The Entertainment Ecosystems of Apple, Microsoft, Google & Amazon

It’s interesting to note that all four of the companies listed have various different core business models (hardware, search, retail, software) but they have all in recent years come to create personal computing devices with their own operating system running on top of the device and additionally these entertainment ecosystems.

The number of people who report that their home television is the primary screen for watching paid and free Internet video has increased to 45%, up from 33% a year earlier. During the same period, consumers who used a PC as their main way to watch online video dipped to 31% from 48%.

The company found that Netflix’s instant streaming service was the most popular application for funneling video from the Internet to a television, with 40% of people who watch online content on a TV using Netflix. Hulu Plus, with 12%, and Vudu, with 4%, attracted more modest followings.

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Apple is getting into streaming radio, according to The Wall Street Journal. But Pandora has survived worse.

Savage Beast Technologies launched its music kiosk software business in 2000—at exactly the wrong time. The brick and mortar music industry was collapsing. Tower Records, the first to offer Savage Beast’s service, closed the last of its U.S. stores in 2006. Virgin Megastores shuttered in 2009. Other major retailers that sold CDs, including Circuit City and Borders Books, followed suit.

“Unfortunately, that was a dying business,” said Joe Kennedy, CEO of Savage Beast successor Pandora. “The company hit hard times very very early in the process.”

Read on: How Pandora Soothed The Savage Beast

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Study says Internet addiction is caused by a gene mutation

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Human beings have about 25,000 genes which make up the cells in our DNA. Often times through genetic mutations, our DNA is defected causing different things to happen in the human body. No, I am not talking about mutants like the X-Men, but real disorders like Cystic Fibrosis or Down Syndrome. Genetic mutations can also cause addictions, for example to alcohol or nicotine. A new study though shows that the addiction to the Internet works in a similar way, through a genetic mutation.

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