Blue Origin, the rocket-launching business founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is to build its all-new BE-4 rocket engine at Cummings Research Park, at ‘Rocket City’, Huntsville in Alabama. ‘Rocket City’ is the name given to Huntsville and is already home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as well as the US Army’s Aviation & […]
AT&T’s Entertainment boss John Stankey says that CNN will not be sold once AT&T wraps its purchase of Time-Warner, which owns CNN and the other Turner Broadcasting assets. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, he denied previous reports that CNN would be sold after the $85 million purchase, saying that News was on a par with […]
UPC increased the number of subscriptions for fixed network and Mobile by 13,000 in the second quarter of 2017. As part of the Autostrada investment programme, the leading provider of communication and entertainment connected a further 12,000 homes in Switzerland and Austria to its powerful fibre optic cable network in the second quarter of 2017. […]
SpaceX technicians at Cape Canaveral are patiently waiting for a scheduled Atlas-5 rocket to launch a military satellite into orbit on September 27. A few days later, weather permitting, SpaceX will take centre stage for a mission for two clients, SES and EchoStar, and their joint-venture SES-11/EchoStar 105 satellite. The satellite will make use of […]
South Korea’s electronics giant Samsung is reportedly amending its business plan for this year and in the process lowering its manufacturing of TV sets. Large Display Monitor (LDM) is reporting that the expected 48-49 million output by the end of this year, is likely to fall to around 44 million and says that there are […]
Forecasts from hi-tech consulting firm Juniper Research on Virtual Reality suggest that wireless VR headsets (smartphone-based and standalone) data consumption will grow by over 650 per cent over the next four years, from nearly 2,800PB (Petabytes) in 2017 to over 21,000PB in 2021. The new research, Virtual Reality Markets: Hardware, Content & Accessories 2017-2022, found […]
New data, extracted by broadband recommendation site Cable.co.uk from over 63 million broadband speed tests worldwide has revealed that UK speeds are behind 30 other countries, with an average speed of 16.51Mbps. The data was collected across the 12 months up to 10th May 2017 by M-Lab, a partnership between New America’s Open Technology Institute, […]
Subscription video on demand (SVoD) services delivered over the Internet continue to feed Australians’ appetite for entertainment with subscriptions reaching 3.7 million at the end of June 2017, a year-on-year increase of 30 per cent, according to a new study by emerging technology analyst firm Telsyte. Telsyte’s Australian SVOD Market Study 2017 found almost half […]
Paul Farrell, Vice-President of Commercial at Virgin Media said: “Our revenues in the quarter increased year on year by 2 per cent to reach €102 million, reflecting the acquisition of UTV Ireland, now part of TV3 Group revenues and continued growth in our Mobile and B2B segments.” “We are generating real momentum with our network build […]
At SET Expo 2017 Snell Advanced Media (SAM) will be highlighting its game-changing live sports production and replay workflows, the market’s most complete, flexible and cost effective IP Routing System, multi-format production switchers and industry-renowned playout solutions. Rafael Castillo, Vice President, LATAM, SAM, said, “Following LiveTouch’s incredibly successful showing at NAB 2017, we’re looking forward […]