Europeans’ interest in watching mobile television is tiny, a new study shows. Mobile operators hope that mobile TV could encourage users to spend an extra E5 to 10 a month, compensating for declining revenues from voice calls, but mobile television and video downloads ranked close to the bottom of consumer interest in a Gartner study […]
Facebook has overtaken News Corp’s MySpace site as the highest-traffic UK social networking site with 6.5m unique users last month, according to data published by Nielsen//NetRatings. Since October 2006, Facebook has rocketed from 448,000 unique users in the UK to 6,506,000 during August 2007. Meanwhile, it is being reported that Microsoft is poised to buy […]
UK Television could soon have longer advertising breaks under proposals being considered by Ofcom. ITV1, Channel 4 and Five are currently not allowed to show more than an average of seven minutes of advertising an hour. But Ofcom is discussing raising the limit. The watchdog said it was reviewing the rules at a time when […]
Fox and Apple have reached an agreement to offer free downloads of the shows Fox is trying to promote for the widely covered US sweeps season. Episodes of five new shows including Back To You, Til’ Death and K-Ville, are currently available for free at the iTunes Store. The FOX shows are commercial-free, unlike the […]
AETN International, a division of A&E Television Networks (AETN), has launched a broadband video player for overseas channel services of The History Channel, The Biography Channel, and Crime & Investigation Network. The broadband player is avaialble in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. AETN and its partners will launch additional players in Europe, Asia and Latin America […]
MGM Networks, has signed an agreement with Warburg Pincus-backed Eurocom, the largest cable operator in Bulgaria's capital, to launch a local language version of The MGM Channel beginning in October. The deal marks the MGM Channel's debut in Bulgaria.
Axel Technologies, provider of multimedia middleware for mobile devices, and Siano Mobile Silicon, supplier of semiconductor solutions for Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) have launched a comprehensive platform for DVB-H terminals, with record-fast channel switching time of less than 2 seconds. The solution is targeting DVB-H enabled mobile phones, smartphones, laptops, PDAs, pocket TVs, PMPs and […]
Within the next five years, Americans will be spending more than a third of their daily TV-viewing time watching on-demand programs rather than regularly scheduled shows and events, according to a new forecast by Pike Fischer. In a report on video-on-demand (VOD) usage, the market research firm says that the majority of households in the […]
Arris Group is to pay $730 million (E517m) in a mix of cash and stock for C-COR Incorporated. Arris says with over 250 customers around the world, the companies collectively reported revenues of over $1.2 billion over the past year and the merged company will be the largest pure-play provider of equipment and solutions to […]
BT may be dropping its traditional opposition to constructing a super-fast fibre network. Ian Livingston, head of BT's retail division, told the FT that the company would discuss investing in an ultra-fast network with the government and regulators at a summit in November or December. Such a network would require capex in the order of […]