DRTV Snapshots.
Largest Change in Paid Programming Hours--Broadcast Stations (from January 2008 to February 2008) CALL SIGN DMA AFFILIATION CHANGE IN HOURS Best WZPX-DT Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo iAff. 344.5 Worst KTVC-DT2 Eugene (Ore.) Ind. -72.5 Total Paid Programming--Top 5 DMAs (February 2008) RANK OMA HOURS DMA RANK 1 San Francisco Bay Area...

Spreadtrum Unveils New Mobile TV Single Chip Solution.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-12 May 2008-Spreadtrum Unveils New Mobile TV Single Chip Solution(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Spreadtrum Communications, one of China's wireless baseband chipset providers, plans to announce its new mobile TV single chip solution, the SC6600V, the first demodulator/decoder chip for CMMB-based mobile TV during the "Asia...

Crestline Hotels Westin Virginia Beach Town Center Names Sales Director.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-20 May 2008-Crestline Hotels Westin Virginia Beach Town Center Names Sales Director(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Crestline Hotels & Resorts announced the appointment of Robert S. Dorr as the Director of Sales & Marketing for the 236 guestroom upscale Westin Virginia Beach Town Center...

Afghan Wireless Hits Subscriber Milestone.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-29 June 2008-Afghan Wireless Hits Subscriber Milestone(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Afghan Wireless Communications Company (AWCC), headquartered in Kabul, is the largest private investor in Afghanistan, and announced that the Afghan Wireless family of subscribers hit the 2 million mark on May 28 and has continued...

Intercasting and Loop Collaborate on Mobile Social Networking.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-18 February 2008-Intercasting and Loop Collaborate on Mobile Social Networking(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Loop Mobile and Intercasting, which provides Anthem to connect mobile carriers with social networking communities and entertainment companies, said they are working together to make Moko, a mobile communities, available to Anthem...

Parental relatedness and survival of Pacific oysters from a naturalized population.
ABSTRACT Inbreeding has profound implications in fields ranging from evolutionary biology to medicine. Most cultured aquatic species are only partially domesticated and highly fecund and are, therefore, expected to have higher genetic load and more severe inbreeding depression than species with lower fecundity and/or longer histories of domestication. Marine...

McCaskill: Get ready for digital TV.
Residents with conventional television--not Charter cable or AT&T U-Verse--may be surprised to learn that they could be left with no programs to watch one year from now, unless they take action. On Feb. 17, 2009, all analog televisions that are not connected to cable, a satellite receiver...

O2 and Sierra Wireless Launch UK USB Wireless Modem.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-6 July 2008-O2 and Sierra Wireless Launch UK USB Wireless Modem(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com O2 and Sierra Wireless announced the first commercial launch of the Sierra Wireless Compass 885 USB Modem on the O2 network in the UK. Designed for mobile professionals, laptop...

Trends in Networked Video.
Trends in Networked Video By Peter Harlick This month I reached out to Frank DeFina, president, Panasonic System Solutions Company, Secaucus, N.J., to learn some of his thoughts regarding the direction of networked video surveillance. DeFina is a respected leader in our industry and also...

TI Unveils New DOCSIS 3.0 Chipsets.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-20 May 2008-TI Unveils New DOCSIS 3.0 Chipsets(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com At the 2008 Cable Show, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) announced a new DOCSIS 3.0 (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) product that supports cable set-top-boxes (STB) with both MPEG-TS (transport stream) and Internet Protocol...