NBCU Unveils Digital, Social Media Initiatives for Olympics Coverage

NBCU Unveils Digital, Social Media Initiatives for Olympics Coverage
World Screen
LONDON: NBCUniversal is planning to offer what it is calling an "unprecedented" level of digitaland social-media coverage of the London Olympic Games, including live streaming more than 3500 total hours, rolling out two new apps and partnering with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, among others. Globo TV ... The NBC Olympics app will deliver short-form highlights, event schedules, TV and online listings, results, athlete profiles, columns and the new Primetime Companion second-screen feature. Meanwhile ...

Google: Voters using Internet, mobile and less TV
USA TODAY
Google is out today with some new numbers on how digital platforms affect voters, whether they're interested in races for mayor or president. The data on how ... On average, one-third of people who see a campaign ad on YouTube have not seen it on TV. 83% of mobile phone owners are registered voters. 68% of voters use theInternet as their primary source of information on political candidates and issues. And 50% of voters say comparing candidates online influences their voting decision. "Access to political ...

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Sensio, Starz Digital Partner on 3D TV VOD Service
mediacaster
Montreal-based Sensio Technologies has inked a 3D VOD licensing agreement with StarzDigital Media to make select 3D movies available for on-demand rental on Sensio's 3DGO! service. Top films from producers such as The Weinstein Company and ...

Amazon Launch London Data Centre With Digital TV Plans
World Internet TV on PC (blog)
While the city of London (England) will be completing 15 years of preparation when they open the 2012 Olympic Games this week, they have recently received some new incoming residents with an eye towards the future in a different field, asinternet retail giant ... Amazon spokeswoman Paula Byrne noted of the 'obvious choice' for her company's new centre: “London is a hotbed of tech talent and testament to that fact is Amazon choosing the capital as the location for the new global digital media development centre.

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MAGYAR TELEKOM TAVKOZLESI NYRT : National Interactive TV service and ...
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Thanks to this action, from 27 July 2012 Interactive TV service of T-Home will become available also for those customers who want to use Interactive TV service with the fixed line Internetservice of any other Internet service provider. "I am overjoyed that the national rollout of Interactive TV will provide access to the interactive TV service of T-Home, a highlighted item in the digital home product and service offering of Telekom, for more than four million households. This could further increase the community of interactive ...

Amazon Ramps Up Global Expansion, Opens Massive Media R&D Center In ...
Seeking Alpha
As Amazon (AMZN) gears up for its quarterly earnings later this week, the company announced Monday an expansion that points to its big ambitions in digital media, and an increasing focus on how that growth will come from outside the U.S.. Amazon is opening a new R&D hub in London ... user-interface experts and graphic designers. The company owns UK streaming service and Netflix (NFLX) competitor LOVEFiLM as well as UK-based TV app company Pushbutton, which will both be relocated to the new center.

Mergers: Commission approves acquisition of NDS by Cisco in pay-TV sector
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The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of the UK-based NDS Group Limited, which provides technology and software to the pay-TV sector, by the internet company Cisco Systems, Inc. of the US. ... for the Internet. Cisco develops a wide range of products and services including switches used in local and wide area networks, routers, enterprise unified communications, network and content security systems, STBs and digital media technology products.

It's True: 1 million now watch TV on Virgin Media TiVo
Digital Choices
The number of people subscribing to Virgin Media TiVo, which enables users to pause, rewind and record live TV as well as access catch-up and on-demand TV, increased by over 260000 to just under 940000 between April and June. To mark reaching the ...

CityNews Channel & FX Canada now available on Cogeco Digital TV
CityNews
CITYNEWS. CityNews Channel and FX Canada are now available for Cogeco Digital TVcustomers, Rogers Media announced Monday. CityNews Channel can be found in high definition (HD) on channel 821 and in standard definition (SD) on channel 415.

Vizio's Google TV set-top box goes on sale for $99.99
PC Advisor
Vizio's Co-Star set-top box with Google TV software can now be ordered for US$99.99, the company said on Tuesday. Related Articles. Vizio's $100 Co-Star ... Google TV devices are available from Sony, which is taking orders for the $199 Internet Player with Google TV, and LG, which offers TVs based on Google TV. The Google TV software tries to ... DVR and the Internet. Users will be able to run Android applications and access 100000 movies and TV content through Google's online store. .... Media Player (iPod) ...

What is a Smart TV?
LifeGoesStrong
A Smart TV is a TV that connects to the Internet and can directly stream videos, music, and photos from online websites. It can also stream from media libraries saved to the computers, networked hard drives and network attached storage (NAS) drives that are ...

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Over-the-Top TV: Expanding, But Most People Will Keep Cable
PC Magazine
For years now, Internet software and hardware providers have been talking about how the digitalera would remake TV using an "anytime, anywhere" access to programming. With some new deals from cable companies, such as the "TV Everywhere" ...

Social Media Agency Room 214 Outlines Latest Social Media Trends
IT News Online
BOULDER, Colo., July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Social media marketing agency Room 214 this week released its second quarterly Social Media Trend Report, an in-depth look at the influentialsocial media topics driving the digital industry. In a marketing ...

Why did Colorado shooting suspect avoid social media?
CNN
(CNN) -- It's a truth of the digital age. When a person is plucked from obscurity, for good reasons or bad, the first thing curiosity-seekers do is turn to the Web. Facebook or Twitter. LinkedIn or Tumblr. We expect social media to shed light on a person's ...

At least six bidders for digital TV broadcasting deal
Malaysia Chronicle
can ride on the infrastructure to transmit their TV programmes, radio and otheronline contents. The winner of the tender will build and operate the digital TV broadcast infrastructure for DTTB services so that all broadcasters such as RTM,Media Prima Bhd, ...

Malaysia Chronicle

Denmark's TDC and YouSee Deploys Agama Monitoring Solution for TV Service ...
Reuters
TDC and YouSee together have well over 50% market share of the Danish pay-TV market with approximately 1.5 million, and growing, TV subscriptions. For their MicrosoftR MediaroomR based IPTV service, available under the TDC brand and with approx ...

NFL Announces Expanded Digital Product Line, Including Coaches Film And A ...
SB Nation
... Mariners Icon · WASHINGTON - MARCH 17: NCAA President Mark Emmert address the media during a press conference ... In a Monday conference call with the media, representatives from the digital media department described that as one goal of the expanded offers. It will doubtlessly ... Additionally, fans can save their breakdowns and share them via social media or email. ... Fantasy football - NFL.com packed significant upgrades into their online fantasy products, including tablet availability and live auctions.

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Amazon poised to open digital development hub in London
InternetRetailing.net
Specific projects have not been named by Amazon but the online retailer said the areas it would work on include creating interactive digital services for TVs, games consoles, smartphones and PCs, as well as further development for digital media on its website, and surrounding that with services and application ... “Innovation is part of the Amazon DNA, and we are creating a British centre of excellence to design and develop the next generation of TV and film services for a wide range of digital devices,” said Byrne.

BT offers free TV to bundle customers
MediaTel Newsline
Alex Green, TV commercial and product director, BT Vision, said: "BT Vision is the fastest-growing digital TV service in the UK because it gives viewers exactly what they want: great TV, film and sport when it's convenient for them to watch. We're delighted to ...

MediaTel Newsline

James Holmes: Colorado shooter an online mystery
Examiner.com
“In the age of social media and an instant online presence, it's extremely rare not to have a digital footprint,” stated Michael Fertik, the CEO and founder of Reputation.com. “My guess is that we don't know what name or handle he was using or we just haven't ...

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TriCounty Telecom uses Enton for 'hybrid TV' service
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FusionTV integrates with IPTV middleware and digital rights management (DRM) systems and allows TriCounty to update its Entone Hybrid TV set-top boxes via a software download. The OTT element is part of an ongoing relationship between TriCounty and ...

Hollywood mines TV archive
The Australian
While a big-screen adaptation of Postman Pat may be some way off, analysts believe that some of Classic Media's other franchises, such as Lassie, Casper the Ghost and He-Man, are ripe for a Hollywood remake. ... brings a large and diverse collection of characters and branded assets that is complementary to DreamWorks Animation's franchise business, and we plan to leverage it across our motion picture, television, home entertainment, consumer products, digital, theme park and live entertainment channels." ...

Amazon to open office in London
Financial Times
Amazon, the online retailer, is set to open a new central London office to take advantage of the capital's booming digital media industry. The US group has signed terms on an eight-storey, 47000 sq ft office on the edge of the City of London. The office is close ...

The scoop on 'All-22' Coaches' Film for NFL fans
USA TODAY (blog)
The NFL Digital Media Team unveiled its "All-22" Coaches' Film on Monday, allowing the media to get a sneak peak at its new online viewing options in the 2012 season. The products available on NFL.com – Game Rewind and Game Pass – will enable ...

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Cablevision Brings Customers NBCUniversal's Coverage Of 2012 London ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
iO TV customers can watch NBCUniversal's unprecedented Olympic programming, including broadcast coverage, live online streaming, video on demand and mobile and tablet apps, and for the first time ever, 242 hours of the Games will be available in 3D. .... Its cable television operations provide a full suite of advanced communications services that include iO TV® digitaltelevision, Optimum Online® high-speed Internet, and Optimum Voice® digital voice, all over state-of-the-art cable systems that pass nearly 6 ...

Zite doubles impressions, adds more publishers
By eMedia Vitals Staff
The CNN-owned company has added a number of brands to the publishers' program it launched in April, including Chicago Tribune, Cult of Mac, Entrepreneur, Hearst MagazinesDigital Media, International Business Times, Los Angeles ...
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PNI Digital Media Announces Departure of Zack Wickes | Nearshore ...
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 07/24/12 — PNI Digital Media (TSX: PN)(OTCBB: PNDMF) (”PNI” or the “Company”), the leading innovator in online and in-store digital media solutions for retailers, announced that Zack ...
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To "Freemium" Or Not To Freemium, THAT Is The Question! | Digital ...
By Peter D. Csathy (Twitter name pcsathy)
"Freemium," of course, refers to the business model used by many online/tech companies in which customers are given a choice of using either a "lean" free product or a more "sophisticated" feature-rich paid version of that product. (The free ...
Digital Media Update

Developer Spotlight: Jordan Casey of Casey Games | Digital Media ...
By Alex Dewey
The Away Foundation is a non-profit Community Interest Company based in the UK, focusing on building and maintaining free and open source software resources for online and mobile games and applications. Work within The Away .... Just as Words With Friends brought Scrabble-like action to the social media mainstream, Ruby Blast tips its hat to games like Bejeweled and Diamond Dash, adding in a few twists to enhance gameplay and engage friends. Power-ups like Nova Flare, ...
Digital Media Blog

Survey: Traditional beats digital for trustworthiness - Research ...
Digital content and social networks may be the rage, when it comes to trust, consumers are weighing in to say they trust traditional media more than they trust digital media. According to new data from Triton Digital, digital media may be fun to ...
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International Entertainment News: Cayman Islands' WestStar TV ...
By EntertainmentNews
OB), a leading provider of video-powered broadcast solutions, including IP, digital satellite, Internet streaming and other types of wired/wireless network distribution, was selected to provide the framework for WestStar TV's new Over-the-Top ...
International Entertainment News

The Current State of Digital Media in Canada | Eagle's Perspective
HERE IS A QUICK LOOK AT DIGITAL MEDIA TODAY . . . Canadians spend an average of 45 hours (of personal time) online every month; A high majority of ...
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Now TV, Sky's internet TV service, brings Sky Movies to connected ...
Sky's new internet TV service launches tomorrow, offering users access to Sky Movies ... Google launches YouTube curriculum to educate students on digital ...
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Revisiting digital media technologies? Understanding technosociality
Home · Research · Sussex Research Online ... Revisiting digital media technologies? Understanding technosociality ... Bassett, Caroline, Hartmann, Maren and O'Riordan, Kate (2011) Revisiting digital media technologies? Understanding ...
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