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TV Station Manager (zip)

TV Station Manager is a simulation game that lets you take control of a small independent TV station, about to go bankrupt. Choose from 16 categories of show or make your own, and create the channel of your dreams. Version 1.2.3 has added support for German language: now you can...

Tags: Winter Wolves Game Studio, TV Station Manager, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Games, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2008-05-02

Stargate Screensaver 1 (zip)

Stargate productions center on the premise of a Stargate, a ring-shaped alien device that enables personal teleportation to complementary devices located cosmic distances away. Most Stargate episodes are set in the present day. The perfect free screensaver for fans of the Stargate television series. This version is the first release...

Tags: Screensaver, Wallpaper Screensavers, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2008-05-06

Geek Trivia: Beyond the (Hollywood) stars

To hear the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce tell it, receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is equivalent to receiving an Oscar, Tony, Emmy, or Grammy (once again, no love for the Eisners, Nebulas, or Hugos). The iconic stars, which are embedded in sidewalks near Hollywood Boulevard and...

Tags: Star, Icon, Fame, Disneyland, Ali, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2008-04-29

LSI Logic Rolls Out SAP Business-to-Business

LSI Logic is moving quickly to revamp its supply chain around a Web-based business model. The $2 billion company - a leading supplier of communications chips for broadband, data networking, wireless, and set-top box applications, chips and boards for network computing, and storage-network solutions - picked mySAP.com as the engine...

Tags: LSI Logic Corp., SAP AG, B2B, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Tv & Home Theater, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Marketing

Case studies

HP-Based VOD Solution From Entone Aims to Satisfy the IPTV Cravings of Customers From Urban to Rural Areas

Pioneer Telephone Cooperaative wanted to retain and expand on its existing customer base by offering exciting new services. Pioneer is deploying a VOD solution consisting of Entone's suite of carrier-class video on demand and content ingest workflow solutions, HP server hardware, video headend equipment from Tut Systems, and middleware from...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., VoD, IP Television, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics

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Select Business Solutions Case Study: Nielsen Media Research Monitor-Plus

Nielsen Media Research, Monitor-Plus, a publicly traded company, monitors advertising across 16 different media types (such as radio, TV and magazines). Nielsen's current business initiatives are to add new services and expand into new market segments. These require a major transition - from being a company that provides data, to...

Tags: Nielsen Media Research, Monitors & Displays, Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

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Intel Arms Diginiche's Octopz With Performance

Bringing 3D images to life was Diginiche's forte when it opened its doors nine years ago. Its powerful 3D content won awards for organizations like the Museum of Television in Toronto, which used Diginiche's online product demonstration expertise to create a virtual museum of antique televisions. While searching for a...

Tags: Performance, Intel Corp., Diginiche, Productivity, Performance Management, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Workstations, TVs, Web Hosting, Tv & Home Theater, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

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Comedy Central Intranet Was Designed to Enhance Internal Communication Within a Leading Cable TV Network

Comedy Central is located at 1775 Broadway, 10th Floor New York, NY 10019. Contact Information: Keith Agabob, Director, Business Process Improvement. With multiple floors in its New York headquarters, plus multiple regional offices around the country, Comedy Central was having trouble keeping its 250 employees up-to-date on both day to-day...

Tags: Cable Television, Network, Communication, Intranet, Comedy Central, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

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Microsoft BackOffice Server Helps Keep Comedy Central in the Loop

Comedy Central has a nationwide audience of 46 million subscribers, but the cable network had a tough time keeping all its employees in the communication loop. The cable network, which is jointly owned by Viacom and Time Warner Entertainment, decided to take the matter seriously by deploying a corporate intranet....

Tags: Corporate Intranet, Microsoft BackOffice, Server, Microsoft Corp., Cable Network, Intranet, Comedy Central, Cable, Tv & Home Theater, Productivity, Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology

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Italian Open University Creates Global Knowledge Community in Just Two Weeks

Italy's first open university wanted to improve student services and support similar institutions worldwide. It improved its existing learning portal to create a global, distance-education community in just two weeks. Its students now have improved e-mail and can access learning materials from mobile devices and television, and open universities worldwide...

Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., University, Open University, Portals, E-mail, Web Technology, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Internet, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

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Korea Telecom Delivers Video On Demand

Korea Telecom KT, a leading broadband service provider in Korea, planned to roll out one of the nation's first Video On Demand VOD to over five million Internet broadband subscribers. Since this was the first service of its kind that seamlessly weds the users' personal computers with their televisions, references...

Tags: Korea Telecom, VoD, Broadband, Video On Demand (VoD), Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Consumer Electronics

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Txtstation Teams With Mobile 365 at the Lexmark Indy 300

Txtstation Global offers a mobile interactive TV solution for the sports and entertainment industries. Txtstation sought a highly-reliable technology partner to provide a seamless, real-time service that delivered on-screen chat and promotional messages. Txtstation Global partnered with Mobile 365 on the Lexmark Indy 300 held in Surfers Paradise, Australia, in...

Tags: Team, Mobile 365 Inc., Lexmark International Inc., Lexmark Indy 300, Txtstation Global, Team Management, TVs, Business Structures, Tv & Home Theater, Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance

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Banca Popolare Di Vicenza Banks on 64-Bit Business Intelligence System

For a Karaoke TV KTV club that operates 72 karaoke rooms twenty-four hours a day, the Video-On-Demand VOD system must provide constant stability with no system errors, even when many simultaneous data streams are being delivered. This high-capacity usage environment requires robust systems since performance directly impacts the level of...

Tags: 64-bit, VoD, Business Intelligence System, Intel Corp., Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Processors, Servers, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

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Comic Relief Builds Multi-Channel e-Commerce Site

Comic Relief is a charitable organization set up by Richard Curtis in the United Kingdom to help end poverty and social injustice by raising funds. The company wanted to build a scalable, high-performance e-commerce platform capable of live-authorizing hundreds of thousands of transactions arriving through the Internet, digital satellite TV...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Call-center, E-business, Comic Relief, Web Technology, Call Centers, E-business/E-Commerce, TVs, Satellite TV, Tv & Home Theater, Leadership, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

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Cable Network Builds Interactive Television Application on Cutting-Edge Technology

To offer new customers a different way to enjoy its premium content offerings and to provide existing subscribers a richer preview of its varied programming, Showtime Networks built an interactive TV service for premium editions of the Windows Vista operating system that include Windows Media Center. Showtime and its design...

Tags: Windows Media, Media Center PC, Showtime Networks, Network, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Cable Network, Cable, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows, Digital Media, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Music, Operating Systems, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Software, Consumer Electronics

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Digital Literacy: Internet Misconceptions

Information is available from many sources and in many formats, such as printed text, television, videos, library databases, web sites, and more. To be "Information literate" one needs to know why, when, and how to use all of these tools and think critically about the information they provide.

Tags: Information, Internet, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Productivity, TVs, Web Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Storage, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware

Presentations

America TV Improves Internal Communication

America TV is the leading private channel of Peru's television broadcasting system. The company wanted to integrate a public database with easy, secure access for executives and reporters working inside and outside Peru. America TV also wanted to migrate from Microsoft Exchange mail platform for better storage and management of...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Broadcasting, Peru, America TV, E-mail, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Software, Data Management

Case studies

McAfee Case Study: Blue Square

Blue Square is one of the largest interactive betting services in the UK and offers fixed odds betting across the Internet, Interactive TV, WAP, and telephone. When Blue Square wanted to ensure that it was managing its help desk and support effectively, the solution of choice was the Magic Service...

Tags: McAfee Inc., E-business, Blue Square, Web Technology, Help Desk, E-business/E-Commerce, WAP, TVs, Call Centers, Internet, Tv & Home Theater, It Operations, Wireless, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

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High Profile Cable TV Provider Is First HP Service Desk Customer in Poland

International service provider United Pan-Europe Communications UPC, headquartered in Amsterdam, sees Poland as an area with enormous potential for the development of its services. UPC has extensive digital TV, cable TV and internet provider operations in Poland. It has 1,200 internal IT users spread over many sites throughout the country....

Tags: Service Desk, Hewlett-Packard Co., Poland, United Pan-Europe Communications, It Services, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

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Digital Content Provider Creates Innovative Product Using Windows Media Services and .NET Technology

Butterfly Communications Global BCG was founded by a team of U.S. technology executives to provide Internet-based digital content and services to hotels, rural towns, and other customers in the Caribbean. But it was hampered by a lack of technology to reliably deliver TV broadcasts without having a perfectly functioning network...

Tags: Microsoft .NET, Windows Media, Microsoft Corp., Digital Content, Microsoft Windows, Tv & Home Theater, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

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