UK Children are spending increasing amounts of their lives in front of televisions, computers and games consoles, cramming in nearly six hours of screen time a day, according to research from ChildWise. From the age of seven children are building multimedia hubs in their rooms, with games consoles, Internet access and MP3 players, which they […]

Balderton Capital, the UK venture capital group that backed the Betfair gambling website and Setanta, the pay-TV broadcaster, has defied the gloom in financial markets saying it has raised £282m (E358m) for technology and media investments. Founded in 2000 as the London-based arm of Benchmark Capital, the Silicon Valley venture capital group, Balderton has become […]

Postponing the Feb. 17 date for broadcasters to turn off their analogue signals will create more problems than it solves, said FCC Chairman Kevin Martin at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Martin said the shortage in funding for digital converter boxes was a problem that needed to be fixed quickly, and said he […]

The BBC director-general BBC has called on the UK government to help his commercial rivals survive the economic slowdown, so that "their content might help inspire the population to adopt high-speed broadband technologies." Writing for the FT, Mark Thompson has supported a merger of Channel 4 and Five, a course thought to be favoured by […]

Consumers will be able to store as many as 100 high-definition movies on a stamp-sized memory card and retrieve them with devices such as mobile phones and digital cameras, according to the promoters of the next-generation SD card technology, a trade group that brings together more than 1,100 technology companies from SanDisk Corp to Hewlett-Packard […]

A consumer study into HD TV purchase drivers carried out by Oregan Networks, an Internet TV software company and Micronas supplier of TV application-specific IC system solutions, has revealed that the ability to access the Internet from the the living room in parallel or in addition to watching regular TV is making its way into […]

US broadcaster CBS has raised the stakes in the online video market with a revamp of its video site. CBS has added content from partners including Sony, Endemol, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor and PBS, to TV.com, the site it acquired in the $1.8 billion takeover last year of CNET Networks, the technology web site operator. The partners will […]

AT&T and RaySat Broadcasting have debuted to consumers AT&T CruiseCast, the Total In-Car Entertainment service that enables users to watch a lineup of 22 satellite video channels anywhere in America. AT&T CruiseCast utilizes a compact, low-profile antenna for use on cars, trucks and SUVs, and a breakthrough technology that overcomes line-of-sight obstacles such as overpasses, […]

NeuLion, provider of live and on-demand programming over the Internet, has unveiled the IPTV HD TV Box delivering high definition programming in 720p and 1080i to the television. NeuLion’s existing IPTV HD PC browser service provides HD quality programming of live channels, sports, entertainment events and video on demand in up to a 1080i format […]

DS2, global supplier of high-speed powerline communications technology, is featuring its fully interoperable 100Mbps, 200Mbps and future 400Mbps powerline communication technologies for multi-room IPTV, audio, gaming and broadband home networking and entertainment applications at CES 2009 this week. Demos at the DS2 booth will showcase the full interoperability between different powerline communications home networking products, […]