The Chinese love affair with the Internet will see digital ad spend increase 40 per cent to $5.2 billion next year, making the booming Asian online economy roughly the same size as the current UK market, according to a report. The study by KPMG estimates that the total ad spend on all media in the […]
From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris French retail chain Darty (owned by the UK Kesa Electricals group) is to launch an ultra high speed (100 Mb/s) service on November 4th, using Completel-Numericable's optical fibre and cable network. Completel-Numericable had already announced in September that it was going to make its network available to other operators. Darty […]
Motorola has launched remote device management for its IPTV set-tops. It says its NBBS device management system will now enable service providers to accelerate the delivery of personal media experiences with new services, improved customer satisfaction and lower operational costs with fewer truck rolls. Motorola NBBS is a scaleable, carrier-grade software platform that enables operators […]
AT&T has enjoyed strong growth in its U-verse TV subscribers, with a net subscriber gain of 232,000 to reach 781,000 in service; on track to exceed 1million subscribers in service by the end of 2008. The news came as part of AT&T results which showed that elsewhere showed heavy spending on their i-Phone launch. The […]
ATIS has released a new standard created by the ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF): "Network Attachment and Initialisation of Devices and Client Discovery of IPTV Services (ATIS-0800017)". This document specifies the initial set of activities that prepare devices in the consumer domain to receive and consume IPTV services. It is a foundation specification addressing fundamentals […]
The company formerly known as Philips Content Identification, a player in content identification services, has announced the completion of its spin-out from Philips Corporate Technologies. The company will operate under the new brand name Civolution. The spin-out includes Teletrax, the global broadcast intelligence company and former joint-venture of Philips and Medialink. Prime Technology Ventures (PTV), […]
The first-ever Global Standards Symposium has concluded in South Africa with broad agreement on the need to take aggressive action to streamline standards work and end the duplication of efforts within the sector. The one-day symposium brought together government Ministers, diplomats, senior executives from the private sector and lead officials from other standards bodies. Opening […]
P2P Internet traffic, despite having grown at pace for years, will grow almost 400 per cent over the next five years, according to MultiMedia Intelligence. Growing from a level of 1.6 petabytes of Internet traffic per month in 2007, P2P Internet traffic will grow to almost 8 petabytes per month by 2012. P2P data currently […]
Channel Five has struck a deal with the BBC to extend the availability of its main network on DTT service Freeview to rural households. Five’s main network will now be broadcast on the BBC’s Freeview Multiplex B when switchover begins in the Border region – covering Cumbria and the Scottish borders – next month. This […]
Almost a quarter of UK pay-TV customers are considering cutting back or dropping their subscription packages as the credit crunch takes hold. A report by Continental Research found 24 per cent of pay-TV customers surveyed planned to reduce the amount they spent on services such as movie and sports channels over the next year. The […]