ABC announced two days ago that it would begin showing live streaming content on its iOS app. Not to be outdone, rival TV giant Time Warner has followed hot on the heels of ABC by announcing its own live streaming plans, although they do differ slightly from ABC’s.

Steve Koonin, head of Turner Entertainment Networks confirmed the changes today and said that the live streaming will be available for the TNT and TBS networks. However, unlike ABC’s iOS app only approach, Time Warner says the …

American news and talk show 60 Minutes dedicated some time to Microsoft co-founder, billionaire turned charity god Bill Gates. It was the charitable side of his life that Gates was on the show to talk about but we also got some interesting tech segments in the interview.

One of the pieces that jump out the most is Gate’s thoughts on late Apple supremo Steve Jobs. Gates admitted that the two were rivals, but the warmth that he showed while discussing Jobs also showed the friendlier side of…

It has been coming for some time but today YouTube has finally gone down the paid subscription route by launching a program for paid subscriptions on selected channels. The move marks one of the biggest ever changes to the Google owned video streaming site.

For many YouTube became a bastion for free content viewing and moving to a subscription model (albeit limited) is akin to going over to the dark side, although at the moment the model is only in the testing stage on a few channels.

While Amazon is giving viewers the choice between 14 different pilots, media streaming rival Netflix is continuing its own original content drive. Netflix has approached things differently by releasing full seasons instead of pilots, and the latest is Hemlock Grove.

Hemlock Grove has been getting a bit of buzz of late. The show revolves around a small Pennsylvanian town that has a werewolf problem, it has been created and developed by torture porn horror maestro Eli Roth. In other words y…

According to reports in South Korea, Samsung has had offices in the country searched yesterday as a part of an on-going investigation into whether the company leaked trade secrets. The raids follow a year of investigations into employees from Samsung and fellow Korean electronics giant LG.

Last year police arrested and charged six LG Display employees in relation to theft of OLED technology from Samsung. Later in the year Samsung employees were fired for being connected to leaking the tec…

Dutch electronics brand Philips is ready to hand overs it consumer electronics division to Japanese company Funai later this year, but that is not stopping it launching new products. The company has announced today its frankly stunning Philips DesignLine.

The DesignLine offers a bold new concept for TVs by hiding either a 46-inch or 55-inch LCD screen behind a clear glass pane. Although, it is not like looking through a window as the glass and panel are seamlessly connected, while th…

Vevo, the video streaming source that houses official collections from artists on YouTube has today launched its own music video streaming service. Vevo TV is a standalone service that the company says will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Vevo is known to most YouTube users for offering official band and singer pages on YouTube, such as RhiannaVevo or BonJoviVevo for example. Vevo TV will offer all those music videos from major artists but it will be able to stream to a T…

Ailing Japanese electronics giant Sharp has received a much needed boost today in the shape of an investment from Samsung. The Korean company has invested $111 million into the struggling Japanese brand, and in return Sharp will give Samsung’s Japanese division a 3% stake in the company.

Sharp is struggling amid major losses of revenue and could have made a powerful ally in Samsung. The investment has been forged to “build up mutual trust" in the liquid crystal display business and S…

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is getting its first exclusive movie release today with the British comedy Pulp airing on the console’s Xbox Live service. This marks the first time that a console has had exclusive rights to a movie upon release, with Pulp heading to the console before traditional methods like cable channels and of course cinemas.

Pulp is an indie British comedy that is getting some decent buzz at respected film festivals. The director of Pulp Adam Hamdy said that the cost of ma…

Google has updated its YouTube app for iOS devices today and has added a feature called “Send to TV” which is now available on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Send TV allows a user to easily pair up their mobile device with a TV (from a list of select screens).

The feature gives users the ability to watch video on their TV while they control them on their device. It also eliminates the need for any physical connection as the video is streamed from handset to television, although it…