From Colin Mann in Las Vegas At NAB Adobe has announced a deal to put its Flash software into many of the chips that go inside TVs and set-top boxes. This will enable developers and content providers to create applications to deliver web-based content to TV screens. Flash will be included on chips made by […]
Wikipedia has become the latest publisher to block Phorm from tracking users across its portfolio of sites. A company statement said: "The Wikimedia Foundation requests that our websites, including Wikipedia.org and all related domains, be excluded from scanning by the Phorm / BT Webwise system, as we consider the scanning and profiling of our visitors' […]
One of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay website has said that the one-year prison sentences handed down by a Swedish judge are “weird and bizarre” and insisted that the defendants “can’t pay and wouldn’t pay” the $3.6million fine. In a press conference, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi held up a handwritten IOU to the camera and […]
TiVo plans to begin this summer to provide anonymous, second-by-second ratings data for programmes and commercials airing in local U.S. markets, which the company says will provide greater granularity than current ratings samples from Nielsen and other measurement firms. The new “StopWatch Local Markets” service will only launch in a handful of markets–at least three, […]
Semiconductor specialist Broadcom has confirmed that its BCM3380 family of channel bonding cable modem silicon solutions has received EuroDOCSIS 3.0 certification in EuroCertWave 34 and DOCSIS 3.0 certification in CertWave 65 with customer submitted data and voice modems. With the Euro certification, the BCM3380 family becomes the first and only silicon solution certified as both […]
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) has announced five new standards establishing IPTV's foundational framework – created by ATIS‚ IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF). The completion of these documents signals the conclusion of "Phase 1" of the IIF's three-phased Work Plan. Phase 1 completes the IIF's standardisation of linear television service (i.e. basic television) over […]
Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s leading music company and YouTube, the Google-owned video-sharing site, are working together to launch VEVO, a music and video entertainment service that will feature UMG's premium video content. In addition to VEVO, YouTube has renewed and extended its successful partnership with UMG that allows users to continue creating and […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The Spanish DTT industry – electronic manufacturers, technology and content providers- is urging the Government to award the pay DTT licences as soon as possible on the grounds that a new delay would put at risk an estimated investment in the market of over E5 billion over the next […]
French legislators have rejected legislation to permit cutting off the Internet connections of people who illegally download music and films. The government nevertheless plans to resurrect the bill for another vote later this month. Backers of the bill – record labels, film companies and law-and-order parliamentarians – couldn’t rally the needed support during in a […]
Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM), the largest multiple system operator in Japan based on the number of customers served, has announced that the total subscribing households as of March 31st, 2009 served by J:COM's 24 consolidated franchises reached 3.18 million, up 466,500, or 17.2 per cent since March 31st, 2008. Combined revenue generating units (RGUs) for cable […]