AmberFin has announced that Miranda Technologies has signed an OEM agreement to incorporate and resell AmberFin's industry-leading iCR ingest functionality as part of its playout server offering. As a result of this agreement, Miranda customers will receive significant benefits including multi-format SD/HD ingest, ultra-reliability, easy integration and multi-vendor interoperability. …………

Reports in the US say online video platform Joost is actively seeking a buyer and has told cable and satellite providers that it could be their online video solution. Time Warner Cable is one of the companies that has expressed interest in Joost say the reports. In the online video sector, Joost has fallen far […]

UK regulator Ofcom has said Project Canvas, the broadband TV joint venture between BBC, ITV and BT, could face a competition investigation. Ofcom, in its submission to the BBC Trust, has warned that the venture could find itself the subject of the same regulatory scrutiny that earlier this year spelled the end for Project Kangaroo. […]

RealNetworks has said it wants to help increase DVD sales by allowing people to copy their movie discs. Hollywood studios say that idea will only hurt their already struggling business. The two sides are now squaring off in federal court. The case is ostensibly about RealDVD, a $30 software program that allows users to save […]

SES has reported a 12.2 per cent rise in its first-quarter core profit, maintained its full-year forecast and said it signed a E2 billion credit facility. SES, the world’s second-largest satellite operator, said that EBITDA rose to E308.9 million. SES repeated its forecast of revenue growth between 3 per cent and 4 per cent on […]

Nordic telco TeliaSonera has revealed that it added 32,000 IPTV subscribers in the first quarter of 2009 across all its markets, including 9,000 new customers in Sweden alone, to reach a new total of 509,000.

Orange has signed a deal with Wikimedia to provide its users with co-branded content that will be accessed through specific Wikipedia channels on Orange’s mobile and Internet portals. Orange will place ads alongside Wikipedia content and the two will share the ad revenues.

Civolution, provider of technology and services for identifying, managing and monetising media content, has signed a partnership agreement with Eurovision, for its Teletrax broadcast monitoring service. Eurovision will integrate the Teletrax video watermarking based monitoring service into its distribution services. Using Teletrax's unique global television monitoring network of over 1500 channels and its web-based reporting […]

GlobeCast has strengthened its position in the Americas with the appointment of two key executives. Former GlobeCast Asia CEO David Justin has been named as CEO America while industry veteran Catherine Palaia has joined the company as Senior Director, Business and Product Development.

India's pay-television industry is facing a shake-out amid intense competition during the recession according to a report by Media Partners Asia (MPA). "All of the players have to rationalise their costs because advertising sales and subscriptions are falling," said Vivek Couto, executive director at MPA. India has been a standout market in Asia for pay-TV […]