Kochi: Kochi-based Vibes Visual and Media Private Limited said it will launch Indiavibes, claimed to be India's first web TV, on New Year's day. "We are focused on targeting people and not celebrities. The production hubs will be set up at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore, to start with," the company's founder Andrine Mendez told reporters here. "We cover all categories... fashion, music, films, business, technology, blogging, lifestyle, current affairs...
04:22 PM, Dec 28, 2010
New York: Apple Inc expects sales of Apple TV to top 1 million units this week, showing that the device is gaining traction in bringing the Web to TV. Apple also said on Tuesday that iTunes users are now renting and buying more than 400,000 TV shows and more than 150,000 movies per day. "One million is a real benchmark," said Daniel Ernst, an analyst with Hudson Square Research. "To...
12:14 PM, Dec 22, 2010
Bangalore: Google Inc has asked some manufacturers to delay the launch of TV sets based on the internet company's software, the Wall Street Journal reported citing people briefed on the company's plans. Google sent out word to some hardware makers last week asking them not to announce additional products yet, saying the delay may allow the company to improve its software, the paper said. However, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will...
06:44 PM, Dec 20, 2010
New York: No TV for a week, the time-honored punishment for misbehaving children, has been enhanced. Now, parents are also withholding Internet access to punish their kids, further sign that the Web has become as important to families as television. As the two mediums converge, parents are quickly coming to see TV and the Internet in similar ways and are seeking to limit their kids' access to both, according to...
02:59 PM, Dec 20, 2010
London: Avoid 3D TVs as they can disorient the brain, causing eye strain, headaches, nausea and sickness, scientists warn. And the closer one is to the screen, the worse one feels, making 3D TVs more problematic than cinema screens. Studies show that in up to 20 percent of the viewers it could even induce physical sickness, the Daily Mail reported, quoting the New Scientist. In one experiment, researchers at Eindhoven...
07:04 PM, Dec 17, 2010
New York: Fancy new features like 3D screens and Internet connectivity have failed to inspire US television shoppers, dashing a hoped-for recovery in the global consumer electronics industry. TV manufacturers such as Sony Corp, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Sharp Corp are learning that features such as razor-thin LED TVs are just not enough to stage a comeback in the United States. On Tuesday, Best Buy Co Inc Chief Executive...
03:22 PM, Dec 15, 2010
New York: The game show Jeopardy will pit man versus machine this winter in a competition that will show how successful scientists are in creating a computer that can mimic human intelligence. Two of the venerable game show's most successful champions - Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter - will play two games against "Watson," a computer program developed by IBM's artificial intelligence team. The matches will be spread over three...
12:38 PM, Dec 14, 2010
Cincinnati: Goodbye, "Guiding Light." Hello, YouTube. Procter & Gamble Co., whose sponsorship and production of daytime TV dramas helped coin the term "soap operas," has pulled the plug after 77 years. Instead, the maker of Tide detergent, Ivory soap and Olay skincare is following its customers online with a big push on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. "The digital media has pretty much exploded," marketing chief Marc Pritchard said in an...
01:38 PM, Dec 10, 2010
San Francisco: Foursquare, a popular startup that lets people share their location with friends through a mobile app, is working with production company Endemol USA to create a television series. The companies said Thursday that they signed an exclusive development deal to come up with a show in which Foursquare is "meaningfully integrated." The companies' statement does not give further details about what a potential series could look like. Foursquare...
03:35 PM, Dec 03, 2010
New York: Four major US television networks Fox, CBS, ABC and NBC won a temporary restraining order against FilmOn.com Plc, a company that streams the signals of TV stations over the Web without permission of the networks, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York issued the order, the paper said. The TV...
10:56 AM, Nov 23, 2010
So what if actress Dolly Bindra was thrown out of Colors' reality show Bigg Boss 4 for being a troublemaker? She is ready to go back to the show as she had a rocking time there. "Oh yes! I will go back inside for sure if the channel asks me to. I had a rocking time inside," Dolly says. As soon as the actress entered the Bigg Boss house, she...
09:28 AM, Nov 20, 2010
New Delhi: Your favourite news channel CNN-IBN swept the Indian Television Awards (ITA) 2010 on Sunday night, winning as many as three major awards, including the award for the Best English News Channel for the fourth time in a row. IBN Network 18’s Editor-in Chief Rajdeep Sardesai has also bagged the award for being the Best Anchor - News/Current Affairs for Ground Zero Bhopal. The weekly 30 Minutes show has...
09:47 PM, Oct 31, 2010
New York: Let's face it: Teenagers spend hours texting, socializing on Facebook and playing video games. And it's driving their parents nuts. Sure, there are real dangers associated with all this screen time - everything from cyberbullying to couch-potato obesity. Not to mention driving while texting, shortened attention spans and Internet porn. But many of today's parents spent hours as kids sitting in front of screens too - only they...
12:35 PM, Oct 29, 2010
Pakistani Artist Begum Nawazish Ali's 'Bigg Boss' journey has ended. She is the third candidate to be out from the reality TV show. ...
10:44 AM, Oct 25, 2010
San Francisco: Sony Corp is making its biggest push yet into so-called connected televisions, unveiling a line of Google-enhanced sets that aim to fuse TV and Web content together in the living room. The electronics giant on Tuesday announced high-definition TVs that also allow users to surf the Internet, use apps, stream online content and better organize and search programming. It remains to be seen whether consumers will be interested....
11:10 AM, Oct 13, 2010
Bangalore: Google Inc has signed new content partnership deals with media and internet companies, including NBC Universal's CNBC, Time Warner's HBO and Amazon, for its proposed Google TV service. Turner Broadcasting is working to optimise some of its websites for viewing on Google TV, including CNN and Cartoon Network, Google said on Monday. NBC Universal will bring access to financial news television CNBC, while HBO will also provide programming. "Amazon...
01:03 PM, Oct 05, 2010
New York: The number of gay and bisexual characters on scripted broadcast network TV has risen slightly this season to 23 out of a total of nearly 600 roles, according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. The 15th annual "Where We Are on TV" report released Wednesday found that 3.9 percent of actors appearing regularly on prime-time network drama and comedy series in the 2010-11 season will portray...
02:46 PM, Sep 29, 2010
Mumbai: Jay Hind!, an online comedy show hosted by TV actor Sumit Raghavan, has been excluded from Indian Television Academy (ITA) awards scheduled to be held next month, much to the chagrin of its creators. "We are a TV channel on the Internet. Nowhere in the rules and regulations was it mentioned that the show needed to be televised over satellite. In that case, programmes on Doordarshan too cannot be...
02:13 PM, Sep 11, 2010
