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Scanning the mobile TV landscape

News Cingular MobiTV subscribers pay $10 a month to get unlimited viewing of 25 channels but must also sign up for a data package whose options range from 1MB of data usage for $4.99 per month to a $19.99 package for unlimited data usage.

30 January 2006, 10:42

DVR forcing TV advertising to get creative

News The DVR mainlineAnother potential source of DVR-viewing statistics is the DVR service TiVo, which can access second-by-second raw data on its subscribers' viewing habits. For example, TiVo released ratings to CNET.co.uk's sister site, News.com...

24 May 2006, 12:06

How do you get ratings for mobile TV?

News That allows the company to track viewing even at bars, or at friend's homes, for example. The company is testing it in Houston and says it has found that about 15 per cent of TV viewing, for all ages and demographics, actually takes place outside...

13 December 2005, 10:59

What will the coach potato evolve into?

News Over time, Nielsen will also move to measure viewing that takes place via iPods, mobile phones, laptops and other digital devices that are gaining TV privileges. The average TiVo household clicks a button 350 times a day, and more than 70 per cent...

5 December 2005, 11:49

Video on demand worth $10bn by 2010

News According to research from analyst house Informa Media and Telecoms, by the end of the decade, one third of the world's TV-viewing households will be using VoD services. Analysts are predicting that the next five years will see a huge increase in...

29 November 2005, 8:31

Wii TV guide hits Japan

News This new, free, downloadable Wii channel not only allows for the viewing of TV schedules for the week ahead, but also allows for bookmarking of upcoming shows using Miis to mark out personal preferences.

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5 March 2008, 9:01

Samsung to unveil world's largest LCD

News The screen offers a conical viewing angle of 180 degrees. Samsung's upcoming LCD will apparently set a record for the electronics industry. Credit: Samsung At 70 inches, the display is aimed at the consumer HDTV market but will no doubt become...

22 August 2006, 10:03

Wii to be revised for DVD play next year

News Sonic Solutions, makers of the popular Roxio CD- and DVD-burning software, today announced that it has been chosen by Nintendo to provide "high-quality DVD movie viewing to a future version" of the Wii.

14 November 2006, 12:02

Net video not ready for hi-def TV

News For now, the Internet-viewing public will have to be satisfied with watching live sporting and news events, or homemade movies presented on streaming sites like YouTube in formats offering slightly grainy images and occasionally jerky motion.

10 April 2006, 9:49

Microsoft moves Office online

News The software maker is announcing Office Live Workspace, a free online tool for viewing, sharing and storing -- but not editing -- Office documents online. In another clear sign that Microsoft sees the threat posed by its traditional business moving...

1 October 2007, 9:52

Microsoft leaks Origami details

News However, right-clicking outside the flash animation of the main Web page and viewing the source code provides this: "Origami Project: the Mobile PC running Windows XP". Opening up OrigamiOrigami devices are expected to do most of the tasks that a...

3 March 2006, 10:09

Intel and Microsoft team up for entertainment PCs

News Viewing TV on computers is still a foreign concept to most Americans, where few of the PCs sold have TV tuners. In Japan, four out of five consumer PCs have TV-viewing abilities, he said, adding that roughly half of computers sold for the home have...

5 January 2006, 10:52

News.blog: iPod film festival opens

News Entries to The Flux 2007 iPod Film Festival are available for download and viewing on iPods at theflux.tv, organisers said in a statement. A film festival that bills itself as the first designed exclusively for the iPod has got underway.

4 April 2007, 9:20

Google fixes flaw blogged by teen

News The flaw could allow JavaScript code to run when viewing a message in Gmail, potentially allowing malicious code to be used by an attacker to compromise a Gmail account, according to a blogger who calls himself "Anthony".

3 March 2006, 9:43

See Sharp's amazing new two-way TV

News Is it a pointless gimmick or a revolution in home viewing? A Sharp representative uses a mirror to demonstrate how the new monitor displays two images at once, depending on which direction you view it from.

19 July 2005, 8:47