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Qualcomm joins in Ip.access

US chipmaker Qualcomm, the owner of the Meiaflo alternative mobile TV platform, has joined Cisco Systems, Intel and Motorola by taking a stake in Ip.access, a UK-based pioneer of femtocells. Femtocells are routers that connect directly to 3G mobile phones. Ip.access, which is based in Cambridge, is developing the technology to allow operators to create […]

May 23, 2008

Unity up on triple plays

German cableco Unitymedia posted EBITDA in the first quarter of 2008 of E94.3 million up from E81.6 million in 2007. The company said it had enjoyed its strongest quarter for digital pay-TV take-up for two years with 29,000 new subscribers, giving it a total of 485,000. During the quarter there were 65,000 net additions to […]

May 23, 2008

Piracy still rampant in UAE

Satellite and cable operators in the UAE say efforts to put an end to pay TV piracy have failed thus far. “Piracy is harming our business but we cannot put a definite number on the customers lost,” e-vision CEO Humaid Rashid Sahoo told Emirates Business. “Broadcasting from other countries such as India and South Africa […]

May 23, 2008

TVU and Vobile delivery platform

TVU Networks, a live Internet TV service and Vobile, a provider of video content identification and management products and services, have confirmed the availability of its end-to-end content delivery platform with enhanced security for live Internet TV broadcasting. TVU, developers of the TVUBroadcast software and the TVU BD1000 Broadcast Appliance, offers 300 live channels through […]

May 23, 2008

Hulu lands new partners

Hulu, the video website owned by News Corp and NBC Universal, has confirmed its service will be distributed on seven new sites. Hulu videos will now be distributed on entertainment and social network sites TV.com, TVGuide.com, BuddyTV.com, Flixster.com, MyYearbook.com, Break.com and Zap2it.com.

May 23, 2008

TF1, Canal+ M6 defend commercial channels

French commercial TV operators Television Francaise 1 (TF1), Vivendi SA’s Canal+ and M6-Metropole Television have announced the creation of an association (ACP) to ‘defend the rights and professional interests’ of national, private, terrestrial channels. The formation of ACP comes at the time when a government-appointed commission is due to announce its proposals for removing advertising […]

May 23, 2008

Qualcomm joins in Ip.access

US chipmaker Qualcomm, the owner of the Meiaflo alternative mobile TV platform, has joined Cisco Systems, Intel and Motorola by taking a stake in Ip.access, a UK-based pioneer of femtocells. Femtocells are routers that connect directly to 3G mobile phones. Ip.access, which is based in Cambridge, is developing the technology to allow operators to create […]

May 23, 2008

Unity up on triple plays

German cableco Unitymedia posted EBITDA in the first quarter of 2008 of E94.3 million up from E81.6 million in 2007. The company said it had enjoyed its strongest quarter for digital pay-TV take-up for two years with 29,000 new subscribers, giving it a total of 485,000. During the quarter there were 65,000 net additions to […]

May 23, 2008

Social networking ads disappointing

The failure of social networking sites – such as Facebook and MySpace – to translate their global popularity into ad revenue has led research company eMarketer to downgrade ad-spend forecasts for the social-networking sector by around £250 million (E312m) by 2011. eMarketer said that “in spite of the media hype” around social networking worldwide-advertising spending […]

May 23, 2008

Piracy still rampant in UAE

Satellite and cable operators in the UAE say efforts to put an end to pay TV piracy have failed thus far. “Piracy is harming our business but we cannot put a definite number on the customers lost,” e-vision CEO Humaid Rashid Sahoo told Emirates Business. “Broadcasting from other countries such as India and South Africa […]

May 23, 2008