TiVo has filed complaints in the US District Court against AT&T and Verizon Communications for infringement of three TiVo patents – 'Multimedia Time Warping System', 'System for Time Shifting Multimedia Content Streams', and 'Automatic Playback Overshoot Correction System'. The complaints seek damages for past infringement and a permanent injunction, similar to that issued by the […]

Investment analysts Piper Jaffray have predicted Apple will enter the TV market by 2011 with an Apple-branded television set with digital video recording and home media functions. “With the popularity of ad-based internet TV and subscription models, we believe a-la-carte (iTunes) video purchases have lost share against other video models in recent months. As such, […]

The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to launch an investigation into how the habits and personal information of web users are used to target Internet advertising. Competition regulators said they had been prompted to launch the study, which could ultimately lead to an industry code of practice, because of a need to “update […]

Latvian telco Lattelecom has announced that its IPTV service ‘Lattelecom Interactive TV’ has surpassed 30,000 subscribers. Lattelecom has also recently launched commercial tests of a new DTT service, available in a 70 kilometre radius around the Latvian capital city of Riga. ….

The Supreme Court in Israel has rejected the planned merger of telco Bezeq with DTH satellite platform Yes. Bezeq intended to increase its stake in Yes to 58% from the present 49.8%. However, the Supreme Court accepted petitions from the anti-trust authority and Yes minority shareholder Eurocom Group who wanted to stop the merger as […]

YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley has becoming the "primary investor" for US F1, the motorsports team debuting in next year's season. Hurley tells Autosport.com: "I thought it was a great business opportunity and a good investment. I am definitely going to be involved in helping the team with sponsors, helping the team with business […]

BBC Worldwide has struck a deal to make hundreds of hours of content available via the UK online video service blinkbox. Popular titles on DVD, such as Top Gear, Gavin & Stacey, Spooks and Planet Earth, will cost users £1.89 (E2.19) an episode to download from which is still finalising what it will charge for […]

PCCW has reported its first-half net profit edged lower as revenue from telecommunications services declined due to the weakening Hong Kong economy. The dominant telco said its net profit for the six months ended June 30 was HK$654 million Hong Kong dollars ($83.8 million), down 0.3 per cent from HK$656 million a year earlier. Revenue […]

Some readers of Entertainment Weekly next month will discover characters from US television programmes speaking to them from a wafer-thin video screen built into the page. The experiment – which is being conducted by CBS and Pepsi, card, will see the video starting once a reader turns the appropriate page. The cost of the full-motion […]

Warner Bros and Turner Broadcasting have made a joint deal with YouTube to put movie and TV clips on the popular video portal. The deal is aimed at driving digital sales of Warner movies and TV shows online, the company said. Links on some WB shows already on YouTube point users directly to the WBShop.com […]