digital media in news
Cops enlist HAL in fight against crime
News The group hopes that its work will produce a set of guidelines for investigators on best practice for conducting forensic analysis on computers and digital media. Looking at how AI techniques can boost... [05 Nov 2008]
2012 Olympics 'like a digital Queen's coronation'
News Gallop said: "By the end of the Olympics we want to do for digital media what the coronation did for TV 50 years ago. We want to look at what we can do to address the issues around the... [23 Oct 2008]
Steve Jobs: No Apple netbook, no touchscreen laptop
News Apple is in the middle stages of building a video download business and it's clear the company wants its customers to use iTunes to watch high-definition videos, not revert to packaged media, where it can't get a slice... [15 Oct 2008]
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 ready for action
News Microsoft on Monday announced it is ready with a final version of its Silverlight 2 media player. Among the new features are support for digital rights management technology; improved cross-platform... [14 Oct 2008]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield
News In a 2007 interview with silicon.com, Highfield explained how part of his task was to calm the fears of programme makers about digital rights management, which illustrates his influence goes beyond the BBC and into the... [16 Sep 2008]
Businesses ready for Facebook generation
News While most CIOs have some sort of policy in place to address the influx of so-called digital natives joining their companies, according to silicon.com's latest CIO Jury survey, reactions on how to cope with the... [15 Sep 2008]
ITV Worldwide signs up new media head
News ITV Worldwide, the broadcaster's distribution arm, has appointed Jason Binks as vice president of digital and new media. Binks comes from global digital media technology... [12 Sep 2008]
Microsoft makes a Move on web TV
News As part of the deal, Move Networks said it will support Windows Server-based encoding, Microsoft video-compression technology (codecs), and Silverlight's digital rights management. In April, the American Fork raised $46m... [26 Aug 2008]
BBC reveals iPlayer user habits
News Writing on the BBC blog, Anthony Rose, head of digital media for BBC Future Media and Technology, said: "It's great to have some solid evidence to back up our ideas on how people were... [06 Aug 2008]
ISPs join file sharing crackdown
News The BPI says a partnership - much like the deal it struck with Virgin Media in June - is the best approach to raise awareness about illegal file sharing. Taylor said the agreement will also pave the way for future... [24 Jul 2008]
Beeb appoints new iPlayer chief
News The BBC has appointed former Microsoft employee, Erik Huggers, as the new director of its Future Media and Technology division. Huggers, who joined the BBC last year and is currently group controller of the Future... [18 Jul 2008]
Google: It pays to make ads work
News But, Schmidt argued, media companies attack Google for helping to usher in the digital content era. Media companies should see Google not as an enemy but as an ally trying to make... [12 Jun 2008]
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News Soca also warn that half of the UK's £1.3bn intellectual property crime is related to digital media. A government report on serious criminal threats to the UK has warned of the growing danger from... [06 Jun 2008]
Broadband Blighty gets a rural flavour
News Ofcom's digital nation Scotland People in Scotland are more likely to do several media activities at the same time - also known as "media stacking". This is almost double the number... [22 May 2008]
Europe embracing speedy fat pipes
News Z is for Zombies i2010 is the EU's digital-led strategy to boost growth and jobs, established in 2005. EU Commissioner for information society and media, Viviane Reding, said the fact all 27 EU states... [18 Apr 2008]
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