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New report from Stockholm-based analyst firm Berg Insight shows almost 78% of the total mobile TV audience was found in the Asia-Pacific (Japan and South Korea) in mid-2007, thats nearly 38 million viewers. This report also advocates multi standard chips.

PURE Digital – the UK’s biggest radio brand – has sold more than ¼ million units of the ONE radio.

PURE Digital announces that the PURE EVOKE-1S DAB digital radio has won ‘Best Portable DAB’ radio in the 2007 What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision awards.

the PURE EVOKE-1XT Marshall Edition radio has won ‘Best Retro Product’ in the 2007 T3 magazine awards.

Australian commercial radio broadcasters today unveiled what the future of radio might look like -

Broadband TV News reports that the German Bundesrat (upper house) has decided there should be no mandatory standard for mobile TV broadcasts. This point of view is at odds with the European Commission, which wants to make adoption of the DVB-H standard compulsory. Next year, a consortium of cellcos O2, Vodafone and T-Mobile plan to launch a nationwide DVB-H service in the country, but at present mobile TV provider Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland (MFD) already offers a commercial service using the DMB standard in some parts of the country. The Bundesrat also warned that such regulatory measures from Brussels could interfere with the free flow of information, the plurality of the media and cultural diversity.

Pure has raised over £6000 for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association from the sale of its SONUS-1XT DAB digital radios.

Pure presents Chronos II, the enhanced follow-up to Chronos, part of the UK’s best selling DAB clock radio family.

EtherWaves has teamed up with Broadcast leader, Factum Electronics AB, to demonstrate multistandard Digital Radio live at IBC, Amsterdam.

Live DAB+ transmissions will be taking place during the IBC conference/exhibition using customer-ready transmission equipment and receivers.