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Rock Band is still not profitable, says Viacom

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 to margins in...

Google paid $1 billion premium for YouTube

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 or Yahoo) has been...

New organisation founded to fight online piracy

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 a three strikes...

MTV goes HD with MTVNHD

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 in Belgium,...

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In the headlines: Samsung launches five new digital compacts; Viacom and Google make a deal over YouTube;...

Viacom and YouTube make a deal

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.

But now it seems...

YouTube viewer details to be supplied to Viacom

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 "experts" need...

Viacom YouTube lawsuit "threatens internet freedom"

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 profits driven by Rock Band game

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 for the first three...

Transformers movie drives DVD sales

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 (perhaps also driven...

2007: A year in review, March

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 Sony.

It...

Real's Rhapsody and MTV's Urge merges into Rhapsody America

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 download service.

Top ten most spammed ISPs revealed

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 spam rate
2. Talk...

Google earn £3.66billion in 3 months

Here's something to get your teeth into, your head around or just to begin designing your way to take over the planet: Google's earnings for the past 3 months.

Google reported revenues of $3.66 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2007, an increase of 63%...

Google makes some changes

Google has announced two new developments to its search service that can be used as of today.

Unfortunately for the giant search engine, some of its quirky names have been unsuccessful. Take Google Product Search, which if you remember had a massive hype when...

Google phone rumours shift to just software not hardware

A Wall Street analyst has said that Google is building software for phones, but not for a its own phone according to Reuters.

The news service has Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster quotes as saying that Google appears to be building software for Web search...

Google Spain confirms Google Phone rumours

Google has confirmed that it is working on a mobile phone however hasn’t given any more details as yet to when it will be released.

The rumour, which has been floating around the ether for sometime, was confirmed to Spanish newspaper Noticias by Google Spain...

Viacom sue Google and YouTube for $1bn

Viacom Media, whose brands include MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon has announced that it is suing Web giant Google and its video sharing site YouTube for $1bn (£517m).

The Entertainment giant has accussed Google, which owns YouTube, of illegally using its...

Joost signs content deals with Viacom

US television conglomerate Viacom has signed a content deal to put its programming on Joost, the internet on-demand TV service from the men behind Skype.

The agreement means that TV shows from MTV, BET Networks, and film studio Paramount Pictures will be made...

Viacom orders YouTube to take down 100,000 clips

Cable channel provider Viacom has demanded that YouTube remove more than 100,000 video clips that it says violates its copyright after talks between it and Google proved fruitless.

The clips are from Comedy Central shows as well as those on Nickelodeon, MTV,...