Amazon is offering a special service for Kids ages 3-8 with unlimited content (books, games, apps, movies and TV shows) Kindle Free Time Unlimited for $2.99 a month for one child or 6.99 per family for Amazon Prime members or $4.99 per child or $9.99 per family for non-Prime-members. Owners of the all-new Kindle Fire  and Kindle Fire HD get one month of Kindle Free Time Unlimited for free . 

Kindle Free Time Unlimited  is an optional extension to Kindle Free Time, that offers parents new tools like Time Limits and other parental controls.

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Mobile viewing is growing rapidly and is especially useful for webinars and learning. Mobile access to ON24 webcasts events grew 300 percent last year and is expected to double in the next year.  To adapt to the mobile environment, ON24 this week debuted a new technology that automatically optimizes viewing of its webcasts and virtual learning events for mobile devices.

Dubbed ON24 MOVE (Mobile Virtual Environments), the service provides an HTML5-based virtual environment for tablets and a more content-focused compact view for smartphones.

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Amazon and Viacom have partnered for streaming  Prime video TV shows from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT and Logo.

Out of the box, Kindle Fire users can view millions of Amazon Prime  unlimited, commercial-free, instant streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Instant Video.  The Prime service  is free for a month when you buy the Amazon Kindle Fire.

Prime members will have access to thousands of episodes from Viacom through Prime Instant Video over the next several months.

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The Netflix movie viewing app on Android has been updated to support all Android 2.2 and 2.3 devices.  However,  Android table support is only for specfic models.

More than 80 percent of Android users are running Android 2.2 or 2.3.  Previously the Netflix Android app only worked on selected Android models.

Netflix came slow to Android due to digital rights managment(DRM) concerns .

Texas Instruments' new OMAP 4 platform has been certified for Netflix and enables secure HD (1080p) streaming to HD TVs.

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A Qumu-commissioned Harris survey found some interesting data about how video is viewed at work, as well as how employees hide access to many mobile activities, such as looking for other jobs, dates, bargains, and risque entertainment.  To illustrate how...

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Netflix and Android don't always mix due to DRM limitations with the Android operating system.  Texas Instruments' new OMAP 4 platform has been certified for Netflix and enables secure HD (1080p) streaming to HD TVs.  Although no official announcements have...

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Sony has released the free Crackle app, optimized for iPads and iPhones with ad-supported  films and TV shows.Crackle offers different genres, such as crime, horror, thriller and sci-fi.  More than 200 titles from Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems and...

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Multi-platform movie service, mSpot, announced new pricing for the mSpot Movies Club.  Other services run $3.99 for new releases, while mSpot Club Members can get many new releases for as low as $3 as part of their club membership.  The...

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ON24 announced its new Webcasting Platform 10 which delivers live mobile webcasts to iPhones, iPads, Android and Windows Phone 7 smartphones. New features include personalization, widgets, multipresenter webcam/video sources and mulitlingual webcasts Unlike conventional webcasts, Webcasting Platform 10 can be...

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Sprint has released celebrity opinions in time for the Oscars.  Stars, like geeks, would like video conferencing.  The celebs interviewed would like to video chat with politicians, family, astronauts and actresses.  The news release is also a plug for its...

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The 2011 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Swimsuit Issue will launch a mobile campaign that includes videos and interactive content via mobile action codes using Microsoft Tag.Readers will have the ability to instantly view on their BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Phone 7,  java feature...

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