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The Sri Lankan government is to set up a Broadcasting Authority to regulate activities of both the state and private media. “The SLRC Act and the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Act under which these organizations operate at present are obsolete and new laws are required to regulate both the state and the private stations,” Secretary to [...] […]

China successfully launched the “SinoSat-6″ satellite for radio and television broadcasts at 12:14 a.m. Sunday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The satellite was carried on the Long March 3B rocket which took the SinoSat-6 into a geostationary transfer orbit 26 minutes after the launch. In the following days, Xi […]

The future of Brazil will be in the spotlight of the BBC Brasil and CBN radio debates to be broadcast from Espaço Reserva Cultural in São Paulo on 13, 20 and 27 September. The three-part series of weekly radio debates, The Future Of Brazil, is a co-production between BBC Brasil and its re-broadcasting FM partner, [...] […]

An exhibition on Polskie Radio’s 85 year history of broadcasting has began at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. The 1925-2010 Polish Radio exhibition presents a history of Poland’s public broadcaster including developments in technology and some of the personalities and programmes that became part of the daily lives of listeners throughout the eight and a [...] […]

Radio VOP has been commended for its resilience and continued broadcasting of diverse views in a difficult situation. Women Affairs Gender and Community Development Deputy Minister Jessie Majome said this at the 10th Anniversary celebrations of Radio VOP held in Harare and and castigated Global Political Agreement (GPA) principals for delaying freeing the ai […]

Craigslist has censored its adult services section without announcement, after a long running battle by US lawmakers to have it removed. Since Craigslist created an adult section, it has been dogged by controversy – in 2008 attorneys pressured Craigslist to screen adverts posts there, and ensure proper contact details were provided. However, last month, atto […]

Six Apart has announced that it is shutting down its Vox blog network on September 30th. The company is encouraging users to migrate to their standard Typepad platform. Vox aimed to provide a greater degree of social networking to blogging, along with stronger privacy controls. However, as with many social networking websites, it enjoyed a short burst [...] […]

Google today celebrates another anniversary, this time for the discovery of Buckminster-Fullerene molecules – aka, buckyballs – curious 3D lattices constructed from only carbon atoms. And unusually, too, Google has rolled out an animated graphic as part of its new Google Doodle – allowing users to spin the buckyball using their mouse cursor. The fullerene mo […]

With Sky set to launch its new 3D channel in Europe at the start of next month, the company is throwing its weight behind a certain brand of TV to enjoy its new three dimensional sport and movie features. And the officially endorsed 3DTV sets for watching Sky 3D are made by LG, in a partnership [...] […]

An advert on YouTube has captured the imagination of the denizens of the Internet, notching up over two-thirds of a million views thus far. The ad for Tippex, entitled “NSFW. A hunter shoots a bear!”, doesn’t appear to be anything special at first, showing a scene of a camping hunter brushing his teeth of a morning [...] […]