Opera Mobile Browser Hits 1m Downloads
Posted by Simon Perry on 22 September 2004 | Tagged as: Cellular, Content, Mobile, Software, Wireless
Proving itself to be the most popular application on Symbian OS, Opera Mobile has hit one million downloads.
Archive for September, 2004
Colour Technology For Digital Cinema
Posted by Simon Perry on 21 September 2004 | Tagged as: _events
Digital technology has recently become an alternative to film for the origination of motion pictures, for colour grading (in the form of the digital intermediate) and for display in exhibition. Each of these developments is advancing independent of the others, leading to hybrid film-digital workflows. However, film and electronic media capture and reproduce images in fundamentally different ways. Film uses subtractive colorants (CMY),but digital cinema uses additive primaries (RGB). Film is characterised using logarithms, but digital video and computer graphics is characterised using power functions. Film and digital cinema have different colour gamuts and are optimized for different contrast ratios.
McCain’s US Bill seeks $1Bn for Digital TV
Posted by Berni Dwan on 21 September 2004 | Tagged as: Digital TV, Distribution, Industry Trends, IPTV, Legal, Regulation
Senator John McCain proposed bill suggests analogue switch off by 2009, and includes a $1Bn fund to ease the pain.
BT Broadband Delivered TV – This Month it’s on
Posted by Simon Perry on 21 September 2004 | Tagged as: Digital TV, Distribution, Infrastructure, IPTV, Web
In the ever-changing, will they/won’t they state, BT is currently rumoured to be trailing broadband-delivered TV in London.
Sidekick ll has Arrived
Posted by Berni Dwan on 21 September 2004 | Tagged as: Cellular, Mobile, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), Photography, Platforms, Web, Wireless
Slimmed down physically but pumped up in every other way, Sidekick ll is moving yet another step closer to meeting the mobile work and leisure requirements of the busy generation.
Microsoft ‘emulate’ Local US Radio Stations online
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 September 2004 | Tagged as: Content
Microsoft has launched a cheeky service that play the same music as nearly 1,000 US & Canadian radio stations – but without the chat.
CinemaNow Signs separate Content and Distribution deals
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 September 2004 | Tagged as: Business, Content Deals, Legal, Licensing, Video on Demand (VoD)
Following their further funding at the end of July, CinemaNow announce a Content deal and Distribution deal.
Q17+ from Hyundai targets gamers with LCD
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 September 2004 | Tagged as: Displays, Gaming, Platforms
Aimed at video game players, Hyundai have releases a 12ms 17″ LCD TFT screen.
3G Radio Networks
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 September 2004 | Tagged as: _events
Endorsed by ETSI and the UMTS Forum, IIR’s 3G Radio Networks conference aims to support operators during the WCDMA planning, testing, optimisation and deployment decision making processes. Speakers will address all of the key radio network technical issues and provide examples of how they have overcome these problems.
UK GBA SP price will drop to £69
Posted by Simon Perry on 17 September 2004 | Tagged as: Gaming, Platforms, Portable
Nintendo UK and Europe are following the price reductions that the US has lead with, in preparation from xmas.
