Synamedia – which Sky acquired a stake in this week – has unveiled new artificial intelligence software at CES 2019, claiming it could bring an end to password sharing in the streaming industry. The system uses machine learning to analyse account activity and recognise unusual patterns, such as account details being used in two locations […]
The football TV war and the proliferation of low-cost packages is seeing Vodafone Spain drastically cut staff. The company has announced a redundancy plan that will affect 1,200 out of its total workforce in Spain of 5,000. Vodafone states that the layoffs, to take effect in February and March, are the result of the obligation to […]
Canal+ has denied that it plans to revamp its CanalPlay SVoD service, closed in the summer of 2018 after a dramatic loss of subscribers. In response to a story published by financial daily Les Echos, Canal+ chairman and CEO Maxime Saada tweeted January 10th: “There won’t be any revival of CanalPlay, but numerous new ideas […]
The latest data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) shows extremely modest growth from the nation’s 5 DTH operators. TRAI says the operators added just 80,000 net new (active) subs in the quarter-year to September 30th. At that point the five players had about 69.45 million subscribers (69.37m as at July 31st). Dish […]
With all the 8K TV hype currently happening at CES 2019, Andrew Gray, Marketing Director EMEA at Limelight Networks, has addressed the fact that there are no services to accompany all the new hardware. Gray commented: “At CES 2019, the elephant in the room is there to be seen by all in 8K definition. Announcements […]
Arianespace has confirmed that it will launch the first batch of 10 OneWeb satellites on February 19th, weather permitting. The satellites have been built by OneWeb’s satellite building partner, Airbus in Toulouse, and will be launched by a Europeanised version of Russia’s Soyuz rocket from Kourou in French Guiana. OneWeb has contracted 21 of these […]
London-based sports production specialists Input Media captured and delivered complete coverage of The Emirates FA Cup third round for the first time, with all 32 matches made available as world feeds for The FA’s international rights-holders and a new digital clips service racking up 46 million views on social media. One digital clip was viewed […]
SenseTime Group, the world’s most valuable artificial-intelligence start-up, is preparing for a new financing round with the China-baned company aiming to raise about $2 billion in fresh funding this year. Bloomberg reports that SenseTime, which counts Alibaba Group as an investor, raised more than $1.2 billion last year including a round announced in May that […]
Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL), based in Guildford, UK, unveiled its portion of Eutelsat’s highly versatile ‘Quantum’ satellite on January 9th. The satellite is being built under a public–private partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the satellite operator Eutelsat with Airbus as the prime contractor. The satellite platform, which has been designed and manufactured […]
Korean mobile telco SK Telecom and Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest TV broadcasting companies in the US, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with connected products and solutions specialist Harman at CES 2019 in Las Vegas jointly to develop and commercialise digital broadcasting network-based automotive electronics technology for global markets. The move […]