Despite dropping its pursuit of pay-per-click ad network MIVA last month after being rebuffed, Blinkx's now restarted the reverse-takeover bid after recording strong earnings last week ($19 million), the new bid is far less than the$41 million first offered back in August, but is still 108 percent up on MIVA's Tuesday close. MIVA's share price […]
Mobile TV services will generate $1.5 billion in revenues in 2008, rising to over $10 billion in 2013. At present the revenues are predominantly from subscription fees but this is expected to change over time as the advertising business model starts to gain prominence. Informa Telecoms & Media believes that by 2013 nearly half of […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Spain's Telefonica is launching Imagenio on High Definition through its FTTH network for subscribers to Trio Futura at 10 or 30 Megabites. The move comes at a time when the Spanish Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) has just authorized the company to distribute services over its new FTTH network on […]
TNTSAT is a service targeted to regions where TV households cannot receive signals from terrestrial transmitters. It offers French TV viewers the full range of digital terrestrial free-TV channels over the ASTRA satellites, allowing a 100 per cent coverage of France. At the time of the analogue switch-off in France, the number of households which […]
BBC One and BBC Two will be available to watch live online from 27th November. The channels join BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies and BBC News which are already simulcast. The can all be watched online via their channel sites on bbc.co.uk through a wide range of internet enabled devices and also through the […]
Video delivery platform provider GridNetworks has launched GridCast TV, a new service that enables content distributors and owners to stream video directly over the Internet to viewers’ TVs. The GridCast TV service can already reach over 35 million homes, because it leverages existing UPnP (universal plug and play) devices such as the Xbox 360, PlayStation […]
US communications holding company AT&T and Samsung Mobile have confirmed the launch of the Samsung Eternity – an advanced touch-screen phone with support for AT&T Mobile TV. AT&T Mobile TV uses MediaFLO from Qualcomm, that provides users with instant access to continuous streaming television content and sporting events from top networks. AT&T announced the availability […]
BigBand Networks has announced interoperability between its recently unveiled media services platform, the BigBand MSP2000, and Verimatrix’s Video Content Authority System (VCAS). This provides a cost-effective solution for inserting advertising on encrypted high-definition and standard-definition video streams, in both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/H.264 formats. The ability to insert ads directly into encrypted streams improves the operational […]
The FTTH Council Europe has concluded its input into the European Commission's public consultation exercise on regulatory approaches to Next Generation Access (NGA) networks. Joeri Van Bogaert, President of the FTTH Council Europe explains the guiding principles of the response: "The FTTH Council Europe believes that, where feasible, competition based on access to passive infrastructures […]
Intelsat announced that Sonema, a provider of leading telecommunication services in Europe and Africa, expanded its current agreement with Intelsat for contracted satellite capacity, which will increase Sonema's enterprise services offerings. Sonema, a company that has been developing telecommunications services for more than two decades, uses Intelsat's capacity to provide satellite communication transmissions to businesses, […]