Media Industries Project - Carsey Wolf Center

Gmail users will soon have more ways to keep up with their friends via a widget that shows quick status updates like Facebook and Twitter do, The Wall Street Journal reports.

"Sony Pictures TV Intl. has inked a non-exclusive deal with Spanish cable operator ONO to provide pics for ONO's video-on-demand service Videoclub. Pact will include recent titles such as "District 9," "Bruno," "2012" and "This Is It," plus an undisclosed number of films from Sony's catalog, led by "Bram Stoker's Dracula," "Stuart Little 2," "Spider-Man" and "Jumanji."

"Widevine, a provider of digital entertainment solutions, and Qtv, Inc. today announced that they will partner to bring Widevine's video optimization and multiplatform Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology to the Qtv Internet TV Media Player for the television, mobile phone and personal computer."

"Widevine, a provider of digital entertainment solutions, and Qtv, Inc. today announced that they will partner to bring Widevine's video optimization and multiplatform Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology to the Qtv Internet TV Media Player for the television, mobile phone and personal computer....The Qtv Internet TV Media Player gives consumers the unique ability to access and play both personal and Internet-based content from their TV, mobile phone and computer. When it is released in the next few months, it will have the largest installed base of supported devices of any media player."

"DECE logo The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, an inter-industry effort to set open technical standards for selling movies and TV shows online"

"Chinese society will not only benefit from increased connectivity, but from increased competition resulting in higher quality, more robust offerings at lower prices."

""We believe that the near future will dictate seamless single-device applications for the consumer, which is why we are committed to the media convergence space," said Bobby Cha, chief marketing officer at Inbrics."

Japanese cell phone novels extend user generated content into published works, and offer niche story telling targeted at and often created by teen girls.

Broadcasting and Cable conducts a sit down interview with Steven Waldman, senior advisor to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, to discuss the Governments role in balancing old and new media. Subsidies and media industry economics are also discussed.

Article discusses highest ranked superbowl ads by DVR reply, and highlights both media and audience trends, as well as the difficulties of measurement.

Discussion of the increasing amounts the average American household spends on cable, internet and gaming connections annually. Of special note is the lucrative nature of the subscription model for the media industry.

Superbowl most watched show in history--breaking the previous record held by M*A*S*H. This article explores the enormity of the feat given the fractured nature of today's television viewing audience.

Article discussing the FCC's effort to help the trouble media business by relaxing the cross-ownership restrictions.

Move over Hawkeye Pierce, looks like Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints just took your ratings crown along with the Super Bowl title. A record 106.5 million people watched the Saints write a storybook ending to their dream season by beating the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in Super Bowl XLIV on CBS, according to Nielsen. That's not only the biggest audience to date for the Super Bowl, but the biggest audience for a televised event ever -- barely knocking off the finale of \nCBS' "MASH," which averaged almost 106 million viewers when it ran in 1983.

"Consumers who have been misled by advertisements into buying expensive products or services - or who are just plain irked to be confronted by yet another cheesy ad about working at home - might wonder where those ads are coming from, and why they appear on otherwise respectable websites. The answer is complicated, but becoming less so."

This piece is interesting because it is related to a trend to within digital culture to automate and predict taste. It would be interesting to see the relationship between Netflix's predictions and eHarmony's.

"The Newspaper Guild accused Reuters of wrongly cutting the pay and benefits of 420 employees, in a complaint filed on Friday with federal regulators"

Article that discusses the potential consequences Google may face by refusing to censor web searches in China.

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