YouView has reached a settlement with telco Total Limited to continue using the ‘YouView’ brand name. The connected TV platform’s original application to trademark the name was rejected by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) following objections by Gloucestershire based Total which uses the similar ‘Your View’ brand. Total argued that granting the YouView application for […]
The northern city of Zamora will be the first city in Spain to complete DTT migration and use the 800 MHz band frequencies to deploy 4G services. Over the last two years, Zamora and the nearby village of Fuentesauco have been testing 4G services led by the Ministry of Industry with the cooperation of telcos […]
Parks Associates research shows that 46 per cent of US broadband households have a game console connected to the Internet and over one-quarter (28 per cent) use the connected gaming console as their primary connected CE device. Among these primary console users, roughly three-quarters use the gaming console to access non-gaming content online at least […]
Illegal viewers are not aware of the impact their activity has on the wider entertainment industry, according to new research by PriceSpy.co.uk. The price comparison site found that
City of London Police Commander Steve Head has called for greater global co-operation and a worldwide day of action to tackle organised criminal networks who are making millions of pounds through intellectual property (IP) crime. Speaking at the International Law Enforcement IP Crime Conference in Vietnam Commander Head, who is the Police National Coordinator for […]
Digital television technology, software and services specialist Motive Television has declared it is well-positioned to start to reap the benefits of its heavy investment programme over the past few years, despite reporting an increased H1 loss of 10 per cent to £1,086,616 (H1 2013: £984,478) attributable to continuing activities and developing new business before interest. […]
Apple TV users in the UK are now able to enjoy Sky’s OTT service NOW TV with the arrival of the NOW TV Entertainment Month Pass and Sky Movies Month Pass. According to Sky, NOW TV is now the most comprehensive linear pay TV service on Apple TV with the addition of entertainment and movie […]
The Middle East’s Broadcast Satellite Anti-Piracy Coalition, meeting in Cairo, say that their organisation has grown by six new members, including Rotana, ART, IAA, the Egyptian Chamber of Commerce, Gulfsat and WWE. The Coalition also says that as a result of their efforts, 15 channels have been taken off air because of piracy in their […]
AOL UK has revealed 14 new partnerships for its premium video syndication platform AOL On with a series of new content producers adding their web content and short form content, including Northern & Shell, British Pathé and Sky News. These partnerships bring AOL On’s library to more than one million videos, with an estimated 1.2 […]
There is a strong appetite in the Middle East for high-quality news content in different formats and a desire to see trustworthy news from a number of different perspectives, according to a survey conducted for The Associated Press. Produced by Deloitte, the survey of 18 to 45-year-olds in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Saudi […]