To stay relevant in today’s gaming market, Microsoft has designed its new console to extend the Xbox franchise beyond gaming to…
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Connected consumer first-quarter 2013: Analysis and outlook
Many long-standing legal rules of engagement between publishers and consumers tilted the playing field in unexpected ways in the first quarter.…
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Content monetization: News licensing and syndication still need marketplaces and infrastructure
Publishers’ lack of strategic focus on licensing and syndication today is matched by nearly equal indifference from software developers, entrepreneurs, and…
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Connected consumer fourth-quarter 2012 analysis
The fourth quarter saw new fissures emerge in some corners of the digital media business, while some old fissures reemerged in…
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Connected consumer 2013: how 2012 laid the groundwork for change
Many of the biggest stories in the connected consumer space occurred mostly offstage in 2012. Apple conducted behind-the-scenes discussions about rolling…
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Connected consumer third-quarter 2012: analysis and outlook
The third quarter saw many parts of the traditional media business in flux. New digital platforms that once had confined themselves…
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Connected consumer second-quarter 2012: analysis and outlook
Tablets featured prominently in the connected consumer space during the second quarter of 2012, both as a product category in their…
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New strategies in consumer-media cloud storage
Apple has sought to use the cloud to heighten the value of its tightly woven ecosystem by integrating its own cloud-based…
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Connected Consumer Q1: Controversy, courtrooms and the cloud
The first quarter of 2012 featured several high-profile legal and regulatory battles over privacy, antitrust and copyright that could eventually reshape…
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Connected Consumer Q4: SOPA and the future of digital content
The digital living room was also the scene of a lot of activity in the fourth quarter. Microsoft rolled out a…
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Connected Consumer 2012: A year of consolidation and integration
Call it the year of lessons learned, if not quite bubbles burst. In 2011, several trends in the connected consumer space…
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Connected Consumer Q3: Netflix fumbles; Kindle Fire shines
While Amazon was looking up, the daily online coupon business is going down, imploding under the weight of too much competition…
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