While some of the hoopla surrounding Molson’s Facebook debacle was warranted – it also seemed to showcase that companies are looking at new and inventive ways of using social media for marketing as opposed to the traditional mass media approach. To this end Veritas Communications has just published a survey of Canadian citizens and business leaders [...]
TechCrunch report:
British TV networks the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 will launch a new joint online TV on-demand service that will provide a one-stop shop of content from all channels.
Shows available will include locally produced content and possibly US and other non-British content as well. Like existing online offerings from the networks it is presumed that [...]
Echostar/DISH announced their intention to enter the IPTV marketplace, targeting telcos and rural cable systems with an IPTV MPEG-4 transport solution, branded as ViP-TV. ViP-TV General Manger Daniel Daines tells Telecompetitor, “Our solution will allow our partners to offer a DISH Networks television experience to their subscribers, utilizing a DSL or FTTH broadband network.” The announcement [...]
IPTV could be on a collision course with the Internet TV services being offered by the likes of Joost and Babelgum, according to a senior executive at IBM.
Speaking at the Broadband World Forum in Berlin yesterday, Rob Van Dem Dan, the European telecom leader for IBM, said there are a number of potential collision points between [...]
Sony hasn’t exactly been shy about expanding the capabilities of its PS3, and according to new reports from The Korea Times, even more non-game-related goodness will be headed its way. Apparently, KT (Korea’s primary telecom operator) and Sony will “launch an internet-based TV service in November that runs on the PlayStation 3 game console,” and as [...]
OK, OK, this is old news (3 days old) … but here it is none the less. Apparently I overlooked this one in the recent Microsoft CEDIA EXPO 2007 announcement:
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Internet TV for Windows Media Center
The number of content providers delivering video over the Internet continues to grow, and Microsoft is supporting this by adding [...]

LiveStation just updated their website. You can now signup and trial the new streaming P2P application. A new version of the client (1.0.63.2) is also available for download. LiveStation has not published yet a list of changes for this release.
LiveStation will offer a wide range of radio and television channels. The emphasis will be on quality as much as quantity. That means national networks, not just special interest services.
Continue reading LiveStation now open for general public trial
I highly doubt the internet is going to collapse due to large amount of “Internet Protocol TV” traffic. YouTube has already been chewing a lot of bandwidth and the internet has not yet slowed down because of it.
If any thing this will give opportunity to ISP to change their pricing model and [...]
There has been some buz today regarding mydamnchannel.com.
My Damn Channel is an entertainment studio and new media platform created to empower artists to co-produce, distribute and monetize original, episodic video content. Programming is created by artists for the My Damn Channel site and for syndication on today’s most heavily-trafficked online communities and social networks. My Damn [...]
The prevailing fear of the complete transition of television content to the Internet — and the horrible impact this will have on television advertising — is just plain wrong.
Thankfully, with the move to digital in 2009, along with the arrival of new technology systems that will build on the legacy of television advertising, the advantages that [...]