• Chicago web writers become first to unionize

    Updated: 2010-08-31 17:22:11
    Broadcasting & Cable reports that the Writers Guild of America East has signed its first Web-only writers and producers. Four webbies from Chicago’s CBS affiliate, WBBM-TV, joined the union. B&C notes that the WGAE will likely have to organize Web writers shop by shop. From the WGAE release:  “This victory for web writers demonstrates that even [...] Related posts:Chicago hyperlocal launches today

  • OwnSkin Launches Live Wallpaper Tool for Android Phones

    Updated: 2010-08-31 15:15:46
    The developer of OwnSkin.com announced the creation of a free Live Wallpaper user generation tool for Android phones. The tool (available at http://www.ownskin.com/livewallpaper) provides a simple solution for SkinLet filled wallpapers to personalize individual mobile phones. SkinLet is an active...

  • Free iPhone App Helps Drivers Beat the Traffic

    Updated: 2010-08-31 15:07:55
    INRIX launched a free app, INRIX Traffic!, for the iPhone and iPod Touch in Europe. Available for immediate download from the Apple App Store, INRIX Traffic! is a community-powered traffic app that uniquely helps drivers reduce the amount of time...

  • EZ-Remote Joystick for Fingertip Control in Tractor Cabs

    Updated: 2010-08-31 15:03:10
    Trimble introduced the new EZ-Remote joystick for improved operator efficiency and comfort in the tractor cab. The convenient accessory mounts quickly on virtually any tractor console. The EZ-Remote joystick can improve operator reaction time and ergonomics, providing an even more...

  • TH(i)NQ Ed Launches Android App for journ(i)e

    Updated: 2010-08-31 14:53:37
    TH(i)NQ Ed launched of journ(i)e mobile, a free Android application for K-12 students and teachers who are using the Company's student-centered learning network, journ(i)e. journ(i)e mobile enables users to access the student-centered learning network via their mobile smartphone, providing greater...

  • NeoTV HD Media Players Play Any Content on HDTVs

    Updated: 2010-08-31 14:49:32
    NETGEAR announced the NeoTV 350 HD and NeoTV 550 Ultimate HD Media Players as the flagship products in the NETGEAR AV Series. The NeoTV HD Media Players enable users to play their digital videos, photos, or music directly on their...

  • Dual Paraboloid Reflector Technology for Search Light Applications

    Updated: 2010-08-31 14:31:01
    Wavien and TaYih announced that TaYih Industrial has licensed Wavien's Dual Paraboloid Reflector (DPR) technology for use in ultra-narrow beam, high output search lights. This new search light design produces a high intensity, narrow beam of light while extending lamp...

  • New Blu-ray Player From Onkyo Offers Blockbuster

    Updated: 2010-08-31 14:25:24
    Blockbuster reports that Onkyo's newest Blu-ray player, the BD-SP808 will offer BLOCKBUSTER On Demand. The model will be rolled out in electronics stores nationwide, adding to a list of more than 85 consumer electronic devices that have integrated the service...

  • Games & Interaktives Fernsehen: Zusammenbringen, was zusammengehört?

    Updated: 2010-08-31 07:30:32
    Die Computerspielemesse Gamescom hat vor einer Woche die Pforten geschlossen, die IFA 2010 steht kurz vor der Tür und die Deutsche Telekom sucht mit dem Interactive TV Award seit Anfang des Monats wieder nach innovativen Ideen, das Fernsehen der Zukunft weiterzuentwickeln. Was das alles miteinander zu tun hat? Nun, wenn ich die auf der Gamescom vorgestellten [...]

  • ATSC-MH Demodulator Core for the U.S. Mobile DTV

    Updated: 2010-08-30 16:56:25
    Iberium Communications, a provider of digital television (DTV) demodulation intellectual property, has made available its Santana digital demodulator core for the U.S. mobile DTV market. The core is fully compliant with the mobile DTV standard ATSC-MH (A/153) ratified in October...

  • Guide Aimed at Resolving Common Issues with Two-Way Radio Systems

    Updated: 2010-08-30 16:50:37
    To help companies reduce costly repair fees, prevent productivity loss, and maintain a safe workplace environment, the premier provider of radio communication systems for both government and business, Discount Two-Way Radio, has released two tutorials designed to help companies maintain...

  • iPad App for WestlawNext

    Updated: 2010-08-30 16:42:35
    Thomson Reuters has optimized its new legal research system, WestlawNext, for iPad users. The iPad offers exciting capabilities for the lawyer on the go—greater portability than a laptop and a large, high-resolution Multi-Touch display that makes it far more functional...

  • Seahawks Utilize Tablet Kiosks

    Updated: 2010-08-30 16:34:11
    The Seattle Seahawks used iPad kiosks to register more than 20,000 fans for the team's 15 open practices at Bing Training Camp in Renton, Wash. The iPads and kiosks from BeyondKiosks provided the team flexibility for the satellite check-in location....

  • Microlite Illuminates Remote Controls in the Dark

    Updated: 2010-08-30 16:20:10
    This new product is for those who fumble in the dark with your remote control and pressing the wrong buttons every time you watch TV in the dark or dim lighting. A Hawaii company has introduced an ingenious new micro-sized...

  • 1/6.5-Inch HD Video Camera for Home Entertainment and Portable Media

    Updated: 2010-08-30 16:09:28
    OmniVision introduced the OV9740, a 1/6.5-inch system-on-a-chip (SOC) CMOS image sensor designed for highly demanding video applications in portable media players (PMP), home entertainment devices and notebooks. Because all image quality tuning and processing is done on-chip, the OV9740 enables...

  • Sena Keyboard Folio Case Perfect Fit for iPad

    Updated: 2010-08-30 15:48:38
    Sena Cases has designed a new high-end leather Folio Keyboard case for the Apple iPad with integrated Bluetooth keyboard. Made from the finest quality European leather, the new Sena Keyboard Folio masters the marriage of style and function. The Sena...

  • WinEstimator Introduces Custom Integration

    Updated: 2010-08-27 17:23:29
    On Center Software announces a takeoff software integration developed by current business partner WinEstimator, Inc. The new software integration will give WinEst users direct access to On Center Software's On-Screen Takeoff for a fast, efficient estimating tool. The custom integration...

  • Yahoo preparing local content efforts

    Updated: 2010-08-27 00:17:55
    In Search of the Future of Local News Search Search : for Go Home Jobs Twitter iPhone RSS About Yahoo preparing local content efforts By Cory Bergman August 26, 2010 Post a comment Tweet : Update Yahoo is looking to hire local editors in San Jose , Chicago and Dallas in addition to San Francisco and New York , reports PaidContent Even MORE competition in local news It looks like it . Fresh off its acquisition of Associated Content , Yahoo is reaching out to find writers living in or near the San Francisco area to write compelling , local content , 8221 reports Alan Mutter of Newsosaur . In email to Associated Content’s registered users , Yahoo is looking for writers to cover highlights of your favorite neighborhood destinations to metro-wide , first-person reporting assignments covering

  • Reach Media Group goes Out-of-Home with Cardinal Health and Everwell

    Updated: 2010-08-26 21:00:25
    In Search of the Future of Local News Search Search : for Go Home Jobs Twitter iPhone RSS About Reach Media Group goes Out-of-Home with Cardinal Health and Everwell By David Weinfeld August 26, 2010 Post a comment Tweet Reach Media Group continues to position itself as one of the top companies in the digital out-of-home media sector . In addition to expanding its DOOH footprint via strategic acquisitions , the Kleiner Perkins backed startup is forging lucrative advertising partnerships with network operators in key vertical markets . The company just cemented two national advertising sales relationships with major networks in the healthcare . sector RMG  secured an exclusive advertising sales agreement with Cardinal Health RMG will assume the national advertising sales responsibilities for

  • How will we control the television of tomorrow? From the usability labs of Entertain

    Updated: 2010-08-25 09:16:00
    Interview / What marks out an application as being convenient and enjoyable to use? Product Manager and usability specialist Artur Witt gives a few insights in this interview about how Entertain is being adapted to meet the audience’s requirements and tells us about his most easy-to-use experience. > DEUTSCH “Television in tune with our lives” – What [...]

  • Borrell predicts strong local advertising growth

    Updated: 2010-08-24 18:45:25
    In Search of the Future of Local News Search Search : for Go Home Jobs Twitter iPhone RSS About Borrell predicts strong local advertising growth By Cory Bergman August 24, 2010 Post a comment Tweet Borrell Associates has published its online advertising forecast for 2011, and as you might expect , it predicts continued strong growth in local . The fastest-growing segments of online advertising are the local sector , anything targeted , and everything involving social media , 8221 Borrell explains , pinning the local growth at 18 percent next year , to 16.1 . billion The big driver will be targeted display such as banner ads advertising , which we expect to grow almost 60 in 2011, reaching 10.9 billion for national and local combined . While national advertisers will increase their use of

  • PaperG signs more local media partners

    Updated: 2010-08-23 23:43:32
    In Search of the Future of Local News Search Search : for Go Home Jobs Twitter iPhone RSS About PaperG signs more local media partners By Cory Bergman August 23, 2010 Post a comment Tweet The local self-serve platform PaperG which features a virtual bulletin board ad unit called Flyerboard , 8221 has signed on a bunch more local media partners : Los Angeles Times , MediaNews Group , Lee Enterprises , and the Sun Times Media Group . That puts PaperG on over 100 sites and a rather steep growth curve . Reports TechCrunch The Houston Chronicle , which debuted their Flyerboard widget last year , reported 100,000 in new sales in their first month of using the product . As more partners come on board and at a 20-30 share rate that translates into strong revenues for PaperG . According to the

  • Apple’s upcoming iTV and local television

    Updated: 2010-08-23 20:43:42
    In Search of the Future of Local News Search Search : for Go Home Jobs Twitter iPhone RSS About Apple’s upcoming iTV and local television By Cory Bergman August 23, 2010 Post a comment Tweet Under the headline , Why the Apple iTV will change everything Digg’s Kevin Rose posted a glowing forecast of the next-generation Apple TV device , which is due out as early as next month . Rose said it will likely have an app store that’s similar to the iPhone iPad , which means you could punch up your ABC app on your TV and watch Lost” in 720p . Same goes for local TV stations that offer their own video apps . Rose also writes that the iPad will turn into one big badass remote control” that lets you control the iTV and extend the viewing experience , like watching other camera . angles This will

  • Video Killed the TV Star

    Updated: 2010-08-16 15:20:28
    Zugeschaltet / Das Leben gibt der Technologie seinen ganz eigenen Takt vor. Unser Gastautor Bertram Gugel sieht das an der Zuschauer-Wanderung - weg vom Fernsehen, hin zu Online-Videos. Seine Sicht auf unser Wettbewerbsmotto “Fernsehen, wie wir leben” ist geprägt durch seine jahrelange Beschäftigung mit der Entwicklung des Fernsehens - dokumentiert in seinem Blog “Digitaler Film”. [...]

  • Video Killed the TV Star - English version

    Updated: 2010-08-16 15:19:00
    Switched on / Life dictates the rhythm of technology. Our guest author Bertram Gugel sees this in audience migration – away from the TV and toward online videos. His view on our competition motto “Television in tune with our lives” is shaped by the many years he has spent studying the development of television – [...]

  • Bass & Improv

    Updated: 2010-08-16 08:09:59
    Liebe Freunde des Fernsehens von morgen, erst ein wenig Bass macht manche Dinge richtig gut. Das gilt auch für den Interactive TV Award. Denn als Wettbewerb um Innovationen, meinen wir, braucht er einen Resonanzboden. Etwas, was entsteht, wenn viele findige Leute Erfahrungen austauschen, Debatten führen und Ideen fortspinnen. Kurz: der Austausch macht‘s, und das ist genau die Stelle, [...]

  • The Elevator Pitch

    Updated: 2010-08-12 20:22:44
    : News Interviews Mobile Production Industry Announcements About Us Announcements Contact Blog Home page The Elevator Pitch The Elevator Pitch I think more about the elevator pitch these days , partly because of my networking group but mostly since I am working on developing a SaaS medical platform with my partner and our coach is drilling the importance of refining our message , in all . forms So when I got a call one Saturday morning around 10:30am from an unknown gentleman I was concentrating more on my driving then his message which rambled . I forgot his name but he launched into his pitch , I came across you on Media-Match and I am a camera operator editor and developing or have developed a multi-cultural dance program . This is where he wandered off the road and started asking me

Current Feed Items | Previous Months Items

Jul 2010 | Jun 2010 | May 2010 | Apr 2010 | Mar 2010 | Feb 2010