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Super Bowl XLVI Commercials Coming to Their Own YouTube Channel

YouTube has partnered with NBC Sports and created Ad Blitz, an YouTube channel entirely focused on the World's biggest single day sporting event, the NFL's 2012 Super Bowl game.After this Sunday's Championship games decided this year's finalists, companies and websites around the Internet official...

24 January 2012
12:33 GMT

Walmart Launches Kinect Bundle for 199 Dollars

Walmart, one of the biggest retail chains in the world, has launched a Kinect bundle for the price of 199 dollars. Those who pick it up will be getting the new motion tracking peripheral from Microsoft, one launch title for the new device, to be chosen from Kinect Sports, Dance Central, Joy Ride and Kinectimals at th...

14 July 2010
06:20 GMT

Microsoft Advertising to Promote the NBC 'More Colorful' Fall 2010 Program Lineup

NBC has tapped Microsoft’s advertising division in a move designed to promote its “More Colorful” fall 2010 program lineup to market segments using various examples of the Redmond company’s technologies. The marketing campaign that Microsoft Advertising has lined up for NBC will have the poten...

14 May 2010
07:42 GMT

NBC Working on Battlestar Galactica MMO

The modern re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica is over after four complex and engaging seasons. The Syfy channel is now running a prequel of sorts, called Caprica, and it seems that parent company NBC is interested in moving the experience online, by delivering a MMO based on the setting. The game should be browser ...

11 March 2010
04:34 GMT

Internal Turmoil at Hulu

Online video may be thriving when it comes to viewers and there's little doubt that it will get even bigger in the coming years, along with better broadband speeds and availability, but for the time being, video sites aren't doing so great financially. YouTube hasn't reached profitability yet, Hulu is...

16 November 2009
10:46 GMT

NBC Faces $2 Million in Damages after Copyright Infringement

Three fonts are in the middle of one of the heftiest lawsuits against NBC this year. Font Bureau, a Boston-based graphics agency has filed a complaint against TV giant NBC after it wrongfully used the licenses purchased for three of its fonts (Antenna, Interstate, and Bureau Grotesque). Besides copyright infringement...

13 October 2009
02:36 GMT

Hulu Execs Confirm New Paid Services

Hulu has managed to give the term “online TV” a legit meaning, while still not breaking any copyright laws or angering users and authors in the process. After its huge success in the United States, and several confirmed rumors that it could cross the ocean pretty soon, company execs have admitted that the...

18 September 2009
11:39 GMT

NBC Deploys Facebook Connect Across the Majority of Its Sites

Facebook's login standard slash “take over the world device" Connect scores another major victory with NBC announcing support for the feature across most of the TV network's online properties. The “login using Facebook” button has already started popping up on NBC sites and, while the stan...

13 August 2009
11:03 GMT

No More Heroes for Ubisoft

Ubisoft has announced that it has finished development on its Heroes-based game, which it initially announced as being in production as far back as July 2007. The rights, which Ubisoft has acquired from NBC Universal, have not yet been returned to the company, and there are no plans of resuming the development of the...

10 November 2008
12:11 GMT

NBC iTunes Downloads Top 1 Million Since Return

After removing all of its content from Apple's iTunes Store in September 2007, NBC returned to the venue with even more content, and in HD, following Apple's hosting a Let's Rock event in San Francisco. The popular broadcaster can now confirm topping a million NBC TV shows downloaded through Apple'...

22 September 2008
11:07 GMT

NBC Universal Returns to the iTunes Store... in HD

Apple and NBC Universal have announced the return of NBC's programming to the iTunes Store. NBC's top 10 series are immediately available for purchase and download in both standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD). “Heroes”, “The Office”, “Battlestar Galactica” an...

10 September 2008
02:56 GMT

Vista SP1 Windows Media Center Meets the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Microsoft has poured a consistent amount of effort into occupying a place as close as possible to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games which are scheduled to debut next week. In this context, the Redmond giant has ensured that MSN and Silverlight 2 would be in the spotlight via NBCOlympics.com, but it is also going one st...

1 August 2008
06:05 GMT

SCi Entertainment Is Not for Sale

In the continued saga of the hostile offer from Electronic Arts for Take Two, most of us missed the news regarding another possible takeover in the videogaming world. Publisher SCi Enterntainment, who owns a controlling stake in Eidos, was the target of a takeover offer this week.Initial rumors said that NBC was very...

24 April 2008
14:06 GMT

5 Billion Bucks for Weather

"Welcome to the Weather Channel. All weather, all day" (yawn). That's the quote I would use to best describe my feelings when I've heard of the deal that is about to go down. No way this could be worth three times more than YouTube! No, abso-frickin'-lutely not! Checking the story a little deeper, I fo...

3 January 2008
06:00 GMT

Aren't You Dying to Be Microsoft's Biggest Loser?

Here is your chance to join Microsoft's biggest loser club. I am sure that you were dying for just such an opportunity. But if you were indeed looking for some extra incentives designed to get rid of some extra pounds and get into shape, being one of Microsoft's biggest losers would not be such a bad deal a...

3 January 2008
03:38 GMT

You Can Be The Biggest Loser Now!

There is an NBC television show called "The Biggest Loser", where overweight contestants battle each other in the quest of losing pounds and the one that manages to lose the most goes home fit and $250,000 richer. Well, this show has become a skill game on King.com and anybody can now try to be the biggest loser. But...

4 December 2007
06:39 GMT

NBC Gone From iTunes Store

The dispute between Apple and NBC earlier this year, and the subsequent pulling of the shows from the iTunes Store was widely reported. Since then, the issue has been pretty much forgotten until now, when December has arrived and the shows are gone.With the expiration of the contract between Apple and NBC, all of the...

3 December 2007
08:56 GMT

YouTube Killer Out In The Wild

Hulu, the online video sharing service that is supposed to represent the most powerful rival for YouTube, is now available as a private beta. Last week, it was rumored that Hulu's developers plan to launch the private testing stage of the service this week in order to meet the October deadline first announced a ...

29 October 2007
09:06 GMT

One YouTube Killer, Two YouTube Killers, Three YouTube Killers...

It's almost official: Hulu, the next YouTube killer is set to be released on Monday, Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch announced today. It seems like NBC, the company which earlier this week removed its content from Google's video sharing service, wants to launch its long-awaited YouTube-like service on Monda...

24 October 2007
07:43 GMT

YouTube: 'This channel is not available'

While most companies struggle to create new YouTube channels, some other firms remove their existing YouTube pages and all the content published on the Google video sharing service. I'm talking about NBC Universal, the company which quietly deleted the YouTube channel a few months ago, Valleywag reports today. N...

23 October 2007
04:50 GMT

Apple Loses 'Battlestar Galactica'

NBC Universal, one of the companies that allied with Apple to bring content on iTunes, announced that it will end the partnership with the Cupertino firm. NBC used the Apple platform to sell content on the Internet but, due to some negotiation issues concerning the pricing of the movies, the agreement will be ended. ...

31 August 2007
05:35 GMT

New YouTube Threat Targets YOU!

Some time ago, NBC and News Corporation announced their plans to build a very powerful video sharing platform that would compete with YouTube and target the same category of users. After so many battles won by Google's video platform, nobody thought that it would ever be possible to steal YouTube's first pl...

30 August 2007
15:21 GMT

Access Hollywood Video Channel Debuts on MobiTV

MobiTV announced a new addition to its lineup of video channels currently available via its MobiTV service. The result of an ongoing collaboration between MobiTV and NBC Universal, the newly added Access Hollywood channel promises to keep mobile users up to date with the latest celebrity news, as well as to provide c...

14 August 2007
09:57 GMT

NBC Universal Video Content Arrives on V CAST

Verizon Wireless announced a deal with NBC Universal to offer some of NBCU's television programming to its wireless customers. Available now to owners of V CAST-enabled handsets, the programming includes short on-demand videos from NBCU's entire suite of video channels, including NBC News, entertainment new...

1 August 2007
10:09 GMT

Alltel Wireless to Offer NBC Universal Mobile Content

Alltel Wireless announced a deal with NBC Universal that will bring NBC content to Alltel's customers. The content will be made available via Alltel's Access data services and will include eleven video on-demand channels, mobile websites, ringtones, ringback tones and wallpapers. "The relationship with NBC ...

18 July 2007
09:44 GMT

The Heroes of NBC

What I'm talking about is NBC's new science-fiction serial drama that features people with super-powers. No, it's not "X-men" either, and definitely not anything like "The 4400", but whatever it is, it looks great. I was suspicious at first, reading the plot outline and thinking "hey, they did that alr...

13 July 2007
10:49 GMT

NBC Causes New YouTube Trouble

The Google online video sharing service causes new trouble for the parent company as NBC might send the company to the court for copyright infringement. The lawsuit was filed by Robert Tur, a LA News Service operator that sued Google for publishing videos without authorization. The decision is quite weird as YouTube ...

7 May 2007
08:18 GMT

NBC Airs Virginia Tech Shooter Tape and Photos

One last obscenity-filled, profanity-laden, angry tirade directed at the entire world and no one in particular. The Virginia Polytechnic Institute shooter, who killed 32 people on Monday, in two successive attacks and then turned the gun on himself, speaks from the grave. Before entering Norris Hall and after he shot...

19 April 2007
09:08 GMT

Gameloft Announces Heroes - The Mobile Game

Gameloft just announced an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with NBC Universal to develop and publish Heroes: The Mobile Game. If you don't know it already, Heroes is the epic drama from NBC that chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities and that they are d...

28 March 2007
05:01 GMT

Powerful Rival to Challenge YouTube

Nowadays, YouTube is the leader of the online video sharing services because it is powered by Google and owns the most impressive community on the Internet. In fact, YouTube is the only video sharing solution that really matters because there are no other powerful products able to challenge Google's solution. It...

22 March 2007
10:38 GMT


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