This is the first in a series of short videos made at IBC-2010 to explain Radio’s connected future, or perhaps “hybrid” is a better description. In this segment, Nick Piggott explains the bridging function that RadioDNS will provide and the problems it will solve for the global radio industry. I think the great thing about [...]
Leweb10 continues to surprise, becoming a sort of SxSW for European entrepreneurs. At the one just held in Paris, Renault Nissan gave away the keys to one of its new electric city vehicles, the Twizy. Delivery will be at LeWeb11 in Paris in December 2011. Chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn suggested that there will always [...]
At the recent Leweb conference in Paris, I bumped into two people who know more than most about capturing conversations. Many colleges and universities spend a fortune providing lectures to under a hundred students at any one time. Even some of the better learning institutions have not found a way to capture that knowledge on [...]
I need a new camera to replace my ageing HD cameras that rely on tape. I have done quite a lot of research into the use of DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) stills cameras for video work. And for that “cinema” look (shallow field of depth), I have been tempted. Until I went to the [...]
BlackBerry PlayBook available for a quick hands-on. The announcement came during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where a slew of tablets are being unveiled. This lot includes the much-hyped Motorola Xoom, a tablet to be sold by Verizon Wireless, which will use a version of Google’s Android operating system designed with tablets in [...]
This morning, Apple launched its new Mac App Store, bringing the world of apps that has helped make the iPhone so popular to its Mac desktops and laptops. To get the new store, Mac users must download the new operating system software update (click the Apple in the upper left hand corner of the screen [...]
Time Warner Cable will launch more than 12 new HD channels by the end of the month, which it says will bring its total to more than 120 HD channels overall. Guess Dish and DirecTV will have to find something else to pick on. Beginning Thursday, TWC will light up Comedy Central HD, MTV HD, [...]
AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega gave a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show Tuesday in Las Vegas and talked about his company accelerating its LTE (long term evolution) wireless network deployment. He said AT&T’s new high speed network will launch later this year and will be complete by 2013. Verizon launched its LTE [...]
Launched in Spring 2010, Paper.Li (the Li is for Lichtenstein) turns your Facebook or Twitter feeds into a daily newspaper. Currently the service is being used in over 200 countries, with the main markets being the US, UK, The Netherlands and Japan. The site currently has software to support automated compilation in English, German, Spanish [...]
Street Fighter’s recreated many of characters at WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011 & game has wonderful detail of players. Plus, “Jimmy went the extra mile and gave each of the fighters correct wrestling moves.” Because of how good quality these characters look, it’s somewhat strange to see them with such real like animation. Instead of [...]