Here’s a quick way to learn about the small, black second-gen Apple TV introduced by CEO Steve Jobs at the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) 09.01.10 event: »  How much does it cost? The device is $99, nearly a 67 percent cut from the original $299 price for the first Apple TV…

And here it is ... the pocket-rocket version of Apple TV with $4.99 first-run movies and $0.99 TV shows. The main content events: as expected, ABC (NYSE: DIS), Fox and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX). And, as expected, it’s a heck of a lot cheaper: a much more competitive $99, down from…

*Sony* will begin selling updated versions of its Reader Pocket and Reader Touch devices today, but it is still months away from releasing its new Daily Reader with WiFi access. In practical terms, that means that Sony (NYSE: SNE) will not be directly competing with the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle…

The invite to Wednesday’s Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) event shows a guitar, which usually suggests music, but that hasn’t stopped the buzz about video. The current Apple TV is too expensive at $269 and too limited in the kinds of content it delivers. With that in mind, expectations include a cheaper,…

Last week, one of the nation’s top dailies imploded its structure to go “digital first.” Today, the Deseret News, a much smaller paper in Salt Lake City, Utah, is following USA Today with an equally radical reorganization but very different emphasis—keeping the daily newspaper alive. The DN is slashing its…

Digg, which has been in tumult since the departure of long-time CEO Jay Adelson in April, is turning to an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) executive to turn it around. The news aggregator has hired Matt Williams, the general manager of consumer payments at the e-commerce company, as its CEO. Williams has…

Target won’t be the only bricks-and-mortar retail outlet for Kindles much longer. Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is adding the Staples office supplies chain to the mix this fall, making that two options for would-be buyers to try out the device. The deal will put Kindle in Staples—the chain has more than…

As luck would have it, I was on the go when the U.S. leg of the tennis Grand Slam started Monday, providing a good chance to test the live streaming video for iPad and the new mobile features from USOpen.org. The USTA went iOS-centric with an iPad-optimized browser and an…

We’re not tracking every site that adds log ins using Facebook or Twitter but when the site is a few months away from putting up a paywall—and it’s one of the top news sites— it’s worth a little attention. New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) execs have insisted for months…

Video service Roku cut prices by 23 to 30 percent across its WiFi set tops today, taking its most expensive device below $100 in the hopes of being perceived as the best value heading into the fall sales season. An e-mail describing the move referred to competitive products “both current…

YouTube will be broadcasting all Major League Baseball games on its site in Japan next year, in what the company is calling “the largest partnership for premium sports content” in its history.

Independent television producers have vowed to block making BBC iPlayer accessible to UK license payers whilst abroad, just hours after BBC director-general Mark Thompson announced the intention. “This has not been agreed with the BBC and we will resist this,” John McVay, CEO of the sector’s trade group Pact, told…

BreakingNewsOnline is discontinuing its iPhone app as it looks to concentrate more on B2B services, the company announced. The iPhone app was launched over a year ago as an adjunct to its “@BreakingNews” Twitter account that BNO News managed until December 2009, when it handed over management to MSNBC.

Young adults are the heaviest social media users but older adults are fueling the growth. Wired adults 50 and older nearly doubled use of social networking in the past year, according to the latest Pew Internet & American Life report, something I’ve seen anecdotally as my friends and family members…

When YouTube launched a US TV section in April 2009, with shows from CBS (NYSE: CBS), it came along with a Movies section, with flicks from MGM and Lionsgate. In the same way, the video site is now adding a UK movies section to the UK TV section it opened…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is warning Hollywood movie studios about something they likely expected all along: the company is preparing to file for bankruptcy in the middle of next month. [LATimes] »  Newsweek is losing another top editor: Mark Miller, who…

USA Today Publisher Dave Hunke is embarking on the biggest change in the Gannett (NYSE: GCI) flagship’s 28-year history as he shifts away from print and towards mobile. The newsroom is being restructured around content rings instead of its four traditional departments of news, money, life and sports. On the…

Naspers, the South African media company which owns stakes in a number of digital properties, including Facbeook-backer Digital Sky Technologies, has made a “strategic investment” in classifieds site OLX. Founder Fabrice Grinda tells us Naspers made the investment “both by investing and by buying shares from existing shareholders.”

For a company that is mired in prolonged bankruptcy proceedings, The Tribune Company is otherwise able to bring in revenues. To be sure, a company doesn’t have to be unable to drive revenues to be in bankruptcy, but situation is a bit ironic. In a memo obtained by Romenesko, the…