Exclusive rights deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars to broadcast live events could be at risk after a court ruled yesterday that shows could be recorded and screened “near live” without breaching copyright.
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by Ben Goldsmith, Senior Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology

Light on detail and raising many more questions than it answers, yesterday’s Convergence Review interim report is still bold and far-reaching, driven by a fundamentally optimistic view of the future for Australian culture, content and communication.
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The UK is officially Europe’s most screen-addicted nation: Britons spend more time online, own more smartphones and digital video recorders and watch more television over the internet than any country on the Continent.
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When city services can autonomously go online and digest information from the cloud, they can reach a level of performance never before seen. First up, water systems that automatically know when it will rain and react accordingly.
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The threat of cyberattacks on the U.S. power grid should be dealt with by a single federal agency, not the welter of groups now charged with the electric system’s security, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported on Monday.
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In a top-secret lab in an undisclosed Bay Area location where robots run free, the future is being imagined.
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Analysts cheered Google Inc’s quarterly results and set a target of as much as $720 on the stock — suggesting a near 30 percent rise from current levels — and said the Internet search giant could emerge a “top mobile play.”
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Hulu’s corporate owners are currently mulling bids from three would-be buyers: Amazon, Yahoo, and the Dish Network. … more

The Government said it may incorporate provisions for a separate regulatory framework for different forms of communication services under the Next Generation Network (NGN) as part of New Telecom Policy-2011. … more

TV makers are expected to ship more than 500 million sets with Internet connectivity by the end of 2015, according to a report from research firm DisplaySearch. This year alone, around 25 percent of all flat-panel sets will come with some form of Internet capability and this trend is expected to grow to 47 percent by 2015. … more