BBC Sport has confirmed a new five-year contract giving the BBC the rights to broadcast the Wimbledon tennis tournament for a further five years from 2010 to 2014 inclusive. People will be able to catch all the key matches via BBC iPlayer, for up to seven days after broadcast, and have the opportunity to watch […]
Initial statistics for 2007 on the number of Chinese IPTV subscribers shows that by the end of 2007, Shanghai had 240,000 IPTV subscribers and that after large-scale promotion in January, this figure is now at 300,000 – the highest in the country. As a whole the country now has 1.2 million IPTV subscribers. Currently, over […]
Comcast and Time Warner Cable, the two largest US cable operators, are discussing funding a new wireless company that would be run by Sprint Nextel and Clearwire. Comcast is expected to contribute as much as $1 billion to the nationwide wireless venture, which would use WiMax technology, according to the WSJ. Time Warner Cable is […]
Motorola Inc said it would split into two publicly traded entities to separate its loss-making handset division from its other businesses. The move is expected to be completed in 2009, the company said. Motorola has been losing handset market share and is now ranked third in the world. The two entities it plans to split […]
Current, the news and information network, has signed a deal with O2 to launch its first ever British Viewer Created Ad Message (VCAM). Anyone will be able to create and submit a 60 second ad for O2's Bluebook service and receive £1,000 if their work is selected to air on the network and website or […]
BBC commissioning editor Ben Gale has been confirmed as Five’s new director of programmes. Gale will replace Jay Hunt when she takes on the role of BBC One controller.
Harmonic's Rhozet Carbon Coder video transcoding solution has been selected by Akimbo for automated web-based video transcoding and packaging. Akimbo, a pioneer in Internet-delivered VOD, manages a vast library of mainstream and niche encoded video content acquired through its numerous relationships with content providers. Rhozet Carbon Coder has enabled Akimbo to create a web-based solution […]
Verizon Communications said that it asked the Federal Communications Commission to make it easier for consumers to switch from cable providers to video services offered by phone companies. The move comes amid increasing rivalry between phone companies and cable service providers. Verizon and AT&T offer high-speed Internet and video services that compete with cable, while […]
Yahoo has joined Google's OpenSocial initiative for common standards for social networks, increasing the pressure on Facebook to join the movement. Google also acted to make OpenSocial appear less a vehicle for its own ambitions, announcing with Yahoo and MySpace the formation of the OpenSocial Foundation, a non-profit organisation set up by the three groups […]
A quarter of Freeview households in Wales and Northern Ireland – and a fifth in the Meridian and Anglia regions of England – will not have full access to the digital terrestrial TV channels after analogue switchoff, according to media regulator Ofcom. Freeview will reach just 73 per cent of Wales and 75 per cent […]