According to an In-Stat survey, consumers are interested in receiving 3D in the home. Those who have seen three or more 3D movies in the theatre are more interested than the general respondents as are those who own Blu-ray players. Unfortunately about 25 per cent of those who are at least somewhat interested in having […]
Polish DVB-H mobile TV services provider Info-TV-FM has released the details of its wholesale offer and opened the service to testers in Warsaw with compatible mobile phones. Albert Kuzmicz, president of one of the company’s main backers Magna Polonia, told local reporters that the company is in talks with mobile operators on launching commercial services […]
In the first half of 2009 UK Internet advertising and grew by 4.6 per cent to £1.752 billion (E1.6bn), despite the entire advertising sector contracting by 16.6 per cent during the same period. According to the bi-annual online advertising expenditure study from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) – the trade body for digital marketing – […]
German cable operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) plans to offer broadband Internet with download speeds of up to 100Mbps from 2010. KDG's CEO, Adrian von Hammerstein, told a German newspaper that the new offering will initially be available in large urban areas, with up to four towns covered in the first half of the year. The […]
Nokia, Samsung, Silicon Image, Sony and Toshiba gave confirmed the formation of a Mobile High-Definition Interface Working Group that intends to create an industry standard for an audio/video interface to connect mobile phones or portable consumer electronics (CE) devices directly to high-definition televisions and displays. This new mobile connectivity standard, based on Silicon Image's Mobile […]
News Corp has announced a series of executive appointments within the company's Digital Media Group, the division responsible for driving digital strategy across the organisation, and directing the company's standalone digital media businesses. News Corp. Digital Media's (NDM) new executive team includes General Counsel and EVP of Business Affairs Dan Fawcett; EVP of Operations Jack […]
From Colin Mann in Cannes David Lancefield, Entertainment & Media (E&M) partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), has suggested that innovative, new measurement models are required to harness the power of cross-platform advertising and content monetisation for E&M. “The combination of the worst cyclical downturn in decades, with the structural transition to online, has resulted in a burning […]
Cisco has confirmed that TeliaSonera, Sweden’s largest teleco, is deploying a point-to-point fibre network based on Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN). The technology makes it possible to deliver symmetrical broadband services of up to 100 megabits per second (Mbps) to homes and businesses. The Cisco point-to-point fibre-to-the-premises (FTTx) solution makes it possible to deliver […]
Cisco is to acquire Tandberg for $2.96bn. The Norwegian public corporation is the world's biggest maker of videoconference equipment and was the mother company from which Tandberg Television (now owned by Ericsson) was spun off in the 1990s.
Days before the BitTorrent piracy case involving Aussie ISP iiNet goes to court, anti-piracy group AFACT has made a second legal retreat. The group, which represents Hollywood movie studios, has now dropped its claims that iiNet engaged in primary acts of copyright infringement. Next week, the case of Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount […]