Nearly a third of all U.S. household Internet activity takes place while the user watches television, suggesting new and old media often share rather than compete for attention, the Nielsen Company reports. In fact, the study found that heavy Internet users are among the most dedicated of TV viewers, spending more than 250 minutes a […]

Can't decide to what to watch? Now you can watch two programmes simultaneously. Texas Instruments, the maker of the DLP Cinema chip, is developing technology that might fix the problem. The company outlined some of its early developments that use 3-D technology for home entertainment at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Technical […]

From Branislav Pekic in Rome The Portuguese Government has announced a tender that will award a license to a new free-to-air TV channel, which will be distributed exclusively by digital terrestrial television. Interested parties will have until 21 January 2009 to submit their bids to the country's media sector regulator, the Regulating Body for Social […]

From Branislav Pekic in Rome The Portuguese Government has announced a tender that will award a license to a new free-to-air TV channel, which will be distributed exclusively by digital terrestrial television. Interested parties will have until 21 January 2009 to submit their bids to the country's media sector regulator, the Regulating Body for Social […]

Orca Interactive and BCC Company, a leading systems integrator in Russia, have joined forces to deliver a wholesale IPTV solution across Russia. The highly customizable solution is already deployed by the Russian regional incumbent operators North-West Telecom, Sibir Telecom and Southern Telecommunications Company, and Orca and BCC plan to continue marketing the new offering throughout […]

MySpace US users can now upload MTV Networks videos without fear of having them taken down. News Corp's MySpace social network has signed a deal with Viacom's MTV Networks and online video technology company Auditude to allow the automatic identifying of online video clips uploaded by its hundreds of millions of users. Auditude's system will […]

BSkyB is to launch a Christmas advertising campaign worth as much as £15m (E19m). The satellite broadcaster, which unveiled better-than-expected subscriber and revenue numbers in its results for the three months to the end of September, is launching the media blitz with the tagline “Come home to Christmas with Sky”. The TV ad, created in-house […]

Sky is reportedly in exclusive talks to acquire Tiscali's UK business. Sky has tabled an offer of £450m (E571m) for the UK business after last rival Carphone Warehouse pulled out of the auction The acquisition would be a major boost to Sky's broadband services, making it the third largest provider after BT and Virgin Media. […]

Google is to introduce agency commission for video advertising to encourage increased investment and progress within the sector. The company says it will launch an “incentivisation programme” to show Google’s commitment in developing video advertising opportunities across its network, including YouTube. Jonathan Gillespie, Google head of media solutions and YouTube in the UK, said, “We […]

Shares in BT have plunged by 25 per cent to their lowest-ever level after it shocked the City with a profits warning. Shares sank below the price they floated at in 1984 after the telco admitted in an unscheduled trading update that earnings at its Global Services arm will be much lower than expected. The […]