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Live Mobile Video Streaming: it’s Qik Qik, Inc., a live mobile video streaming platform, says it’s the first live mobile video product to launch on mass market mobile phones. Available in alpha stage, Qik's service is ready for use on over a dozen Nokia and Sony Ericsson mass market mobile handsets. With the free service, the company says, users can stream video live to the Internet in just two clicks from their mobile phone. Those watching the videos on the web can engage in live interactive chat with the person broadcasting…Full Article |
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Hi5 Goes Mobile with Vodafone Live!
The hi5 social network reveals that it’s partnering with Vodafone Espana to offer its services on mobile devices through Vodafone live! With hi5 Mobile, Vodafone live! users in Spain can send and receive messages, browse their friends' profiles, share photos, see who's online, and add new friends. They’ll be able to access hi5 in the Vodafone live! community section that is dedicated to the individual users. The hi5 mobile service is free for Vodafone live! customers…Full Article |
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Nokia to Release a Film by
You, for You Now, this social thing is spreading its tentacles even in the movie-making business. Picture this: Nokia has announced that the premiere of Nokia Productions, the first user-generated multimedia film, will be held tonight (Oct. 14) at 8:45 pm PDT at the Nokia Plaza - LA Live with a simultaneous online premiere. T-Mobile partnered with Nokia to develop the film, which was built by everyday people, using mobile devices to generate and submit content. Director Spike Lee then created the film…Full Article |
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Time Warner Cable Brings Web Video to TV Time Warner Cable and ActiveVideo Networks have decided to offer Web content and interactivity to the TVs of cable subscribers in Hawaii. The new service, which is being launched in Oceanic Time Warner Cable, will stream traditional and Web-based content to any digital set-top box. Initial channels include interactive games from TAG Networks; home shopping from HSN; and news, sports, and children's versions of P:Mosaic…Full Article |
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Airtel Entering Your Living Room with Digital TV Bharti Airtel, India’s leading mobile services company, has diversified to enter the local entertainment market. It has launched Airtel digital TV, its Direct To Home (DTH) Satellite TV service. The service will be available to customers through 21,000 retail points including Airtel Relationship Centres in 62 cities across the country starting October 9. The company aims to deliver content on multiple consumer screens including mobile handset, computer, and now TV…Full Article |
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Universal Music for Dada Users Universal Music Group, a leading music company, and Dada Entertainment, which provides digital and mobile entertainment services, have completed an agreement that will allow Dada.net users to access music from Universal. Tracks from Universal’s catalogue will be available for download as DRM-free full-track MP3s and ringtones. Dada currently offers Sony BMG's music catalogue and will add content from other major and indie record labels in future. Dada offers its content through major mobile carriers…Full Article |
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DAZ 3D, GoFigure Offer Drag-and-Drop Animation Plug-in
Christened aniMate, it’s created by GoFigure, a producer of viral applications for Internet, computer, and mobile social networks; and DAZ 3D, which develops 3D software and models. The aniMate tool aims to simplify the job of animation artists by providing ready-to-use building blocks. The DAZ Studio users can animate 3D characters through drag-and-drop modules called aniBlocks…Full Article |
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Sony Releasing 3D System for Digital Cinema Sony Electronics is demonstrating its latest digital cinema technology: a single-projector 3D adaptor designed to work specifically with its 4K projectors in movie theaters. The new adaptor uses the full height of Sony's 4K imaging device, with the ability to display full 2K images for the left and right eye simultaneously and in parallel, from top and bottom. The 3D adaptor is expected to be available in March 2009…Full Article |
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Playing with the Eagle Eye DreamWorks Pictures is allowing you to experience the adventure of the new thriller "Eagle Eye" with a 10-minute interactive game: Eagle Eye Free Fall. It’s now online. Free Fall is designed to be an intense plunge into the world of "Eagle Eye" and allows players to experience what Jerry Shaw character goes through first hand. Players can replay and share it with their friends, in a cross-media storytelling format…Full Article |
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Starz Movies will Stream on Netflix Netflix, the world's leading online movie rental service, and Starz Entertainment, a movie service provider operating in the U.S., have signed an agreement to make movies from Starz. With "Starz Play" broadband subscription movie service, the movies will be streamed at Netflix. Access to the Starz Play service at Netflix will be included with Netflix members' current monthly subscription fee. Starz Play makes nearly 2,500 movies, TV Shows, and concerts for Netflix members…Full Article |
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Airtel Offers Hello Tunes with a Social Touch India’s mobile service provider Bharti Airtel has decided to go with envIOWorks platform that enables social marketing of mobile content to add social marketing to its Hello Tunes service. The envIOWorks platform is supporting Airtel’s Hello Tunes Manager, which is available for free download to Airtel’s mobile consumers, which are claimed to be over 75 million...Full Article |
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Call for Short Films for Mobile Film Festival The GSMA – a global trade group for the mobile industry, and Mofilm – that deals in short films for mobile and online distribution, have announced the first Global Mobile Film Festival at the Mobile World Congress in 2009 happening in Barcelona. With an official “call for films,” they’re inviting international film-makers to participate. The films should be up to five minutes in length and they’ll be judged by an international jury of film festival and mobile content experts. Submission forms and films can be uploaded online at the Mofilm website…Full Article |
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Bright Picture for IPTV Internet protocol television (IPTV) is fast gaining acceptance among worldwide consumers. There will be 19.6 million IPTV subscribers in 2008, a 64.1% increase from 12 million subscribers in 2007, according to research firm Gartner. And worldwide IPTV revenue is projected to total $4.5 billion in 2008, a 93.5% increase from 2007 revenue of $2.3 billion. While Western Europe is the region with the largest number of IPTV subscribers, North America leads in terms of revenue…Full Article |
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Discovery, YouTube to Attract Global Eyeballs Discovery Communications and YouTube have announced nine YouTube Channels, featuring a collection of clips from Discovery's family of network brands. Tailoring content to the global YouTube community, Discovery will also roll out a series of targeted international Channels showcasing localized and native language content for specific regions…Full Article |
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Netflix Partners CBS, Disney to Stream TV Shows The world's leading online movie rental service Netflix has signed separate agreements with the CBS Television Network and Disney-ABC Television Group that will allow current season episodes of a number of TV shows to be streamed at Netflix. The two deals add to a growing library of 12,000 choices that Netflix members can watch instantly on their PCs and TVs as part of their existing subscription plans and without impacting the number of DVDs they receive…Full Article |
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AT&T Introduces SEC Mobile for SEC Football AT&T is offering fans of the South Eastern Conference an exclusive mobile destination – SEC Mobile. It’s for SEC news, games, trivia, and contests that bring them closer to their favorite conference, school, and sport. Accessing the interactive portal, says AT&T, is as easy as texting SEC to 567890 from an AT&T handset. Users can vote throughout the season for the SEC's all-time greatest team, choosing from 32 teams in the field during the past 75 years of SEC football…Full Article |
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Qualcomm Demos Advanced Mobile TV Features Qualcomm, a leading developer of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, has announced its live, over-the-air demonstrations of the MediaFLO interactive broadcast mobile TV platform. It’ll feature audio, video, and data applications delivered over both UHF and L-Band frequencies. The company is showcasing value-added mobile broadcast services, including new proof-of-concept interactivity applications to deliver immersive and personalized content over the MediaFLO platform…Full Article |
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Microsoft Unveils Advertising Platform for IPTV Microsoft has unveiled the Microsoft Mediaroom Advertising Platform, which will enable broadband service providers deploying the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV software platform offer targeted, measurable, and interactive advertising spots all from a single platform. It'll let advertisers and their agencies adjust advertising campaigns in a timely manner on the basis of measured impressions and engagement. The Platform will be available in 2009 to service providers deploying Microsoft Mediaroom…Full Article |
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Generation Y Breathes Technology and Fun Motorola has revealed the results of its 1,200-person study across Europe and the Middle East into the behaviors of the Millennial generation (16-27 year olds) on their consumer technology decisions and media consumption habits. It says that Millennials not only engage with new technologies, they actively influence their parents' adoption habits. The majority of respondents stated that they influence the broadband (83%) or TV services (84%) purchased by their parents…Full Article |
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Lemme Mark my Spot with iMarkMySpot It’s a digital photo geotagging application for the Apple iPhone, which is now available on iTunes. Introduced by software developer iCloseBy.com, the application can be used to "one-touch" geotag and geocode digital photos with exact GPS locations. Using iMarkMySpot in conjunction with digital cameras of any brand, including digital cameras by Canon, Nikon, Sony, Kodak, Fujifilm or any other manufacturer, the exact location of where a photograph is taken is stored…Full Article |
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TV-viewing Freedom Coming with Total Home DVR AT&T has introduced AT&T U-verse Total Home DVR to give U-verse TV customers the freedom to play back Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) recorded programs on any connected TV in the home. Based on AT&T's Internet Protocol (IP) network, U-verse Total Home DVR is now being offered to customers in the Bay Area at no additional charge and is planned for deployment to all U-verse TV customers by the end of 2008. The service will be seamlessly provided to existing customers' DVRs without the need to swap their current equipment…Full Article |
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Watching Your Own TV Channel A content personalization solution provider beeTV based in Italy has launched a platform with the same name to allow consumers to watch TV with its Personal Content Channel. The offer is supposed to be an improvement over the existing electronic program guides (EPGs) and tends to create a personal channel for the users. Content companies that use IPTV, cable, satellite, mobile, and Internet to deliver content can distribute their programs in a personal, push manner. beeTV enables viewers to be matched with content based on their individual tastes, behaviour, and mood...Full Article |
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MP3tunes, Logitech to Deliver Any-room Music MP3tunes, a music service provider, will bundle its MP3tunes Music Locker with the new Logitech Squeezebox Boom all-in-one network music player. When combined with the MP3tunes Music Locker that stores your music library in a cloud, the Squeezebox Boom lets you listen to your digital music in the kitchen, the bedroom, or any other room in your house –without running your computer or docking your iPod…Full Article |
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Economy-class Fun: Courtesy Xbox 360 Microsoft Corp. will offer the gaming and entertainment console Xbox 360, which offers Xbox LIVE service, at a new low price in the United States. Beginning Sept. 5, Xbox 360 Arcade will retail for the estimated retail price of $199.99, the Xbox 360 console for $299.99, and Xbox 360 Elite for $399.99. Xbox 360 offers games, movies, and TV shows, which can run live side-by-side with your personal pictures and music library…Full Article |
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Sony Unveils Blu-ray Disc Home Theater Systems Sony has introduced the company's first home-theater-in-a-box systems with integrated Blu-ray Disc players. Both models, says Sony, offer full HD video performance, HDMI inputs, advanced audio codecs and design. Named BDV-IT1000ES and BDV-IS1000, these are single-disc 5.1 channel surround Blu-ray Disc systems with S-Air wireless technology. The BDV-IT1000ES and BDV-IS1000 will ship in October for $1,999 and about $1,000 respectively. They'll be available at Sony Style stores, online at http://www.sonystyle.com/ and at authorized dealer outlets…Full Article |
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Michael Phelps: From Olympic Waters to Chicago Web Chicago 2016 Online Channel informs that today (September 3), 14-time Olympic gold medalist and Chicago 2016 committee member Michael Phelps will be in Chicago to share his Beijing Olympic experiences with the public via a live-streaming video interview and web chat. The Chicago 2016 Channel is updated with bid-related videos, blogs, and podcasts…Full Article |
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Nokia Comes with Music in the United Kingdom Nokia has decided that the United Kingdom will be the first market in the world to experience 'Comes With Music', its music service. The service gives people a year of unlimited access to the Nokia Music Store catalog with the flexibility for the consumers to keep all downloaded tracks even after the year is over. And Carphone Warehouse will be the exclusive UK pre-pay channel offering the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic 'Comes With Music' edition…Full Article |
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Motorola, Deutsche Telekom Join Hands for IPTV Motorola and Deutsche Telekom have announced a collaboration to deliver IPTV in Germany. Also, Deutsche Telekom will use Motorola's High Definition (HD)-ready IPTV set-tops for its "T-Home Entertain" services. The collaboration will enable T-Home customers to access a variety of multimedia applications in addition to standard TV offerings using an optimized Motorola set-top that will also handle future services…Full Article |
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Broadcom Offers Digital TV Solutions Broadcom Corporation, a provider of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, has announced its next generation of digital television (DTV) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions. Designed for digital video broadcast (DVB)-based platforms, these solutions will target European and Asian markets. The offer is available in package configurations that support WXGA (wide screen) display and a full 1080p high-definition resolution…Full Article |
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‘Rain of Madness’ on iTunes Store It’s a documentary being offered by DreamWorks Pictures. The original documentary "Rain of Madness," is available for download exclusively on the iTunes Store. "Rain of Madness," starring Jay Baruchel, Jack Black, Steve Coogan, Robert Downey Jr., Bill Hader, Nick Nolte, and Ben Stiller, is a companion piece to the comedy "Tropic Thunder," which debuted in theaters on August 13…Full Article |
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Broadcom to Acquire AMD Digital TV Business |
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Intel, Yahoo will Bring Net to TV Intel andYahoo! have revealed plans for the Widget Channel, a television application framework optimized for TV and related consumer electronics (CE) devices that use the Intel Architecture. The Widget Channel will allow consumers to enjoy Internet applications designed for the TV while watching their favorite TV programs. The Widget Channel will leverage Yahoo! Widget Engine, a fifth-generation applications platform that will enable TV watchers to interact with and enjoy TV Widgets…Full Article |
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Microsoft Introduces Photosynth for Photo Sharing Microsoft Photosynth, a new service from Microsoft Live Labs, aims to offer a new photo-sharing experience to consumers. You can use Photosynth to transform regular digital photos into a three-dimensional, 360-degree experience. Microsoft says with Photosynth, you can look up or down, pan from left to right, zoom in, or pull back to reveal the full sense of where you were and it provides close-up detail of a place as seen in the collaboration with National Geographic…Full Article |
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This TV will Travel with You Consumers worldwide are said to be showing interest in mobile access to local TV broadcasts of the 2008 Beijing Games. This is revealed by Telegent Systems, a company that makes television mobile with its single-chip mobile TV solutions, from the results of a global survey conducted to assess consumer interest in watching the 2008 Beijing Games on mobile handsets. More consumers want to receive free, local broadcasts on their handset...Full Article |
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Music for the Ears from dotMobi dotMobi, the consortium behind .mobi - the Internet address created specifically for finding Web sites that work on mobile phones - has announced the launch of ringtones.mobi. This site aims to make it easier for music fans to buy ringtones and mobile-friendly wallpaper images from independent and established music acts. It’s owned by Zameen Group and is created and run by Toronto-based ooober…Full Article |
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Live Webcasts of NFL Preseason Games Football fans who subscribe to video and wireline broadband services with Verizon can enjoy the start of NFL Network Game Extra, as NFL Network kicks off its coverage of NFL preseason games for which the live webcasts will be available beginning August 17. With Verizon broadband connection, users can find themselves in a virtual control booth having choice of camera feeds, chat, game statistics, and highlights…Full Article |
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Movies on Apple iTunes Store Apple has announced that movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM), Sony Pictures Television International, and Lionsgate are now available on the iTunes Store in Australia and in New Zealand from where consumers can rent or purchase over 700 films…Full Article |
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Moviestorm for Making Movies in Minutes Short Fuze, a Cambridge company set up to bring movie making to the world, has announced the first consumer release of Moviestorm. It’s a software package for creating animated movies. The company says that the software is both easy-to-use for first-timers and fully featured for advanced movie makers. It can be downloaded free from http://www.moviestorm.net. You can even upload the movies to YouTube or Moviestorm's site...Full Article |
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Nokia, Zeemote to Control Mobile Gaming in Germany Zeemote, a maker of intelligent wireless controllers for mobile devices, and Nokia have announced a cooperation to offer Zeemote JS1 Controller to consumers in Germany. With a thumbstick and four assignable trigger buttons, the Zeemote JS1 Controller offers analogue control over Bluetooth, allowing users to engage with Zeemote-ready mobile games…Full Article |
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Wanna Produce Animated Film? Join hands with Intel. The chipmaker has announced a community-driven computer animation project, dubbed 'The Future of Creative Collaboration'. And Facebook is offering a platform to enable artist collaboration for producing the animated short film for theatrical release. The Intel offer is open to established and aspiring animators. The Mass Animation project will be produced and directed by industry veteran Yair Landau, former vice chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and president of Sony Pictures Digital…Full Article |
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Football Social Network Kicks Off Prediction Game Footbo, a social network for football fans worldwide, has launched its prediction game for more than 50 international leagues. Following feedback during the recent EURO 2008, this new feature will enable users to submit their predictions on all major leagues and tournaments on Footbo. The company had launched its Beta version in June this year…Full Article |
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MTV Blogging Event Delivers 6 Million Video Streams |
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Now, a Novel Network TheNovelTree.com, launched in May of this year, has now introduced online cooperative book writing. It offers a new way to write a novel. Members of The Novel Tree website will work together on building the novel, each presenting their own pieces of the story. When the story is finished, hundreds of authors will have collaborated on one complete novel…Full Article |
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Sun’s Facebook App for Beijing Games Sun Microsystems has released a social networking game for Facebook, allowing fans of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games to compete online with others by predicting medal winners during the games. The application, MyPicks Beijing 2008, allows participants to pick medal winners and win points for their country with each correct prediction…Full Article |
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My Cinema for PC Users ASUS My Cinema TV Card is for consumers who want to watch and record TV channels. It can simultaneously display and record satellite, digital, and analog TV on PCs. The 3-in-1 TV card with three built-in TV systems will give diverse multimedia options to buyers. ASUS says that the hardware delivers sharp picture quality and supports both digital (DVBS or DVBT) and analog (PAL) TV programs – allowing users access to worldwide TV programs without geographic restrictions on their desktop PCs…Full Article |
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Exposes Speedo's Olympic SwimsuitsPlayboy.com has launched an exclusive pictorial featuring Playboy models wearing technologically advanced swimsuits, for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The new feature reveals a 12-image slideshow of Speedo's official Olympic swimsuits over the past six games -- dating back to 1988 -- shot poolside at a fitness club in Chicago. The online images aim for Olympic swimming competitions from August 9-21…Full Article |
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