Zeebox, the TV companion app part-owned by BSkyB, is to integrate a Shazam-style audio-recognition feature, so that the second-screen experience on the app can synchronise with what is showing on TV.
Microsoft is looking to "reinvent the next wave of digital advertising", with its new ad formats for its Windows 8 platform, according to one of its senior product marketing executives.
Asus was the big winner at last night's T3 Gadget Awards, winning five categories including the night's most prestigious award, Gadget Of The Year, for the Google Nexus 7 by Asus tablet.
16 Aug 2012
| by James Papworth
New ways to reach readers have created a big impact for magazine publishers, arguably one more so than others, says PPA's James Papworth.
Heat magazine is bringing augmented technology to its pages for the first time, mirroring a move by Hello! and Tatler magazine.
As media recruitment shifts to new skill sets in media including data analytics, tech functions and increasingly entrepreneurial thinkers direct from start-ups, Mark Banham asks, is the media industry in a good position to attract this new breed of employees?
This week, Target Media chief operating officer Louise Gaynor gets the lowdown from the E3 gaming show, breaks her non-drinking vow when she bumps into Nigel Almond, and is taught about out-of-home by Posterscope.
This week, Ellie Edwards, managing director at WPP performance marketing agency Quisma, catches up on her Sunday supplement reading, gets hiring at the rapidly expanding agency, and steals a go on her husband's iPad 3 birthday gift.
08 Mar 2012
| by Ed Owen
Future Publishing's Tap! and MacFormat brands have launched a guide to the new iPad, which was revealed last night, in the form of an iOS app.
Vogue's iPad app is to go monthly in September as part of a raft of digital developments, including a focus on mobile optimisation, at upscale magazine publisher Condé Nast.