News roundup for NYC creatives in film video and digital media

Best news roundup for NYC creatives in film video and digital media. By Dan Ochiva Image credit: Marguerite. This image, from 3Defy's website, shows how the enjoyment of 3D and cloud processing capabilities are creating new image categories.) The Past Weeks in Review: September 19 through September 26th, 2011 This ... NYC Production & Post News

Why Toronto is a hot spot for mobile apps | Ryerson Digital Media ... By Deepi Harish ... are being developed in Toronto. “We're just at the tip of the iceberg of the explosion of new successful companies,” said Valerie Fox, director of Ryerson University's Digital Media Zone, which helps budding digital entrepreneurs get started. ... Ryerson Digital Media Zone

Digital Media Law: Excllusive: WGA East and LA County AFL-CIO ... By Jonathan Handel The latest news in the law and business of the Hollywood unions & guilds, digital media, entertainment and technology. From Jonathan Handel, Of Counsel at TroyGould in Los Angeles and Contributing Editor at the Hollywood Reporter. ... Digital Media Law

CFP: October 1 | Critical Digital Humanities By Kimberly Hall historical relationships between the avant-garde, mass media and networked digital media – Internet art and hacker culture – analog and ... framings of modernism and postmodernism through digital media theory – political action and agency ... Critical Digital Humanities

Using Digital Media in Research with Children and Young People By admin The course will cover: 1. Using digital technologies Exploring the use of a range of different technologies including: Online survey tools Social Networking Sites Other web based resources Computer games and games consoles Mobile ... Third Force News

New Journal: More About ICTs in the Egyptian and Tunisian ... By MPeterson Tunisia and Egypt were the first nations to each force a president out of office, and Western media outlets were quick to attribute their overthrow to digital media, particularly to social media and Facebook. This special section, guest-edited by ... CONNECTED in CAIRO

Kindle Fire leads Amazon onslaught (roundup) | Digital Media ... Taking direct aim at competitors like Barnes & Noble and Apple, Amazon announces three new e-readers and its first ever tablet, all priced below $200. news.cnet.com/.../kindle-fire-leads-amazon-onslaught-roundu... Kids Buying More Digital Media All Things Digital And for Amazon and Apple, and anyone else who's trying to make money selling digital media: NPD Group says that 21 cents out of every dollar kids spend on entertainment goes to “digital format content.” That's up from 2009, when 85 cents went to ... Digital media company raises $15M to monetize social photography on a mass scale VentureBeat Mooter Media, a digital media shop based in Australia, has just sealed a whopping $15 million funding deal. The money will be used to create, in development partnership with Hot Shot Media, a social photography platform that Hot Shot CEO Chris Jermyn ... ALCATEL-LUCENT : Belgacom will use Alcatel-Lucent's Digital Media Store to ... 4-traders (press release) The Digital Media Store enables operators such as Belgacom to offer consumers a personalized and interactive digital entertainment experience, tailored to their choice from the breadth of 'smart' connected devices available today and in the future. ... WHAT'S YOUR STORY? Daily Markets (NASDAQ:YHOO), the premier digital media company and BBDO today announced findings from a comprehensive joint quantitative and qualitative research study designed to establish best practices for brand storytelling in the new era of paid, ... AMWA, EBU, SMPTE Announce Groundbreaking Collaboration To Drive Future Media ... SHOOT Online ATLANTA; GENEVA; White Plains, New York, October 04, 2011 | SHOOT Publicity Wire | --- With the digital media ecosystem remaking business models and putting a greater premium on operational efficiency than ever, the industry's leading advocates for ... Apple, Amazon Intensify Fight To Provide Consumer 'Clouds' Wall Street Journal Both Apple and Amazon have head starts on rivals in the race to control digital media consumption. Amazon is the Internet's No. 1 retailer by sales. The company built massive server farms to deal with data generated by its online marketplace. ... Time Inc. Reveals Brain Study, Preliminary Data Suggests 'Digital Natives' Are ... Mediapost.com by Joe Mandese, 6 hours ago Are people who were born or grew up after the explosion of digital media options that began in the 1990s, wired to use media differently than preceding generations? It's a question that some of Madison Avenue's top research ... Focus Media expands share buyback, backs outlook BusinessWeek Chinese digital media company Focus Media Holdings Ltd. said Monday that it is increasing its US share repurchase program to $650 million from $450 million. The company also reaffirmed its guidance for the third quarter. ... FCC hosts hearing at Cronkite to discuss report on changing media landscape Downtown Devil By Carolina Lopez, on Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 | The three-panel discussion covered topics that centered on the effects digital media has had on the media industry. (Cydney McFarland/DD) Officials from the Federal Communications Commission visited ... Microsoft pulls plug on Zune digital media player Economic Times WASHINGTON: Microsoft is quietly pulling the plug on its Zune digital media player, its would-be rival to Apple's iPod. The announcement of the demise of the Zune was buried on a support page for the device. "We will no longer be producing Zune players ... Social media like Facebook. Twitter corner firms' 40% marketing budget in FY12 ... Economic Times NEW DELHI: With the growing popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, companies in India are planning to spend 30-40 per cent of marketing budget, amounting to about Rs 1200 crore, through digital media platform this fiscal, ... Postmedia Acquires Sprouter Website and Publishing Service mediacaster Through the acquisition, Toronto-based Sprouter Inc. becomes a division of Postmedia Network Inc. Sprouter was founded in 2009 by Sarah Prevette, named as one of the top digital mediaentrepreneurs in North America in 2010. Sprouter will continue to ... Advertising Week: A Contest for Premium Ad Dollars ClickZ News It's Advertising Week in New York, and as they do each year the largest digital mediacompanies have herded their top sales talent here to make the case for (what else?) more moolah. At sessions around Manhattan, but mostly clustered in Times Square, ... Breaking Through in the Age of Peak Media Huffington Post The Digital Media industry seems to be waking up to clutter's ruinous effect on advertising value. In partnership with AOL and the IPG Media Lab, we recently benchmarked the new 1/3 page, IAB Portrait unit to more prevalent smaller ad units. ... Digital agency banks on content marketing at Advertising Week Special DigitalJournal.com With the launch of Advertising Week in New York City on Monday, the digital mediaspace remains a volatile environment of experimentation and disorder; a perfect blend for those on the frontier with the stomach and the intellect to see their ... As Apple introduces iCloud, what's on the horizon for consumers? Montreal Gazette Although Amazon later admitted the move was wrong, its actions show how transient and unstabledigital media are when they are governed by remote connections to the cloud. The move to the cloud will also have implications for how we think of, ... Myspace plays up music as it woos advertisers Los Angeles Times But digital media veterans said Myspace may once again be arriving too late to the party. Facebook, which reaches 800 million users, announced last month that it had incorporated music services including Spotify, MOG and Clear Channel Communications ... NPD says kids are buying more digital media than ever | TUAW ... By Steven Sande If you're the parent of a child between the age of two and 14, you probably already know this; kids are spending more money on digital media than. TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog Kids Buying More Digital Media - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD By Peter Kafka More than 50 percent of seven-year-olds have paid for digital content (according to their parents). AllThingsD Digital Media Exchange enters into agreements with Intel and Intel ... By admin Digital Media Exchange, Inc. (DME), a company that publishes digital entertainment on the Internet, today announced that it has signed a technical and marketing agreement with Intel Semiconductor Ltd. to collaborate on optimizing DME?s ... By A Computer Digital Media and Learning Competition – 560 Parsons School of ... By Gretchen “The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, HASTAC and Mozilla announce a $2 millionDigital Media and Learning Competition for leading organizations, learning and assessment specialists, designers and technologists to create ... 560 Parsons School of Fashion DailyDOOH » Blog Archive » AAAA's Nancy Hill At Digital Media ... By Gail Chiasson You'd think with only a little more than two weeks to go, that Nancy Hill, president and CEO of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, as opening speaker of the prestigious Digital Place-Based Advertising Association's Digital ... DailyDOOH Lijit Networks is Acquired by Federated Media Publishing By John Ebbert We believe that the majority of meaningful engagements across digital media occur via high-quality independent sites and services. These sites leverage top digital talent to attract influential audiences who together create meaningful dialogue ... AdExchanger.com: Exchanging Ideas... Federated Media Grows Capabilites with Lijit ... - Digital Media Wire By Chris Marlowe Federated Media Publishing acquired online publishing monetization and analytics firm Lijit Networks, the companies announced today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lijit becomes an independently run but wholly owned ... Digital Media Wire | connecting...