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ETC Entertainment Technology Center at USC ETC@USC, affiliated with the School of Cinematic Arts, is a think tank and research center focused o

We're getting ready to head out to Las Vegas for CES! We'll have reporters on the ground blogging about the new tech. You can read their posts on our ETCentric CES blog site: http://www.etcentric.org/public/CES-2012/

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December is fast approaching! It's the time of the year were we start to plan out CES trip! Anyone going to CES? What are you looking forward to?

How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? Recently, the UK government passed The Digital Economy Act which included many, perhaps draconian, measures to combat online music piracy (including withdrawing broadband access for persistent pirates).

How the U.S. Consumes Real-Time Entertainment Online [INFOGRAPHIC] Online entertainment as an all-streaming entertainment cornucopia is rapidly approaching. You might be surprised how quickly the transition is taking place.

Saving iPhone Battery Life: 10 Tips And Tricks For The iPhone 4S And Older Models Having trouble with the battery on your iPhone? You're not alone: A recent wave of complaints from iPhone 4S owners apparently even has Apple worried about battery issues.

In his biography, Steve Jobs said that he wanted to create an easy-to-use TV set that seamlessly syncs with all devices and iCloud and that it would have the simplest user interface you could imagine. Is Apple ready?

Apple's Siri-Enabled TV: 4 Problems

The improved Google TV first rolls out to Sony Internet TV and Logitech R***e. Check out if their updates are the right one for you. http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/28/just-lipstick-on-a-pig/

TechCrunch | Google TV Update Rolls Out On Sunday: Better Content Discovery, Android Market, But Hul

Content is king, they say. How much difference is this going to make?

YouTube Pays $100 Million to Channel Hollywood Star Power More than 100 producers agree to provide YouTube with exclusive content.

They said it's not another social networking site; it's a social revolution. Would you sign up?

'Anti-Facebook' Overwhelmed With Responses After Public Launch Unthink.com, which aims to take on "deceptive business practices of social media giant Facebook and its ilk," remains inaccessible due to being "over capacity."

Twitter makes a compilation of what it thinks are best practices of Twitter engagement on tv.

The Best of Twitter TV Highlights of the best integrations of Twitter on TV including hashtags on-air, handles on-air, live-tweeting and curated Tweets.

An Irish company is creating an app that allows you to continue watching a program across different devices. If you can do this, would you still use your DVR? What do you think?

Huffington Post Picture this. You're watching your favourite TV programme at home, you have to rush out the door, so you pick up the same programme on your phone.