It is a scientific fact that beautiful women make men stupid. It was entirely to test this theory that I accepted a video interview with supermodel Tyra Banks about her new iPhone app. Because, of course, I am a hardboiled technology reporter and I don’t do frivolous crap like fashion. ...

Netflix released a teaser trailer for its upcoming original TV show House of Cards today, which features director David Fincher and actor Kevin Spacey. Netflix won an expensive bidding war with other premium cable channels (HBO, Showtime) to gain the rights to air the show over its streaming video service ...

A picture is worth a thousand words, and now, so is a t-shirt. Litographs, a company known for putting entire books on posters, has just launched the same feature for t-shirts on Kickstarter. It lets artists create t-shirts based on novels like Moby Dick and The Great Gatsby with the ...

ArmorHub is today launching a web security service targeting startups, small-to-medium sized businesses, and most importantly, the layperson who knows that website security is something to be concerned about, but doesn’t know how to monitor their site or what to do if an issue is found. The company is being ...

For years, LongTail Video has offered its open source JW Player as a free alternative for businesses that don’t want to put their videos on YouTube or pay SaaS-based content management players like Brightcove or Ooyala. But it doesn’t have all the features and functionality they might like — for ...

Google Shopping‘s pay-to-play service is going global. The commerce-focused vertical formerly known as Google Product Search, is now expanding the roll out of its commercial model to other countries outside the U.S., including the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Brazil, Australia and Switzerland. The announcement comes on the ...

The amount of streaming video content viewed over tablet devices has increased dramatically over the last six months, according to the Ooyala’s Q3 Global Video Index report released today. Ooyala is a video analytics startup that measures anonymized viewing habits of about 200 million unique viewers in more than 130 ...

For AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, there’s no place more interesting than New York City. “We always hear that New York is the city that never sleeps, and if you want to know what you’re doing when you’re not sleeping, come look at our traffic and I’ll tell you what you’re ...