Amazon unveiled its new "video on demand" service today, just three days after Netflix and Microsoft announced that they'd make 10,000 movies available for streaming via the Xbox 360, confirming that an all-out war is underway for the next big shift in movie/TV viewing habits. Amazon's program...
Last week I wrote about brain maintenance, and it seems like I'm not the only one with gray matter on my mind. An Associated Press article about the growing market for "brain fitness" revealed that software to train your brain resulted in $225 million in revenues in 2007. That's a...
He'd said he was going to go at the end of June, and as good as his word, Sir Alan Sugar's given over the day-to-day running of Amstrad to plain Alun Webber, the managing director. The Hackney-born entrepreneur founded Amstrad at 21 and last year sold the...
Disintermediation. There's a term you probably haven't heard much since the '90s. But the idea of eliminating the middleman is alive and well in the media industry, circa 2008, even if we don't talk about it in exactly those terms these days. While traditional journalism debates --...
Seth MacFarlane, who helms Fox's raunchy cartoon Family Guy, and Google announced a new plan for advertising today, as reported in the New York Times. The plan will see MacFarlane creating a series of animated shorts, titled for now "Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy," that will be placed via...
Russia's third-placed search and portal operator Rambler is to launch a major TV and movie site - described to me as a "Russian Hulu" - as the basis of its video advertising effort, as Russia's broadband population booms. Currently in beta and due to launch by September/October, Rambler Kinozal...
By Alexandria Sage SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc WMT presented a colorful, casual line of youthful looks for kids and teens on Saturday at a fashion show that previewed the mass-market chain's new low-cost offerings for back to school. The world's...
Seven Network Ltd has pointed to a possible successor for chief executive David Leckie after it announced a range of senior management appointments.Mr Leckie announced on Tuesday a series of changes to the company's management structure, which he said "reflects Seven Media Group's increasing integration across broadcast television with...
If Mark Wattles pulls off a deal to acquire Circuit City, by looking at his last two companies -- Hollywood Entertainment and Ultimate Electronics -- we can garner some strong clues how the company might right itself. by Lisa Everitt
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg, in a television interview on Tuesday, reiterated the company's goal to close its planned acquisition of Alltel by the end of the year. "The end of the year looks like a good...
The Seven Network says it's confident of holding its number one position in television advertising revenue in the second half of the year and into 2009.According to figures released by the industry body Free TV Australia on Tuesday, Seven captured 39.13 per cent of ad revenue across the five...
TiVo, which made DVRs mainstream and caused untold ulcers within the ad world thanks to the handy feature of being able to skip ads, announced a new deal today with TRA Inc. to bring better metrics for those interested in making TV media buys. From the press release: Through...
To date, IPTV services have consisted of two types of services; broadcasting a bouquet of Television TV channels; and offering Video on Demand episodes of TV programmes and, more recently, feature films. A large number of different players are seeking to enter the IPTV market and are doing so from...
GCI, General Communication is Alaska's largest competitive local exchange carrier CLEC, providing high speed data, cable television and wireline voice services. GCI needed to overhaul most all of its systems when it decided to transfer its customers from analog phone service to Digital Local Phone Service DLPS in order to...
Cox Communications has been providing cable television service throughout the San Diego metropolitan area. To keep this massive system operational 24 / 7, Cox relies upon over 1,000 Generac standby gensets - approximately 800 of which are rated at 7.5 kilowatts, with the remainder being smaller 3 kilowatt units. Most...
Taking a good home office and ramping it up to be a truly great one, whether that means one that increases productivity or simply is a more pleasant place to be, often can boil down to a few simple steps. If you have a spare TV, make sure it goes...
Today's audiences have very short attention spans. They are stimulation junkies with limited interest levels. Their television habits have coined a new term - channel surfing. With the advent of remote control no one watches anything that stands still enough to bore. Click, switch, fast forward, record and mute give...
Columbia TriStar, part of the Sony Pictures group is one of the UK's foremost motion pictures distributors. In October 2003, Columbia wanted to raise awareness of the Bad Boys 2 film release, particularly amongst their key target audience, 15-24 year old males. The challenge was to match the effectiveness of...
The Hon. John Olsen, Minister for Industry and Manufacturing for the South Australian Government, announced to radio and television audiences the beginning of the Garden East Project in to Adelaide, South Australia. The project is the largest GeoExchange installation anywhere in Australia. The goal is reducing the expense establishing new...
You've got a great, major presentation, and suddenly you're asked if you can get your message across in five minutes! Don't panic. For today's television generation, sound bites can be more powerful than lengthy dissertations. This paper explains how to compress your speech say it with fewer words and without...
