Sean Combs, better known as rapper P.Diddy, is to unveil plans for a music-oriented cable channel called Revolt, due to start by the end of the year. According to US reports, Combs will bill Revolt as a music and news television channel influenced by the nonstop chatter of social networking Web sites. Comcast, the nation’s […]
Market research specialists GfK says that the Japanese market for technical consumer goods (including telco-based products as well as eco-friendly TVs, fridges and air-conditioners) have slumped to their lowest volumes since 2008. Quarterly sales were ranging from Yen 2.25 trillion (Q1/08) to a high point of Yen 2.73 trillion (Q4/2010) but the latest four quarters […]
Sky Italia says it has renewed its MySky HD operating system and launched a new tool able to enhance the freedom to enjoy contents and make the viewing of Sky more customised. Through the new graphic interface, all in High Definition, Sky enhances its STB’s features and, thanks to constant investment in technology, it takes […]
Bosnia’s BH Telecom has added 10 new channels to its Moja TV line-up. It means Moja now offers a total of 79 local and foreign stations. The new channels are: Hayat folk, Arena sport 1 Hrvatska, FaceTV, Jata Srebrenik, SmartTV Tesanj, Amna Tesanj, Al Jazeera Balkan, DM sat, BN and Kanal 1. The Moja TV […]
DVR specialist TiVo and STB maker Pace have revealed plans to port TiVo’s software to Pace’s set-tops and gateways. The initiative is designed further to enable operators around the world to deploy quickly and cost-effectively the TiVo consumer experience to a selection of Pace devices. “This global partnership with Pace is another step in achieving […]
Italy’s Telecom Italia Media is in advanced negotiations for a new DTT channel as part of a joint venture with an unnamed partner, according to CEO, Giovanni Stella. During the conference call to present the preliminary results for 2011, Stella said that Telecom Italia Media will have a 30 per cent stake in the joint […]
A diverse group of technology leaders have formed the DASH Promoters Group, a new organisation dedicated to driving the broad adoption of MPEG’s DASH (dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP) standard, which was ratified in November 2011. DASH is designed to address the dramatic growth of Internet video by defining a universal delivery format, which provides […]
US cable communications giant Comcast is taking on online movie and TV service Netflix by launching Xfinity Streampix, a new subscription video service that enables the operator’s Xfinity video customers instantly to view favourite movies and TV shows in and out of the home, including numerous past seasons of current hit shows and full series, […]
Spanish construction and telecoms giant Abertis is buying a large stake in Spanish satellite operator Hispasat from Telefónica. Abertis, which recently cut its investment in Eutelsat by half, is paying $164.5 million for Telefónica’s 13 per cent stake in the Spanish operator. It means Abertis controls almost 50 per cent of Hispasat. Abertis will now […]
The founder of the filesharing website Megaupload has been granted bail and released after a New Zealand judge determined that authorities have seized any funds he might have used to flee the country. Kim Dotcom, who US authorities allege facilitated millions of illegal downloads through his company, has been in custody since his arrest on […]