Britain's communications regulator is keeping closer tabs on developments in the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal as it evaluates whether the New York-based media giant is a "fit and proper" owner for U.K. pay-TV operator BSkyB.
Macy's, based in Cincinnati, is suing Martha Stewart for breaching a long-standing exclusive contract that it had with the New York-based merchandising and media company in certain goods like bedding and bath items when it made a deal in late 2011 with Penney to open Martha Stewart mini-shops in the stores.
"Their name is on the door and I think they take more than a corporate interest in the success of the company--they take a family pride in it, " says New York-based media investment banker Ken Marlin of Marlin Associates.
The technical details are a bit thin at the moment, but we do know that it's a torrent-based media format with tools added on top that allow for donation or email collection, among other things.
Last week it was announced 16 jobs are to go at Cardiff-based Media Wales newspaper group as Trinity Mirror said it will axe a total of 92 jobs, but create 52 across Wales and England.
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The Swansea-based DVLA said it blocked social media sites, and no staff could access social media on its computers.
For Aller Media, whose products encompass everything from magazines to television, radio and web-based media, it means taking current competencies and strengths, and lifting them onto new platforms and into new times.
On the call, Millennial noted that it has acquired Metaresolver, a San Francisco-based media-buying and data platform for mobile.
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So it turned to a California-based consultancy, Appstem Media, to port INSPI from Windows Mobile to iOS and Android.
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Look, Moblin and MIDs and USB 3.0 are all well and good, but the real highlight of IDF is hiding in plain sight: it's Intel's CE 3100 Media Processor-based Tru2way DVR server, which has three digital cable tuners that can be streamed over a regular gigabit Ethernet or MoCA to any number of clients, ranging from other 3100-based set-top boxes to DLNA devices like laptops and even the PS3.
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Other major themes at the show, judging from pre-CTIA email pitches, include cloud-based services that will store media and stream it to multiple devices, mobile video editing tools, easy ways to monitor data usage and ever-smaller cellular base stations.
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Edinburgh-based media group, Johnston Press, has announced it has cut its losses but has seen a fall in advertising revenues.
One lawyer said that if Antigua did set up the mooted media download site it would be legal for UK-based internet users to buy films and music from it.
From what we can tell, it's basically a PC-based DVR (running on XP Home, rather than Media Center) that ships with a base unit and two remote boxes that can be connected via Ethernet.
Light-based communication seems to wind throughout the MIT Media Lab -- it is a universal language, after all, since many devices output light, be it with a dedicated LED or a standard LCD, and have the capacity to view and interpret it.
If I were to measure the Facebook approval rating based off social media and comment sentiment it would be overwhelmingly negative (probably about 80-90 percent bad).
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Nicholas Bernstein, CEO of start-up Brazilian media venture Corisco Films, based in New York and Rio, says it has already has a slate of films ready to make in Brazil.
So if you pop in a DVD "infected" with Protect DVD-Video, it can't be read by Windows Media Player, Media Center Edition, or any DirectShow-based software, thanks to a Universal Disc Format that tricks your machine into believing that the IFO file is zero bytes long.
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Of course, social media networks and new location-based services such as FourSquare and Facebook Places make it easier than ever before for brands to apply strategy to collaborative community marketing.
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Grassroots media center www.indymedia.org covered it all from the barricades, where Seattle-based www.historylink.org also placed webcams while it exulted in the city reclaiming its Vietnam-era mantle as the Pacific Northwest's protest central.
The commercial offshoot of Iamus, US-based Melomics Media, is offering the computer-created compositions at a similar rate to what it would cost to download a track from iTunes, Google Play or some other online store.
The Dome, based in Greenwich, London, has been plagued by media criticism and cash-flow problems since it opened with a chaotic opening night on Millennium Eve.
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