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Media and entertainment news
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IBM's second global online survey of consumer digital media and entertainment habits revealed that consumers are adopting digital content services - such as social networking and videos - on mobile phones and personal computers at an accelerated pace, and it is impacting traditional consumption habits. | 18 Nov 2008 |
At IBC 2008 International Conference today, Broadcast International announced the availability of CodecSys AVC, the first broadcast-quality video encoder product based on the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) multi-core processor. | 12 Sep 2008 |
iPoint-media, a leading video calling specialist and provider of interactive video application delivery platforms for web, 3G mobile and media will be demonstrating GOliveTV, an integrated component in IBM's MediaHub solution at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) 2008. | 11 Sep 2008 |
People share their videos on YouTube and their photos at Flickr. Now they can share more technical types of displays: graphs, charts and other visuals — using Many Eyes technology by IBM — to help them analyze data buried in spreadsheets, tables or text. | 30 Aug 2008 |
IBM, the official technology partner of the US Open, and the United States Tennis Association, serves up environmentally-friendly business solutions and fan enhancements to the USTA to help focus on growing the game. | 27 Aug 2008 |
ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion, the ProSiebenSat.1 Group's technical service provider, and IBM are setting up the media group's central tapeless archive in terms of an agreement worth four million euro. The new agreement extends the ten year, 200 million euro IT services agreement signed with IBM in April 2008. | 25 Aug 2008 |
IBM today announced new software and services for mobile devices that closely mimic desktop features formerly found only on the PC. | 08 Aug 2008 |
As one era closed with the final All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium this week, Major League Baseball (MLB) enters a new one, employing software technologies from IBM to improve the way baseball is officiated. | 18 Jul 2008 |
Aspera today announced that its whole suite of software products seamlessly integrates with the IBM Media Hub Solution Framework, enabling digital content to be moved at maximum speed with unprecedented bandwidth control, complete security and uncompromising reliability. | 09 Jul 2008 |
Cell Broadband Engine™ solutions provider Fixstars Corporation announced today a business alliance with Broadcast International, Inc. for its CodecSys video compression technology. | 14 Apr 2008 |
At NAB2008, Sophoi, Inc., a leading provider of business rights and licensing management software, demonstrated business rights intelligence for broadcasters using IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) v3. | 14 Apr 2008 |
ABS-CBN, a leading broadcasting company in the Philippines, marked yet another industry milestone, collaborating with IBM as it embarks on a platform that will digitize all of its content, resulting in enhanced media content creation and management that is bound to benefit Filipino media consumers worldwide. | 11 Apr 2008 |
At NAB2008, IBM introduced the IBM Management Complexity Factor for Media, the first media-industry specific methodology and toolset designed to dramatically improve digital media storage environments. | 11 Apr 2008 |
NextIO, a leader in I/O virtualization solutions, today announced that IBM has developed a solution for the IBM BladeCenter H systems. NextIO is offering the solution immediately in sampling quantities to its customers. | 10 Apr 2008 |
Computer memory that combines the high performance and reliability of flash with the low cost and high capacity of the hard disk drive could be closer than you think, thanks to a team of IBM scientists. | 10 Apr 2008 |
Broadcast International today announced it will demonstrate live HD video encoding under 3 Mbps at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas. The demonstration marks the first time in the broadcast industry that video will be encoded from a live camera feed at this rate of video compression. | 10 Apr 2008 |
German news channel N24 Gesellschaft für Nachrichten und Zeitgeschehen mbH (N24) has signed a several million Euro contract with IBM to deploy a new editorial production system. | 09 Apr 2008 |
Unlimi-Tech Software, the leader in accelerated file transfer software, announced that it will be demonstrating its FileCatalyst technology at the NAB 2008 trade show. | 08 Apr 2008 |
The ProSiebenSat.1 Group is setting up a pan-European digital platform in partnership with IBM. The aim is to build an all-digital, tapeless technology infrastructure that enables the delivery of TV programming to multiple platforms across Europe. | 08 Apr 2008 |
SAMMA Systems, the global leader in media migration, today has announced they will team with IBM to create a cost effective, streamlined solution for content owners for the automated ingest and encoding of volumes of videotape content. | 07 Apr 2008 |
Cognos, an IBM company, and the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), the collective bargaining representative for all active Major League Baseball players, has selected IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer to help analyze data. | 28 Mar 2008 |
IBM Researchers today unveiled a prototype technology that could bring massive amounts of bandwidth in an energy efficient way to all kinds of machines — from supercomputers to cell phones — that could revolutionize the way people access, use and share information across many different applications. | 28 Feb 2008 |
IBM announced that its WebSphere Application Server, a key building block for services oriented architecture (SOA), shattered an industry benchmark for scalability and performance by more than 33 percent using technology that costs half the price of the competition. | 19 Feb 2008 |
IBM today announced the National Football League (NFL) has standardized its business on IBM BladeCenter® and System x™ servers. The servers from IBM leverage X-Architecture® — the company's design blueprint for x86-based servers | 27 Nov 2007 |
IBM Press Room - IBM Global Business Services unveiled its new report, The end of advertising as we know it, forecasting greater disruption for the advertising industry in the next five years than occurred in the previous 50. | 08 Nov 2007 |
IBM has created and implemented the digital newsroom for FOX Business Network’s debut to more than 30 million subscribers. | 24 Oct 2007 |
IBM and Linden Labs, the operator of the Second Life virtual world, said on Tuesday they will work on ways to eventually let people use a single online persona in different online services. | 10 Oct 2007 |
Broadcast International today announced that it will debut the first public demonstrations of its new encoding solution, developed in collaboration with IBM. | 07 Sep 2007 |
SintecMedia, a leading provider of broadcast management systems, today revealed the results of a breakthrough performance test for OnAir. | 07 Sep 2007 |
IBM Press Room - IBM (NYSE: IBM) and ZAO Medit Profi have successfully completed a massive newsroom modernization project at TV Channel 5 in St. Petersburg, Russia. | 07 Sep 2007 |
At IBC2007, Sophoi, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise intellectual property (IP) management software, demonstrated that it has integrated its business rights, licensing and royalty management solution with the IBM Media Hub Solution Framework. | 06 Sep 2007 |
ExtendMedia Corporation whose software powers digital media commerce for leading media and entertainment players in North America, announced that it has expanded its operations in the United Kingdom and western Europe through a network of individual business development representatives and industry partners. | 06 Sep 2007 |
Signiant® Inc., the leading developer of digital media distribution management solutions for the media and entertainment industry, today announced that Signiant’s Digital Media Distribution Management Suite integrates seamlessly with the IBM Media Hub Solution Framework. | 06 Sep 2007 |
Service Oriented Architecture expands Xytech Software to support enterprise-wide media operations, allowing further integration with media production systems. | 29 Aug 2007 |
IBM is bringing millions of fans worldwide closer to their favorite tennis stars at the 127th annual US Open. Point by point, IBM is delivering a host of new interactive capabilities to enhance the 2007 tournament | 28 Aug 2007 |
A new IBM online survey of consumer digital media and entertainment habits shows audiences are more in control than ever and increasingly savvy about filtering marketing messages. | 22 Aug 2007 |
The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today awarded IBM (NYSE: IBM) a contract to provide services for the Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Coupon Program. | 15 Aug 2007 |
The film and entertainment sectors have been one of the slowest and most reluctant of industries when it comes to technology, but the they should be dramatically transformed in the coming years by innovations in the way that content is created and distributed. | 20 Jul 2007 |
Already established as the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world, DC Comics announced today the creation of Zudacomics.com, a new web comics imprint. | 09 Jul 2007 |
Online games are shaping today’s tech-savvy generation, whether it is picking up tips on business strategies or living life. | 01 Jul 2007 |
Designed to help tech managers better understand the roles of businesspeople, and vice versa, Innov8 is one of several initiatives afoot at IBM to incorporate features of online games into business. | 15 Jun 2007 |
Warner Bros.' Motion Picture Imaging unit - which includes dailies, digital intermediates and mastering, restoration and archiving - is installing a new workflow-management process to tie together its services. The goal is to be more efficient and competitive. | 20 May 2007 |
International Business Machines Corp., the world's largest computer services company, and the British Broadcasting Corp. plan to apply IBM's Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System video-search software to let consumers plumb the archives of BBC TV | 03 May 2007 |
FARO celebrates its premiere: Swiss television (SF) has launched its new multimedia compatible archive database. In collaboration with IBM (NYSE: IBM), SF replaced a nearly 20 year old legacy application with a modern content management system called FARO, which allows for digital video files. | 18 Apr 2007 |
Australian national commercial television broadcaster Network Ten (TEN) has chosen IBM (NYSE: IBM) to implement a digital content management system to store and manage its television video and audio content. | 16 Apr 2007 |
As the media and entertainment industry continues to evolve to digital content, broadcasters, networks, entertainment studios and cable operators are turning to IBM (NYSE: IBM) to reduce costs, better respond to market opportunities and stay competitive in the "race to air." | 16 Apr 2007 |
Pearson, plc, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a five year, $128 million Information Technology (IT) infrastructure services agreement to continue to help Pearson provide new services and reduce costs for its publishing, information and education businesses. | 11 Apr 2007 |
Sony Pictures Entertainment has signed a five-year, $3.8 million contract with IBM to support its global financial system. The agreement, signed in Q1 2007, expands on a $4.3 million Q4 2006 contract between the two companies that was based on a competitive evaluation. | 02 Apr 2007 |
Broadcast International today announced that it is currently implementing the IBM® BladeCenter® QS20 ''Cell Blade'' in a test environment as a means to significantly improve performance and reduce costs associated with video compression, while delivering high quality video at low bandwidths. | 16 Mar 2007 |
IBM and Vivox, the leading provider of integrated voice services for online games and virtual worlds, are working together to bring integrated voice communication to the games and interactive entertainment market. | 07 Mar 2007 |
The BBC and IBM have forged a strategic alliance, following the signing of an agreement for a framework outlining several joint projects between the two companies. | 05 Mar 2007 |
IBM Global Business Services unveiled its new report, 'Navigating the Media Divide: Innovating and Enabling New Business Models,' which offers a list of actions that companies can take to navigate the conflict threatening traditional content owners and media distributors. IBM calls this conflict the 'Media Divide.' | 26 Feb 2007 |
IBM announced today the plans to open new centers in Dubai and La Gaude, France designed to address the growing demand for skills needed to solve customer business problems using service oriented architectures (SOA). | 15 Jan 2007 |
At consumer electronics show 2007, IBM announced plans to build virtual stores for Sears Holdings Corp. and Circuit City Stores Inc. in the popular online world Second Life. | 08 Jan 2007 |
The editors of CMP Technology's Game Developer have named the finalists for the 2006 Front Line Awards, the magazine's ninth annual evaluation of the year's best game-making tools in the categories of programming, art, audio, hardware, game engine, middleware, and books. | 28 Nov 2006 |
Georgia Tech just announced that it will serve as the first Sony-Toshiba-IBM Center of Competence focused on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) Microprocessor. SONY, Toshiba and IBM are partnering with Georgia Tech's College of Computing to build a community of programmers and broaden industry support for the Cell BE processor. | 05 Nov 2006 |
On Thursday, October 12, 2006, IBM (NYSE: IBM) is holding a first-of-its-kind Alumni block party in the virtual world of Second Life, an online world that brings people together in a 3D universe, allowing for more natural and real interactions for people who cannot meet in person. | 10 Oct 2006 |
ARTE, France and Germany's cultural television station, broadcasting in French and German from Strasbourg, has chosen IBM (NYSE: IBM) to implement an IT-based ingest, browse and high-resolution editing system, replacing its manual program production and broadcast processes. | 08 Sep 2006 |
Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) and Microsoft Corp. today announced they will harness IBM's server systems technology to deliver solutions for carrier-class triple play/Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) deployments. | 23 May 2006 |
IBM researchers packed data onto magnetic tape at a world-record density of 6.67 billion linear bits per square inch (left) -- more than 15 times the data density of todays most popular industry standard magnetic tape products. | 16 May 2006 |
IBM today announced the MediaHub Solution Framework, a new offering for the Media and Entertainment industry, using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to combine business operations with information technology. | 25 Apr 2006 |
Fox Broadcasting Company is expanding its high definition (HD) digital archive system co-designed with IBM to include the 2006 and 2007 NFL, MLB, NASCAR and 'American Idol' seasons on FOX. | 25 Apr 2006 |
The companies have been working together to develop a standards–based ecosystem that will facilitate the implementation of "download and burn" entertainment models to consumer electronics devices that are SD Memory Card–enabled. | 24 Apr 2006 |
Recognizing the critical role that new technology and services will play in the future of these industries, IBM is working with small and medium gaming companies around the world to empower innovative business models. | 21 Mar 2006 |
Technology, entertainment and CE industry alliance collaborates to expedite consumer access to next-generation high-definition digital entertainment | 21 Feb 2006 |
New IBM Business Consulting Services report forecasts immediate disruption of key segments of the television industry leading to long term upheaval that promises to be no less dramatic then that experienced by the music industry. | 26 Jan 2006 |
The National Football League and IBM today announced a three-year agreement naming IBM as the NFL's official information technology (IT) partner. The agreement is centered on helping the NFL create the technology platform required to support next-generation digital media and other critical new business ventures for the NFL. | 23 Jul 2003 |
SBS is the first major broadcaster in the world to implement the IBM Digital Media Center. The Digital Media Center will automate their news program system, allowing for the digitalization of SBS' news program production processes. | 31 Mar 2003 |
IBM today announced that it has been honored with a Best Practice Award from The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) International, for the media asset production and management system it developed for Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group. | 22 Mar 2002 |
Convera announced that IBM is offering Convera's RetrievalWare® as the search and retrieval technology for its Network Interactive Content Access (NICA) publishing industry solution, enabling NICA's international customer base to perform faster, more accurate searches in their native language. | 21 Feb 2002 |
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