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News.blog: Watching your stress

News The US National Institute of Health has given a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh a $426,000 grant to study the effectiveness of a watch for measuring stress.

Tags: moment, university, stress, affect

17 October 2007, 8:59

Survey: Americans don't want mobile TV

News Americans may not be as enamoured by the idea of watching TV and listening to music on their mobile phones as the mobile networks had hoped. According to a survey conducted by RBC Capital Markets, about 75 per cent of roughly 1,000 people polled...

6 March 2006, 10:12

TV over the Internet gathers steam

News The number of viewers watching TV piped into homes over the Internet -- known as IPTV -- is increasing as more broadcasters look to offer their content this way. Research out today reveals the number of people downloading television content or...

16 May 2006, 10:04

Philips invents TV ad enforcer

News An invention from Philips prevents TV viewers from switching the channel during commercials or fast-forwarding past commercials when watching DVR content. Many TV viewers are accustomed to the habit of watching two programs at once by flipping back...

20 April 2006, 10:20

What will the coach potato evolve into?

News On Boxing Day this year, a long-standing survey of US television-watching habits will take a first step into the digital present -- and future. For decades, the Nielsen Media Research audience measurement service has told US networks and...

5 December 2005, 11:49

Slingbox gets new US siblings

News Sling Media, maker of the placeshifting Slingbox device, on Wednesday released three new gadgets in the US for watching TV remotely -- the Slingbox Pro, Slingbox AV and Slingbox Tuner. Each product targets a different segment of the TV-watching...

28 September 2006, 10:06

New gadget cuts kids' tech time

News The average child now spends almost as much time watching television as they do in school. Bob is a new time-monitoring technology from start-up company Hopscotch that allows parents to control how much time their children spend watching television...

23 February 2006, 9:31

YouTube tests viewer-friendly ads

News TV viewers have grown accustomed to watching a show and seeing the image of TV stars walk across the bottom of the screen as part of a promotion. Critics predicted that Internet viewers had become spoiled, that YouTube fans had grown accustomed to...

22 August 2007, 10:26

News.blog: NBC tests video on Hulu

News Universal and News Corp also isn't packaged very well, and offers too few shows and too little to do outside of watching video. One thing is for sure: watching full-length episodes of Heroes and King of the Hill at Hulu is far superior viewing...

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30 October 2007, 9:20

How do you get ratings for mobile TV?

News Already, they're increasingly getting data directly from companies like TiVo, which can offer a look at exactly what viewers are watching. We want to know the truth about who's actually watching the ads we're putting out on television.

13 December 2005, 10:59

Sony desktop doubles as flat-screen TV

News The 19-inch screen isn't well-suited for TV watching from more than a few metres away. But media enthusiasts and space-confined flat-dwellers may jump at the chance to have a single machine for checking email and watching Dragons' Den.

23 August 2006, 11:00

Net video not ready for hi-def TV

News While that's hardly the end of the world for a site like YouTube.com, which is more concerned with streaming user-created content than anything coming out of Hollywood, it does present a dilemma for an organisation like Major League Baseball's MLB...

10 April 2006, 9:49

Reverse engineering Marlon Brando's cheeks

News In the digital era of games, however, Ryu's process of watching The Godfather repeatedly is rare, since most film-based games are put together side by side with the movie production. So Ryu had to create the animations manually, a process that...

7 March 2006, 10:52

Video for the people by the people

News Van Djick described his vision of a future in which you can sit on your sofa watching The Simpsons, and then switch the channel to an uncensored video blog from China. We don't want it where "everyone is just watching funny stuff and downloading TV...

12 June 2006, 9:51

High-quality movie trailers on your PC

News We're always looking at what is the best place to reach the various audiences who are not watching TV, and thinking whether we have the right message to reach them online," said Liz Jones, vice president for digital marketing at 20th Century Fox.

26 July 2005, 9:39