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Brand New Media Podcast | Test in Hanoi (mp3)

Brand New Media Podcast | Test in Hanoi (mp3)

Brand New Media Podcast | Episode 01

Livestation.com, the company that streams live TV over broadband, has teamed up with the German broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, to carry its TV and radio offerings.

Germany’s international broadcaster becomes the ninth partner channel to join Livestation and is now a channel choice alongside BBC World, EuroNews (English, French, German and Italian), France 24 (French and English), Bloomberg, Al Jazeera and Russia Today.

According to Holger Hank, Head of the New Media Division at Deutsche Welle: “More and more viewers are expecting excellent quality and high resolution when they are watching Internet television online. That’s why we are delighted to offer DW-TV on Livestation. We know that more and more of Deutsche Welle’s viewers are switching to the Internet.”

Livestation with DW-TV

Livestation’s CEO, Matteo Berlucchi, said the addition of Deutsche Welle brings a fresh and relevant perspective to the channel choices offered on the player. “We are delighted to have such a globally recognised brand join us as a partner channel. Livestation is all about choice, and having Deutsche Welle offering a German, European perspective on world news is extremely important to us. We have found, from looking at our statistics, that Livestation viewers like to compare and contrast the way the big players treat news. This ability to have so many perspectives all in one place is a Livestation strength.”

The streets of Hanoi, Vietnam are always very crowded.
So, here is a short movie to give you an impression. But – believe it or not – it’s sometimes even worse!
Also keep an eye on the helmets, they are sometimes more a fashion item, instead of a protection.
Watch the Video…!

The dust hasn’t even settled on Chrome’s release and already Mozilla is feeling the pressure. The company today released a series of benchmarks showing Firefox 3.1 will be faster than anything Google can muster with Chrome.

Chrome is running V8, an open source Javascript engine, which Google claims, is faster than anything currently offered on the Web. And based on our tests of Chrome, we tend to agree.

But in the upcoming release of Firefox 3.1, which should be available by the end of the year, Mozilla will employ TraceMonkey, a new engine that according to one of its coders, Brendan Eich, will easily eclipse even the fastest instance of Chrome.

To prove it, Mozilla tested Firefox running on TraceMonkey and compared it to Google’s Chrome beta using its own benchmarking solution called SunSpider. According to the company, Chrome was 28 percent slower on Windows XP and 16 percent slower on Windows Vista.

Mozilla is quick to point out that TraceMonkey has only been in development for a few months and will only get better before it’s rolled out later this year, but the company has a vested interest in seeing Firefox come out on top in its benchmark testing, so all figures should probably be questioned, to say the least. And the same goes for Google’s five benchmarks.

For now, Chrome is the fastest browser in the market and anyone using both Firefox and Chrome will find that out quickly. But once Firefox 3.1 hits the Web, we’ll find out if Chrome has what it takes to stay on top after TraceMonkey becomes Mozilla’s engine of choice.

After a long flight from Frankfurt to Hanoi we finally arrived and took a look at the classroom which will be our place to stay for the next two weeks.
Besides, we also prepared all the training equipment and received excellent help from the VOV colleagues.

What it looks like?
Well, watch the clip!

It’s time to go and catch the flight to Hanoi.
My colleague Jan Petzold and me, will have a training course at VOV (Voice of Vietnam), which is the public Vietnamese broadcaster. So, we’ll be trying to transfer our knowledge, give advises and hints. Besides, we also hope to have a good time over there. Keep your fingers crossed for a successful mission!