has confirmed widespread rumours and announced that it is to buy broadcast.com for $5.7bn in stock. Broadcast.com is a video and audio aggregation service. is paying $130 for each broadcast share - ten per cent over its closing price.
Standard TV broadcasts are considered to be terrestrial. The Trojans took the horse into the besieged city, Greek soldiers were secretly hiding in the belly of the wooden horse and, upon night falling, they emerged, opened the gates of Troy to the...
Hackers are using search engines to watch what people photocopy. Google, like many other search engines, stores this information, which can be recalled at any time. Some web servers, if configured incorrectly or left to default, can accidentally...
The only restriction on the content is digital rights management (DRM) protection to prevent it being played beyond seven days from its original broadcast date. Ashley Highfield, BBC director of new media and technology, said in a statement: "iMP...
The Mac maker could stand to benefit not only from a content distribution deal with Disney's own animation studios but also from its extensive collection of broadcast networks, including ABC and ESPN.
To stop the press putting all their microphones on the table at press conferences, The FA has set up a 45-way sound distribution unit that broadcasters can plug directly into and take a feed off, and put in broadcast-quality lighting.