D-Link has unveiled its Boxee Box device. The Boxee Box delivers movies, TV shows, music, and photos from a user’s computer, home network, and the Internet to their HDTV with no PC needed. Additionally, Boxee’s core social features make it easy for friends to discover new content from each other through social networks like Facebook, […]
Popbox, a wireless set-top box that streams Netflix to TVs, will be unveiled this week at the Consumer Electronics Show and launch at stores in March. Popbox is the latest stand-alone device to stream Netflix to TVs. Roku, the first set-top to stream Netflix straight to TVs, also comes with wi-fi built in. The Popbox, […]
BBC is using Witbe’s quality of experience (QoE) technology to complement its existing quality of service (QoS) measurements with end-user experience data, based on actual visual clues, for the BBC.co.uk web site. Witbe robots technology continuously reproduces user behaviour on the BBC.co.uk web site, in particular on the Home page, the Weather page, the News […]
Market research group DisplaySearch forecasts that the total stereoscopic 3D display market will grow from 0.7 million units and $902 million in revenues in 2008, to 196 million units and $22 billion in revenues in 2018 – a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 38 per cent for revenues and 75 per cent for units. […]
Portugal had 2.44 million TV subscribers at the end of September after adding 71,000 subs during the third quarter of 2009 with subscriber growth across all platforms, according to regulator Anacom. Cable accounted for 60% of TV subscriptions during the quarter, cable now passes 4.28 million households, compared with 4.19 million a year earlier, and […]
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, the coalition with support from every sector of digital entertainment, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show it has reached key milestones toward establishing the first open market for digital content distribution. In addition, DECE announced that 21 companies have joined the group which now includes 48 members across entertainment, software, […]
Creditors of indebted German cable company Orion have agreed a deal that will see Tele Columbus, one of its operating companies, sold to a new company. Shareholders of Orion will sell their shares in Tele Columbus to a special purpose vehicle funded by the company's lenders in exchange for E2.5 million according to various reports. […]
There is fierce opposition from medical groups, teaching unions and children’s charities to UK plans to allow products to be used in television programmes for marketing purposes for the first time. Critics claim placement will fuel childhood obesity, exacerbate the problems caused by alcohol and gambling, and distort storylines by rewarding programme makers for deliberately […]
The number of wi-fi internet hotspots in the UK could treble over the next few years, driven by growing demand from iPhone users and fresh interest in community wi-fi projects. Owen Geddes, chief executive of Freerunner, a start-up wi-fi company, estimates that the UK has about 10,000 public wi-fi hotspots at present, but expects this […]
Hong Kong-based telecommunications services provider City Telecom is seeking a television licence. The company has submitted a licence application for a ‘Domestic Free Television Programme Service’ in Hong Kong. City Telecom plans to transmit television signals via the fibre network of wholly-owned subsidiary HKBN and interconnect to the existing common in-building coaxial cable distribution system […]