Tag archive: February

The U.S. Congress has officially delaying the United States' transition to digital television until June 12, 2009, but individual broadcast stations are still allowed to convert over to digital broadcasting on the original date of February 17, 2009. And, it turns, out a significant number of television broadcasters have asked the FCC for permission to go ahead with shutting off analog TV on the original DTV cutoff date of February 17,… Read More

New figures from the market research for the NPD Group found that plasma televisions registered their first year-on-year decline on sales, with revenues generated from sales dropping 16 percent in February 2006 compared to a year earlier. Theconsumer electronics market in general slumped in February, bringing in $900 million for the month, representing a 13 percent decline from a year ago. "Unlike LCD TVs, plasma TVs have not beenable to… Read More

In news that should surprise no one by now, Google again dominated the total Web searches pie for February, according to new figures released yesterday from Nielsen/NetRatings. Tailing in a distant second was Yahoo!. Google, said Nielsen/NetRatings, accounted for 48.5 percent of all searches conducted during the month of February. This is up only slightly from their total search market share in January. Yahoo! came in second with… Read More

The company in February began to connect wireless LAN (WLAN) hotspots – found in coffee bars, airports and hotels – from different providers across all continents. Its roaming service has been set up for business travelers who want fast wireless access to the Internet on their laptop computers, but who do not want to sign up and pay separately every time they log on. Read the rest of the story at Reuters.

“In 2003, XM established itself as one of the fastest growing entertainment media ever by adding more than one million subscribers,” said Hugh Panero, President and CEO of XM Satellite Radio. “Our2004 commercial-free music lineup will make XM's critically acclaimed programming even more appealing to consumers coast-to-coast.” All XM music channels now broadcast without commercial interruption (previously, half of… Read More