YouTube on the teevee. TiVo users with broadband Internet connections will be able to watch YouTube clips on their televisions by the end of the year.

AOL/Bebo and other slang. “If AOL can smoothly integrate Bebo with its AIM client and Platform-A ad network, great. Unfortunately, AOL doesn’t have that kind of track record.

Another Apple lawsuit. ZapMedia Services Inc. (who you’ll have to search for yourself if you want to know who they are) claim that iTunes and the iPod are ‘using a patented method of distributing digital media over the Internet.’

 Disney Dollars

All things Disney digital. Not only is the company not looking to acquire AOL but Iger told analysts that the company expects to collect $1 billion in revenue from online content this fiscal year. Good thing the writers got the new deal they did, and good thing Iger was such an integral part of the process, $1 billion isn’t chump change.

Hollywood hat trick as Potter gets split. Not wanting to suffer the same fate as the publishing world Hollywood has decided to split the final film installment of Harry Potter into two movies. The first part is set to debut in December 2010 and the last and final installment Warner Bros. can rely on will show up a few months later in early 2011.


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