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- Technology for Providing Educational Video on Demand on Campus
- Much hope has been placed in the past on Educational Television for improving educational standards and distance education. However, in many countries the impact of this technology has been limited. Some of the reasons are discussed along with possible technical solutions. One solution that has been developed at HP Labs...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., VoD, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite TV, Video On Demand (VoD), E-learning, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-11-21
- TiVo's new strategy: Too little, too late?
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz says it's time for TiVo to focus its resources on licensing its technologies for the non-TiVo DVR boxes offered by cable and satellite TV providers. TiVo should abandon developing its standalone set-top boxes, since it has never been good at luring a mainstream customer base,...
- Tags: Strategy, TiVo Inc., Satellite TV, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Sam Diaz Memo, Tivo, DirecTV
- Videos 2008-09-03
- Video: Don't look for satellite TV merger anytime soon.
- It's final. Satellite radio has been given the thumbs up to merge. That doesn't mean that a satellite TV merger is around the corner, though. The dynamics of TV and radio are different - even though some of the tech's competitive forces are standing on the sidelines of the satellite...
- Tags: Merger, Video, Satellite, Satellite Television, Satellite TV, Mergers & Acquisitions, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Investment, Finance, Home Entertainment, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- What's good for satellite radio isn't necessarily good for satellite TV - yet.
- Now that the FCC has given its blessing to the merger of the nation's two satellite radio companies, it was only a matter of time before the question of a merger between their satellite TV cousins - DirecTV and DISH Network - popped up. Senior analyst Craig Moffett at Sanford...
- Tags: Merger, Radio, Satellite, Satellite Television, Satellite TV, TVs, Satellite Radio, Tv & Home Theater, Mergers & Acquisitions, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Investment, Finance, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Dishing It Out
- There may soon be just one satellite radio company. Now, the stars seem to be aligning for there to be just one satellite TV company, as well. First, in radio. The FCC is close to making a decision that will let Sirius Satellite Radio Inc acquire arch-rival...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., DirecTV, Satellite, Satellite Television, Liberty Media Corp., John Malone, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite TV, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- In-flight Internet cleared for take-off
- I've been skeptical of plans for in-flight broadband access. Let's face it, the airlines don't have a great track record here. No one used those sad phones in the seatbacks. And Boeing's Connexion service--once offered by a few international carriers--is gone. But this time it may finally happen. ...
- Tags: Internet Access, American Airlines, Wall Street Journal, Flight, JetBlue Airways Corp., Boeing Co., Equipment, Satellite, Virgin America, Aircell, U.S. In-flight Broadband, Satellite TV, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Orbatel Satellite TV PC Player (zip)
- The 1051 media player brings you free satellite TV and radio programming at an amazing bargain. It comes pre-installed with more than 2,000 free satellite television channels and radio stations from countries all around the world. You can access the hottest music and top-quality programming with channels like NBC, C-SPAN,...
- Tags: Satellite, Satellite Television, Programming, Satellite TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-11-14
- WOLFF TV Player (zip)
- Watch 2000+ free channels directly on your PC screen. Includes sports channels, movies, documentaries, reality TV, popular TV shows/series, cartoons, comedy - from the USA, Canada and several other countries around the world. Software includes a built-in media player for streaming channel feeds. Download it now and turn your PC...
- Tags: Software, Channel, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite TV, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2007-03-16
- WebShifter (exe)
- WebShifter is a Web based and WAP enabled scheduler for analog, digital, and satellite TV recording with integrated EPG and file manager. It allows you to manage your TV recordings using a Web browser on any PC or mobile device, at home or anywhere in the world. Main features: a...
- Tags: Web Browser, WebShifter, Satellite TV, TVs, Web Browsers, Tv & Home Theater, WAP, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Wireless
- Software downloads 2007-03-06
- MyMceSat (exe)
- MyMceSat is a satellite plug-in that enables the user to view DVB-S/-C/-T channels in MCE The solution is using a background application, MyTheatre. EPG is sent to MCE through the HTTP protocol, so channel/event/description is shown on MCE when selecting channels. Favorite channels will be marked up in MyTheatre, and...
- Tags: Channel, MyMceSat, MCE, EPG, Satellite TV, Network Technology, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2007-01-26
- BesTV (exe)
- BESTV is the hottest program on the Internet. This program will allow you to access 100s of Satellite TV and Radio Stations from all over the world on your desktop or laptop 24/7 anywhere you have Internet access. Watch for free. No subscriptions and No additional hardware are required. No...
- Tags: Internet Access, Satellite, BesTV, Satellite TV, Digital Music, Smart Cards, Network Technology, Cable, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Telecommunications
- Software downloads 2006-04-13
- International Network Services Case Study: Digital Satellite TV Service
- A leading digital satellite television service provider planned to migrate to a new broadcasting technique in order to provide local television stations to designated areas in the United States. The client planned to use a new satellite that offered space division multiplexing to cover small areas of the country. The...
- Tags: Satellite, Satellite Television, Satellite TV, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Home Entertainment, Networking
- Case studies
- Comic Relief Builds Multi-Channel e-Commerce Site
- Comic Relief is a charitable organization set up by Richard Curtis in the United Kingdom to help end poverty and social injustice by raising funds. The company wanted to build a scalable, high-performance e-commerce platform capable of live-authorizing hundreds of thousands of transactions arriving through the Internet, digital satellite TV...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Call-center, E-business, Comic Relief, Web Technology, Call Centers, E-business/E-Commerce, TVs, Satellite TV, Tv & Home Theater, Leadership, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Oh, and BTW: 'Intellectually Bankrupt' FCC Chief To Be Around Until Mid-2009
- There's little love lost between the nation's largest cable operator, Comcast, and the country's top industry watchdog, Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin During his tenure, Martin has pushed repeatedly to usher in...
- Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Chairman, Federal Government, Government, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- 2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 ... or 2011 ... or 2012?
- Satellite TV has been gaining subscribers, relentlessly this decade. Particularly DirecTV, which had 3.8 million subscribers at the end of June 1998 and counted 17.2 million, at the end of this June, according to this compilation by the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association of America. ...
- Tags: Cable Television, Broadcasting, Satellite, Brodsky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Joost arrives for iPhone
- Back in April 2007 when I first wrote about Joost it was an invitation-only video streaming service from the wunderkind responsible for Skype and Kazaa. Back then it required you to download a proprietary client, then in October 2008 it morphed into a Web-based service. In its...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Joost, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Marketing, Internet, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- IT expert executed in Iran
- Following Pakistan's recently introduced "Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008" according to which potential cyberterrorists would face the death penalty, a neighboring country, Iran, has recently executed an IT expert who confessed of being an Israeli spy for at least three years. After being recruited by Mossad during a business...
- Tags: Information Technology, Equipment, Iran, Government, Productivity, Real Estate, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Minutes per viewer spent on network TV Web site
- Name Minutes per Viewer FOX Broadcasting 114.3 CBS Television 48.4 ABC.COM 45.5 NBC.com 34.6 Source: Nielsen by NB
- Tags: Network, CBS Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Why Grandma Sandy and Aunt Roz don't want an HDTV for Christmas
- Answer: Rectangular peg, Square Hole. With the prices of HDTV's plummeting, one would think that people would be rushing to buy new sets, particularly with the analog TV mass-extinction event coming in February. But the reality is, many people have no intention...
- Tags: Cabinet, HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week
- Here are a few of ZDNet's favorite items from the past week, including Adobe suites, laptop bags, and a Panasonic flat panel TV. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-12-01
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