Convergence

Even if you're reading All the News That's Fit to Print on an ultra-mobile computer, it may soon look and feel the same way it does spread out with your morning coffee – minus the ink-stained fingers, perhaps. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, appearing at the American Society of Newspaper Editors conference in Seattle, showed off a new feature of Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Vista operating...

SEATTLE (AP) -- With subscribers canceling and ad revenues sliding, editors gathering this week were hunting ways to harness the Internet's power to lure back readers and win over those who've never picked up a print edition. Despite the gloomy statistics, panelists at the American Society of Newspaper Editors' annual meeting insisted that news of the newspaper's imminent demise has been greatly...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The widely hyped merging of the PC and TV is finally taking shape in a way that only a few people imagined in the late 1990s Internet boom. From independent producers like Mondo Media to big media companies like MTV, and even kids who post videos on community sites like YouTube.com, the World Wide Web is becoming a sort of worldwide TV network for audiences seeking offbeat...

Getting married and wondering how you would look in a mermaid-style sheath? Brides.com, a new Web site, takes you to a virtual fitting room, lets you pick from one of four body types and examine how each would look in six different styles of gowns. Brides.com, an upgraded bridal site combining content from three different magazines, comes from Condé Nast, which, like many magazine publishers, is...

The Associated Press and Microsoft Corp on Wednesday launched a new service which allows the news cooperative's member websites to offer free video news clips and share in advertising revenue generated from the service. The breaking news video service, powered by MSN Video and leveraging AP content, is tailored for websites and provides high-quality, in-depth reports from the world's largest...

Antwerp - Spending hours reading the papers may be an ideal pastime on a lazy Sunday afternoon. But what if your newspaper updated itself during the day? What if the pictures moved and the interviews could be listened to? In Belgium, this is coming true - at least for a three-month trial period. The Antwerp-based daily De Tijd will soon become the world's first newspaper to publish a digital...

PASADENA, California (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC might have been the first of the Big Four networks to embrace the uncharted waters of download-on-demand TV, but the network says it is treading cautiously when it comes to aligning with new-media platforms and partners. The licensing pact with Apple's iTunes that helped accelerate the marketplace for download-on-demand and portable video players was...

CONVERGENCE is back, but it is not what it used to be. Following its release after about five years in the halfway house for overblown business ideas, it has been swiftly rehabilitated in the form of various online-offline business ventures. This time around, though, some fairly radical wrinkles on the theme are in the works. One notable example is Google's deal last week to acquire dMarc...

Picture a world where rumour is rife, where established media are focusing on unfair and unsubstantiated allegations, where government has to dedicate its efforts to fighting off and correcting slanders and trying to control the press. No, I'm not talking about bloggers, or the world of the internet. This was England in 1695, when the licensing of pamphlets and newspapers came to an end and for...

The Shenzhen Mobile Phone Paper, China's first registered mobile newspaper which has been jointly launched by the Shenzhen Press Group and China Mobile Shenzhen, has formally launched its beta test. With the Shenzhen Mobile Phone Paper, users can browse the news offline after they receive the files via Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). The service is free from now on until March 31. The monthly...