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    By Julia Scott

    | 2:30PM 6/16/2010
    Follow Amazon Video on Twitter and get a code for $10 worth of video on demand for free. The code is valid on 70 different seasons of TV shows, including House, The Office, Battlestar Galactica, and 30 Rock. The credit is not valid on movies. Half of the TV shows are in HD. After you follow...

    By Josh Smith

    | 1:30PM 12/11/2009
    Amazon's new Disc+ On Demand program is a cool promotion which solves the biggest problem of ordering form the low priced Internet giant; the wait. While Amazon's DVD prices have traditionally been very competitive, if you wanted to pick up a new release and watch it instantly you were out of...

    By Douglas McIntyre

    | 5:00AM 11/03/2009
    Best Buy (BBY) wants to join the legion of other firms with branded movie download services, although it is not clear why. A number of media sources say that the program will be announced on November 3rd, and will start operating within a few weeks. The electronics retailer is turning to Sonic...

    By Douglas McIntyre

    | 8:30AM 10/26/2009
    Sony (SNE) and Netflix (NFLX) announced late Sunday that the movie rental company will offer films over the internet that can play on the PlayStation 3. According to the deal, PS3 subscribers will have access to movies from the rental service by loading a new Blu-ray disc, available free from...

    By Douglas McIntyre

    | 10:20AM 10/15/2009
    Research-In-Motion (RIMM), creator of the widely used BlackBerry smartphone, has been feeling the heat from the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. In an attempt to stay competitive with the Apple product, RIM has introduced a new version of its phone called the BlackBerry Storm 2. According to the company, "the...

    By Douglas McIntyre

    | 7:00AM 7/14/2009
    Netflix (NFLX) stock moved up seven percent yesterday on rumors that Amazon (AMZN) might buy the video rental company. The deal, should it happen, makes a lot of sense. Netflix has a market cap of $2.4 billion and trades at just 1.7 times sales. Amazon's market cap is $35 billion, or 1.8 times...

    By Mark Fightmaster

    | 10:30AM 6/29/2009
    Reports surfacing from London this morning suggest that Vodafone Group (VOD) is mulling over a bid for T-Mobile UK in hopes of creating a new UK mobile-phone giant. Reportedly, T-Mobile has been put on the sales block by Deutsche Telekom (DT) with the Times of London reporting that DT has hired...

    By Tracy Coenen

    | 6:00PM 1/03/2008
    Netflix just unveiled plans to offer a box built by LG Electronics that will allow viewers to get movies on-demand over a high speed internet connection. That's good for consumers, although it doesn't really offer them anything new. We already have immediate access to movies with cable video...