The TV recording site TVCatchup.com has had its service suspended after complaints from the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Channel Five. TVCatchup launched in trial last year, allowing users to record offline TV shows, watch them online and share copies with other members. The UK-focused site immediately attracted the concern of broadcasters, which have invested […]
DirecTV Latin America achieved net subscriber additions of 199,000 in the quarter, a jump the company attributed to strong customer growth in Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina. The total number of DirecTV subscribers in Latin America as of December 31 increased 21 percent to 3.28 million, compared to 2.71 million as of December 2006. Revenues for […]
AOL, the BBC, Bebo, Channel 4, Google, ITV and Yahoo! have signed up to a new code of conduct designed to protect children from unsuitable digital content. The media companies have agreed to follow guidelines set out by the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) and supported by Ofcom to emulate the standards used in existing media. […]
The Australian Government is considering a three-strikes policy against computer users who download illegally. The Government will examine new legislative proposals being unveiled in Britain this week to target people who download films and music illegally. Under the three-strikes policy, a warning would be first issued to offenders who illegally share files using peer-to-peer technology […]
CE maker Samsung has introduced its first set-top box, the Internet-powered See’N’Search device designed to allow users to integrate web functionality into their TV viewing experience. According to Samsung, the See’N’Search set-top trolls a virtual channel guide to catalogue what’s on and when. It then uses that information to suggest video or web sites to […]
Dorling Kindersley, the world's leading non-fiction publisher, has agreed terms with Mobifusion Inc. to deliver branded mobile content products to consumers around the world. Mobifusion develops, publishes and distributes mobile technologies and value-added services and is considered one of the foremost mobile media content companies in their field. The global deal will see content coming […]
Six US film studios have filed civil complaints against Chinese file-sharing firm Xunlei Networking, part-owned by Google, for copyright infringement and are seeking more than Yn7 million (E0.7m) in damages and costs, the Motion Picture Association said. MPA said that the plaintiffs were also seeking a public acknowledgement of the infringements as well as a […]
BSkyB is to take its case to the Competition Appeals Tribunal and will claim the Competition Commission's findings are mistaken in all material respects. The Commission said BSkyB's purchase of 17.9 per cent of ITV created a merger situation and was prejudicial to competition. The Government accepted the finding and the recommendation that Sky be […]
More than 13 million households with television sets that can only receive analogue broadcasts are currently unprepared for the transition to all digital broadcasting that is scheduled for February 18, 2009, according to the Nielsen Company. Another 6 million households have at least one television set that would no longer work after that date. Neilsen […]
BT believes it may be able to limit rivals' access to some of its wholesale broadband network after the European Commission backed a drive to lift regulation of the division in parts of the UK. Brussels endorsed a proposal by Ofcom, the telecoms watchdog, to scrap controls on internet providers in certain densely populated areas […]