Streaming future still bright for Netflix

Magid on Tech: Streaming future still bright for Netflix, users despite company's ...
San Jose Mercury News
"... At $8 a month ($96 a year) Netflix is a bargain compared to the various options available from cable and satellite companies. However, Amazon Prime, at $79 a year, is also a good deal especially if you shop at Amazon.com and take advantage of free two-day shipping on items fulfilled directly by Amazon (items shipped by Amazon partner stores don't always qualify for free shipping). . . ."

YouTube's Face-Blurring Technology Enables Anonymity ...
By Adi Kamdar
YouTube recently unveiled a new face blurring tool that lets users choose to conceal every face in a video they have uploaded. This is a commendable step towards fostering anonymous speech on the Internet. Activists around the world rely ...


No shortage of Olympic coverage is available on TV, Net
Pocono Record
For the first time, all Olympics events will be available for live viewing on the Internet – the only catch is you have to be an authenticated digital cable or satellite dish TV subscriber, but most people are these days. A maximum of 40 ... It is sort of like the NCAA March Madness experiment, where every men's basketball tournament game from the early rounds was available online, only there's 10 full weekdays in play here and not just two early afternoons – that should have employers worried about work productivity.


Mass Relevance to Provide Social Media Integration for NBCUniversal's ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The announcement was made today by Richard Cordella, SVP & GM, Digital Media, NBC Sports Group and Sam Decker, CEO and co-founder, Mass Relevance. NBC Sports in conjunction with Mass Relevance will be integrating comprehensive social media ...

So many ways to get your Games on - online, on TV and more
Philadelphia Inquirer
Adding insult to (potential) injury, NBC execs face an Internet-centric world where news travels instantly, secrets are impossible to keep and today's younger audience consumes media on nontraditional platforms. ... to the max — with its Xfinity service lineup of nine Olympics channels plus a regularly updated selection of video-on-demand content that will build to more than 1000 hours — "all from a front-row seat that you can't even get in London," said senior VP for digitaland emerging platforms Matt Strauss.

paidContent turns 10: A brief history of digital media
paidContent.org
We do — that was that state of digital media when paidContent launched in 2002. Other weird things were happening back then too: People still got much of their news from television and newspapers, and they learned about major events after they had ...

EMU Football Digital Media Guide Now Available Online
EMU Eagles
2012 EMU Football Media Guide. Click Here to View the Media Guide. YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) — The 2012 Eastern Michigan University Football Digital Media Guide is now available online at EMUEagles.com. Designed in full color for the web, ...

CBS Outdoor's Outernet and GameStop TV Partner with Arbitron for Monthly ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The integration of custom surveys with chain wide transaction data provides GameStop with some of the most reliable audience metrics in the digital media marketplace. "With a number ofdigital out-of-home research projects planned in 2012, Arbitron is ...

TECHNOLOGY: Media groups jostle for slice of internet TV
Business Day
CONTENT may be king, but the delivery platform is King Kong. Rarely has this oft-repeated maxim of the media industry seemed more relevant than the past week. The launch of a new wave of internet TV services has highlighted the intensifying battle for ...

Since Times Picayune paper cuts, New Orleans on digital media steroids
Bayoubuzz
Ever since the Times Picayune announced its move to a major digital platform for its NOLA.com operation, the media community has virtually gone haywire with rumors, collaborations and announcements. Times-Picayune announced it will ... The mission of the newly formed New Orleans Digital News Alliance is to connect independent digital news organizations for the benefit of our readers and to strengthen and promote sustainable, up-to-the-minute onlinejournalism in New Orleans. The founding members of the ...

#London2012 preview: Let the digital games begin! (video)
Siliconrepublic.com
From 3D TV to dedicated apps, interactive websites to social media, the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games promise to be one of the worldís biggest ever events in digital media. Even the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is backing online sharing of ...

VOPED Online Video Platform Chosen by Spain's Wydder Media Center for ...
Broadcast Newsroom
Through VOPED's technology, the Wydder online video venture will offer a broad library of free, legal Hollywood films, initially in Spain, on the web and mobile devices and will include integration with social media sites. ... VOPED offers the most robust video platform on the market, with features including Digital Rights Management, Pay Per View, live streaming, video on-demand, ad serving, social integration, end user management, delivery to connected devices, and full system white labeling for resellers, among ...

Raycom Media Standardizes on Harris Corporation Selenio(TM) Media ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Raycom Media, among the largest U.S. broadcasters, has selected Harris Corporation's Selenio(TM) media convergence platform to exclusively upgrade over-the-air digital broadcast signal encoding services at 43 TV stations. The transition will deliver new ...

Glitches delay pay TV launch
New Zealand Herald
Igloo will offer a "Sky-lite" package of 11 channels including Food TV to National Geographic Channel, Kidzone24 and Comedy Central, delivered on a digital terrestrial platform. It will stream films and TV episodes from the internet straight to TV sets, ...

Amazon gets creative in London
InternetRetailer.com
The online shopping giant will make the U.K. the global hub of its film and TV offerings. Amazon... “London is a hotbed of tech talent, and testament to that fact is Amazon choosing the capital as the location for the new global Digital Media Development Centre,” says Paula Byrne, managing director of the facility in London. “Innovation is part of the Amazon DNA and we are creating a British center of excellence to design and develop the next generation of TV and film services for a wide range of digital devices.” ...

The Conversation Report: A Banking Industry Social Media Study
The Financial Brand
In an effort to earn back their trust, some financial institutions have adopted social mediachannels in an effort to connect and engage with consumers. Social Media Explorer, a digital media marketing agency, wanted to evaluate this approach and see if it's ...

Social TV Analytics Startup Bluefin Labs Hires Former Razorfish Chief JP Maheu ...
TechCrunch
Over the past year and a half, social TV analytics company Bluefin Labs has gone from being a stealth startup to becoming an invaluable provider of research for TV networks, brands, and agencies who want to delve into the social conversations that are ...

Manhattan Research Releases New Research Exploring Digital Physician ...
MarketWatch (press release)
This research explores how physicians use digital media and devices for professional purposes and pharma interaction, with the objective of helping global marketers assess opportunities for providing content, services and support to physicians online. Additional countries tracked include the U.S., ... Sixty percent of online physicians in Turkey access theInternet between patient consultations, most often utilizing drug reference databases and government resources. -- Demand for pharma online promotional ...

SA crying out for an online currency
Bizcommunity.com
If you compare it to recruiting for a TV panel, you're looking at getting 10 online panellists for every 1000 calls you make, where TV is more like two to four panellists for every 10 approached. "An online panel captures everything ... The time is now ripe to engage the Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA), which has been a member of SAARF for a number of years, on the need to create an independent currency for online comparable to those of radio, television and print. Clare O'Neil, Chairperson of the ...

The rise of social care 'e-services'
The Guardian
Digital communication and social media provide new ways of connecting professionals with each other, and with their clients, while recent years have seen the introduction of "e-services", where support and information is available online. For example, Swedish ... The study found social workers used the internet and mobile technology for information, research and communication while virtually all used email to contact their clients, with mobile phone calls and text messaging also commonplace. But Johanna ...

The Guardian

Twitter is a game changer for Olympics coverage
Chicago Tribune
Much of the TV network's Olympics programming will be as it has been for more than a half-century, including the tape-delayed prime-time coverage carefully packaged for maximum drama and reach. ... James Webster, a professor of communication studies at Northwestern University who has written extensively on changing media consumption patterns across digital platforms, has seen Twitter's water-cooler effect work to boost viewership as people tip their friends to something they've seen or expect to see.

DreamWorks takes aim at China with $155M acquisition of Classic Media
Rapid tv news
DreamWorks is buying children's content producer Classic Media for $155 million, a move that CEO Jeffrey Katzenburg said is part of a strategy to expand the animation studio's presence in China, particularly in TV and digital media. "It adds a whole other set ...

Apple wins patent for Cover Flow media selection GUI
Apple Insider
8230360 for a "User interface for selection from media collection" describes the basic idea of selecting media through Cover Flow, Apple's solution to browsing through and selecting from large collections of digital media by using corresponding images like album ... The filing's illustrations almost exclusively feature what appears to be the original Apple TV interface while the corresponding literature makes a point to mention the patent covers a number of devices and consumption of media from a variety of sources.

Global social media revenue to hit USUS$16.9bn in 2012 – the dawn of social ...
Siliconrepublic.com
Usage of online social media has matured and more than 1bn people worldwide will use social media this year. Global social media revenue is forecast to reach US$16.9bn in 2012, up 43.1pc from 2011 revenue of US$11.8bn, according to Gartner.

Siliconrepublic.com

Vizio Co-Star: Is Google TV finally going Prime-Time?
Network World
I wanted to like Google TV. Who wouldn't want to be able to watch Internet video, normal television, and use their HDTV as the world's biggest Web browser. There was just one problem. The various Google TV implementations, such as the Logitech Revue, ...

Network World

Satellite TV boom to continue
Advanced Television
The number of pay DTH homes for 80 countries covered in a Digital TV Research report will be 220 million by end-2017, up from 154 million at end-2011 and 91 million at end-2007. India will lead the sector with 50.9 million pay DTH homes in 2017, followed ...

Virgin Media Launches The Dark Knight App for TiVo
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
If you haven't encountered Virgin Media's TiVo service before; it is a new way of experiencing dtv (digital tv). Users can watch ordinary TV, catch-up TV, on-demand movies and use web applications such as Twitter. Also they can pause and rewind live TV and ...

TV Ad Makers Earn More Super-PAC Millions for Less Work
Bloomberg
“The media-buying business at the top end of the spectrum is as incestuous as any other business that pushes considerable sums of money,” Glenn Totten, a Democratic mediaconsultant, said in an interview. “The fact is that ... It spent $18 million this election cycle through June, including $12.3 million to Mundy Katowitz Media Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based mediaplacement company, and more than $1.7 million to New York-based Global Strategy Group and an affiliated group for research and digital consulting.

Russian TV to go on air in Cambodia
The Voice of Russia
The Cambodian digital broadcasting system of ONE TV differs slightly from that of Russia, Russia's Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media Alexei Malinin, who arrived in Bangkok to attend the opening ceremony, said in an interview with the ...

The Voice of Russia

Hot 97 Re-launches New Hot 97 TV
All Access Music Group
EMMIS Top 40/Rhythmic WQHT (HOT 97)/NEW YORK has re-launched its HOT 97 TV as an online and mobile destination for original web series, celebrity content, concerts and music videos. This will be ... By curating high quality original content and rich entertainment experiences for our audience online and over mobile, we are able to connect and engage hundreds of thousands of viewers in an authentic way across all media platforms and reinforce HOT 97 as the dominant lifestyle brand in Hip Hop." HOT 97 TV ...

What Makes A Website Social Media-Friendly?
Business 2 Community
Nowadays, search engines are not the only sources of online businesses; social media also plays a big role in the promotion of services/products for an online brand. Both the platforms are internally connected to each other and by focusing on both of them; ...

Online sponsorship battle hits games
Financial Times
The four years since the last summer Olympics have ushered in a new era of digital media. Facebook has 900m users, up from 100m in 2008. Twitter has 140m users, up from 6m in 2008. Other popular social media programmes, such as Pinterest, Instagram, ...

TV Executives Debate Retrans Rules in Congressional Hearing
Hollywood Reporter
Several top executives at media companies came with with prepared remarks expressing vehement disagreement on whether the law that defines the modern TV industry needs to be updated. ... Abdoulah, chairwoman of the American Cable Association and CEO of Wow, pointed to what she thinks are flaws of the existing rules regime, including how pay-TV operators are "forced...by the media giants" to tie and bundle channels and how big content providers have limited access to online video distribution rights.

Note: New Design, Functionality for MetsBlog & SNY.TV | MetsBlog ...
By Matthew Cerrone
The idea was that, as I read stories about the team online, I would (b)log my findings and relay my thoughts to other fans who found it interesting. In 2007, I partnered with SportsNet New ...Earlier this year, SNY made me their Director of Digital Media, which will allow me to further grow MetsBlog.com, while also recommending and managing changes to design, audio, video and editorial strategies across their entire digital business… not just MetsBlog. In the next few days, we will be ...
MetsBlog.com

Mass Relevance To Provide Social Media Integration For ...
By Amber Quist
The announcement was made today by Richard Cordella, SVP & GM, Digital Media, NBC Sports Group and Sam Decker, CEO and co-founder, Mass Relevance. NBC Sports in conjunction with Mass Relevance will be integrating ... The goal of the site is to bring all Olympic social mediaconversations into a single online destination for fans, onlookers and athletes to interact and track the events in real-time. Trending topics, athlete content, social buzz and online activity about the 2012 ...
Mass Relevance

Trivone launches Khelnama.com, India's first online sports community
By gandhiclass
Trivone Digital Services, India's fastest growing digital media and content company has launched khelnama.com, India's first online sports community that provides news, views and insights across multiple sports activities, be it global and local. Khelnama.com will expand the ...At the core of Trivone's strategy is the ability to create world-class content and leverage it to builddigital media properties, on web and social media and offer managed services to clients. Currently Trivone offers ...
Trivone Blog

Linhart PR | Digital Media News from the Week
By Krista Flock
Check out the stories that the Linhart Digital team deemed top news from the past week. ... We specialize in consumer PR, corporate communications, reputation management, social media,digital strategy and employee engagement. Client Workroom; Email Us · RSS ... In fact, about 91 percent of teachers in the U.S. have access to computers in the classrooms, according to data highlighted in a new infographic by Australian-based online course company Open Colleges. HootSuite ...
Linhart PR

NASA TV around Curiosity landing- ExploreMars
By exploremars
The NASA TV Media Channel and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 will carry an uninterrupted, clean feed. NASA television. NASA Television is available in continental North America, Alaska and Hawaii ... For digital downlink information for each NASA TV channel, access to all three channels online, and a schedule of programming for Mars Science Laboratory activities, visithttp://www.nasa.gov/ntv. Internet Information. follow Curiosity on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity ...
ExploreMars

Ericsson supports Terra for 3D and HD delivery of Olympic Games in ...
By admin
Our target is to deliver one of the world's most popular sports events reliably, hiding the huge complexity of video contribution, distribution and transmission from viewers so they can sit back and simply enjoy the action on TV, PCs or mobile devices. ... Chosen one of the “2011 Most Innovative Companies” in the world by American magazine Fast Company, Terra is one of the 30 top digital media companies in the world and throughout its 12-year history, the company has revolutionized ...
Nearshore Journal

Microsoft Fix it for erroneously weak signal messages in Windows 7 ...
By TDL
Occasionally when using Windows Media Center you may get a message saying there is a Weak TV Signal and you can't watch the channel despite you knowing you have a good signal. This is a bug and can be fixed via Microsoft's Fix it ...
The Digital Lifestyle.com

PNI Digital Media Announces Departure of Zack Wickes ...
The PNI Digital Media Platform connects consumer-ordered digital content, whether from online, in-store kiosks, desktop software or mobile phones, with ...
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