October 10, 2014 ó Gent (Belgium) ó Excentis, a provider of testing services for access network technology, announces that it certified two dual band Wi-Fi & VoIP Cable Gateways for LTE immunity. Both devices are EuroDOCSIS products manufactured by Technicolor, and they are the industryís first to get the ìExcentis Certified for LTE Immunityî label. […]
Deluxe Media is pleased to announce that it has a new audio post-production facility in Barcelona. Deluxe offers comprehensive post-production, distribution and asset-management solutions for media and entertainment around the world. At the highly regarded facility, Deluxe will continue its legacy of offering a full range of audio post services. Those include: · Original Spanish local-production […]
American businessman, activist shareholder and investor Carl Icahn has written a wide-ranging open letter to Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, urging a share repurchase, suggesting its stock is undervalued, and has highlighted TV as a “large” market opportunity for the company. With Icahn’s company, Icahn Enterprises, which holds some 53 million shares in Apple, forecasting “robust” […]
Findings from UK quad-play operator Virgin Media have revealed technology is transforming the way the nation watches television. Data from over 2.3 million Virgin Media TiVo set-top boxes shows a fifth of all TV is now watched in a time-shifted format; either first recorded onto the hard drive of a set-top box or else watched […]
Korean telco SK Telecom has, together with Samsung Electronics, successfully completed development of ‘True Real Time Mobile Streaming’ technology that is essential for mobile live streaming and achieved its world’s first demonstration over a LTE network. The users of legacy live video streaming over mobile networks have experienced inconvenience with up to 15 seconds of […]
UK telco BT and information and communications technology solutions provider Huawei have confirmed field trial speeds of up to three Terabits per second (Tbps), believed to be the fastest real-time super channel speeds ever achieved over an existing fibre link using commercial grade hardware and software in a real-world operational environment. The speeds are the […]
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has launched what it describes as a “new and improved” ITV Player app across iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8 devices incorporating simulcast functionality. The app showcases a new user interface, increasing the prominence of ITV’s ‘watch live’ service at the top of each channel page, with easy access to the […]
The combination of five different services in a package (mobile and fixed telephony, mobile and fixed Internet access and pay-TV) is increasingly boosting the take-up of pay-TV services. In the first quarter of the year, the convergent packages with 5 different services
Planning to launch its own SVoD Netflix like platform by the end of this year, French telco Orange is reportedly already be in advanced talks with TF1. According to daily Le Figaro, the potential partners could include Canal+, despite the pay-TV group’s existing Canal play service. Orange already carries the major French SVoD services like […]
One in three children in the UK now has their own tablet computer, which has nearly doubled in a year, according to Ofcom research,which also suggests the popularity of the tablet could be contributing to the declining number of children with a TV set in their bedroom. Among children aged between 5 and 15, 34 […]