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Netflix is the best on-demand provider with a wide community of over 25 million viewers. Its various features cover live TV shows, series and movies. The website is also the USA’s largest video subscritpion service. Despite its notoriety, Netflix isn’t watchable outside the U.S. Indeed the company didn’t purchase the needed broadcasting rights for an international airing. [...]

Mad Men is a dramatic TV series created and produced by Matthew Weiner. The series airs on Sunday evenings on the American cable network AMC and is produced by Lionsgate Television. The serie began on July 19, 2007, and is currently broadcasting its fifth season. Mad Men takes place in the 1960s, initially at the Sterling Cooper advertising agency (fictionnal) in New York City, and later at the [...]

Xfinity is the name for the re-branded triple play services in Comcast’s largest markets, which include the company’s digital cable, cable Internet access, and cable telephone services. A major push involved the new Xfinity branding during the 2010 Winter Olympics coverage on NBC, which was in the early stages of a merger with Comcast. The company wanted to add more HD channels, foreign languages, and on-demand contents. Additionally, the company [...]

TBS (Turner Broadcasting System), is an American cable television channel owned by Time Warner that shows various programs, with a focus on comedy. TBS was firstly known as WTCG, a TV station that aired from Atlanta, Georgia, during the late 1970s. TBS programing includes a variety of programing with: Movies of the comedy genre from sister companies Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, and also from Touchstone Pictures, Columbia Pictures,Universal Pictures, and Paramount Pictures. Sports [...]

Yesterday, Twitter was blocked in Pakistan. According to Techcrunch, there are two conceivable reasons: Some believe over representations of the Prophet Mohammed and Twitter’s refusal to block these images; and some believe while it was testing an image filtering service. Whatever it was, the site is now back up –after an order from Prime Minister. [...]

Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website, owned and operated by Tumblr, Inc. The service enables its users to post multimedia and other contents to a short-form blog, named a “tumblelog”. Users are able to follow other users’ blogs, as well as make their own blogs. Much of the origin website’s features are reachable from the “dashboard” interface, where [...]

Flickr is an image and video hosting website, and online community created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. Aside from being popular for the photo sharing, the service is also used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. According to a 2011 statement from Yahoo, Flickr had a total of 51 million registered members and 80 million unique [...]

Firesheep is a Mozilla Firefox’s add-on which gives the ability to see when someone on an open network – such as coffees WiFi networks – browse on an insecure site. A single click allows the hacker to have access to logged-on sites ranging from Twitter and Facebook to bit.ly and Flickr. With anyone cookie in hand, a [...]

Bravo tv, the American television channel owned by NBC Universal was launched in December 1980. Bravo is currently available in 88 million homes. In the early 2000s the channel changed its speciality from performing arts, drama, and indie film to cover pop culture like reality shows, fashion shows, makeovers, celebrities… Bravo’s programming schedule includes feature films, primarily from the Universal catalog. Bravo also airs [...]

Channel 5 is a British television network launched in 1997. After his 2010 purchase of the station from RTL, Richard Desmond announced plans to invest more in programming. The new on-screen look for Channel 5 went live in 2011 with a new website address. The relaunch has also seen the beginning of the nightly entertainment show, OK! TV. The channel is a general [...]