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Media Company Achieves Low-Cost Enterprise Licensing Through SAM

whitepaper A major entertainment company was poised to negotiate a global enterprise software licensing agreement with Microsoft, and wanted to begin discussions with a detailed and accurate picture of its software assets worldwide.

Tags: monitoring systems

[15 May 2008]

Major Media Company Saves Power Costs and Space While Improving Performance With Sun Fire T1000 Servers

whitepaper PlanetOut Inc.is the leading global media and entertainment company exclusively serving the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender (LGBT) community. The company wanted refresh and consolidate application infrastructure to provide scalability...

Tags: sun solaris

[06 May 2008]

Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: NBC the Biggest Loser

whitepaper NBC Universal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Although there was no time for a drawn-out campaign, NBC...

Tags: multimedia

[02 May 2008]

Satyam spices up silver screen with latest effects

News The division, based in Chennai, specialises in animation and has already put cartoon series on TV screens, both for entertainment and education. He said: "We have a contract with a German entertainment studio 4K animation to do one Hollywood film a...

Tags: hollywood, bpo, india

[29 Apr 2008]

Media and Entertainment: Launching a Powerful, Global Multimedia Portal

whitepaper Television Broadcast Limited (TVB) enhanced and re-launched its three-year-old World Wide Web site to better address the needs of its devoted audience and provide a global Chinese-language portal. TVB.com required a Web platform that was open...

Tags: portals, compaq, world wide, compaq proliant

[10 Apr 2008]

Recession fears squeeze tech budgets

Recession fears squeeze tech budgets

News Tony Johnson, IT director, Navvi Entertainment Group A crash in the global markets this week caused economic panic and heightened fears the UK and other economies are heading for the toughest year for more than a decade.

Tags: credit crunch, cio jury, recession, budgets

[24 Jan 2008]

Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time

News Entertainment and Devices unit head, Robbie Bach, joined Gates on stage to talk Xbox and Zune, among other things. In automotive news, Gates will tout the fact Ford has sold 30,000 cars equipped with the Sync in-car entertainment system which...

Tags: vista, olympics, ford, gates

[07 Jan 2008]

Operational IT budgets to be squeezed in 2008

Operational IT budgets to be squeezed in 2008

News Tony Johnson, IT director, Zavvi Entertainment Group Analyst IDC predicts the US economic downturn will hit global technology spending next year, with growth rates down from about seven per cent in 2007 to six per cent in 2008.

Tags: budgets, cio jury, cio, mark

[17 Dec 2007]

Cisco Announces Continued Global Momentum in Broadband Cable IP Next-Generation Networks

whitepaper Cable companies are leading an industry movement by offering a bundle of services, including local and long distance voice communications, broadcast and video on demand entertainment, high-speed Internet access and wireless/mobility services, to...

Tags: broadband

[16 Nov 2007]

BlackBerry: And the next killer mobile app is...

News McDowell said although YouTube may provide "titillation" to users by providing short bursts of entertainment, RIM cannot see users wanting to pay for such a service in the long run. TV could be the next big thing for mobile devices - but only if...

Tags: application, rim, blackberry, device

[02 Nov 2007]

Tech Visions: TV extends its reach

Comment Yet the practice of allowing video retransmission over the internet - even though it's only to yourself - is creating waves in the entertainment business. The company has many global business relationships including ViaSat, 3, and Hutchinson...

Tags: digital media, mobile tv, slingbox, internet video

[24 Oct 2007]

Will digital switchover boost wireless broadband?

News The entertainment industry is lobbying for much of that spectrum to be retained for the broadcast of high-definition TV (HDTV) and radio. However, the European Commission also supports DVB-H (digital video broadcasting - handheld), the mobile TV...

Tags: hspa, ofcom, cisco, wireless broadband

[19 Oct 2007]

Philips' brings travel expenses down to earth

Case Study Dutch electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics has streamlined its travel and entertainment programme through strategic alliances with SkyTeam and American Express. To keep track of expenses, it opted for the travel and entertainment programme...

Tags: travel, benchmark, american express, philips

[03 Oct 2007]

The greening of IT: Cooling costs

Comment Witness the growth of on-demand entertainment services such as IPTV, and businesses moving to a pay-as-you-grow software as a service (SaaS) model. Data centres are essential to our future computing and entertainment environment.

Tags: green, data centre, virtualisation, energy

[21 Sep 2007]

Gaming Company Gets Projects Back on Track: Korean Gaming Leader Saves Money With Help From Project Management Software

whitepaper Since its founding in 2000, in Seoul, Korea, Webzen has grown to be a global digital entertainment leader, with 600 employees and subsidiaries in the region and in the United States. Huh and his fellow project managers realized that they needed to...

Tags: application servers, microsoft office, game, developers

[31 Aug 2007]

Gaming Company Gets Projects Back on Track: Korean Gaming Leader Saves Money With Help From Project Management Software

whitepaper Since its founding in 2000, in Seoul, Korea, Webzen has grown to be a global digital entertainment leader, with 600 employees and subsidiaries in the region and in the United States. Huh and his fellow project managers realized that they needed to...

Tags: united states, microsoft office, developers, leader

[10 Aug 2007]

mySAP Customer Relationship Management Drives Arctic Cat Support Center for Dealers

whitepaper Arctic Cat, which competes for consumers' entertainment dollars, recently faced some problems that were creating dissatisfaction among its 1,000-plus dealers and distributors. Arctic Cat deployed the mySAP CRM solution to create a state-of-the-art...

Tags: customer service, response, distributors, dealers

[26 Jul 2007]

Five hot outsourcing trends to watch

News Last month news emerged of a hook-up between a Chinese online entertainment company and the Entropia Universe virtual world, to create a virtual economy that could provide as many as 10,000 jobs. Recent rumours of a merger between sector...

Tags: offshoring, outsourcing

[06 Jul 2007]

NETGEAR Technology Boosts Productivity and Performance of Youth Charity

whitepaper The organisation has re-vamped its fundraising approach to include greater use of its existing, devoted supporter base within industry, the entertainment business, and families affected by diabetes. JDRF is the UK arm of a global charity dedicated...

Tags: ethernet, head office, type, operation

[30 Jun 2007]

Sony BMG does mobile downloads deal in China

News Sony BMG Music Entertainment has struck a deal with content aggregator Global Music International to distribute the company's music videos, full track songs and ringtones to mobile subscribers in China.

Tags: mobile music, china, sony bmg

[05 Apr 2007]

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