TechRepublic Resources
- 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
- T-shirt of the week: Toaster
- This week's Geekend-approved item of apparel is the Toaster Shirt from Glarkware. This, my friends, is a prime example of a "stealth geek" shirt. To the untrained eye, it appears that the wearer is merely declaring a love for toast and/or retro-futuristic pop art. (There's a pop...
- Tags: TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- State of Wireless
- This webcast discusses the current state of wireless technology today.
- Tags: TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Webcasts
- Survey Says: On-Demand Polling Application Delivers Results for IBS and Its TV Station Partners
- Founded in 1995 as a pioneer in TV/Web convergence, Internet Broadcasting Systems enables TV news stations to combine the power of the Internet and TV to deliver immediate, reliable, and up-to-date information to millions. The company's unique business model requires that content is customized to appeal to the end users...
- Tags: Partnership, On-demand, Survey, Akamai Technologies Inc., IBS, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Case studies
- A Gold Medal Performance for NBCOlympics.com
- With exclusive U.S. rights to broadcast television coverage of the 2004 Olympics, NBC decided to take advantage of increases in broadband adoption to deliver real-time, interactive, and media-rich coverage of the Olympics on the www.nbcolympics.com site. NBC wanted to build a premier Olympic Web site with multimedia integration and exclusive...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Performance, Akamai Technologies Inc., On-demand Computing, IBS, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Utility Computing, It Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, It service Management
- Case studies
- Digital Broadcasting Success at Sony DNSE
- Sony DNSE, headquartered in Basingstoke, UK, develops digital TV transmission and reception equipment. One of the key objectives was to achieve clear and unambiguous communication across multiple sites involved with the project. Sony DNSE wanted to make sure that teams in different countries could all agree on the software design...
- Tags: Sony Corp., ARTiSAN Software, Broadcasting, Productivity, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Case studies
- ARTiSAN Helps Loewe Channel Complexity
- Loewe GmbH is a German consumer electronics firm. Loewe's latest technological advance is a fully-integrated Digital TV module, now entering production, that gives users convenient access to digital programs. This integrated solution eliminates the need for a set-top box, streamlines the design of the television console, and simplifies control of...
- Tags: ARTiSAN Software, Tool, Loewe GmbH, Loewe, Research & Development, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Productivity, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, UML, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Case studies
- 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
- Case studies
- From Vision to Implementation - Boodai Media Group Prepares to Launch a New Television Station: Al Rai TV
- Boodai Media Group is part of the Boodai Corporation, a long-established Kuwait-based conglomerate with interests in trading, construction, transport and media. Boodai had no in-house experience in the broadcasting industry and would therefore have to develop all the skills and processes needed to run a TV station from scratch. Boodai...
- Tags: Accenture Ltd., Media, Vision, Boodai Media Group, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Case studies
- 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
- Case studies
- Intel Technology Moment podcast: Productivity
- Learn more about Intel Centrino Pro technology with Mike Agerbo of "Get Connected TV" and how this technology will help you to stay connected and productive.
- Tags: Intel Corp., Podcasts, TVs, Processors, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Download resources
- Novell Case Study: ITV
- ITV was formed several years ago as the result of a merger between Carlton TV and Granada. ITV was formed several years ago as the result of a merger between Carlton TV and Granada. As a result, the company had a variety of platforms, including 50 different UNIX systems, which...
- Tags: Novell Inc., iTV, TVs, Servers, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware
- Case studies
- International Television Service Relies on Neo Series Tape Library for Storage, Backup and Disaster Recovery
- The British Forces Broadcasting Service BFBS went on air at the end of 1943. Since then, its two networks have broadcast from 20 countries and 67 radio stations to a total of 200 million listeners around the world. As a 24-hour-a-day service, BFBS has a highly fault-redundant system. Disaster recovery...
- Tags: Tape Library, Overland Storage Inc., Television Service, Disaster Recovery, Backups, TVs, Storage, Tv & Home Theater, Servers, Data Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware
- Case studies
- Future of Wireless Technology
- This webcast presents an overview on the future of wireless technologies.
- Tags: Wireless Technology, Wireless, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Wi-Fi, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Webcasts
- 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
- Case studies
- The E.W. Scripps Company Tests and Documents Enterprise Active Directory and Server Migration Project Using VMware Software
- The E.W. Scripps Company operates 21 daily newspapers, 15 broadcast TV stations, four cables and satellite television programming networks and a television retailing network. Rosenacker had used VMware Workstation and GSX Server in several previous projects with great success, making it easy to explain and justify to the group. The...
- Tags: Software, Team, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Server, Migration, VMware Inc., VMware Workstation, Satellite Television, Satellite TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Case studies
- Akamai's EdgeControl-MIB Strengthens and Simplifies Enterprise Monitoring at IBS
- Founded in 1995 as a pioneer in TV/Web convergence, Internet Broadcasting Systems enables TV news stations to combine the power of the Internet and TV to deliver immediate, reliable, and up-to-date information to millions of end users. In order to successfully serve the needs of their customers, IBS needed its...
- Tags: Monitor, Network, Monitoring, Akamai Technologies Inc., Internet, Monitors & Displays, TVs, Networking, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Case studies
- Planet Digital Offers Austrian Hotel Guests a Deluxe Suite of Television Offerings
- Planet Digital wanted to develop a new offering for hotels to pass on to their guests - "Time-shift" television. The IBM team was able to deliver a full range of networking services - including consulting, assessment, strategy, concept, design, integration, deployment, cabling and connectivity, and security and privacy - as...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Planet Digital, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Case studies
