Amazon Studios.

2013-04-23 01:29:00

Users of Goodreads.com — which Amazon confirmed Thursday they will acquire — are expressing their discontent with the site and Amazon itself in online forums.

2013-03-29 09:31:49