The EU consultation process ahead of its on 11th November “Net neutrality summit” produced a near consensus on the importance of preserving the openness of the internet. A total of 318 stakeholders at every level of the value chain provided input to the consultation. These included BEREC, the body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications, […]
Mediaset Premium, Mediaset’s pay TV arm, grew sales by 61.4 per cent year-on-year to €342.5 million for the nine months to September. It had 3.3 million subscribers compared to 2.9 million a year ago. Mediaset group had revenues of €3.046 billion, up 14.6 per cent for the first nine months, and a net profit of […]
Michael D. Eisner‘s Web studio, Vuguru, will produce half a dozen scripted Web video series for AOL. “We feel like we are building the future of great high-quality video content,” said Tim Armstrong, the chief executive of AOL. Eisner said the partnership was proof that “story-telling series, emotional series” were coming to the fore on […]
AonTV, Telekom Austria’s IPTV service added 55.3 per cent more subs to reach 134,000 at September. Telekom Austria said its multi-play product packages had stemmed the loss of fixed lines during the third quarter to only 1,200. Telekom Austria’s fixed-line broadband base grew by 13.9 per cent year-on-year to 1.1 million lines. Telekom Austria posted […]
Four top US TV networks have asked a federal court to stop the Internet video service FilmOn.com from offering TV channels over the web and on Apple’s iPad for free. FilmOn.com was launched in September by British entrepreneur Alki David. The network’s suit comes as start-ups have sought to bypass traditional media companies by offering […]
The Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has revealed that the Government has partnered with regional commercial broadcasters to ensure all Australians can access the same number of TV channels as is available in capital cities, no matter where they live. As part of its digital switchover programme, the […]
Despite the difficulties faced to date, the timing is ripe for mobile video services to take off in certain Asia/Pacific markets due to the enhanced capability of the networks, increasing popularity and affordability of smartphones, and improvements in the mobile video business, according to a report from Pyramid Research Pyramid Research estimates there will be […]
New start-up Movieclips.com has licensed short clips from movies that are then streamed on its website. The site is designed to entice consumers into paying for the full-length movie after enjoying a short excerpt for free. The company has secured around 1,400 films and 15,000 clips from various Hollywood studios on its site. The studios […]
UPC Business has become the first cable company partnering with Microsoft to offer Office 365, bringing online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync together with Office desktop software as a single cloud service. UPC Business already offers Microsoft cloud services such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online in Austria, and under this new agreement the […]
PlayJam has invited third party games developers to maximise revenues by publishing their titles free of charge to its global connected TV network. PlayJam is the world’s largest TV games publisher, delivering its 500-strong library of branded casual games titles via a common Application Programme Interface (API) to millions of consumer electronics devices across the […]