Landel Hobbs to Participate in Deutsche Banks Media & Telecommunications Conference.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2008-Landel Hobbs to Participate in Deutsche Banks Media & Telecommunications Conference(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Time Warner Cable Inc. announced that its Chief Operating Officer Landel Hobbs will participate in Deutsche Bank s Media & Telecommunications Conference on Monday, June 9, in...

Charter amendments on economic provisions pushed.
Trade and Industry Secretary Peter B. Favila has favorably endorsed the planned amendments to the economic provisions of the Constitution buttressing calls to open up the economy to foreign investors to sustain domestic growth. "That has been the position of the government," Favila said. Favila...

SAP Phils. set to launch new products.
SAP Philippines, the world's leading software and technology solutions provider, is set to launch three new products -- business objects, customized real estate solutions, and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Country manager Jennifer Ligones said these products are the new trends in business solutions that the company would...

Encyclopedia of global industries, 4th ed.
9781592372430 Encyclopedia of global industries, 4th ed. Ed. by Diane M. Sawinski and Wendy H. Mason. Grey House Pub., Inc. 2007 1025 pages $495.00 Hardcover HD9710 The fourth edition of this...

NexMed to Present at the Roth Capital 20th Annual OC Growth Stock Conference.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-13 February 2008-NexMed to Present at the Roth Capital 20th Annual OC Growth Stock Conference(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com NexMed, a developer of transdermal products based on its proprietary NexACT drug delivery technology, has announced that Hem Pandya, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer,...

Convergence and triple play bundling: an empirical assessment for European telecommunications.
Abstract: Digital convergence is quickly leading to various telecommunications and media sourcing triple play services of voice, television and internet. This article describes the extent to which bundling strategies have been recently deployed by access providers, and their impact on competition in Western Europe. Generally speaking, we observe that...

Traditional paradigms for new services? The Commission proposal for a 'Audiovisual Media Services Directive'.
Abstract: For over 10 years the European Community has strived to develop suitable and proportionate answers to the phenomenon of convergence in its audiovisual regulatory policy. This article outlines the regulatory process at an EU level since the early 1980s as far as media, telecommunications and Information Society services...

Miami exec forms Cuba investment committee.
Hugo Cancio, President and CEO of Fuego Entertainment Inc., a public media and entertainment company, announced Nov. 20 he'll establish an exploratory group called the U.S.-Cuban Investment Committee to help in the reconstruction of his native Cuba and play a key role in its transformation to a free economy....

Black talk radio in trouble in St. Louis.
Within weeks of each other, changes were announced at two St. Louis radio stations that will directly impact the area's African-American listeners. WGNU (920 AM), which provides several talk shows aimed at the minority audience mainly in north St. Louis, is being sold to BJD Enterprises, which...

Regulating international roaming charges: why less when more is possible?
International roaming services give consumers the ability to make and receive calls via their mobile handset while travelling abroad (called "roaming out"). As usual in the electronic communication sector, roaming services create two financial flows: the customer pays a retail price to its home provider for making and receiving...