From David Del Valle in MadridSatellite beats cable and IPTV in the pay-TV distribution in Spain. A report from ONTSI, Spanish telco Observatory reveals that 48.9% of Spanish homes have access to pay-TV services through satellite with more than 2 million subscribers. Pay-TV cable distribution represents 36.2% of all pay-TV consumers, with ONO taking the lead […]
Aim-listed Phorm, the internet advertising group that announced a tie up with BT this week, made an pre-tax loss of £13.7m (E17.2m) for the first half of 2008, an increase of 52 per cent from the loss of £9.1m in the same period in 2007. However, in spite of the losses, Phorm still has a […]
Virgin Media has rolled out its first mobile broadband service. The service claims to offer speeds of up to 3.6Mbps and is available on an 18-month contract that comes with 3GB of data every month. The ISP claims this is sufficient to send 2,000 plain text emails as well as browse the web for 100 […]
A recent survey of US mobile phone users by Artificial Life has revealed that 46 per cent use their devices for entertainment purposes, illustrating evolution of the mobile phone as a prominent communication tool to a must-have, multi-purpose consumer gadget.The survey of 200 respondents shows that 33 per cent of individuals use their phone for […]
Channel 4 is scaling back its digital radio plans, with only one of three of its originally planned stations, E4 Radio, now confirmed for launch. Channel 4 conceded that it is scaling back its investment in radio "in line with its proposal to reduce its cost base by £100m (E126m) in the next two years". […]
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. has become Panasonic Corporation, and its ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange has been changed from MC to PC. The name change also took effect for some of the group companies that used the names Matsushita or National. Along with the name change, Panasonic is working on the […]
Philip Hunter asks whether User Generated Content is the future of TV or just another outlet for blogging addicts, and suggests that Fixed/Mobile convergence can offer a few lessons
IPTV will have to deliver HD, is it ready? Joe O’Halloran finds out
Increasingly, service providers, be they telcos or pay-TV operators, are looking to add media mobility to their portfolio. Euromedia on offer in their region, and we speak to one quad-play operator who sees great benefits from the multi-platform approach correspondents report on what's
Content Security in a multi-platform, ';my media' world, remains a key concern among content providers and platform operators. CA, DRM, Watermarking, all play their part. Can an ideal world of IP-driven seamless interoperability ever be compatible with copyright protection? Colin Mann finds out.