Contents: 1. Introduction: The Impending Media Revolution in Video Technology and its Impacts on Today's and Tomorrow's Media Industries -- 2. The Past Generations of TV Technology -- 3. Technology Innovation: Hardware -- 4. Infrastructure Platforms and Data Operations -- 5. Video Platforms --...

The paper examines the economic impact of the diffusion of a new technology as cloud computing. This will allow firms to rent computing power and storage from service providers and to pay on demand, with a profound impact on the cost structure of all the industries, turning some of the fixed...

"Recent fiscal policies have aimed to stimulate household spending. In 2008, most households received one-time economic stimulus payments. In 2009, most working households received the Making Work Pay tax credit in the form of reduced withholding; other households, mainly retirees, received...