The News Review:
- Enterprise News for IT Managers
- X2 Media Powers Innovative Touche!TV InfoChannel
- Non-linear editing on the move
Enterprise News for IT Managers
InternetNews.com – InternetNews.com – Feb 22, 2007
She said the $50 per-user per-year price tag to “effectively outsource the support for the typical user desktop” is too low for CIs to ignore. Weaknesses in the Premier Edition she added include the lack of a presentation application such as Microsoft’s PowerPoint as well as the fact that users have to be online to access applications and documents. Google Apps Premier Edition product manager Rajen Shepth told internetnews. com that Google recognizes this as an issue. “That is one of the focus areas — to make that better and better” Shepth said. For now he recommends users take advantage of a feature enabling them to import documents created in off-line applications… Microsoft was unavailable for comment. ffice Live includes client relationship management software that Google does not offer for example. Microsoft ffice Live’s relationship with third-party developers is also further along than Google App’s open APIs. And Microsoft has closed the door to those who would encroach on its desktop dominance before shutting Netscape out in the browser wars of the 90s. But this time Wettemann said there’s a hole in Microsoft’s dam between the desktop and Google’s flood of innovation: search. “Ninety- five percent of corporate users have a Google or non-Microsoft search tool on their desktop.
X2 Media Powers Innovative Touche!TV InfoChannel
broadcastbuyer.tv – Feb 22, 2007
” Richert was inspired to implement an internal info-channel given the revolution that is currently underway in all media and what he calls ‘the democratization of content. ‘ The company has already sold advertising on the internal TV network to Astral Media. Xpresenter is an affordable easy-to-use system that allows Microsoft PowerPoint users to produce broadcast-quality graphics that incorporate animations clip art galleries video clips and real-time data sources – all without ever leaving the PowerPoint interface. Xpresenter includes a style gallery of graphics templates custom control panels video clip previewing and tools for quickly resizing presentations to fit the varying dimensions of output displays and broadcast monitors. With Xpresenter users can easily produce compelling presentations containing live information with minimal effort for any type of visual display including corporate presentations digital signage displays hospitality channel programming and much more. X2′s Design Division has extensive experience in design for television and digital signage applications with graphic design credits in the most demanding television broadcast environments including high-profile election campaigns and major sporting events. World-renowned for its expertise in executing design concepts the Design Division has been honored with awards from the prestigious BDA (North America) and from MNI Intermedia.
Non-linear editing on the move
Asia Pacific Broadcasting – Feb 22, 2007
The ability to switch between video and computer sources makes the Anycast Station particularly useful for events such as elections which require frequent switching between computer-generated statistics and live footage. Text can also be generated natively using the Anycast with any of the user-installed TrueType fonts. ther computer-generated data can be stored and displayed easily on the Anycast thanks to the support the system lends to applications such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel spreadsheets. ften coupled with more than one camera the Anycast Station also turns its operator into a cameraman with its remote-control options over any Sony camera that is connected. Available too are zoom focus and iris controls as well as basic pan-and-tilt motion control. Two live video feeds can also be recorded onto an external hard-disk drive connected via IEEE 1394 FireWire as with the final PGM output from the Anycast. Allowing for direct input recording means that footage from the cameras can be stored for archiving and repackaging or cued externally via a PC for playback later.