New "Model" for Chinese TV
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LOS ANGELES  - A local version of the   hit reality TV franchise "America's Next Top Model" is coming   to China in January.
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Set-top box software provider Digeo showed off its forthcoming Moxi DMR, and announced new features to be added to cable boxes offering the Moxi Menu.
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SHANGHAI -- For entrepreneur Gary Wang, the next new thing in China is a place where the country's growing middle class, or "couch potatoes," can watch free videos to their hearts' content. His company's Web site, Tudou (Chinese for potato), has become insanely popular insanely fast -- more than 15...
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... It's with much anticipation that I say this. I have a new product that may be familiar to those of you who used Radio 8, and in other ways may be completely new.  The idea is simple.  There's a convergence between big screen high-definition televisions, and photography as an Internet based activity. The purpose of this product is to smooth that convergence, to make it easy to set up a connection between the Internet and your television. To allow photography to come into your living room in new, powerful and easy ways. Think of it as the networked living room and you'll understand the vision. Some of the work I've done is technical, some is user interface, and some is working with media organizations to try to create a comfort level, or at least a spirit of Let's Give This A Try. In the latter case, it's much like working with the NY Times to get their news headlines and summaries to flow through Radio's RSS aggregator in 2002. Only this time we're working with photographs, and we think, the best news photographers in the world. And the pictures are beautifully high-def, they look really great when displayed on LCD and plasma screens. I use it with my 52-inch Samsung and 46-inch Sony. Of course what looks great on a wall, also looks great on a 15-inch Macbook or 24-inch iMac.   And while we connect those pros with your TV, it's equally important that we connect your friends and families too. One of the early testers found the pictures that Doc Searls uploads to Flickr a great revelation. Me too. That's because Doc is not only a great photographer, he's also a great story-teller. I find that I can follow the lives of far more friends visually than I can through text messages (which I love to do too!). Viewing great photos on bigscreen TVs, desktops and laptops -- that's one focus, but not the only one.  I wanted to provide a complete two-way tool for people who love Flickr, as I do.  Why Flickr? Well, they've got this great thing called an API. It makes it possible for people like me to make software that runs on a desktop computer that does things like automatically backing up your new photos every night, and providing a drop-folder on your desktop for quick uploads. (It understands tags too, it's incredibly simple.) We also made it easy to post pictures you like to Twitter. Why Twitter? It's that API thing again. They made it easy for us to love them. I wish more network service developers understood how powerful this outstretched hand is.  But that's not all! Not by a long shot. The reason all this will be so familiar to Radio 8 users is that it builds on the same engine, the one that was released as open source in 2004. So I've been working on other tools to drop into this base platform and once we have a good-sized base of people using it for "really simple photos" on the desktop, there will be other tools. And because it's an open platform, other developers can do the same. Not saying they will, but they can.  Anyway, I'm in the last stages, preparing the download site, and a FAQ, and tweaking the installer. One caveat, the first beta release is Mac only. That's because I'm doing all my work on the Mac, and this is a one-man show. Later we will work it out for Windows too, and with a bit more work and a bit more luck, for Linux.  It should be ready before the sun goes down today.
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China's digital TV industry to boom    BEIJING, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The newly-announced terrestrial digital TV standard will help make digital TV a 500 billion yuan (62.5 billion U.S. dollars) business in China in 2015 as opposed to the paltry 40 billion yuan chalked up in 2002.
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Full 16:9 ratio now Creative has updated its Zen Vision:M digital music player and Zen Vision video device, at least in the company's native Singapore. Both gadgets had appeared in Western magazine ads, but this is the first time the company has discussed them officially.â¦
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 17 December: China's army of Internet users and operators are beginning to question the practicality and purpose of new controls on network - mostly on-line - music.
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China Mobile and Focus Media: Domestic titans selling at knock-down prices.
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TOKYO, Sep 08, 2004 (AFX-UK via COMTEX) -- Sony Corp will launch its popular projection televisions with large liquid crystal display (LCD) screens in China early next year, a company spokeswoman said.
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New Microsoft program smoothes transition from Chinese to English.
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China orders strict curbs on Pop Idol-style TV shows, the country's state media reports.
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Mexico's Televisa network, known around the world for its soap operas, said Thursday it plans to expand in China, following the lead of taco chains and other Mexican businesses looking for a slice of the Asian nation's market.
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A Beijing media company said it will start a trial scheme to install televisions in the city's taxis and light rail network to provide on-board entertainment for passengers.
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(InfoWorld) - Ultramobile PCs attracted the biggest crowds at an electronics show in Shanghai over the weekend, although a secret exhibit marked "No Foreigners Allowed" also drew attention, at least of curious reporters. The exhibit, which consisted of about 100 tables set up to show components and gadgets, was in an area of the conference walled off by 10-foot high white dividers. âYou must have a China ID to enter,â said one of four uniformed guards at the entrance, as he moved to block the view of a reporter. The existence of such an area conjured up images of imitation iPods, Razr handsets, and PlayStation 3 consoles. It's easy to imagine such pirated gear in China, where DVDs of the new James Bond movie, "Casino Royale," are already being sold in city streets for 6 Chinese renminbi ($0.77). It turned out to be less mysterious. A helpful local resident reported that the area had been set aside for military components, hence the enclosure. What grabbed the most attention from Chinese visitors was a display ofÂ ultramobile PCs by Samsung Electronics. That may have been due to the entertainment nearby as much as the devices themselves. Samsung's booth was next to a Korean exhibit that featured traditional dancing, Korean singers, and a Taekwondo exhibition where martial arts experts broke boards with leaping kicks, all of which drew people in for a look at the Q1. Three of the devices were set out in Samsung's booth, powered up and ready for action. The crowd around the exhibit was three deep for much of the show. âIâve never seen one. Itâs small and cute, but it seems expensive,â one attendee said. The Q1, which runs on a 900MHz Celeron processor from Intel, retails in the U.S. for $1,099. A manager at Samsungâs booth said a less expensive version of the device, the Q1B, was originally supposed to arrive in China in December, but it's introduction there has been delayed. She declined to discuss the reason. The main difference between the Q1 and Q1B is in the processor and the price. The Q1B carries a 1.0GHz C7 microprocessor from Via Technologies and sells for $899.99 at Newegg.com . Also notable at the event was the cancellation of a forum on creating a China-Taiwan standard for Mobile TV. The meeting was cancelled for no reason anyone cared to discuss. In an interview, Roger Liao, deputy director of international affairs at one of Taiwanâs biggest industry groups, the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturersâ Association (TEEMA), said there has been a lot of talk about Taiwan and China teaming up to create industry standards for electronics products, but that no concrete actions have yet been taken by either side. Cancelling the meeting was apparently another sign that work towards such standards has not gone smoothly. The Shanghai electronics exhibition was a combination of three shows, the China Electronics Fair (CEF Shanghai 2006), the Asia Electronics Exhibition in Shanghai (AAES 2006), and the 2006 International Electronics Expo (IEE Shanghai 2006).
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c60802)  has announced the addition of Pyramid Research's new report: China  Fixed-Mobile Convergence Forecast to their offering.
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Sony said Thursday that it would begin selling eight new television models outfitted with semiconductors designed to produce sharper images, including two with a lighting system that the company says is the world&#39;s first.
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The video compact disc (VCD) player was a spectacular breakthrough in the history of China&#39;s electronics industry. The device, first invented by the Chinese firm Wanyan Electronics