May 8, 2012 Fremont, CA - May 8, 2012 - Blackmagic Design today announced that the Teranex 2D and 3D Processors received DV Magazine’s Best of Show Black Diamond Awards at the recently held NAB 2012. NewBay Media’s Broadcast & Video Group of products, which also includes DV.com, Digital Video Expo, and the Creative Planet Network of sites, is uniquely poised to recognize the full spectrum video technology on display at NAB. A select panel of engineers, editors, and production and post professionals joined the magazine staff to judge the Best of Show awards for Digital Video. Read more [...]

May 8, 2012 Manchester, UK - May 8, 2012 - Blackmagic Design today announced that its Blackmagic Cinema Camera has been recognized with an IABM Game-Changer Award. Presented at the NAB Show, the new award from the IABM (International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers) recognizes five products that have great potential to revolutionize the industry. “The 2012 NAB show presented an exciting field for our judging panel, and we look forward to watching how Blackmagic Design and other winners of the inaugural IABM Game-Changers Award help to shape the future of our industry,” said IABM Director General Peter White. Read more [...]

May 8, 2012 SHELTON, CT, MAY 8, 2012—NEP Studios , a division of NEP Broadcasting, LLC, and one of the largest independent providers of studio production and post-production facilities in Manhattan, recently purchased a quantity of Autoscript equipment for use at its Studio 33, Studio 52, Studio 54, 5th Avenue Studio and Midtown Studio locations. Read more [...]

May 8, 2012 [This post is by David Chandler , Android Developer Advocate — Tim Bray] Honeycomb introduced Fragments to support reusing portions of UI and logic across multiple activities in an app. In parallel, the showDialog / dismissDialog methods in Activity are being deprecated in favor of DialogFragments . Read more [...]

May 8, 2012 PRG Institute is offering a three-day comprehensive training course for students and industry professionals. Join us for hands-on introductory training in the NYC area May 16th – 18th, 2012. Read more [...]

May 8, 2012 The blockbuster editing event of the year returns to New York bigger and better than ever; American Cinema Editors and Manhattan Edit Workshop invite you to learn from and network with the best in film editing New York, NY – May 8, 2012 – American Cinema Editors (ACE) is excited to announce EditFest NY, the east coast version of ACE’s popular EditFest series originally launched in 2009, set to return again to the Big Apple this June for a weekend of learning, networking and fun. Co-produced by Manhattan Edit Workshop (MEWshop) , the must-attend industry event, held on June 8th and 9th, will feature panelists of editors including Jeffrey Ford, A.C.E. ( The Avengers, Crazy Heart ), Christopher Tellefsen, A.C.E. Read more [...]

May 8, 2012 This is interesting, so far everyone seems to be focused on how smartphones will change the future of mobile apps, well now the guys at  research2guidance have found out that the future of mobile apps will actually be dictated by tablets and not smartphones. According to a press release from research2guidance “ the global installed base of app consumers increased by 104% between 2010 and 2011.” Even though the   installed base of smartphones  increased by nearly 274 million, tablets were the fastest growing segment. The number of new tablet app consumers increased by 58 million. Read more [...]

May 8, 2012 eBay has revealed that it plans to open a new development center in Bangalore, the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka, and expects to hire up to a thousand “technologists” in the coming years. Read more [...]

May 8, 2012 Google has denied comments from AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson suggesting that it gives preferential treatment and access to new Android platforms to some operators, as 9to5Google reports . In an effort to clarify Stephenson’s suggestion that it has its favorites, the firm has said that it doesn’t discriminate and makes the latest versions of its Android platform available to all. Read more [...]

May 8, 2012 China Telecom, the country third largest operation and recent new Apple partner, is wooing corporate customers with a deal aimed at increasing sales of the iPhone 4S and boosting its 3G business, according to The Standard . Beijing-based companies that buy 10 iPhone 4S devices, registered with China Telecom’s subscriber plans, will get an additional device for free, as the company aims to address a recent slide in growth and profits. While a deal to buy 10 iPhones might initially scream ‘scalper’ (black market seller) alert, a China Telecom spokesman told The Standard that the promotion is “aimed at corporate clients who are providing members of their staffs with cutting-edge communication tools.” The move comes after the operator missed its estimates  for the first quarter of 2012, as profits dropped by 6.5 percent year-on-year, weighed down by the cost of the iPhone. Read more [...]