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Inspectors for the International Olympic Committee have told Chinese authorities that they expect China to offer unrestricted Internet access for the duration of the Olympic games—as stipulated in the host city contract Beijing committed to when it was selected as host for the 2008 Summer Olympics. China runs the most extensive Internet surveillance and censorship operation on the planet, routinely restricting Chinese citizens'… Read More

The European Commission has formally endorsed Nokia's Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld (DVB-H) as Europe's preferred technology for mobile television, hoping to kick start an industry and establish a unified market for mobile television applications throughout Europe. “For Mobile TV to take off in Europe, there must first be certainty about the technology,” said EU Commissioner for the Information Society and… Read More

“DTV sales have now reached a total of 11.7 million units since market introduction in 1998 and most of those sales have occurred during the past two years,” said Sean Wargo, senior industry analyst for CEA. “With high definition (HDTV) products constituting the vast majority of total sales, these figures show how quickly consumers are responding to the continued increase in the amount of quality HDTV programming,… Read More