The UK Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts has announced £7.2 million (€8.35m) of investment for the Photonics HyperHighway project ‘that could ‘revolutionise’ the Internet. The six-year project will bring together scientists from the University of Southampton and the University of Essex with industry partners, including BBC Research and Development, to pioneer new technologies […]
Dutch anti-piracy body BREIN has teamed up with the Motion Picture Association of America to take down a further 12 US websites it accuses of offering links to illegally downloadable material. The move follows action taken towards the end of 2010 to close 29 such sites. Earlier this month, it shut down 39 sites in […]
In its first report on the state of the IPTV market in the country, the Italian IPTV Association, which brings together Telecom Italia, Fastweb and Wind, claims there are currently 700,000 subscribers. However, the expansion of the service has been affected by an “excessive rigidity” on the TV rights issue and the legislative framework which […]
UK public service broadcasters are to produce a set of common HD and SD technical standards for the delivery of TV, as part of a new partnership that aims to help producers and broadcasters ‘maximise the potential benefits of digital production’. The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) is an industry collaboration funded and led by ITV, […]
Sky has revealed that 70,000 UK homes have signed up to its 3D package since it launched the service on October 1st 2010. Chief executive Jeremy Darroch, said that the service has got off to a very good start in reaching this total in just a few months. He added that they are very happy […]
Cable operators — led by Charter Communications — delivered superior performance for the Netflix movie streaming compared with telcos over the last three and a half months, according to the video-rental company’s ranking of 16 US Internet service providers. Netflix plans to publish the rankings monthly to shine a spotlight on which ISPs are capable […]
An iPlayer application for iOS devices, which was announced over a year ago, and eventually green-lighted by the BBC Trust six months ago, appears to be imminent. The app will be available by the end of February according to various reports. It’s currently possible to use the iPlayer service via a web interface on iOS […]
US telco AT&T has reported Q4 earnings of $19.9 billion, up from $12.1 billion one year ago. It added 246,000 U-Verse subscribers, 90 per cent of them adding U-Verse TV service, bringing their U-Verse total to 3 million subscribers. Reporting a net gain of 210,000 broadband customers indicates that AT&T’s slow erosion of DSL customers […]
BBC Worldwide has made a deal with Dutch telco KPN for distribution of the BBC’s five main channels on the operator’s IPTV service as well as carriage of BBC 1 and BBC 2 on the Digitenne digital-terrestrial service. Under the terms of the deal, BBC 1, BBC 2, BBC 3, BBC 4 and BBC HD […]
Strategy & Technology (S&T), a provider of interactive television technologies around the world, has promoted Adrian Fowkes to Chief Technical Officer, Americas and Kate Chaux to Director of Operations, Americas, and has hired Steven Gravlin as Senior Sales Account Manager as part of a strengthening that responds to market and customer demands in North America. […]