blinkx, the advanced video search engine, has formed a partnership with Fanlala, the online lifestyle destination for teens and tweens, to give blinkx users access to exclusive, fun and age-appropriate video content about the latest hit shows, music, fashion and heartthrobs. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will place contextually relevant advertising against these videos […]
Pace has announced that it is licensing the Reference Development Kit (RDK) from Comcast, which significantly accelerates the set-top box and gateway development cycle. The RDK is a pre-integrated software bundle that creates a common framework for powering tru2way, IP or hybrid set-top boxes and video gateway devices. It accelerates the development and deployment of […]
Time Warner Cable is working with Motorola Mobility to deploy Motorola’s EDGE Manager across its US subscriber base. The move represents the first nationwide deployment from a tier-one cable operator into next-generation device management for the IP connected home—helping to ensure a smarter, simpler connected home for subscribers. Motorola EDGE Manager provides seamless unified management […]
TiVo’s lawyers were busy again in the tiny town of Marshall, Texas (pop 23,523), where it likes to file its patent infringement cases. This goes back to 2009 when TiVo bought a championship steer for the record sum of $10,000 at the local county show, and renamed it TiVo. Two weeks later the jury awarded […]
Eutelsat is involved in an increasingly bitter dispute with its arch-rival SES Astra. The two giants are arguing over 500 MHz of satellite capacity at the 28.5 degrees East position, which is used to beam hundreds of channels into the UK and Ireland. Eutelsat on October 16th filed a request for arbitration against SES with […]
Multimedia Research Group, a specialist in the Video and Media ecosystem, has published its Multiplatform TV Middleware and Applications report. Pay TV has been on a collision course with the Internet for more than a decade, but not only has online delivery not yet cannibalised pay TV revenues to any great extent, it also has […]
UPC Cablecom the Swiss MSO is going free to air with its basic package of 55 channels so they can be received without STB or CI + CAM. The package had cost €3.30 a month. Now UPC will be able to convert all 1.8 million connected households to digital in one step. About 80 per […]
While operators are launching their own OTT apps and services, they should also find mutually beneficial ways, such as revenue-sharing models, to partner with third-party OTTs, according to Pyramid Research. “For operators, partnering with OTTs provides an opportunity to increase both the range of services offered and the number of potentially billable events by OTT […]
A new range of LG and Samsung and Smart TVs will come pre-loaded with KnowHow Movies, the digital entertainment service from Dixons Retail, enabling users to enjoy an extensive library of new and classic films and TV shows with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound. Having debuted on PCs and Macs earlier this year, the subscription-free […]
BT has appointed Simon Green, the chief executive of the Boxnation boxing channel, to run its new sports channel. Green, who has previously worked at BSkyB and Setanta, is leaving Boxnation, which launched on TV in the UK in September last year, just weeks after it announced the launch of the UK channel on Sky […]