Mobiles becoming ‘media channels’ [BBC]
Mobiles are becoming “media channels” as music, games, gambling and adult content clamour to make the industry worth $42.8bn by 2010. Read full story
Mobiles are becoming “media channels” as music, games, gambling and adult content clamour to make the industry worth $42.8bn by 2010. Read full story
France Télécom this month offered up its latest version of convergence by tacking on a few useful services to its Livebox home networking product, a “triple play” service combining Internet, telephone and television service. The most interesting of the new…
First there were TVs. Then came PCs. Now, mobile phones are becoming the ‘third screen’ for viewing video. Read full story
Website lets Americans see what the world’s non-English publications say about US policy. The headline reads, “Columbus’ Discovery of America: History’s ‘Biggest Mistake.’ ” That might sound harsh to an American audience, but it’s less likely to ruffle Iraqis reading…
There is a transformation taking place in the newspaper business, where top-down, voice-of-God journalism is being challenged by what is called participatory journalism, or civic or citizen journalism. Under this model, readers contribute to the newspaper. And they are doing…
Newseum, a site billing itself as “the interactive museum of news” has created Today’s Front Pages, a Flash-based interface to let users see the front page of over 435 newspapers across 45 countries. Pointing at a dot will show the…
The New Heroes tells the dramatic stories of 14 daring people from all corners of the globe who, against all odds, are successfully alleviating poverty and illness, combating unemployment and violence, and bringing education, light, opportunity and freedom to poor…
As the leader of Sony Corporation’s mobile media research and design groups in Tokyo, John Poisson spent two years focused on how people use cameraphones, and why they don’t use them more often. Now, he and human-computer interaction researchers…
When the highly respected US newspaper announced last Friday that it was allowing readers to add their thoughts to online editorials (the so-called “wikitorial”), many in the media predicted disaster. Read full story
The advertising business is attempting to revolutionise the way in which it works. Read full story
Frontline is the name of America’s best investigative journalism TV programme. It is produced by PBS and fifty of its in-depth reports can now be viewed in streaming video. (Scrolling over the title brings up a short summary, clicking on…
It’s a transformation as significant as when we went from black-and-white to color—and it’s already underway. The promise is that you’ll be able to watch anything you want, anywhere—on a huge high-def screen or on your phone. Read full story
Mobile TV has been talked about for ages, probably since the first mobile phone with a colour screen became available and certainly since the launch of 3G, the faster networks that allow video to be accessed at a reasonable speed.…
Consumer-electronics giants are using their music, TV and game savvy to build hot new models. Read full story
Around the globe, scientists are racing to solve a series of mysteries. Unsettling transformations are sweeping across the planet, and clue by clue, investigators around the world are assembling a new picture of Earth, discovering ways that seemingly disparate events…
The digital video recording service’s Comcast deal delivers 21.5 million potential new users and transforms a faltering player into the industry’s star. Read full story
Now and then you find something truly interesting on the field of marketing and communications, like this in-depth web site on the future of the field developed by America’s top investigative journalism public TV programme Frontline. Go to website