Convergence

London, New York, China, and Australia all have cabbies equipped with in-taxi networks designed to leverage a captive audience and entertain fares in the process. Analysts expect that troubled newspapers will be dealt yet another blow as passengers turn to technology for news and entertainment on the move. Cabvision, a "broadcast style" In–Cab TV system using digital audio broadcasting (DAB)...

A study to be released today shows that the proliferation of high-speed Internet service is not taking audiences away from television or other media, including newspapers and magazines. Research was commissioned by Yahoo! and communications firm Mediaedge:cia. Findings are set to be disclosed during a Yahoo! forum at the Museum of Television and Radio in GothamGotham. Study by Forrester Research...

Millions of hours of radio, TV and film records will be available online for free download after the BBC announced the launch of its Creative Archive License scheme. "The Creative Archive License provides a unique solution to one of the key challenges of rights in the digital age, allowing us to increase the public value of our archives by giving people the chance to use video and audio material...

Search supremo Google is to gain a toehold in the emerging market of ‘video blogging’ after co-founder Larry Page this week vowed to archive online movie clips. Speaking to a conference in San Francisco, the internet boss said he would upload short visual clips in the next few days to the search site’s existing servers. He said that the experiment into video blogging – or vlogging - invites...

From the BBC News: Is podcasting the dotcom revolution of the new millennium? Many, like former MTV veejay Adam Curry, seem to think so. He and his partner Ron Bloom have created PodShow, a venture that allows virtually anyone to create, distribute and market their podcasts online. This goal of this growing phenomenon, according to Curry, "is to create a network that, in aggregatiwill have enough...

What we take for granted today, satellite television or cellular telephone or even a humble Walkman, were part of sci-fi a mere quarter of a century ago. Even as we debate a new convergence policy in India and wonder whether we need a content regulator or talk about new spectrum allocation, the viability or desirability of direct-to-home television and broadband, a socio-economic revolution is...

TV channel/programme promotions have become commonplace on radio these days. While newspapers continue to be the favourite advertising platform for television channels, radio has emerged as an important destination. The Radio AdEX study reveals that TV broadcasters prefer newspapers and radio channels to magazines because of their frequency as most television programmes also run on a daily or a...

This is another story of David defeating Goliath, except that David won the fight without even knowing it. At the recent Online Journalism Awards banquet in Hollywood, the finalists for General Excellence (Small Sites) included the Center for Public Integrity, Congressional Quarterly's CQ.com, PBS' Frontline World, PBS' POV, and the VenturaCountyStar.com. While the latter site is indeed owned by...

It's no secret that Bengalis simply adore Durga Puja and everything associated with the celebrations. Therefore, it's little wonder that the Anandabazar Patrika Puja website, anandautsav.com has been a major hit with this community; the website pocketed a cool 10 million hits in only 15 days. Between October 15 and October 25, about 1 lakh Internet users from across the world had visited this...

SOMEDAY SOON, writes Time Inc. Editor at Large Daniel Okrent, the jig will be up for news on paper. The combined magic of digital, satellite and cellular technology will enable journalists to beam text and images to readers and viewers anytime, anywhere, via portable personal information appliances, he wrote last December in a commentary widely circulated on the Internet. Readers will like it, but...