IBC 2008 – taking it to the streets

Hey out there IBC 2008 exhibitors – ink is going to be setting up an IBC newsfeed to report on all the chatter, news, old boring stuff and innovation at the show  – so be on the look out for a daily entry on all the news – the good, bad and the ugly.

Android Phone

Well, I don’t know who doesn’t like to say or use the word “android” in a sentence – I dig it. But, I don’t know about you but when we all know that Google is trying to take over the world, search term by search term, and they come up with a new operating system [...]

The Danes make news again.. with IPTV

You know   – if you really take a good hard look at the Scandanavian countries -they are really moving the ball forward with adoption of IPTV and other telco and emerging technology. This story is about Tilgin winning a big IPTV order for a huge Danish Utility Company – more than its size, it is [...]

Great TechCrunch story on blogging

Great read by Eric Schonfeld – who says that as international blogging rises, so have arrests – and this makes you think about the free speech that we all take for granted.

Great IPTV story out of the Phillippines

Ericsson says that because of the “healthy interests” in the region that IPTV will be kicking it in two years reports ZDNet Asia. Ericsson believes that unlike Web TV and video streaming, IPTV promises more bandwidth and dedicated Internet pipelines to ensure better broadcast quality and provide on-demand TV services. Note that the Philippines was [...]

Google going after traditional media

You snickered to your self when we said “one ring to bind them all” Now you aren’t laughing are you? This just in from Google – everybody loves tradition.

Europe goes soft on advertising

From the New York Times this June – says that ad spending in Europe is down but media buyers and their companies are allocating more of their budgets to the Internet, cutting their allocations to broadcast and print advertising. See, its coming .. the decline continues  – still there are old timers who always want [...]

Content to Mobile

We love Content to Mobile, a great story on new models for mobile video usage – this has been at the topic of most operators and VCs – and all those with an investment in the industry, this is good news. The report is courtesy of In-Stat’s David Chamberlain who always hits the issues hard [...]

Building Blocks 2008 – Digital Hollywood puts on a good show

Normally we don’t repost press releases but you know – we are doing all sorts of new thing lately as you all know. But we wanted to give a shout out Digital Hollywood’s upcoming Building Blocks conference which is chock full of really good ideas – it’s a real gathering for journalists and industry execs [...]

Rolling out the contextual technology for bloggers

Another company entering the unstoppable blogging market — Kaalga.com which makes contextual suggestions to a blog based on what you are typing. Very cool -still in its beginning stages but on the right path. Much like Zemanta.com blends images, news stories around the internet and historical references to your entries — issues like content rights [...]