Research and Markets Report: By the Start of 2007, Japan Had More Than 26 Million Broadband Lines in Place.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-25 July 2007-Research and Markets Report: By the Start of 2007, Japan Had More Than 26 Million Broadband Lines in Place(C)2007 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of 2007 Asia - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Japan to its offerings. ...

The role of public service broadcasters in the era of convergence: a case study of Televisio de Catalunya.
Abstract: The development of the convergence process has several implications in the reconfiguration of the media landscape. Public services broadcasters have new opportunities to fulfil their public service duties in a new competitive environment, which involves developing new applications on new platforms. Televisio de Catalunya, the public service broadcaster...

A regulatory framework for new and emerging markets (*).
Abstract: The future of the information society crucially depends on investments in upgrading existing infrastructures and building new networks. Traditional cost-based regulation, which focuses on issues of static efficiency and service-based competition necessarily has negative effects on innovation incentives and the emergence of infrastructure-based competition in the highly dynamic...

A regulatory framework for new and emerging markets (*).
Abstract: The future of the information society crucially depends on investments in upgrading existing infrastructures and building new networks. Traditional cost-based regulation, which focuses on issues of static efficiency and service-based competition necessarily has negative effects on innovation incentives and the emergence of infrastructure-based competition in the highly dynamic...

Mapping the future in science-intensive industries: lessons from the pharmaceutical industry.
Executives and strategists always want to know how their industry is evolving and what it will look like for their chosen strategic horizon, whether it be 2, 3, 5, or even 10 years, in the belief that armed with such knowledge they can time their investments in new products,...

Foreword.
We have chosen to begin the year by publishing a dossier on Web 2.0. The enthusiasm for Web 2.0 demonstrated in recent months--both by daily visits to such sites on the part of millions of consumers and the value of certain transactions--raises several questions regarding the business models that...

Paxys' Malaysia affiliate acquires stake in US-based Panther/DCP Hldgs.
MANILA (XFN-ASIA) - Business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Paxys Inc's Malaysia-based affiliate Usaha Tegas Group has acquired a 24 percent stake in New York-based Panther/DCP Holdings LLC, which controls Florida-based service provider PRC LLC. In a statement to the stock exchange, Paxys said that with Usaha Tegas'...

The digital dilemma: ten challenges facing minority-owned new media ventures.
I. INTRODUCTION Every morning in Africa, a gazelle awakens knowing that it must outrun the fastest lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning, a lion wakes up knowing it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death. It makes no...

Providing institutional support for educational technologies: a case study.
Many uses of educational technologies in the classroom have been the result of early adopters who, through their own initiative and frequently with their own resources, have developed computer and media materials. [1] More organized efforts to apply technology in the classroom usually have been the result of experimental...

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America.
Reviewed by Houston A. Baker, Jr. University of Pennsylvania One of the most bizarre black events of 1994 was the spectacle of Reverend Calvin Butts - pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and one of America's most prestigious grown men - presiding at a Walpurgis Night, in which construction...