The BBC and ITV have sought legal advice to determine whether the deep-linking that online TV listings site TVguide.co.uk does to their online video streaming is legal or not. TVguide.co.uk, which has some 1 million unique visitors a month doing some 8 million page impressions, offers its users direct access to unbranded content from the […]
The companies are in talks to collaborate on ways to run BitTorrent’s technology more smoothly on Comcast’s broadband network, and allow Comcast to transport video files more effectively over its own network in the future, says Tony Warner, Comcast’s chief technology officer. Comcast and BitTorrent have been at odds since the cable operator said it […]
Kangaroo, the on-demand service from BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV, aims to offer targeted advertising, targeting users by location, age or demographic profile. The service’s backers are considering introducing a registration process on the service’s homepage, which would help track how users access video content and ensure effective advertising. Users would initially be asked […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome The tender for Portugal's fifth national free-to-air TV channel will be launched in October or 180 days after the submitting of the bids on the Digital Terrestrial Television tender. Portugal's Minister for Parliamentary Issues, Augusto Santos Silva, announced that the bids for the two DTT tenders can be submitted up […]
Swedish DTT platform Boxer has won the right to operate the DTT platform in Denmark. The media authority announced Boxer will run the three multiplex service that opens in November 2009 after switchover. Boxer won out over bids from the Norwegian Telenor and the Swedish Modern Times Group.
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 […]
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 […]