BeeBird: FM Transmitter
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 June 2007 | Tagged as: News In Brief, Platforms, China, Music, Wireless
Neat little FM transmitter for pumping you music to your latest radiogram!
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Plazes Launches Out Of Beta
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 June 2007 | Tagged as: Location-based services, News In Brief, Services, GPS
Mark your position around the globe and let people know what you’re up to with the newly released version of Plazes.
AVS: China’s H.264 Rival In Testing By China Telecom
Posted by Simon Perry on 8 June 2007 | Tagged as: News In Brief, China, IPTV, Standards
It’s clear that China like to do things their own way.
The latest in the list is a video CoDec’s, the algorithm that is used to compress/decompress video signals. Much of the world currently uses H.264, but China has developed its own equivalent, that they call AVS, standing for Audio Video coding Standard - an acronym […]
Alan Johnston Video Online
Posted by Simon Perry on 1 June 2007 | Tagged as: News In Brief, Content, BBC, Web, Video piece
Much relief for the relatives and friends of BBC Journalist Alan Johnson as a video of him speaking, apparently in good health, has appeared on the Internet.
Many sites are now carrying it, like the BBC itself and The Telegraph, but in typical media fashion they have chosen to edit the video. We’ve embedding the video […]
Sky Probed Over ITV Share Holding
Posted by Simon Perry on 24 May 2007 | Tagged as: Investments, Government, News In Brief, Ofcom (UK super-regulator), Sky, Legal, UK, Regulation
The UK Department of Trade and Industry has referred Rupert Murdoch’s Sky purchase of nearly 18% share holding in major UK broadcaster ITV.
In the words of Alistair Darling, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, “My decision reflects consideration of the reports I have received from both the Office of Fair Trading and Ofcom […]
Legal Action Against Apple Over MacBook Displays
Posted by Simon Perry on 21 May 2007 | Tagged as: Macintosh, News In Brief, Apple, USA, Legal
Another day, another law suit in the world of technology.
PSP Online Store Coming
Posted by Simon Perry on 18 May 2007 | Tagged as: News In Brief, Distribution, USA, Sony, Wireless
US PSP owners will have the joy of having content delivered to their handhelds via an online store.
BT Shout “We’re Number One” In Broadband
Posted by Simon Perry on 17 May 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, News In Brief, UK, BT, Broadband, Infrastructure
BT take top dog position in UK Broadband retailing.
Tivo Swivel Search Launched: Content Beyond The Box
Posted by Simon Perry on 16 May 2007 | Tagged as: Services, News In Brief, TiVo, UK, Broadband, Content Indexing & Navigation
Tivo have released a new search function that searches over not only the content on the box or that provided by the broadcaster subscribed to, but stretches beyond this to encompass relevant results from the TiVoCast service and Amazon Unbox™ on TiVo.
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New Apple MacBooks Released
Posted by Simon Perry on 15 May 2007 | Tagged as: Macintosh, News In Brief, Platforms, Apple, Portable
As expected, Apple have pumped up the Apple MacBooks to give a little extra for the same price.
