Four groups have ‘friended’ ivi.tv, the Seattle company streaming TV signals online without broadcasters’ consent. Public Knowledge and three other organisations filed an amicus brief with the US District Court in New York backing ivi.tv. The streamer is the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by broadcasters seeking to shut it down. Public Knowledge, […]
Rovi has launched Rovi What’s On TV, a free, mobile television listings iPad application. The app, in a graphic rich magazine style layout, allows users to browse and search local TV listings for a 24-hour period. Additionally, Rovi What’s On TV uses TV metadata, available through APIs in the Rovi Media Cloud, to enable users […]
French free-to-air digital broadcasting operator TNTSat says it has sold 2.65 million satellite receivers for its SES Astra transmissions. Some 800,000 units were sold during 2010. The system, which retransmits TNT’s digital broadcasts onto satellite, went live in March 2007. “The continued strong growth of TNTSat is driven by digitalisation and the analogue switch-off in […]
Orbit Showtime (OSN), the Middle East pay-TV operator, lost some important channels on February 1. In particular news station Al Jazeera was missing from its portfolio of news channels. Local sources state emphatically that Al Jazeera’s signals were not being uplinked from Egypt’s teleport to Nilesat. Beirut-based journalist Habib Battah told the well-regarded Committee to […]
Miniweb, the cloud-based video distribution platform for connected TVs, has signed an exclusive, international advertising sales agreement with smartclip – the online video advertising sales network. The deal will generate advertising revenues from Miniweb’s connected TV application, woomi. Advertisers will roll out campaigns across woomi over the next few months, supported by an already strong […]
blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, has confirmed the launch of a TV API (Application Programming Interface). The API is designed to provide partners in the fast-growing Connected TV ecosystem – from box makers and TV manufacturers, to app developers and game consoles – access to blinkx’s index of over 35 million hours of […]
Edgeware, a specialist in distributed video delivery, has been chosen by KPN, a European telecommunications and ICT provider, to deploy its distributed video delivery architecture and products as a part of a solution provided by Nokia Siemens Network (NSN). NSN has selected and implemented Edgeware as a key element of its overall advanced on-demand TV […]
Ofcom will review some parts of the much criticised Digital Economy Act, which was rushed through parliament by the previous Labour government before the general election in May, to see if they are feasible, the UK government has confirmed. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has asked the communications regulator to assess whether the Act’s reserve powers […]
Belgian cable operator Telenet is considering a bid for the Brussels-based unit of France’s Numericable, which would open a market beyond the group’s base in the north of the country, according to Reuters. “We are looking at this asset, just like we are looking at other assets in the cable sector, but we won’t give […]
According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2010 to 2015, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 26-fold during this time period, reaching 6.3 exabytes per month or an annual run rate of 75 exabytes by 2015 as a result of a projected surge in mobile Internet-enabled devices delivering […]