September 23, 2008

CBS

CBS iPhone App Targets Citizen Journos
CBS is announcing that Eyemobile for iPhone is available in the iTunes App store for users that want to submit photo and video content to the company's new citizen journalism site, CBSeyemobile.com. Eyemobile lets users upload content from their iPhones.

Disney, CBS to Stream TV Shows on Netflix
Online movie rental company Netflix is entering deals with CBS and Disney Channel that will allow current season episodes of several television shows to be streamed online. Netflix will offer shows including CBS's "CSI" and the Disney Channel's "Hannah Montana."

MTV

It's Official! MTV Gives Whitney Her Own Spinoff

The Hills co-star Whitney Port has scored her very own MTV serious set to begin airing early 2009.The new show will feature Port’s life in New York City and her career working for Diane von Furstenberg.

MTV to Share Videos Among Its Web Sites
Viacom's MTV Networks is purchasing the rest of software company Social Project it does not own with plans to integrate social network features such as sharing of videos among its global network of Web sites and, within two to three years, the television.

UNIVISION

General Mills Expands Hispanic Platform With Univision

General Mills is embarking on a year long partneriship with the nation’s largest Spanish-language television network, Univision, to expand it’s content based outreach to Hispanics.

AFRICA

Ericsson joins new UN initiative to bring digital-health benefits to Africa

Ericsson is joining forces with the United Nations Office for Partnerships to use telecommunications to bring mobile-health applications and services (m-health) and telemedicine to rural Africa. As a founding member of the UN's Digital Health Initiative, Ericsson is taking another step in its ongoing commitment to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aim to reduce global extreme poverty.

HIV/AIDS increase blamed on adultery

Acting Kayunga district chair person Boniface Bandikubi is blaming the increasing HIV/AIDS prevalence rate on adultery among married couples in the district.

CARIBBEAN & LATIN AMERICA

GRENADA - Book suggests homosexuality will be accepted in Caribbean soon

Claude Douglas, a sociologist, has just released a new book titled, Homosexuality in the Caribbean: Crawling Out Of the Closet, which examines the rise of homosexuality in the region. The 60-page book covers issues ranging from biological origins and the gay tourist phenomenon, to the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in the region.

ADVERTISING NEWS

Ad Execs Predict Tough Times, Digital Future
In 2009, advertisers will expect to make "a relatively fixed amount of dollars work harder," predicts Publicis Groupe Media head Jack Klues, speaking on a panel discussion for Advertising Week. A year from now, "we won't be talking about analog versus digital. It's all digital

Advertising Week Panelists Bash Old Media
Traditional media is taking a few hits at Advertising Week in New York. In a kick-off panel discussion, Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff suggests that media content is losing value, which will prompt a bargain sale: "I'm sure Time magazine will in very short order be available

Yahoo-Google Pact Opposed by Ad Group
The World Federation of Advertisers, which represents 55 advertiser associations worldwide, is asking the European Commission to block the proposed search-advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google, saying the deal may "have a detrimental effect on competition."

MOBILE NEWS

Google-Powered Phone Set to Make Debut
On Tuesday, T-Mobile USA will reveal the first phone to use Android, Google's software platform, at a New York news conference. The product is expected to sell for $199 and carry the Google brand. Analysts say it could quickly rival the BlackBerry, the iPhone and other "smart" phones.

MULTI CULTURAL NEWS

Black-owned media seeking more advertising dollars from Democrats

"If you want to win by getting black people to vote in the state of Florida, you must actively engage the black community's political culture. A large part of this culture is black-owned media," said Cherry, whose family owns 11 radio stations and two newspapers, including The Daytona Times.

University of Miami receives grant from National Center on Minority and Health Disparities

These funds will support a regional seminar series on health disparities related to HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, and family and intimate partner violence.

SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS

Microsoft research tackles teen social networking

"Here we can come up with math models that account for her observations about the way social networks are layered, and that there are different kinds of friendships," said Chayes. "You have friends from high school who you haven't seen. You have colleagues on there and family on there. It's all these different networks. We need a way to handle them differently, model them differently."

New York Times Rolls Out Social Network
TimesPeople, the social network where users share their interests, is becoming fully integrated into the NYTimes.com site. The platform allows visitors to share and recommend content. Last week the Wall Street Journal unveiled community functions as part of its redesign.

Social Networking Website for Capitol Hill and Politicos Across America

MyPoliticalWorld.com has the features that you would find in an aspiring social network - friending, messaging, profile viewing - but distinguishes itself with its political focus - forums for debate, political video covering news and the Presidential race, Capital Hill job listings and other "gadgets" like the ability to register to vote for the upcoming presidential election.

OTHER NEWS

Hulu Introduces Channels to Video Hub
Hulu, the NBC-News Corp. online video hub, is introducing a "Channels" option allowing users to sort through its programming by genre, from "Comedy" to "Reality." A new "Web Originals" channel will filter the programming that is available only on the Internet.

NBC Eyes Olympic TV/Web Data to Plan Ads
NBC Universal will present a new study showing that audiences recall advertisements more clearly when they are run on both television and the Internet. The research, undertaken by NBC during its airing of the Olympic Games, may change the way commercial time is bought.

News Magazines See Big Five-Year Decline
Regional magazines now outnumber any other magazine category, according to the National Directory of Magazines, which catalogs more than 20,500 U.S. and Canadian publications. News magazines are seeing the greatest decline, while shelter titles are seeing the biggest

Wall Street Journal to Sell Online Obits
The Wall Street Journal hopes to grow classified advertising by working with Web startup Tributes.com to sell obituaries on the WSJ.com site. The new partnership with Tributes is seen by analysts as an effort to "make the Journal more consumer friendly."