interactive media
Beeb appoints new iPlayer chief
News Huggers will have responsibility for Auntie's iPlayer and other online output, along with the likes of interactive TV and mobile. The BBC has appointed former Microsoft employee, Erik Huggers, as the new director of its Future Media and Technology... [18 Jul 2008]
Digital Media School Deploys Render Farm Technology, Cuts Compute Runtime by Days
White Paper Nanyang Polytechnic School of Interactive and Digital Media (SIDM) in Singapore offers digital media courses to local and overseas students. Students and researchers are required to render large amounts of animation and computer-generated images. [06 Jul 2008]
UK Airport Handles More Calls With Self-Service Automation Through IVR
White Paper Nortel delivered a cutting-edge Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system, based on the Nortel Media Processing Server (MPS) 500 and speech recognition software. Newcastle International Airport wanted to reduce the burden on front-desk customer... [05 Jul 2008]
NZAA Turns to Avaya to Improve Call Centre Efficiency and Regional Office Productivity
White Paper An Avaya Call Management System and Avaya IR 2.0 interactive voice response system hosting applications management were also deployed. The NZAA implemented a communications platform based on the Avaya S8700 Media Server, with Avaya G650, G700, G350... [02 Jul 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Firewall Transversal in Communications Server 2007 (Level 300)
White Paper The presenter of this webcast talks in depth about the how Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) and TURN are used to allow media to transverse firewalls in a secure manner. The ability to transverse firewalls is very important to how... [30 May 2008]
Childnet helps parents get web savvy
Case Study We knew that an interactive resource where parents could learn about the internet through a variety of media was the best method. Internet awareness charity Childnet International has produced an interactive learning resource for parents who want... [08 May 2008]
Tech Futures: The talkification of the web
Comment For instance, Salesforce.com has added interactive, visual call-logging and voice-workflow. The new platform has generated e-commerce and social media applications. The internet is set to get louder with the talkification of the web. [01 May 2008]
Interactive TV Software Vendor to Achieve ROI Within Two Years
White Paper Orca Interactive (Orca), a developer of middleware applications for interactive TV companies, used the Microsoft .NET Framework to create innovative new solutions that build on the power of Microsoft Windows Media 9 technologies. [10 Apr 2008]
De Persgroep Provides Instant Access to Media Archives With Mirrored StorageTek D178
White Paper It broadcasts commercial television and radio, and provides interactive services. De Persgroep is one of the largest players in the Belgian media and multimedia markets. The group owns several newspapers and magazines. [10 Apr 2008]
Melisa - A Distributed Multimedia System for Multi-Platform Interactive Sports Content Broadcasting
White Paper The MELISA platform aims at the cross media broadcasting of sports events featuring interactive advertising and sports-related games over digital television and next generation mobile network infrastructures. [10 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Interactive Media Manager: Connecting People, Processes, and Rich Content
White Paper For companies requiring collaboration around rich media, Microsoft offers Microsoft Interactive Media Manager, a business process and content management solution that extends Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and integrates with existing... [28 Mar 2008]
Improved User-Experience, Ad-Revenue, and Brand Image With Automated Verification and Validation of All Websites for Australia's No.1 Interactive Media Company
White Paper Ninemsn is Australia's number-one interactive media company with annual revenue of about AUD 100 million. The proposed automated validation tool was innovative, and therefore its architecture and design was challenging. [27 Mar 2008]
Leverage Session Control for Sustainable Competitive Advantage
White Paper As the telecom industry migrates towards real-time interactive multimedia communications for fixed and mobile networks, the role of session border controllers will expand in scope and importance. With its unique distributed architecture, superior... [11 Mar 2008]
Microsoft unveils web tool betas
News Coming soon after the company's recent bid for Yahoo, Microsoft says these product enhancements will bridge the developer-to-designer workflow gap and help to build more interactive applications for the desktop, the web and mobile devices. [09 Mar 2008]
How Cisco Uses Rich Media for Online Customer Events and Seminars
White Paper For programs that do not require a live, interactive forum, Cisco produces video on demand instead. Many companies use their own Cisco WAN and the Cisco Application Content Networking System (ACNS), as the Cisco Media Network group does for... [04 Mar 2008]
