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 […]
Bruised by the recession, the UK entertainment and media (E&M) market will experience a cumulative seven per cent decline in revenue from 2008 – 2010 from $92 billion to $85 billion, a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) report has suggested. A decline in advertising and change in consumer spending behaviour will push the market to its lowest revenue […]
Communications market research firm Infonetics Research has released the first quarter) editions of its Cable Broadband Aggregation Hardware and Subscribers and Broadband CPE and Subscribers reports. Jeff Heynen, Directing Analyst at Infonetics Research, said that on the heels of record-high revenue in 2008 ($1.23 billion), the cable broadband hardware market held steady in the first […]
Two in three (64 per cent) Brits are illegally listening to and sharing music online because they do not know how to do so legally, according to research by British online jukebox We7. Educating and raising awareness of what is legal and what is not online, as well as providing a music choice that is […]
Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM), the largest multiple system operator (MSO) in Japan based on the number of customers served, has announced that the total subscribing households as of May 31st, 2009 served by J:COM's 23 consolidated franchises reached approximately 3.21 million, up 461,500, or 16.8 per cent since May 31st, 2008. Combined revenue generating units (RGUs) […]
Brightcove, the online video platform, and UK broadcaster, Five, have launched an initiative that will allow five's viewers to embed episodes of TV shows on their websites, social networks and blogs. Five becomes the first UK broadcaster to syndicate full episodes of popular programmes for catch-up viewing on third-party websites. The initiative, which utilises the […]
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 […]