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...first to speak out. Not that Natalya Dmitruk, 48, planned it that way in the fall of 2004, when she worked as a signer for the Ukrainian state-run television station UT-1. The runoff for the presidential elections had just taken place, and the tightly controlled TV broadcasters were reporting that outgoing President Leonid Kuchma's favored candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, had beaten challenger Viktor Yushchenko. But evidence was mounting that the vote was rigged, and a crowd of protesters had begun to gather in Kiev's freezing, snowbound Independence Square. On Nov. 25, Dmitruk was assigned to translate...
...There is nothing to be afraid of or that should not be talked about at universities." LI AO, controversial Taiwanese author and legislator, stressing the importance of freedom of speech in a lecture broadcast live from Peking University in Beijing. Mainland officials censored coverage of the event following his remarks...
...latest reports of the Liberal Democrat party conference, then flipped over to Sky News, all while standing on the Oxford University campus. "This is really impressive," gushed Policelli, 25, who works at the National Library for Health at the university. Welcome to the world of mobile television, where broadcasters, mobile operators and handset makers are trying to bring traditional TV to the planet's mobile-phone users. Policelli was taking part in a trial launched by British mobile operator O2 and broadcaster Arqiva to deliver 16 channels - including bbc One, bbc Two, bbc News 24 and Sky News - to phones...
...idea isn't new. Five years ago, mobile operators started spending hundreds of billions of euros licensing and building 3G networks to deliver, among other things, video images. But it's turning out that heavy video usage can bog down a 3G network. "Broadcast is far more effective at mass mobile," says Screen Digest's Nolan. Users, of course, don't really care how the images are transmitted, but media and mobile companies do. Every bit of programming that travels over a broadcast network rather than a mobile network is lost revenue for the operators. In December, six of Korea...
...Iraq, the prize for the U.S. remains a clear-cut outcome, some indication that the U.S. is doing anything more than playing whack-a-mole with the insurgents. In Tall 'Afar, the U.S. and Iraqi troops awake on the morning of Sept. 6 to the sound of messages being broadcast over loudspeakers instructing civilians to leave. At mid-morning, families begin to emerge across Route Barracuda waving sad little white flags. As a family shuffles past, a Green Beret weapons sergeant bellows for them to be stopped. "Who's that red-headed guy?" he asks. The men are sifted...