A partnership announced today between The Echo Nest and Twitter makes it simple to incorporate the immediacy of tweets into a recording artist’s app, preserving the all-important data identifiers along the way.

Despite its iconic status in the eyes of the entertainment industry, BitTorrent has been surpassed as the most popular way to share files on...

Adult content often leads the way in the mainstreaming of entertainment technology, so today’s announcement from Vivid Entertainment may prove to be a milestone for Google TV. The adult film studio is launching Vivid for Google TV, the first TV app specifically created to deliver sexually explicit content.

Tobii Technology has developed what the company describes as the world’s first eye-controlled arcade game, adding that "Tobii EyeAsteroids" represents an expansion of eye tracking applications into the consumer electronics and gaming industries.

GameStop has chosen an existing Android tablet which it will begin selling next year under its own brand and with a selection of game titles pre-installed. It will positioned as the "GameStop certified gaming platform" and will be offered next to hardware from Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and Apple that the company already sells.

DirecTV is set to launch its Home Media Center in October, and today it was confirmed that the television provider selected Pace’s HR34 as the new service’s server hub. Pace said this product will be the first fully interconnected DVR experience for the satellite TV industry, enabling customers to pause live video, bookmark programs, set recordings and choose which recorded or paused programming they want to watch from any connected device in their household.

Marking the end of an era, Microsoft announced 2012 will be the last time it participates in International CES, the Consumer Electronics Association’s annual trade show and conference.

Personal video aggregation platform Frequency has made its formal debut, launching its first official consumer products. In addition to online and on iPad, and perhaps more interestingly, the Frequency app also will come packaged with Samsung’s line of Smart TVs.