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Google is talking to Hollywood studios about a pay-per-view video service based on YouTube, according to a new report. The move comes as Google girds for battle with Apple, and telecom and media companies jostle for control over the next generation of high-speed content delivery.

Sears Holdings, which owns Sears and Kmart stores, announced this week that the company would soon enter the digital video marketplace by selling and renting videos on Sears.com and Kmart.com. The new service, dubbed Alphaline Entertainment, is scheduled to go live later this year on numerous...

Ten free and legal downloads or streams sure to strike the ear of the cash strapped college student. 1. Various artists: Bonnaroo 2010 sampler Just in time for this weekend's Bonnaroo blowout in Manchester, Tenn., fans of jam bands, classic rock, indie associations and just about everything else...

If you wound back the clock five years and the United States Post Office (USPS) was lobbying to end Saturday mail delivery, you'd probably see small business owners and a few others upset about the change. But now that over 10 million subscribers count on Netflix to deliver an astonishing 1.9...

This week Walmart made news by purchasing VUDU, a video on demand service that allows users to rent and purchase more than 16,000 movies through an Internet connected Blu-Ray player or Web enabled HDTV. The purchase is a win for Walmart, which needs to compensate for falling DVD sales, but an...

Thanks to the power of the Internet, it's getting harder for companies to control how we communicate and entertain ourselves. Google's new phone runs an app that enables users to make international calls far cheaper than with any wireless carrier. That's just one sign of growing consumer influence through the Net.

With the video revolution online in full swing, Google (GOOG) kicked it up a notch Thursday with the introduction of 1080p high-definition streaming capability for its YouTube property. That's an increase of more than 30% in picture density from the previous 720p streams. Company product manager...

If you haven't noticed, the world of streaming Internet radio has been on fire lately. The sector, which involves people creating their own customized radio stations on computers or smartphones, has grown by leaps and bounds, with tens of millions of users in the United States tuning in on a...

The buzz around the Web this week is that video streaming giant YouTube is in talks with movie studios to start renting movies in the near future. Even though YouTube isn't known so much for video quality as it is video quantity it could provide an exciting new ability to consumers. If YouTube...

Call me traditional, but I like flipping through pages to get to the climax of my novels. I enjoy reading the newspaper in the morning while sipping on tea and eating Belgian waffles. And I definitely cannot get enough of watching movies on my 42-inch-screen television, curled under a blanket with...