Pakistan and Its Art at Asia Society, NYC

"Hanging Fire", an important exhibition featuring 15 contemporary artists of Pakistan opens at Asia Society, which was founded more than fifty years ago in New York to promote understanding between Asia and the...

Multimedia Touchscreen Handsets Under 20K

For the video and multimedia generation of today, a large screen is a pre-requisite and with large displays, 'touchscreen' is exactly what you’ll need for navigation. So, for you mobile maniacs interested in...

Intel Launches Fresh Mobile Quad-Core Chip

This sounds good. "Intel (NSDQ: INTC) over the weekend introduced a new mobile quad-core chip, which Acer started offering Monday in its latest Aspire laptop for multimedia and gaming enthusiasts. In addition,...

An article Journalism.co.uk wrote about my using Twitter to document Hurrican...

"Mark Mayhew, who used microblogging service Twitter to update from New Orleans as Hurricane Gustav hit, is using a range of multimedia tools to document efforts to rebuild towns and cities affected by Gustav and...

7 Phones That Push The iPhone To The Background

"Apple has caused a panic, with competitors scrambling to crank out Web-friendly, widescreen phones. But like the iPod, the harder rivals try to blunt Apple's strengths, the worse they look in comparison. In 2001, Apple started out with just a thin slice of the market for...

Toshiba introduces Qosmio G55, Qosmio X305 and Qosmio F55 Laptops

"Qosmio brand is the flagship of Toshiba. Today Toshiba officially introduced its three new Qosmio laptops: Qosmio G55 Multimedia laptop, Qosmio X305 gaming laptop and Qosmio F55gaming laptop. All these three laptops incorporate a Quad Core HD Processor, Gaming Grade...

Sleep-texting: lol or wtf?

Remember that drunken text message to your boss telling him exactly where to stick his managerial skills? Turns out you might actually have a legitimate excuse for that, er, lapse of judgment." Move over,...

Ethan Zuckerman: the history of digital community, in less than 7 minutes

Depending on your geek cred this is either a great review or fantastic education in the historical milestones of the Internet.  "Fasten your time machine seatbelt. As part of the Berkman Center’s...

The Future of International TV

One of the points I tried to make will my ill-fated Hulu post is that there is a great future in these IP/Internet-driven TV services, such as Hulu, to cross International boundaries. I have played with the iPlayer while I was in the UK, and you would be surprised (perhaps...

Cover It Live: Live Blogging in a Snap

Cover It Live is a simple tool that bloggers--pros and amateurs alike--can use to add real-time interactivity to their posts. A number of newspapers are using it, and all it requires is simple Javascript added to your blog. There are many examples throughout the Web.As this...

User-generated content leading to new jobs in news organizations

As the multimedia news streams grows and content supplied by "users" becomes part of the news, new jobs are popping up. The latest is "group multimedia editor" for the Glasgow Herald, says Editors Weblog: "John Young, former picture editor of the Glasgow Evening Times, will...

2007 Sets Record for Online Newspaper Readership

The news industry -- and the newspaper business in particular -- is in the midst of a radical, technologically-driven transformation. As expected, the data below provides further evidence that people are spending...

Beijing 2008 - The Official Video Game Of The Olympic Games Releasing In Summ...

"SEGA® Corporation today announced an exclusive partnership with International Sports Multimedia (ISM), exclusive licensee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to develop Beijing 2008™ - the Official Video Game of the Olympic Games. The game is being developed by...

Toshiba to Release First HD DVD-RW Qosmio multimedia Notebook in Japan

Toshiba is launching its first Qosmio G40 multimedia notebook with a rewritiable HD DVD and two HDTV tuners in Japan this week from Friday. The benefit of rewritiable HD DVD is you can transfer recorded TV shows or any content from a high-definition video camera to disc. You...

3G video telephony gateway by Winnerstek based on PTMC DSP

""Winnerstek selected Surf's multimedia processing platform for its 3G mobile capabilities and advanced video support," said Ju-Hyun Park, President, Winnerstek. "With Surf's powerful DSPs and support for a wide range of codecs we are able to offer our customers high quality...

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