The Open Handset Alliance, a group of technology and mobile players, has announced the membership of 14 additional companies. The new members are: AKM Semiconductor Inc., ARM, ASUSTek Computer Inc., Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Garmin International Inc., Huawei Technologies, Omron Software Co. Ltd, Softbank Mobile Corporation, Sony Ericsson, Teleca AB, Toshiba Corporation and Vodafone.
Radio listening via the Internet is growing in the UK, with almost one third of the adult population claiming to have listened via the internet in October, according to research. Commissioned by the industry’s audience research body Rajar, the Ipsos Mori survey conducted in October this year found that 31.7 per cent of the UK’s […]
The European Commission has taken a decisive step towards the promotion of competitive Mobile TV services in the EU. It has published a set of guidelines for the authorisation of Mobile TV to accelerate roll-out of the service across Europe. Mobile TV revenues worldwide are expected to reach more than E7.8 billion in 2013. “Successful […]
The BBC may put one or more of its digital radio stations onto the Digital One national service in a bid to help breathe new life into the struggling medium. BBC is looking at putting the BBC Asian Network, plus the possibility of one or two other stations, on the Digital One national commercial digital […]
ITV is preparing to overhaul its website next year to introduce more social media features and a greater emphasis on its most popular TV shows with a “fewer, bigger, better” strategy. “Project Penguin” will see ITV.com’s content management system restructured and new discussion and content-sharing features introduced, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal. This follows the rebranding of […]
QuickPlay Media, provider of mobile TV and video solutions, has unveiled the findings of its first quarterly consumer consumption analysis. The results – aggregate usage statistics from 15 representative QuickPlay-powered services over the third quarter of 2008 – demonstrate that demand for mobile TV and video content is increasing steadily. The results, compiled from July […]
UEFA has announced deals with two leading Spanish broadcasters – Telecinco and Canal Satelite Digital (Digital+) – for the 2009-12 UEFA Europa League media rights. Free-to-air commercial broadcaster Telecinco has secured a package of rights which include the exclusive broadcast of the first-choice live match (including the final and the UEFA Super Cup) every matchweek, […]
TiVo is offering advertisers a new way to reach TiVo subscribers, who are prone to fast-forwarding through standard 30-second spots as they consume time-shifted programming. "Pause Menu," allows clickable, promotional graphics to be placed on the TV screen when a TiVo user pauses a live or time-shifted programme. The first advertisers to use Pause Menu […]
Thomas Ebeling is to be the new CEO ProSiebenSat.1 as successor to Guillaume de Posch. Ebeling was most recenty CEO of pharmaceutical company Novartis Consumer Health. De Posch announced in June that he would resign at the end of the year.
GlobeCast has been chosen by Italian public broadcaster Rai to provide fibre connectivity, teleport facilities and satellite capacity to deliver Rai signals to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) transmitters throughout the country in the process of the switchover from analogue to Digital TV. GlobeCast has signed a three year deal to manage the switch to DTT […]