The Verizon-Netflix Catfight Heats Up
Looks like Netflix and Verizon's broadband streaming slapfight just went up a notch. Verizon issued Netflix a cease and desist order Thursday over an error notice the latter has been posting since...
View Article"Internet Slowdown" Protests Anti-Net Neutrality Legislation
Dozens of websites are participating in an “Internet slowdown” protest Wednesday to raise awareness of what they believe a Web without net neutrality would look like.See also: Net Neutrality: Your...
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Netflix's Chaos Engineering Should Be Mandatory—Everywhere
Most enterprises hire people to fix things. Netflix hires people to break things. Over and over. And over.Rather than look at Netflix as some bizarre Silicon Valley curiosity, relevant only to those...
View ArticleHBO Will Finally Give Cord-Cutters The Streaming They Crave
Describing 10 million broadband-only homes—many of which likely house Game Of Thrones fans tethered to their parents' HBO login—as "low hanging fruit," the cable channel's CEO Richard Plepler says he's...
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Why Open Source Is Becoming A Big Developer-Recruiting Tool
Most companies are just coming around to the idea that open source can help lower costs and boost innovation within their organizations. But Web companies like Netflix, Twitter and Facebook understand...
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Netflix Is Still Trouncing The Streaming Competition
Netflix continues to reign as the king of streaming TV and movies, although a plucky upstart company named Amazon has made significant inroads in the market. A new report from Sandvine, a Canadian...
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Christmas Movie Die Hards: 12 Alternatives To Stream This Holiday Season
While Die Hard is considered by many to be the best Christmas movie ever, some insist that just because a movie is set during Christmas, doesn't make it a Christmas movie. That argument—perfectly...
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Amazon Is Odd Man Out In Marriott's Plan To Offer Netflix, Hulu Plus And Pandora
The days of streaming Netflix movies on your laptop in lieu of paying exorbitant prices to watch movies on your larger, preferable high-def hotel TV may be coming to an end, at least if you're staying...
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5 Reasons Your Company Should Open Source More Code
Given intense competition for the world's best engineering talent, can your company really afford to lock up its code behind proprietary licenses? Sure, if you're in the business of selling software,...
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Netflix Calls Out Verizon For Charging For Crappy Streaming, Part Deux
Netflix sure knows how to get a rise out of Internet service providers: Since mid-May, the streaming video service has been posting an error notice to Verizon subscribers blaming the network for slow...
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Did Amazon Just Launch a Netflix Killer? Hardly.
Amazon is gunning for Netlix and Hulu. That's been the conventional wisdom anyway, with many expecting the ecommerce giant to launch a stand-alone video streaming service to compete with those...
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YouTube Weeds Its Shows As Google Cultivates TV Strategy
Don't think YouTube is any less serious about becoming your next favorite TV channel. Sure, it's slashing the number of Web shows it's funding, but that only means it's sharpening its focus. 2013 is...
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Netflix Does Deal With Disney: The End of Flat-Rate Movie Pricing?
Tuesday morning, Deathwatch-favorite Netflix announced a new partnership with Disney. While the financial terms have yet to be disclosed, this looks like a huge step in the right direction for the...
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Thanks Congress, But We Need Privacy Laws, Not Banal Social Sharing
Great news! The U.S. Congress just sent a bill to President Obama's desk that will make it easier to tell your Facebook friends what you're watching on Netflix. Now when that kid you haven't spoken to...
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Why Netflix' Christmas Eve Crash Was Its Own Fault
After an ill-timed outage on Christmas Eve zapped popular video provider Netflix - the popular refrain has been clear: Blame the cloud. But when there's a car crash, do we blame the highway or the...
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5 Ways TV Will Evolve in 2013
If you were expecting the Internet to upend TV like it mangled the print media business, you may have noticed by now that things aren't so simple. The Web is very good at delivering text and static...
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Watch Out! New Video Law Lets Netflix Share What You're Viewing
It passed the House, the Senate, and just before the new year, the President signed it into law. In a significant shift in video privacy - online video rental companies can now share information about...
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Storm Warning: Why 100% Cloud Uptime Is Impossible
Guest author Mike Pav is engineering vice president of Spanning Cloud Apps, a provider of data protection solutions for the cloud.When Amazon Web Services crashed on Christmas Eve (which brought down...
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Nielsen Redefines "TV" To Include Your iPad And Xbox
It's been 63 years since Nielsen started measuring what we're watching on TV. For most of that time, the concept of "TV" has pretty much remained the same. But in the last half decade, the old model...
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Netflix: U.S. Tops Internet Speed Index. Say What?
In the world of Netflix's new "global" ISP speed index, which the streaming-video service announced Monday, the U.S. takes top honors for fastest connection thanks to Google Fiber, while speedy...
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Tie My Netflix Account to Facebook? No Thanks
Netflix's long-delayed integration with Facebook is here. This week, the company will roll out the option to customers in the U.S., where the archaic Video Privacy Act was recently amended to permit...
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The Internet Assault On Traditional TV Is Working
Compared to the music and news industries, the television business has so far managed to avoid being upended by the disruptive forces of the Internet. That's about to change.Despite the industry's...
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2013: The Year Internet TV Went Mainstream
Something huge is happening in online TV this year. No, it's not a new streaming set top box or Web-exclusive video series. It's not even an app. It's a milestone: 2013 is the year that Internet-first...
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Is Building A Data Center A Sign Of Failure, Not Success?
In Silicon Valley, the true sign of success has been to build one's own data center. As the theory goes, once you hit a certain size, owning your infrastructure becomes essential to achieving the...
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Why This Loyal Apple User Switched From Apple TV To Roku
Tim Cook and Apple may be constructing their "grand vision" for television but I'm not waiting, not even if Cook announces something awesome at the company's WWDC next week. I've switched from Apple TV...
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Netflix's Content Strategy: CompuServe 2.0?
There's a disturbing trend in content networks today. From NBC Universal to Netflix, once-neutral content networks are now investing in original content, exclusive to their networks. While these are...
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Netflix Positioned To Lead The Next Wave Of Cloud Adoption
Amazon may well be the most important infrastructure company in the industry today, given its dominant role in public cloud infrastructure. But the company making that infrastructure sing, regularly...
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CBS, Time Warner Cable End TV Dispute
The CBS television network and other channels controlled by its parents returned to Time Warner Cable systems Monday evening, after the companies resolved an ongoing dispute. One key issue: Whether CBS...
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Startup Oyster Is The Latest Attempt At A Netflix For Books
Oyster, the latest startup to offer subscription access to books much the way Netflix does for movies, launched its app for the iPhone today. Subscribers can browse more than 100,000 e-book titles for...
View Article4K In 2014: Will YouTube, Netflix Bring Ultra HD Into Mainstream?
As the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show rapidly approaches, Samsung, LG, Sony and others are ready to release their latest and greatest televisions with support for 4K, which was officially deemed "Ultra...
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Netflix To Carriers: Hands Off Our Service
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has a blunt message for Internet providers: Don't mess with net neutrality.The video streaming service could be uniquely vulnerable should net neutrality, the principle that...
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How Apple TV Can Win: Make A Netflix Out Of The iTunes Store
Shortly before he died in 2011, Steve Jobs uttered four exciting words to his biographer, regarding Apple’s plans to revolutionize the television experience: "I finally cracked it."Since his death,...
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HBO Is Coming To Amazon—And You Don't Need To Be A HBO Subscriber
Amazon on Wednesday announced a licensing agreement with HBO, which will bring a number of premium shows to Amazon’s Prime Instant Video Service and bring the HBO Go mobile app to the company’s new...
View ArticleNet Neutrality Run Down By FCC Fast Lane Proposal
Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is moving forward with a controversial plan that would allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to charge content providers for faster...
View ArticleNet Neutrality: FCC Shifting Gears On Its Internet "Fast Lane" Idea
Following a tech-industry backlash, the FCC appears ready to reconsider a proposal that would allow broadband providers to charge Internet services such as Netflix or Google extra for faster...
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Playing The Xbox One Long Game, Microsoft Shifts Toward Setting Its Console Free
In an about-face to some of its least popular Xbox One policies, Microsoft has proven it's still listening to its customers—and willing to give gamers what they want.Starting June 9, the company will...
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Why Net Neutrality Became A Thing For The Internet Generation
The Platform is a regular column by mobile editor Dan Rowinski. Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and pervasive networks are changing the way humans interact with everything.FCC commissioner...
View ArticleXbox One Finally Supports External Storage, Frees Netflix And Takes (Real) Names
When it comes to Microsoft and the Xbox (as with Apple earlier this week), ask and ye shall receive. A major monthly update rolling out to users finally adds much-requested support for external...
View ArticleNetflix Releases Open-Source Spinnaker For AWS And Other Clouds
After more than a year, Netflix got its open-source Spinnaker project off the ground on Monday.Designed to replace Asgard, its Amazon Web Services cloud-management system, and created alongside Google,...
View ArticleNetflix Throws Down The Gauntlet To VPN and Proxy Servers
Netflix announced earlier this week that any subscribers using a virtual private network (VPN), proxy, or "unblocker" service to access a version of Netflix that is not the one based in their country...
View ArticleNetflix CEO Explains Why A "Gut" Feeling Is Still Better Than Big Data
This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein.The CEO of one of...
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