Digital Rapids, provider of solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences, has confirmed that World Sport Group, Asia's leading sports marketing, event management and media company, has selected Digital Rapids encoding and management systems to enable live streaming of hundreds of high-profile sporting events each year.

Beltelecom, the national telecoms operator owned by the Belarus government, is securing its Premiere IPTV service with Verimatrix's VCAS for IPTV. It helps enable interactive services like time-shift TV, VOD and parental controls. The operator is a major player of broadband services for the region. By the end of 2008, it controlled 78 per cent […]

Tandberg Television, part of the Ericsson Group, has revealed that Indonesia's newest pay TV service provider, AORA, has selected Tandberg Television encoders and multiplexing for over 50 channels of standard-definition content, which are broadcast in MPEG-4 AVC over satellite. AORA will be using Tandberg's award-winning Prekor pre-correction system for Satellite Modulation.

Digimarc Corporation has entered into an agreement with The Nielsen Company to jointly launch two new companies that will leverage the intellectual property assets of Digimarc and the wealth of consumer and business data amassed by Nielsen. Through the creation of these joint ventures, Digimarc and Nielsen will expand and extend their existing relationship to […]

Virgin Media and Universal Music have unveiled plans for a digital music service designed to bring about a rapid and permanent change in the way UK consumers buy and listen to music. The service will enable Virgin Media broadband customer to both stream and download as many music tracks and albums as they want from […]

Australia's free-to-air TV networks have called on the federal government to impose tough new regulations on future Internet TV services to prevent them grabbing premium sport and other content. Free TV Australia, representing the Seven, Nine, Ten, ABC and SBS networks, argued the anti-siphoning content rules for pay-TV should include IPTV. In its submission on […]

Safaricom subscribers in Kenya can now watch DStv's menu of TV programmes from certain Nokia mobile phones. As part of an introductory offer, they do not have to pay any extra cost for the service till April, 2010, as long as they have the right devices. The service follows the signing of a partnership between […]

Disney has confirmed it will replace Jetix with its Disney XD brand in the UK this August. The company has been gradually phasing out Jetix, having taken full control of the channel last year, and introducing Disney XD in its place.

Vietnam Multimedia Corporation (VTC) has selected Tandberg Television, part of the Ericsson Group, to provide the encoding, multiplexing and modulation for ten HD and 32 standard-definition channels that are simultaneously played out over satellite and digital terrestrial networks. The Vietnamese broadcaster and platform operator combines MPEG-2 SD and MPEG-4 AVC HDTV channels in the same […]

Interactive advertising is responsible for $300 billion of economic activity in the US, according to a study released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). The advertising-supported Internet represents 2.1 per cent of the total US gross domestic product (GDP). It directly employs more than 1.2 million Americans with above-average wages in jobs that did not […]