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Esquire, the magazine that has relied on the printed page for the last 80 years, is about to make a move into television. NBC Universal execs plan to create an “upscale Bravo for men,” per NBCU cable chairman Bonnie Hammer. On April 22, the Esquire Network will replace the [...]

The multiyear agreement, which begins in spring 2013, will give the streaming service first look at titles from Queen Latifah's production company. [...]

As the new iPhone5 has just hit the streets, the New York City Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly has boldly linked the 40 percent jump in the reported thefts of Apple products as the reason crime did not decline in New York this year. In a speech delivered to [...]

Like floppy disks and CDs before it, everybody has a mound of flash drives lying around the home. Wouldn’t it be great if you could connect all of those low-capacity drives to create one mega large-capacity one? The Uniting U Disk concept is that future. Chinese designer Shiyu Xia [...]

Skype and Logitech have announced the TV Cam HD, a high-definition video conferencing camera said to be compatible with any HDTV that offers HDMI input. Priced at $199.99, the device comes loaded with Skype on board and also includes built-in Wi-Fi and ethernet, so you won’t need an internet-ready [...]

This might have been it. This might have been Blackberry’s last dance as a prime time player of the Smartphone center stage. Before we go any further, let’s go back and emphasize the word might. Having covered former RIM honcho Jim Balsillie and his RIM empire up close and [...]

Samsung has revealed a pair of new additions to its Galaxy Player Personal Meidia Player range, with 3.6-inch and 4.0-inch devices entering the fray. Finally, Team Sammy has stopped holding onto it’s big kahunas and walked appropriately into the ballroom dressed to kill. The tidy media players both run [...]

MTV is finally giving back to the artists who worship to be featured on their network via a new website venture, Artists.MTV. Viacom’s Music Group’s VP of Digital Music Strategy Shannon Connolly said Artists.MTV comes out of a larger discussion about the role that MTV wants to play in [...]