| ViewCast Video Capture Cards and Stream Control Software Win Streaming ...
PLANO, Texas, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ViewCast Corporation (OTCBulletinBoard: VCST) today announced that its Osprey family of streaming media video capture cards were selected as the top encoding hardware products in Streaming Media magazine's first annual 2007 Readers' Choice Awards. ViewCast's Niagara SCX stream control extension software was first runner up in the encoding software category. Approximately 120 products from 92 companies were in the running for the Readers' Choice Awards, and more than 3,000 readers of Streaming Media magazine and StreamingMedia.com logged their votes. Winners will receive their awards at a reception to be held in conjunction with Streaming Media Magazine's 2007 Streaming Media West show on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007, at the Grande Ballroom of the St.
TimeTrade Continues Growth and Leadership in Self-Service Appointment ...
BEDFORD, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- TimeTrade Systems, the leader in self-service appointment scheduling, today announced strong sales and increased adoption of the company's Web-based solution that helps enterprises increase customer satisfaction, reduce costs and drive more sales. TimeTrade won 30 new customers in the fourth quarter, 2007, across healthcare, retail, financial services, government and educational markets.
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Good Looks Ahead: What's Next for HDTV?
Everyone is looking for a unique characteristic," notes Gagnon. "You see it in laptops, you see it in cell phones--and now everybody wants a unique statement of design in a TV." Just as cell phones, digital cameras, and laptops now come in colored packages, TVs too are moving beyond basic black. Manufacturers are also taking a cue from the sleek details found on smaller products. LG Electronics, for example, recently introduced TV sets with color and style tweaks. The 32-inch LG40 features such accents as a curved pedestal and a red front-drop bezel; the back of the LG60 is red, too, and you can see a flash of color peeking through the side and front. An even bigger emphasis this year is on thinness. Hitachi, JVC, and LG have all revealed thin sets, ranging from 1.5 inches to 1.7 inches thick.
'Flying Scotsman' defies gravity
WHEN THE EDINBURGH INTL. FILM FESTIVAL opens Aug. 14 with the world premiere of Douglas Mackinnon's debut movie "The Flying Scotsman," it will mark the climax of an extraordinary odyssey for the filmmakers. What makes "The Flying Scotsman" unusual is not the 12 years it took to get made, nor the number of times the project collapsed and was resurrected before the cameras finally rolled last year. No, what's remarkable is that the film, with a paper budget of $11 million, seems to have been made out of thin air, with no visible financing in place and no obvious producer (despite the 10 named in the credits). This is a movie that never got greenlit, never had a completion bond, never closed its finance, went into administration (the U.K. equivalent of Chapter 11) during post-production and still hasn't paid half its bills.
Career watch: The colourful world of animation
The range of jobs available for a computer animator can be mind boggling. There is hardly any industry that doesn't require or use computer animators." "These days animation is used in almost all the industries from automobile, pharmaceutical, medicine, aerospace, civil, and architectural," says Anand Kannan from ToonSkool, Bangalore. According to Radhakrishnan, top IT companies like Tata, Reliance [Get Quote], Satyam [Get Quote], UTV, Pentasoft, Rhythm & Hues, have jumped into the fray. International animation houses like Walt Disney [Images] studios, Paprika Animation Studio, Technicolor labs, SONY are looking at tie-ups with Indian animation companies too. Puneet Sharma, General Manager of Zee Institute of Creative Arts (ZICA) says, "As per the NASSCOM Report 2006 (NASSCOM - Primary Research & Analysis, Pg 127), the starting salaries of freshers is between Rs 8,000-Rs 12,000 per month.
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