Facebook has updated its range of ‘Portal’ video chat devices, including a new version that plugs directly into a TV. In a press release, Facebook said: “Portal TV brings smart video-calling to the largest screen in your home. It sits discreetly on top of or below your television for immersive video calling, giving you the […]
Rocket business SpaceX is offering three-times a fair market value for some homes adjacent to its Boca Chica Village launch site. The South Texas area, near the town of Brownsville in Cameron County, is where SpaceX is building its ‘Starship’ project and is testing the rocket system which, founder Elon Musk hopes will take humans […]
The licensees of the Red Bull public house in the Kentish village of Eccles, Jared Macdonnchadha, Richard Rodal and Karen Turner, have been convicted in their absence of three offences each of dishonest reception of a television transmission, in this case, Sky televised football matches, with the intent to avoid payment of the applicable charge. […]
AMC Networks’ Acorn TV, the North American streaming service for British and international television, is now serving more than one million subscribers in the US and Canada. Since its launch in 2011, Acorn TV has specialised in original and exclusive mysteries, dramas, and comedies from across the globe including Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, […]
A potentially devastating dispute has broken out between two former “cooperation” joint-venture partners: Intelsat has filed a lawsuit against OneWeb and its financial backer Japan’s SoftBank. The writ alleges that the OneWeb and SoftBank conspired together in stealing confidential information, because – the writ states – SoftBank no longer believed in the OneWeb project and was […]
Eros Now, a South Asian entertainment OTT video platform by Eros International, a global Indian entertainment company, has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to build a next generation online video platform on Microsoft Azure targeted at its consumers across the globe. This is a unique association for Microsoft in India in the online video space. […]
The ‘BidCo’ purchase of Inmarsat is close to wrapping up with no objections from any of the regulatory bodies. The ‘BidCo’ consortium, which comprises investment funds from Apax and Warburg Pincus as well as pension funds CPPIB and OTPP, said that on September 16th the US Department of Justice (DOJ) advised the Federal Communications Commission […]
Research unveiled at the Mobile Growth Summit 2019 in Berlin raised important questions for both advertisers and mobile app developers when it was revealed that although 60 per cent of ad clicks over the past 12 months have come from a mobile device, desktop converts almost 60 per cent more than mobile, with desktop conversions […]
Iridium has 66 satellites in orbit, while OneWeb plans to populate space with at least 650 satellites. At Iridium’s partner conference in California, the two signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate on a combined service for clients. The two operate on different frequencies so are not direct competitors. Iridium’s $3 billion Next constellation operates […]
A site in South Australia is being proposed as the nation’s commercial rocket launch centre. The Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex would be capable of launching small to medium sized rockets and their satellites. Southern Launch, which is backing the project, is aiming for the Complex “to get off the ground in 2020”. Southern Launch […]