WEB  It's always exciting to see global innovation take place locally. In what can only be described as a world's first, Sportsgirl's online video platform SGTV has just launched Australias first combined online community and retail purchasing Social TV channel. Read on

WEB  As more and more entertainment content is produced for the Internet, how are the big studios and producers lining up the advertising and sponsorship dollars to support it? Hear what the leaders in Digital Entertainment said at this year's AlwaysOn Hollywood. Read on

ADVERTISING & MARKETING  With online video budgets now firmly on the radar of digital marketers as a worthy rival to commercial television, now is the time begin to think of your brand more like a producer than a publisher. Enter the world of branded video entertainment. Read on

ADVERTISING & MARKETING  Late last year IBM released a telling report entitled, The End of Advertising as We Know It. Not that we need to be reminded of it after recent events in the global credit markets have all but dampened the traditional ad budget forecast outlook for 2009. But if we look closely at how consumers today are increasingly accessing content in non-linear ways, it is digital entertainment that is by far and away experiencing the fastest rate of adoption than any of us could ever have imagined and with it the trend towards advertising inside content. Read on

TECHNOLOGY  TiVo the digital video recorder company (DVR) once labeled the pariah of broadcast network television now looks set to become Digital TV's frenemy afterall. Read on

Product placement is to be permitted on UK television programmes, the government has confirmed after a three-month consultation. Read on

Apple has today declined to reveal whether the iPad 3G model would be available in Australia, but confirmed that the Wi-Fi-only version would be here in March. Read on

Will Rupert Murdoch surprise everyone this quarter with the announcement of News Corp's version of the flexible eNewspaper, dubbed the Rosebud? LG unveiled its prototype 19-inch flexible eNewspaper on January 14 that's almost as large as a broadsheet... Read on

A new entrant in the addressable TV advertising fray may be Xerox, which has filed a patent for a new gadget that would enable discrete forms of audio or video content to be beamed to specific television viewers. Read on

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Privately held Skype has forged deals with consumer electronics makers LG Electronics and Panasonic in a bid to move its Internet video service beyond the desktop computer to the living room TV. Read on