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Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks

Comment Howard Greenfield, president of Go Associates, is a digital media strategist, columnist, and co-author of IPTV & Internet Video, Focal Press, 2007. It is a series of different ones working together in an integrated process that tracks digital media...

Tags: social networking, new media, ipods, tv

[19 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 15.02.08

Round-Up So the computer would then be acting as a kind of digital hub. with the new entrants because users now want to get proper entertainment on their mobile phones (and not just rubbish WAP-type content and ringtones) and actually access them in style...

Tags: microsoft, mobile, green, mobile world congress

[15 Feb 2008]

Geography lessons for online retailers

Comment Geolocation can be used for delivering customised content, targeted ads, web analytics, digital rights management and regulatory compliance. Geolocation can block online gamblers from restricted countries while it can also be used to deliver...

Tags: geolocation, sales, customer loyalty, online retail

[09 Jan 2008]

Bill Gates Q&A: On why 'it's all about software'

Comment In an interview just ahead of his farewell speech at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Bill Gates spoke to silicon.com sister site CNET News.com about competitors, the future of DVD and why all of those seamless connections between digital...

Tags: bill gates, ces, vista, entertainment

[08 Jan 2008]

Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier

Comment These deals and others have paved the way for new commercial tools and a generation of end-users making corporate digital media the lingua franca of the next decade. The US National Football League (NFL) expects to see $900m from digital media...

Tags: new media, convergence, video, internet

[29 Nov 2007]

Where's the real web 2.0?

Comment Content is hailed a king but given the potential for anyone to produce anything in any digital media, whatever their artistic ability or quality, how will it be possible to sort wheat from chaff? Evenings in front of the PC might be a fun social...

Tags: user generated content, content, web 2.0

[18 Oct 2007]

Ashley Highfield

AS Profile He continues to drive forward the BBC's digital strategy through initiatives such as free on-demand TV programmes, available over the internet, and user-generated content. While other broadcasters - perhaps Rupert Murdoch aside - struggle to adapt...

[12 Oct 2007]

Web 2.0 and the public sector

Web 2.0 and the public sector

Comment There must also be concerns about digital exclusion. User-generated content, online collaboration and diverse forms of community interaction have implications for political engagement, policy development, service delivery and operational efficiency.

[11 Oct 2007]

Location, location, location...

Comment The global digital age has had a profound impact on consumer access to maps, which are becoming an intrinsic part of everyday life. Data content Is it polygons - for example, boundaries - or point data, such as co-ordinate locations?

Tags: gps, mapping, lbs, rfid

[09 Oct 2007]

Television 2.0 cometh

Comment Integrating components like these and the DSLAM (digital subscriber line access multiplexer - which generates the DSL signals and places them onto the pair of copper wires, or local loop, leading to each home) with brand new middleware is a...

Tags: internet video, quadruple play, iptv

[04 Jul 2007]

The hard reality of virtual world litigation

Comment Setting itself apart from other creators and operators of virtual worlds, Linden announced in late 2003 that it would recognise full intellectual property protection for the digital content created and owned by participants in Second Life.

Tags: litigation, second life, virtual worlds

[14 Jun 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: NGNs - real or imaginary?

Comment And in the next phase of NGN excitement we will see a hybrid mix of digital-analogue operation that will eradicate much of the electronic content, leading once more to further dramatic improvements and cost reductions.

Tags: ngn

[02 May 2007]

Upwardly Mobile: Why mobile DRM must die

Comment The upshot of which is, with a little bit of fiddly sideloading, consumers can now get the music they want without the digital rights management they don't and still get it cheaper than the mobile companies themselves offer.

Tags: iphone, emi, apple, drm

[01 May 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: My changing TV habits

Comment There, we saw the arrival of CATV, VHS, satcom, DVD and Freeview (Digital TV to Air). IPTV is gradually taking over my viewing time as conventional TV content seems to be declining in quality and relevance.

Tags: tv, iptv

[30 Apr 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is web 2.0 doomed to fail?

Comment Unfortunately most of the world has made the dumbest of decisions and opted for ADSL, or asymmetric digital subscriber line. User-generated content dominates I do believe the business models to support user-generated content will ultimately emerge...

Tags: broadband, web 2.0, adsl

[23 Apr 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 20.04.07

Round-Up User-generated content - such as amateur digital videos, podcasts, wikis and blogs - will have a massive impact on the film, advertising, music, publishing, radio and TV industries, the terrified executives have predicted.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[20 Apr 2007]

Leader: Why we keep our eye on the iPod

Leader Think of the arguments over DRM - the iPod became central to rows over digital rights management and then for the music industry's decision to dump its self-imposed restrictions on digital content. DRM has long been a monkey on the back of digital...

Tags: apple, ipod

[11 Apr 2007]

Minority Report: Should Apple set its music free?

Comment EMI can now lay claim to be a pioneer in the global digital music market by dispensing with the DRM on content. Speaking at the event, Jobs said he expected more than half the songs on iTunes to be sold without DRM, or digital rights management, by...

Tags: steve jobs, emi, apple, drm

[11 Apr 2007]

Leader: Why BBC needs to be in top gear for world 2.0

Leader That the BBC has a Future Media and Technology department shows the digital age is not something the BBC is taking lightly. With the YouTube deal, the BBC is working with a giant of web 2.0, which will bring the corporation's content to an even...

Tags: youtube, new media, web 2.0, future

[05 Mar 2007]

Leader: Consumer tech is changing the enterprise

Leader silicon.com certainly saw some cool gadgets - from a robot cleaner and the world's largest LCD screen (108 inches) to a digital sewing machine - and witnessed more of the Betamax-type format wars between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.

Tags: consumerisation

[11 Jan 2007]

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