Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame has predictably debuted at Number 1 on the Official Film Chart – setting the highest-ever opening week of digital download sales in the process. Just five weeks after officially becoming the highest-grossing film of all time at the box-office (surpassing Avatar), the epic superhero motion picture – which serves as a culmination […]
Data from Extreme Networks and eCampus News shows that the eSports industry is nascent, but growing rapidly. The report, which surveyed 281 technical and administrative leaders across K-12 and higher education in North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe, and Middle East, found that 1 in 5 schools already have an eSports programme, and 71 […]
A report from Northern Sky Research (NSR) predits that the market for satellite-based Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) connectivity will be worth $11.6 billion (€10.4bn) over the next 10 years. All M2M and IoT applications will grow, with total retail revenues to rise at 6.6 per cent CAGR over the coming decade, with […]
Two of the UK’s most westerly island communities are now among the best connected too – as new full fibre broadband networks go live in the Outer Hebrides/Na h-Eileanan Siar. Grimsay is a tiny island roughly three miles long and half again in width, joined to North Uist and Benbecula by a causeway. A single-track […]
Australia-based satellite services provider Speedcast International has been hammered by the stock market, and its latest results have not done much to improve the situation. A profits warning in July created a 40 per cent fall in its share price, and yesterday’s numbers prompted another 32 per cent tumble. Speedcast is dropping its Chairman as […]
Thomas John Holland of the Goat Inn in Sheerness, Kent in the southeast of England has been convicted of three offences of dishonest reception of a television transmission, in this case, Sky televised football matches, with the intent to avoid payment of the applicable charge. Sky Sports is only available to licensed premises in the […]
In-Flight Connectivity company Gogo has secured a $30 million revolving credit facility. Chicago-based Gogo took the opportunity to reaffirm its overall guidance for this year’s Free Cash Flow improvement to be at least $100 million. “The closing of our $30 million revolving credit facility provides additional buffer capital and represents another important step in the […]
Singapore-based (but Vanuatu-registered) Kacific Broadband is readying its Kacific1 which will be a high-throughput satellite operating over the Pacific and south-East Asia regions. Boeing is building the so-called ‘condominium’ craft and it is scheduled for launch later this year on a SpaceX rocket. The satellite is better known as SkyPerfect’s JCSAT-18, which will take the […]
The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of advanced interactive TV services through broadcast and broadband networks for connected TV sets and set-top boxes, is pleased to announce that the HbbTV Testing Group has published a new version of the HbbTV Conformance Test Suite. The new version […]
With the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 due to tip-off next week across China, FIBA has said it has “the biggest and most ambitious TV, digital and social media coverage global production plan ever”. This World Cup will mark a big change in the production, coverage, presentation and multi-platform availability of the event and will […]