The BBC Trust has told the public service broadcaster to slow the pace of its online developments because of competitive tensions with the commercial sector and “poor financial accountability”.In the first of its service reviews under the BBC's new Charter, the Trust, the corporation's governing body, said it would apply stronger scrutiny before authorising new […]
Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, is warning digital businesses to beware of the inevitable bubble-burst. She highlighted how the digital growth of recent years had slowed and suggested there were "tough times ahead".She also renewed her attack on the BBC’s plans to spend £68 million (E85.6m) launching 65 local video websites, claiming […]
RealNetworks and major film studios are off in a legal battle over a new product allowing consumers to make computer copies of DVDs that the studios claim is illegal. "RealNetworks’ RealDVD should be called StealDVD," Greg Goeckner, executive vice president and general counsel for the MPAA. "RealNetworks knows its product violates the law and undermines […]
From David Del Valle in MadridSatellite beats cable and IPTV in the pay-TV distribution in Spain. A report from ONTSI, Spanish telco Observatory reveals that 48.9% of Spanish homes have access to pay-TV services through satellite with more than 2 million subscribers. Pay-TV cable distribution represents 36.2% of all pay-TV consumers, with ONO taking the lead […]
Aim-listed Phorm, the internet advertising group that announced a tie up with BT this week, made an pre-tax loss of £13.7m (E17.2m) for the first half of 2008, an increase of 52 per cent from the loss of £9.1m in the same period in 2007. However, in spite of the losses, Phorm still has a […]
Amazon.com is now adopting Adobe Systems ncryption on all television shows and movies found on its site. Last week, Amazon.com said it fixed a temporary problem that allowed people to record and copy from the online retailer’s video streaming service without paying.Adobe, whose software is used by Amazon.com to distribute movies and TV shows over […]
Virgin Media has rolled out its first mobile broadband service. The service claims to offer speeds of up to 3.6Mbps and is available on an 18-month contract that comes with 3GB of data every month. The ISP claims this is sufficient to send 2,000 plain text emails as well as browse the web for 100 […]
A recent survey of US mobile phone users by Artificial Life has revealed that 46 per cent use their devices for entertainment purposes, illustrating evolution of the mobile phone as a prominent communication tool to a must-have, multi-purpose consumer gadget.The survey of 200 respondents shows that 33 per cent of individuals use their phone for […]
Channel 4 is scaling back its digital radio plans, with only one of three of its originally planned stations, E4 Radio, now confirmed for launch. Channel 4 conceded that it is scaling back its investment in radio "in line with its proposal to reduce its cost base by £100m (E126m) in the next two years". […]
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. has become Panasonic Corporation, and its ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange has been changed from MC to PC. The name change also took effect for some of the group companies that used the names Matsushita or National. Along with the name change, Panasonic is working on the […]