Amazon's global assault continues with the news that the e-retail giant has signed a deal with Viacom - meaning a wealth of new content is now available for the Seattle-based company to stream.

Stream in the US, that is - remember, we don't...

Google has won its high profile legal battle with media giant Viacom in a ruling that could have major ramifications for copyrighted content. 

Viacom, who owns MTV and Comedy Central amongst other things, had filed a $1 billion lawsuit against...

"Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there".

That's the claim of YouTube, in a new blog post, perhaps hoping to win public support in its $1billion lawsuit with...

Viacom has admitted that its Rock Band series is still not making any cash - on the contrary, it's losing the company money. Viacom's chief financial officer, Tom Dooley, admitted in a quarterly earnings report that "Rock Band was a negative contributor...

Google's CEO Eric Schmidt has admitted to paying a $1 billion premium on YouTube when Google bought the video service in 2007.

The move, which made sure that the fledgling company (at the time) didn't fall into the wrong hands (read Microsoft...

The battle between peer-2-peer websites and the music and movie industries is hotting up.

The notorious file sharing website, Pirate Bay, is facing bans in Italy, Denmark and Sweden.

Despite a recent vote by the EU, not to adopt...

MTV Networks International has announced the launch of the first ever international high definition service dedicated to "music and kids", called MTVNHD.

The English-language channel will premiere on Monday 15 September 2008 and will be available...

On the 4 July, we reported that a judge in New York ruled that Google must pass on the details of more than 100 million people - many of them in the UK - to Viacom, the US TV company that Google is involved in with a billion-dollar court case.

A judge in New York has said that Google must pass on the details of more than 100 million people - many of them in the UK - to Viacom, the US TV company that Google is involved in with a billion-dollar court case.

The argument is that Viacom's...

It's been rumbling on since March last year, and now the legal battle between Viacom and Google looks set to get even nastier.

Last spring, Viacom launched a $1bn case against Google accusing its website YouTube of massive copyright infringement.

Viacom is boasting a 33% boom in profits following on the success of its MTV-branded Rock Band video game.

The company has released its financial results and says that its first-quarter profit rose to $270 million as compared to $203 million...

It seems our love of those robots in disguise has been driving DVD sales for Paramount studios.

The studio's owner Viacom has announced its quarterly sales figures and boasted a 16% rise in profit.

As well as booming DVD sales...

Let the battle begin!

March kicked off with the launch of the PS3 but hot on its heels was the arrival Xbox 360 Elite.

Shivering gamers waited outside the Virgin Megastore in Oxford Street in London for the latest launch from...

A new music download service - Rhapsody America - is to launch in the States.

Not just A.N. Other iTunes competitor, industry insiders and analysts are suggesting this new venture could pose a legitimate challenge to Apple's ubiquitous...

UK anti-spam company ClearMyMail has today revealed statistics showing which internet service providers are the most targeted by spam, in a handy top ten list format.

Top ten most spammed ISP’s:

1. Forece9.net = 95% average...