ITV will launch a campaign called ‘The brighter side just got brighter” across its family of channels to promote the new ITV1 HD channel. And Sky News is to launch its first major marketing campaign, which will highlight its coverage of the upcoming election in high definition. Initially, the Sky News activity will focus on […]
Airtel digital TV- the DTH service from Bharti Airtel – has confirmed the launch of 'Airtel digital TV Recorder', an enhanced STB with capability to record live television, anytime, anywhere. Airtel offers customers the convenience, to record their favourite shows using their mobile phones from anywhere in the world. Airtel digital TV Recorder is available […]
Mobixell Networks, a provider of mobile Internet and broadband solutions, has revealed that Swisscom, a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland, has deployed Mobixell’s converged media delivery solution to bring video and live TV to personal computers and smartphones. Mobixell allows Swisscom to offer and manage over 50 live TV channels that can be watched in […]
AirTies, the wireless home networking vendor, has signed a strategic partnership with GooMe Interactive, a provider of over-the-top (OTT) media solutions for operators, to deliver an end-to-end, content-rich TV experience. The combined solution offers a STB with advanced graphics capabilities, supporting Pause-LiveTV and progressive download using Flash memory without the need for costly hard drives. […]
Virgin Media has once again come top in Cable.co.uk’s monthly broadband speed test. The study showed that Virgin Media offered an average connection speed of 8.4Mbps over the course of March, higher than the 6Mbps achieved by O2, which came in second. BT took third place with average connection speeds of 4.3Mbps, while Sky and […]
Warner Bros is launching its on-demand WarnerTV branded service for the first time ever in Korea via an agreement with KT’s IPTV provider QOOK TV. WarnerTV will launch as a VOD service within QOOK TV at no extra charge for consumers who purchase QOOK TV’s subscription video-on-demand programming package. Each week, WarnerTV will deliver new […]
Civolution and Gracenote have announced an expanded long-term agreement by jointly launching and selling Mediahedge, the next generation audio and video content identification platform that enables content filtering, monitoring and monetisation for content owners and service providers. The Mediahedge platform combines Civolution’s video fingerprinting and Gracenote's audio fingerprinting identification technologies with extended content registration and […]
Telenor Group has confirmed that Jon Erik Haug has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Telenor in Denmark. Erik Haug will succeed Henrik Clausen, who is appointed CEO of DiGi, Telenor’s subsidiary in Malaysia. Erik Haug has held several positions within the Telenor Group, most recently as Marketing Director in Telenor in Sweden where he […]
In the 'wash up' rush to get laws through parliament before dissolution at the end of this week the government has been heavily trimming its Digital Economy Bill. Most prominent casualty is the £6 (E6.8) pa phone line tax to fund fast broadband. The national rollout of replacement ITV regional news services and giving Ofcom […]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that the FCC lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks. The verdict – a major blow to Net Neutrality – follows Comcast's challenge to the FCC's authority to rule that they […]