About 200 reactions to the interim Digital Britain report have been published. Among highlights are Sky's call for Virgin's network to be opened up to third party services, Virgin's caution on Canvas and general skepticism on anti-piracy plans and the Digital Rights Agency. Sky says it is “increasingly anomalous” that the cable network is a […]
US press reports say Disney is considering an equity stake in Hulu and distributing its content via the News Corp / NBC Universal service. It is thought Disney would want a 30% stake, reducing the existing network shareholders and maybe buying out Providence the private equity firm that has 10%. Such a deal would see […]
RIM may be launching a full-length TV service for its Blackberry customers as early as next week at CTIA. "It will be a paid-for unlimited monthly subscription service," according to the NewTeeVee blog. "Content will be downloaded through a Wi-Fi connection The service has managed to license content from multiple broadcast and cable networks." The […]
UK mobile phone retailer and broadband provider Carphone Warehouse is considering a bid for the Tiscali's UK business, according to press reports. Carphone Warehouse's broadband division TalkTalk is hoping for a bargain after a deal to sell the ISP to BSkyB fell through at the last minute. Tiscali’s UK business had 1.774 million customers in […]
Avail Media, provider of both linear and video-on-demand MPEG-4 IPTV content, has confirmed the addition of nine former SES Americom IP Prime customers to its growing roster of affiliates. Former IP Prime customers from across the US that have made the jump to Avail Media’s video services solution include BEK Communications Cooperative of North Dakota, […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Vodafone Portugal is likely to launch an IPTV service in the third quarter of this year, according to company president, António Carrapatoso. Speaking on the margins of a debate organized by the Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications in Lisbon, he said that the investment will not be very […]
Internet radio and social music site Last.fm is to start charging listeners outside the UK, US and Germany. Users outside those three countries will pay E3 per month to listen to Last.fm Radio, the site’s streaming music service. The other content on the site, such as biographies, videos, charts, and “scrobbling” – the site’s musical […]
Jonathan Miller, former chief executive of AOL, is to join News Corp this week to oversee the broad strategic digital initiatives across the group. Miller will have operational control of News Corp's MySpace online social network, the IGN video games media and community service, Photobucket online photos service, Jamba, a mobile phone contents company, and […]
RaySat Broadcasting Corporation (RBC) has chosen NDS to enable the secure delivery of the AT&T CruiseCastSM mobile TV service, a new source of entertainment for people on the road. The AT&T CruiseCast service will provide 42 channels of satellite TV and radio to the rear seat entertainment system. The complete NDS solution for RBC includes […]
Owners of the controversial Swedish BitTorrent website the Pirate Bay – currently embroiled in a copyright trial in Sweden – have announced they’re going to start using VPN (virtual private network) technologies to make its users harder to track. In typical 'pirate style' the unlogged VPN service will be called IPREDator, named after a new […]