Nice but relatively random Spaghetti Code sculpture image: George Hart Computer Science Department NY
Heard this on “Heritage Media” channel 702 ABC (AM!) Radio Sydney this morning. Deborah Cameron was interviewing Ben Eggleton of Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) a consortium between five Australian universities: The University of Sydney, Macquarie University, University [...]
Courtesy of Michael Ball:
“Is there a market for feature-length films on the mobile phone?” I asked Tomas Gewecke, new President of Digital Distribution for Warner Bros., at the US Mobile Entertainment Forum Conference MEFCON last week.
You’d think, by the audience reaction, that I just confessed to running over his dog.
Warner cut a deal recently with [...]
New technologies focusing on the convergence of TV and community continue to turn watching TV into a social activity. The connected TV experience is aimed at providing remote users with a joint viewing experience - chat, vote, comment, or just watch your favorite shows with other fans or distant friends.
The idea of transforming an experience [...]
Plaxo Pulse is an interesting social networking service which, unlike Facebook, allows you to separate your personal and business contacts. It also has a sophisticated address and calendar function which are linked to all those highly addictive sharing and communications tools. News this week is that Plaxo has partnered with cable TV company Comcast to [...]
Never shy of blowing their own trumpet, Virgin Media says that within a year its customers will spend more time viewing its video-on-demand service than watching Channel 4.
Customers of the British cable television company use the video-on-demand service 22 times a month on average. “We are at the start of a fundamental shift in [...]
All reports are that the latest online video offering from News Corporation and NBC is exceeding expectations. Although the service is currently only available in the US it’s only a matter of time before it goes global according to CEO Jason Kilar. You can read a report of his comments at MIP here. Also of [...]
The LAMP team have been packing up our offices at AFTRS in North Ryde in preparation for the big move into our new building at Sydney’s Fox Studios. In the process, a lot of paper, DVD’s and CD-R’s have gone into the wheelie bins and we’re hoping that in future we’ll be accumulating a lot [...]
