Blog articles from 06/2011

In a ruling last week, France's CSA (the national regulator for broadcasting fairness) decided that broadcasters could no longer cite social networking sites Twitter and Facebook by name unless the reference was specifically associated with a news item about those sites. Instead, broadcasters must refer to all such sites equally as "social media". France is known for being strict regarding online issues, including copyright protection. This ruling is part of an effort to...

Some 20 major global telecom operators, including Vodafone, MegaFon, Verizon and NTT DoCoMo, will give exclusive feedback on femtocell trials and deployments around the world at the annual Femtocells World Summit in London from 21-23 June. Confirmed global telecom operators in the Femtocells World Summit program who will report back on live trial and commercial deployment case studies include: Vodafone, Comcast, Telefonica O2, Verizon, UMobile, Megafon, NNT DoCoMo, Telecom Italia,...

Telecom equipment maker Ericsson has predicted there will be 50 billion devices connected to data networks by 2020. They predict those connected devices won’t just include computers and smartphones, but cars, homes and industrial devices, as well. For this type of convenience, the potential for hackers, cybercriminals and armies, is eminent-all those newly networked machines represent billions of new targets. The security problem will be much bigger than trying to secure your laptop...

According to new research from Parks Associates and TargetSpot , Internet radio can more than double consumers’ ad response rates when included in an advertising campaign. On Thursday, June 9, at 1:00 p.m. CT, the two firms will co-host the "TargetSpot Digital Audio Insights" webcast, which will detail recent findings about Internet radio advertising impact, synergies with digital and broadcast advertising, and behavior of digital audio listeners.  The...