The European Commission has cleared France's E99 million state aid for Quaero, the multimedia search index being built by a consortium of electronics and other companies. Former French president Jacques Chirac agreed to fund Thomson for the project back in 2005. The EC said the project in fact “brings positive externalities for the community as […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The largest cable operator in Spain, ONO, has surpassed one million subscribers to its pay-TV offer, following the company adding 51,000 clients in the last quarter of 2008. The operator is leading the audience ratings in the pay-TV market with an average share of 7.34 per cent in February, […]
From Nick Snow at the IPTV World Forum in London Computing and networking giant NEC Corporation is to launch a full-scale IPTV business with what it describes as high-profile NGN (Next Generation Networks) carrier applications. It is looking to providing end-to-end IPTV solutions to network operators on a global scale. The says it company will […]
Astra says it has added 1.72 million households in Germany to bring the total number of DTH homes reached to 9.75 million. In total, Germany had 36.98 million analogue and digital TV homes last year. The number of satellite households remains stable at 16.7 million or 45 per cent of all TV households while cable […]
Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom, will become the first major studio to make clips from thousands of its movies available for use on the Internet. Paramount is teaming with the Los Angeles-based developer FanRocket to introduce the VooZoo application on Facebook. The service will give Facebook users access to footage from thousands of movies […]
Co-founder of Pace Micro Technology Barry Rubery is returning to the digital TV industry by joining interactive technology provider Electra Entertainment as Chief Executive. Rubery joins Electra coinciding with the launch of its next-generation interactivity technology platform for digital terrestrial and satellite television Electra is part of General Entertainment Technology Corporation, the newly-established holding company […]
French pay TV group Canal Plus has launched its On Demand service. Subscribers to the group’s basic Canal Plus le Bouquet package will now have access to every show aired on Canal Plus and its thematic channels immediately after broadcast until one month after the original air date.
Nagravision has announced that Portugal Telecom has selected a suite of Kudelski Group (Nagra parent) products for the national rollout of its new hybrid satellite-broadband Pay-TV services to be launched in 2008. The Kudelski Group will serve as the end-to-end system integrator for this project. The company is leveraging its entire suite of products to […]
Highwinds Network Group, a multi-platform IP services and content distribution provider, has closed a $55 million round of equity financing led by General Catalyst Partners and Alta Communications. The financing will fund the infrastructure build-out of Highwinds' RollingThunder network, including a content delivery network offering. Highwinds' RollingThunder network was unveiled in conjunction with an announcement […]
NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, announced that DEN (Digital Entertainment Networks), the new entrant in the Indian digital cable market, has selected a suite of NDS digital broadcasting solutions to launch the company's digital cable service. NDS will provide DEN with the VideoGuard conditional access system (CAS), MediaHighway middleware and […]