Posted by Simon Perry on 28 November 2003 | Tagged as: Content
The British Film Institute have opened their comprehensive archives to the world through their screenonline Website. Video and audio clips will be streamable to UK schools, colleges and libraries.
Posted by Simon Perry on 27 November 2003 | Tagged as: Content
Building on their video content, UK 3G operator Three have launched a cartoon messaging service.
Posted by Simon Perry on 26 November 2003 | Tagged as: Music, Platforms, Mobile, Displays, Portable, Video Hardware, Audio Hardware
Thomson are the first major Consumer Electronics company to release a portable video/music/photo device. Not only can it playback up to 80 hours of video, but it can also record it as well.
Posted by Simon Perry on 25 November 2003 | Tagged as: Distribution
Jon Johansen, of DeCSS fame has released a program that provides a long-winded method of removing the DRM from music purchased from the Apple iTunes Music Store. It is highly complex process that is not for the faint hearted.
Posted by Simon Perry on 24 November 2003 | Tagged as: Content, VoIP
Vonage have been providing VoIP services for a while and have grown substantially. Their latest round of funding of $35m bring further legitimacy to services that could seriously impact telco phone call income.
Posted by Simon Perry on 21 November 2003 | Tagged as: Business, Video Hardware
TiVo now has over one million subscribers, with a large proportion of them coming from their relationship with DirecTV. As TiVo’s losses narrow, it is unclear if this relationship will continue after the Murdoch takeover of DirecTV, given his relationship with NDS.
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 November 2003 | Tagged as: Music, Distribution, Mobile, Cellular, Portable, Audio Hardware
mm02 are to market and sell a Siemens developed device, the Digital Music Player DMP, which allow previewing of music and paid for download.
Posted by Simon Perry on 19 November 2003 | Tagged as: Distribution
ATI are enabling an easy upgrade to enable households to run a video server and remote viewing PC’s, as long as they all run ATI video cards.
Posted by Simon Perry on 18 November 2003 | Tagged as: Distribution
Following their giving evidence at the UK Trade and Industry Select Committee last week, BT have asked that UK industry and government “pull together” to help them realised 100% broadband coverage in the UK by 2005.
Posted by Simon Perry on 17 November 2003 | Tagged as: Content, Input devices, Industry Trends, Gaming
The way that people are instructing their computers is expanding beyond keyboard, mouse and games controller. Two Xbox games have speech recognition built in and the Sony EyeToy responds to players waving their arms around.
