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Safe sex ringtone sings 'Condom, condom!'
News The ringtone marks the latest phase in the mass-media campaign, which has placed ads on television, radio, and film, and in print and outdoor media. Ever heard a safe-sex promo sung in multipart harmony?
20 August 2008, 8:46
BBC iPlayer gets 2.0 facelift
News There is also a TV schedule to help people plan their viewing by listing which programmes will be available on iPlayer and which will only be broadcast on television. The BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service has undergone a major facelift designed to...
Tags: beta, section, listen, programme
26 June 2008, 8:58
News.blog: Last.fm thinks big 'In a Box'
News Television Stations and CBS Affiliates. CBS Audience Network, which makes the company's television and other video content available on partner sites like AOL, Veoh and now Yahoo TV. Last.fm, the music-focused social site that CBS Interactive...
Tags: ad, interactive, networks, television
5 June 2008, 9:28
News.blog: US HDTV users still not hip to Blu-ray
News A new report released on Tuesday says that less than half of high-definition television owners in the US know what Blu-ray Disc is. While that's an improvement over a year ago, it still means that more than half of that group -- the target audience...
Tags: definition, cent, ray, high definition
4 June 2008, 9:04
Cracking open the Atari 2600
News The tuning is set for channel 3 on a standard television. Here, we look at the Atari 2600 Video Computer System. Introduced all the way back in October 1977, it is one of the more fondly remembered video game consoles.
Tags: credit, ports, output, channel
23 May 2008, 11:04
Broadband Blighty gets a rural flavour
News Additional findings in the report include digital television penetration -- which stands at 85 per cent of households across the UK, up 10 percentage points since 2006. Broadband Britain is flying a tweed flag: fat pipe penetration in rural areas...
Tags: rate, cent, points, connected
23 May 2008, 9:50
News.blog: MPAA wins $110m in TorrentSpy case
News The studios originally sued TorrentSpy in February 2006, alleging that the site promoted and contributed to online copyright infringement by helping people locate illegally copied films and television shows on the Internet.
Tags: battle, addresses, orders, studios
8 May 2008, 8:28
News.blog: GTA IV maker sues over pulled ads
News The suit claims that ads for the game, which has been criticised as excessively violent, were removed after a television news report questioned why the advertisements were allowed to run following a crime wave in the city, according to the report.
6 May 2008, 8:33
BBC's tech chief hops off to Kangaroo
News Highfield said the move is a fantastic opportunity and he is looking forward to "transforming the way audiences watch television". BBC director of future media and technology Ashley Highfield is to leave the corporation to head up the Kangaroo...
Tags: channel, downloaded, demand, ceo
16 April 2008, 8:30
Photos: US mobiles show off at CTIA
News It is one of the first phones to support the live mobile TV service from US operator AT&T and the mobile television technology MediaFlo. The semiannual CTIA trade show gives mobile companies the chance to show off their newest wireless wares.
Tags: credit, nokia, windows mobile, iphone
3 April 2008, 10:06
Unlimited broadband may 'disappear'
News PlusNet has been one of the few providers to buck this trend -- preferring instead to offer packages based on fixed download caps -- and is now warning that the emergence of IP television and the BBC's iPlayer will make it impossible for its...
Tags: bandwidth, traffic, unlimited, consumer
17 March 2008, 9:13
BBC to sell shows on iTunes
News A range of BBC television programmes are now available for download at Apple's UK iTunes store.According to the BBC, this is the first time a UK broadcaster has provided its programmes through iTunes.
Tags: itunes, apple, service, ipods
20 February 2008, 9:02
Orange and T-Mobile to trial mobile TV
News The channels are likely to include many of the most popular UK broadcast television channels and radio stations. Orange and T-Mobile will jointly trial a mobile TV service in West London during the second half of 2008.
Tags: stations, broadcast, radio, director
14 February 2008, 7:33
BT Vision TV downloads set for Xbox 360
News When the software update arrives in mid-2008, Vision subscribers will be able to access a library of on-demand content that includes movies, television and sports events. The focus for Microsoft's CES 2008 keynote was the departure of chairman Bill...
Tags: bt, demand, sports, xbox
8 January 2008, 9:04
Bill Gates bids farewell to CES
News Microsoft also noted the company's progress in IPTV -- digital television delivered over Internet Protocol as opposed to traditional cable or satellite. In his annual Consumer Electronics Show (click here for more coverage) address, the Microsoft...
Tags: microsoft, demand, speech, copies
7 January 2008, 5:37


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