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Broadband customers of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) have a lot to cheer about as they would soon be able to enjoy content rich surfing with access to Internet Protocol (IP) and time shifted television, video-on-demand, voice and interactive messaging and next generation gaming. In the first step towards enriching content, BSNLwill invite Expression of Interest (EOI) from content providers next...

India is speeding towards the broadband revolution, says Sudhir Narang*, senior VP, service provider and government, Cisco Systems, India & SAARC. After wireless, broadband is expected to be the next big revolution to sweep India. The day isn't far away when Indian consumers will have access to triple play broadband at their doorstep - whether home or office. Globally, broadband remains hot...

The Government notified on Wednesday changes in the print media guidelines, approved by the Cabinet in mid-June, that seek to facilitate greater foreign presence in print media through printing of facsimile editions of foreign newspapers and periodicals, and enhancement of the syndication limits in Indian newspapers. Also, greater flexibility has been allowed in the foreign direct investment (FDI)...

Seoul - In South Korea, print newspapers used to be the "media king" that once held society together, but the rise of the Internet has undermined the role of the dailies as the major opinion leaders and is cutting into their ad revenue, industry sources say. Up until 2000, almost six in every 10 adults started the day with reading a newspaper. Politically, the major papers had earned their stars...

ONLINE READERS REMEMBER ADS BETTER when they appear in the middle of articles than in the beginning, but give more credibility to ads that appear at the start of an article--below the masthead and before the byline--according to a study by researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism and University of Kansas School of Journalism and Mass Communication. For the study,...

The Financial Times topped a list of the world's best newspapers, according to a survey of executives, politicians, university lecturers, journalists and advertising professionals conducted by a Swiss-based consultant. Among 1,000 respondents from 50 countries, 19.4 percent chose the FT as the best paper, according to the survey by Zurich-based Internationale Medienhilfe... The New York Times...

For anyone observing the Indian media scene these are strange and contradictory times. On the one hand, there appears to be a boom underway. Two new 24-hour news channels are being launched in addition to the several already on air. Three new English language dailies will soon be vying for the attention of the Mumbaikar. Media houses are allocating massive budgets for publicity and market research...

Republican Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, who is usually a reliable conservative, is promoting a "federal shield law" for reporters. It has gotten some publicity in the wake of attempts by a Special Counsel to force reporters Matt Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller of the New York Times to reveal their "confidential" and anonymous sources in the case of CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose...

The Cabinet on Tuesday decided to set up a Group of Ministers (GoM) to study the uplinking policy for television channels proposed by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry in view of reservations over the provision to allow Doordarshan automatic access to terrestrial rights for sports events of national importance. Though Minister S. Jaipal Reddy, while briefing mediapersons on the Cabinet...

It has happened before, and it will happen again. I was reading a story on the San Jose Mercury News' Web site about federal agents arresting people for running a sex-trafficking ring out of massage parlors. And when I saw the text ads below the story served through Google AdSense, they were for day spas and massage services in the San Francisco Bay Area. The ads are deemed relevant by the...