Robbie's got an announcement about some new partnerships there, got some new content in Media Center.
Meanwhile, content marketing took center stage this year as an area of investment, with 88% of respondents indicating movement in this capability, with increased investment in the future.
In a world of media fragmentation, social media ubiquity and mobile technology, content has risen to center stage as the focus of many marketing efforts.
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Web content differs from call center logs and wireless communications.
If the cheapest way of getting something in your living room which will play movies, stream video content from your Media Center PC, if it's the Microsoft vision, or directly off the network if it's the Sony vision, for 300 bucks, that's a lot cheaper than today's media streamers or even TiVo-like devices.
The new battleground in terms of building a meaningful profit center relates to content.
The new president and CEO found that the Constitution Center needed more content.
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We see the standard being expanded horizontally to address the specific needs of new markets such as energy efficiency, in-car networking, data-center networking and content delivery.
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That means that for more important apps, dynamic content can be front and center in larger tiles, while less important apps or utilities can be kept to the smallest-sized tile.
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The living room television has long been the center of household content viewing, and with more capable smart TVs content will shift from broadcast programming to viewing that is more interactive.
With a VESA mount, you can hang it in your bedroom and use Windows Media Center to pull in content from your main PC or even plug in a digital cable tuner and use it as a stand-alone entertainment system.
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Samsung Media Solutions Center America (MSCA) delivers content and services across Samsung's mobile and digital ecosystem.
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In some cases advertisers or their agencies cover all production costs themselves, offering free content in exchange for putting their products at center stage--and even at times the agencies pocketing a share of the show's ad sales.
The idea is that you can hold and drag just about any content on the phone -- places, web pages, pictures, people -- to The Spot (a dark circle appears in the center when it's holding content), and then tap it to send the content on to your friends via the service of your choice.
Microsoft had great success with an evolving media approach to its console business with the Xbox 360 -- apps and original content are in, with Mediaroom and Media Center pushed to the side -- and even if these rumors are true, we wouldn't be surprised if what exists in a few years ends up changing just as much.
The primary costs governing these margins include revenue sharing and content acquisition costs, postage costs and DVD shipment center costs.
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"The Language Learning Center offers hundreds of hours of video content in over 50 languages to students and faculty, with a growing library of video assets, " said Bob Majors, Senior Computing Specialist, University of Washington.
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Recently, in an interview by Amy Gahran for the Knight Digital Media Center, I talked about how every organization has content that draw folks in emotionally.
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The development and implementation of new storage and memory architectures, combined with evolved storage system management can play an important role in controlling the growth of data center power use even as the total amount of content in data centers grows.
This meant that users were free to swap the CableCARD to another device without so much as a call to Verizon, and more importantly, it meant that all the content was accessible via features like TiVo To Go and Media Center Recorded TV sharing.
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Toshiba believes that this product can create a dedicated flash based hardware engine for content delivery that reduces the costs and lowering power usage and data center footprint when the product is available later this year.
The entertainment center of the living room, Xbox 360 blends unbeatable content with a leading social entertainment network of nearly 35 million Xbox LIVE members to create a limitless entertainment experience that can be shared at home or across the globe.
Kathy McKeown, who will be the director of the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering, said research projects in the media center will include the development of more sophisticated search tools for content in online videos and the tracking of online text, video and images to understand when people express opinions and how they persuade each other.
It will be fought on content deals, ease of Internet use and ability to play the key role at the center of a home entertainment system.
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Continuing to reduce the costs of on-line storage will require the management of stored content to optimize availability depending upon frequency of use and use of commodity storage and other data center equipment.
Such a new content plan could help position the Xbox much more directly as a full-service living room entertainment center, rather than primarily as a video game system.
Because although we've always been able to add these codecs to Media Center anyways, the real crux has been when you try to watch the very same content on an extender -- like the Xbox 360.
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Ford's prototype will increase the aluminum content by 256% over previous models, according to a report conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Center for Transportation Analysis.
That's the good news, the (potentially) bad news is that all this great content will only be delivered via Verizon's software, so if you're a TiVo or Media Center guy, no programming for you.
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