| News Corp., Softbank to Invest in MySpace Japan (Update1) | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:14:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. will invest 590 million yen ($5 million) with Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son's Softbank Corp. in a Japanese version of the social networking Web site MySpace. News Corp., which last year paid $580 million for MySpace, will put up 295 million yen in a 50-50 partnership with Tokyo- based Softbank, Japan's largest provider of high-speed Internet access, the Japanese firm said in a statement to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Softbank, which in April bought Japan's third-largest wireless network, has said it will make online services such as stock trading and auctions available by mobile phone to help lure subscribers. MySpace, which allows users to post photos, diaries and other items on the Web for free, may help Softbank add advertising revenue, said Kieran Calder, a senior analyst at CLSA Asia-Pacific markets.... | |
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| | | BBC and Sky Dominate the Third Screen in the U.K. With Leading Mobile Video and Web Offerings, According to Telephia | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:20:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | Broadcasting giants, BBC and Sky, dominate the third screen in the U.K., according to Telephia, the largest provider of consumer research to the communications and new media markets. Telephia recently expanded its consumer research program in the U.K. to track mobile content consumption at the channel, website and content title level. The first wave of findings shows 33 percent of all mobile TV/video viewers watched BBC 1 (see table 1). Twenty-nine percent watched Sky Sports. The BBC also secured the top ranking among mobile Internet sites, with 28 percent of all mobile web users visiting the site. The Sky Sports website secured a 23 percent reach among mobile Internet users. "The big broadcasting brands in the U.K. have extended their footprint to reach the mobile population, and the strategy is clearly working," said Reza Chady, Managing Director Europe, Telephia.... | |
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| | | Silent on ground,big bang in the sky | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 1:12:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | KOLKATA: The ground rules don't permit it. So they hit the sky. Firecracker manufacturers have gone a notch up this Diwali, literally. Instead of bursting crackers on the ground — which is banned — they have chosen the aerial route. The impact has obviously been greater, with complaints pouring in through Saturday and Sunday while law enforcers and Pollution Control Board officials watched helplessly. "The rule is very clear. The noise level should be 90 decibels within a radius of five metres on the ground. Naturally, we cannot take action against people who use these loud fireworks that travel to heights of, say, 40 feet and then burst to produce illuminated garlands in the sky,"said a senior PCB official. The cracker is burst at ground level with minimum noise.... | |
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| | | Family Research Council to Host Boston News Conference on Liberty Sunday | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 11:11:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins will join pro-family leaders at Tremont Temple Baptist Church in Boston this Sunday, Oct. 15, at 3 p.m. EDT to announce a special First Amendment Freedoms Watch Project. The project will assist people of faith whose religious liberties have been undermined. David Parker will also join the news conference to discuss the ongoing parental rights court case that he and the Worthlin's have filed. At 7 p.m. EDT, only a few hours after the press conference, the Liberty Sunday simulcast will air from Tremont Temple Baptist Church to a nationwide audience on Sky Angel satellite system, Christian television and radio, as well as via Web cast on http://www.libertysunday.com. WHO: -- Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council -- Alan Chambers, President, Exodus International -- Bishop Harry Jackson, High Impact Leadership Coalition -- Dr.... | |
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| | | Bird Flu: What Is The Risk To Britain? | | Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 3:10:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | As the migratory season begins, Sky News has learned that the risk of a deadly bird flu pandemic hitting Britain this winter is even higher than last year. In a series of exclusive reports, our correspondents and reporters have been looking into the threat that H5N1 poses to the UK. Two migratory routes cut across the country and as the days get colder, the chances of infected birds arriving on our shores gets higher. Farmers are being urged to watch flocks carefully and even the public .... | |
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| | | Child abduction trade reported in China | | Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 7:13:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | BEIJING, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Britain's Sky News says it has found that trade in child abduction goes on in China with the victims' families complaining of coverup by authorities. The report said hundreds, if not thousands of children, have been taken from their families, who say they are being harassed by police for trying to find their children. The report said boys are the main targets because of strict birth control laws limiting parents to two children. One man admitted to Sky News to kidnapping children and selling them to help pay debts. He said he even sold his own for about $750. One orphanage reportedly had bought a number of abducted children and sold them to other orphanages for a profit. Some of the children are also adopted by foreign couples in exchange for a $3,500 donation per child.... | |
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| | | Jet Airways launches SKY SCREEN in-flight entertainment in Indian ... | | Posted Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:13:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Jet Airways India Ltd has announced that in a move that is set to redefine in-flight entertainment for domestic air travelers, the Company on September 04, 2006, unveiled the "SKY SCREEN". This revolutionary new in-flight entertainment system will offer the Company´s customers on demand audio and video entertainment in both the Club Premiere and Economy classes. Passengers on-board the Company new generation Boeing 737-800 aircraft with winglets will also have access to over 100 hours of award wining shows from Bollywood and Hollywood, eight audio channels and over 70 audio CDs, games and iXplor - an innovative moving map that gives locational insights into the flight plan. The Company, which took delivery of the newest Boeing 737-800 aircraft at Seattle on August 31, 2006, will deploy this aircraft initially on three domestic sectors.... | |
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| | | NZ's Sky TV plans to issue up to NZ$200 mln in bonds | | Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:12:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | WELLINGTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - New Zealand pay-TV firm Sky Network TV SKT.NZ said on Monday it was planning to issue up to NZ$200 million ($127 million) in bonds to domestic investors. Sky said it was considering offering 10-year unsecured unsubordinated bonds, with a minimum interest rate of 8 percent for the first year. It said the issue would provide long-term funding to repay up to NZ$105 million of existing capital notes and retire some bank debt. Shares in Sky, around 44 percent controlled by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. NWS.N, closed up 0.7 percent at NZ$5.49 on Monday. .... | |
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| | | Hereford 3 Sky Blues 1 | | Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:22:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | The League Cup, in its variously sponsored guises, has regularly produced such outcomes down the years and Coventry were one of a string of Championship sides to bite the dust last night. * Join the debate. Tell us what you think about the match by emailing us or visiting our Sky Blues message board. A selection of messages will be published online and in the paper * But while the defeat could perhaps be shrugged off as one of those things that happen in knock-out football, what was truly shocking for the Sky Blues was the manner of their first-round exit. For the first time this season they were outplayed - genuinely unlucky to lose at Southampton and Cardiff in the league, they can count themselves distinctly fortunate that they didn't endure heavier punishment against a side who were operating three divisions below them this time last year.... | |
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| | | NZ's Sky TV posts 19 pct fall in annual profit | | Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 3:09:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | WELLINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) - New Zealand pay television company Sky Network TV posted a 19 percent fall in annual profit on the back of greater interest costs, the company said on Friday. The company, which has a near monopoly in pay television services in New Zealand, said net profit after tax for the year ended June 30 was NZ$60.1 million ($38.3 million) compared with NZ$74.5 million a year ago. Revenue for Sky, which purchased small free-to-air broadcaster Prime Television NZ Ltd. in February for NZ$30.3 million, rose 11 percent to NZ$549 million, compared with NZ$492 million a year ago. Subscriber numbers for the dominant pay-TV company were 667,270 as at June 30, a rise of 10.8 percent, while the churn rate, a measure of the level of disconnections, fell to 13.5 percent from 15.8 percent.... | |
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