Motorola Solutions and Huawei Technologies have entered into an agreement to settle all pending litigation between them on breach of trade secrets. Motorola Solutions has agreed to withdraw its claims and dismiss, with prejudice, Huawei as a defendant in the Motorola v. Lemko litigation pending in the Chicago court. For its part, Huawei has agreed […]
Production house Dori Media, which specialises in producing Latino soap operas and telenovellas, is to delist from London’s AIM share market. It held an IPO in March 2005 and raised just over £3 million and a market valuation at the time of £22 million (at £1.18 a share). The shares have since fallen back. The […]
Media Excel, a provider of live and file based encoding and n-Screen adaptive bitrate transcoding, and Verimatrix, have formed a partnership that enables digital TV service operators to securely deploy high quality video over any IP network to multiple screens – TVs, PCs, mobile devices and beyond. A combination of the Verimatrix VCAS for Internet […]
Broadcast and professional video specialist Grass Valley has partnered with global software security and media technology company Irdeto to enable broadcasters and other owners of live and pre-recorded content to more easily and efficiently manage and distribute that content to any Internet-connected device. By combining the power of Grass Valley’s MediaFUSE automated content repurposing and […]
KIT digital has partnered with LiveU, a specialist in video-over-cellular solutions, to provide KIT digital’s clients with HD-quality live video streaming capabilities from a battery-operated wireless backpack. The solution, KIT LivePro Unwired, uses wireless backpack technology provided by LiveU to allow content producers to take advantage of the existing and growing wireless 3G/4G and Wi-Fi […]
1,772,856 subscribers to Digital Plus are suffering pay-TV blackouts as a result of the general strike by workers at Prisa TV, owner of the platform, to protest against job cuts. Several channels produced by Prisa TV such as Infometeo, Viajar or some of the Canal Plus family are being affected by the strike with partial […]
The main cinema chains in the US are threatening to not show films if the studios proceed with plans to show movies “on-demand” less than two months after release. Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox are working on a new premium video-on-demand scheme with DirecTV which would see films available in the home between 30 […]
Fujitsu has revealed plans to build a £2 billion (€2.24bn) high-speed broadband network covering 5 million rural homes in Britain. The Japanese group wants to build and operate a superfast broadband internet network based on optical fibre, and has an agreement with TalkTalk and Virgin to use it. BT is currently constructing a £2.5 billion […]
Geo News and Geo Super have seemingly upset Pakistan’s regulator, and not for the first time. Now Pakistan’s media regulator (PEMRA) having taken note of what they say are “perpetual violations” committed by the two channels for “airing false news reports” has issued formal notices and is now blocking the channels distribution in the country. […]
US online television revenue growth accelerated in 2010, rising by 34.2 per cent, up from 31.2 per cent in 2009 according to IHS Screen Digest. Total revenue in 2010 amounted to $1.6 billion, up from $1.2 billion in 2009. Growth was driven by a reinvigorated online advertising market that expanded by 64.7 per cent to […]