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The future of TV is digital and promising: ultra-high definition images, unlimited choice, interactive features, and much more. But for many of these features, the future is now. With this tone, Rector Professor Klaus Fischer opened the 2nd Product Placement Congress, an event jointly organized by Nürtingen University and the Andreas Waldner Marketing and Communications Agency.

According to host Ronniccia Eisenmann the starting point for advertisers in the dawning digital TV-age is

The Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) in Virginia Tech’s Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has developed the fundamental software for use in designing software radios and is offering this tool free to other wireless communications researchers throughout the world.

“The tool available on the Virginia Tech website already has been downloaded by numerous companies and universities from around the world,” said Jeffrey Reed, professor of electrical

Want a romantic version of Star Wars? Or your own cut of Big Brother? Ever wish you could get more news from the headlines? Or less from a documentary?

Manipulating your favourite films and programmes to make more personalised viewing is just the beginning of a £5.1 million project involving the University of Ulster.

New Media for a New Millennium (NM2) will see the development of a completely new media genre, which will allow audiences to create their own media worlds

The launch of the biggest TV boom in history, the digital terrestrial services that form the platform for the phenomenally successful Freeview, was made possible thanks to a grant of 6.45 million euros from the EU’s Framework Programme.

The VALIDATE (Verification and Launch of Integrated Digital Advanced Television in Europe) project, technically underpinned by a BBC-led partnership, gave the UK the technical confidence to launch digital terrestrial TV in 1998. This technical expe

Aeronautics researchers at MIT have developed a manned-to-unmanned aircraft guidance system that allows a pilot in one plane to guide another unmanned airplane by speaking commands in English.

In a flight test, the pilotless vehicle, called a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), responded to sudden changes in plan and avoided unexpected threats en route to its destination, in real time. “The system allows the pilot to interface with the UAV at a high level–not just ’turn right, tu

On October 29th MSc. (Inf. Sys.) Teemu Santonen defended the doctoral thesis “Four Essays Studying the Effects of Customization and Market Environment on the Business Success of Online Newspapers in Finland” at the Helsinki School of Economics. The opponent was Professor, Dr. Arjen Wassenaar (University of Twente, Netherlands) and the custos Professor Markku Sääksjärvi (Helsinki School of Economics, Finland).

In his doctoral thesis, Santonen is especially interested in analyz