- French mobile TV grant gets green light from EC
The European Commission on Thursday cleared a €37.6 million ($50.8 million) French government grant for Unlimited Mobile TV, a mobile broadcasting project. The subsidy is the first EU government subsidy for the emerging mobile TV sector. It will be channeled from the French Agency for Industrial Innovation (Agence de l'innovation ......
- Russian hour
Russian hour Road Safety Performance, National Peer Review: Russian Federation ISBN 9282103552. See the New Publications pages or www.oecdbookshop.org for ordering details. See also: Short, Jack (2004), "Road safety: Making roads healthy", OECD Observer No. 243, May.
- Tough Challenges Ahead
TV is going digital, driven by legislation and consumer demand for high-definition (HD) video and HDTVs. There are more than 15 million digital terrestrial TV households in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Scandinavian countries*. Many governments have set analog shutoff dates. For the U.S., it is Feb. 17, ......
- Milestones.
1981 * VideoAge was born in New York in September--with 21 ad pages and 35 editorial pages--as "The Business Journal of Television." * Silvio Berlusconi provided VideoAge with a front cover interview for its first issue, in which he said the "Americans should erect a monument" to him for all ......
- French H&B Brand Hits The United States
NEW YORK — France-based value-oriented electronics brand H&B Electronics is coming to America with a range of aggressively priced DVD players, MP3 players and LCD TVs offering retailers flexible programs and quality performance. Jeanne Pierre Boccara, owner of JPF which owns the H&B brand, said he is now distributing H&B ......
- French EMS provider unveils DaVinci reference platform for consumer apps
To provide fast time-to-market for consumer-oriented multimedia applications, Langon, France-based electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider TES Electronic Solutions http://www.tesbv.com is rolling out an open architecture reference platform for mulitmedia applications built around Texas Instruments http://www.ti.com ' DaVinci http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/landing/davinci/index.html digital media processing technology. TES says its CDM/RP-DaVinci MultiMedia (DVMM) platform targets ......
- Case and Counter
It was a sad day when my mother switched from butter to margarine. She said it was a cost-cutting decision. After all, with two growing boys who already consumed gallons of milk (which she doubled in volume by adding powdered milk), cottage cheese, butter, and any other dairy product that ......