Broadcom is to acquire Gigle Networks, a privately-held company that develops system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for home networking over power lines. When combined with Broadcom’s portfolio of wired and wireless solutions for the home, Gigle Networks’ technology will widen the breadth of Broadcom’s intellectual property and enable the design of more highly integrated SoCs that allow […]
Eight Cornish villages will benefit from a multi-million pound project to boost broadband speeds in the most rural parts of the county. The villages will get speeds of up to 100mb by the end of March according to the Press Association website. Around 10,000 homes and businesses are likely to benefit from the fast broadband […]
Agama Technologies, the quality assurance expert, has confirmed that Reggefiber, a major FTTH player in the Netherlands, has deployed the Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for its TV company ‘Glashart Media’ to ensure high TV service quality delivery across their nationwide optical fibre network. The Agama solution deployed covers Agama Analysers for service quality monitoring in […]
AETN International, a division of A&E Television Networks, has confirmed the appointment of Liz Higgins as Director, Strategy & Business Development, Europe. Higgins will be responsible for formulating AETN’s growth strategy and investment activities for Europe across business lines including channels and digital distribution. Higgins joins AETN from British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) where she has […]
Spain’s first pay DTT channel Gol TV is launching a full-frontal assault on TV piracy with its decision to cut its TV signal in almost 10,000 public places (most of them, bars, restaurants, hotels) where its broadcasts are allegedly being hacked. Mediapro, owner of Gol TV, has reported the case to the police and urged […]
The Church of England has joined calles for News Corp’s proposal to take full control of satellite broadcaster BSkyB to be stopped. In its submission to Ofcom, the Church said that a takeover might lead to a harmful concentration of media power. News Corp would dominate UK television and newspapers it said. The Church’s spokesman […]
US network Verizon has become the latest partner for Google’s TV Ads platform, carrying the adverts on its pay-TV service FiOS TV. Allowing time for technical bedding and planning, Verizon is expected to start delivering Google TV Ads on FiOS TV in early 2011. Having lost NBC Universal as a partner in recent weeks, the […]
Netflix said it will immediately offer its first unlimited streaming-only subscription plan in the US for $7.99 a month, and raise prices of its popular unlimited streaming and unlimited DVD plan by a dollar to $9.99 a month. “We are now primarily a streaming video company delivering a wide selection of TV shows and films […]
UPC Hungary, part of Liberty Global, is set to purchase a third of the cable television network of Fibernet Kommunikációs. The transaction could be completed in the first quarter of 2011 after receiving the approval of the competition office GVH. Fibernet provides cable television, broadband, Internet and telephone services to over 150,000 households. The purchase […]
Mobile Content Venture (MCV), a joint venture of 12 major US broadcasters, has unveiled details of a commitment to upgrade TV stations in 20 DMAs in order to deliver live video to portable devices. By late 2011, the venture will deliver mobile video service in markets representing more than 40 per cent of the US […]