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BBC Arabic TV Relaunches
BBC reenters the Arabic television market after 12 years with a new free-to-air satellite television service to the Middle East and North Africa. The website at bbcarabic.com is also being relaunched today, March 11th 2008.

Babelgum
What's behind the competitor to Joost?

EarthTV
This is the company that provides all kinds of pictures for TV stations from special cameras positioned around the world. They hate being called a webcam company.

Beautiful Swedish Nurses A Phone
A brilliant marketing technique by this Swedish mobile phone company that, I think, is about 3 years ahead of the Apple iPhone. Swedish nurses at 3GSM in Barcelona.

Orange HD TV
On the mobile, I think French Telecom company Orange has the best looking HD video at the moment - and the HDTV via ADSL isn't bad either. Made at MIp_TV in Cannes and part of a much larger documentary looking at the impact of digital technology on t...

Eleksen Fabric Interfaces
This company, based in the old Pinewood studios that housed the James Bond films had one of the best stories at this year's 3GSM exhibition in Barcelona Spain. Their fabric keyboard is IDEAL for journalists operating in warzones where you don't want ...

Motorola for Namibia
Motorola is one member of the GSM Association in London doing special projects in the developing world. Like finding alternative energy sources to power their remote repeater transmitters. At the moment, 60% of the cost is trucking out diesel fuel to...

GSM Development Association Part One
Dawn Hartley explains what this young organization does in developing countries like Kenya and Namibia and why. This may be mobile, but I believe what they do is definitely of interest to broadcasters too.

Yahoo's Mobile Strategy
What is Yahoo doing in the mobile world? This is what they're telling the mobile operators at the world's largest exhibition and conference called 3GSM in Barcelona. Curiously, Google wasn't there, yet 60,000 others did make the trip to beautiful Bar...

Vizrt Mobile at 3GSM
Norwegian media company Vizrt demonstrates fantastic new publishing tool to make graphics and video look outstanding on a mobile phone.

GSMA Interview - Solar Energy for Mobiles
Interview with Dawn Hartley taken from a longer HD video documentary on the impact of digital technology on both mobile and broadcasting. I think a lot of these ideas can be applied to community radio in Africa

The Future for Independent Documentary Makers
Independent documentary makers in the US are having a difficult time, especially when compared to their European cousins. Diana Ingraham explains more about Silverdocs.

Mobiqa Ticketing
Interested to meet this Scottish company that are doing electronic ticketing to the mobile phone. I see cross deals that can be done with radio stations using digital technology - broadcasting coupons to get half price tickets to the next Harry Potte...

MP3 Surround Sound
The Frauenhofer Institute in Germany is best known as the place where the MP3 compression standard was developed. Now they've finalized a new compression system to put surround sound onto the mobile using DVB-H

Vimio at 3GSM
Irish mobile software company has a way to compress video so you get much better video quality on a mobile phone

DDMA Nieuwjaarsborrel 2007
New Year Reception video shown at NEMO on January 11th 2007. More details at the Dutch Dialogue Marketing Association, http://www.ddma.nl

Shop with the mobile in Japan
NTT DocoMo explains how you can easily shop in the supermarket in certain stores in Japan and pay for the goods with a mobile.

Farcast for Reporters
The Dutch research organization, TNO, pops up at many trade fairs, marketing what they're up to. Kobus Smit explained to me what they're doing with the Farcast project aimed at radio and newspaper reporters.

SkyQube
Wanna beat roaming charges on the mobile phone? With a local SIM card, Skypeout account and this box you can. Although launched at 3GSM back in February 2007, I have yet to see this in (online) shops just yet.

Breakfast with France 24
France 24 is the new international news channel based in Paris. They're one of the first cross-media networks, operating on the web and on TV from day one in December 2006. In April 2007 they hosted a press breakfast at MIP-TV to explain their plans ...

Reciva 2.0 at 3GSM
Ian Henderson of Cambridge based Reciva shows what they're doing with their wifi radio technology in 2007

TNO
The triangular game

Mobile Breathalyzer
NTT DoCoMo has a mobile breathalyser system they have sold to around 50 companies in Japan. It allows taxi drivers to check if their drivers have been drinking. But can't it be fooled?

Nordic Media Festival May 2008
Jonathan Marks previews the site of the 2008 Nordic Media Festival to be held in Bergen, Norway.

Bluetooth What Next? 3GSM answers
Interview with Bluetooth Special Interest Group at 3GSM in Barcelona Spain. It seems faster Bluetooth is not far off.

Doublecam
Interesting device for cameramen collecting Voxpops. Seen at MIP-Tv in April 2007. Cost? 19000 pounds sterling. Quality is excellent. Not sure if I'd want to use it in a warzone though.