Michael D. Eisner‘s Web studio, Vuguru, will produce half a dozen scripted Web video series for AOL. “We feel like we are building the future of great high-quality video content,” said Tim Armstrong, the chief executive of AOL. Eisner said the partnership was proof that “story-telling series, emotional series” were coming to the fore on […]
UPC Business has become the first cable company partnering with Microsoft to offer Office 365, bringing online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync together with Office desktop software as a single cloud service. UPC Business already offers Microsoft cloud services such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online in Austria, and under this new agreement the […]
Cheetah Technologies, LP, an expert in network performance and video quality management solutions, today announced that it has entered into a relationship with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) that is designed to expedite the availability of Cheetah products and solutions to NCTC members. Under the terms of the Master Purchase Agreement, Cheetah will work […]
Six months before its start, ANGA Cable, the leading European Trade Fair for Cable, Broadband and Satellite, announces a record demand for stand space. Binding registrations have been received from 160 companies for more than 50% of the exhibition space of the previous year. This exceeds clearly the booking situation at that time of the […]
UK digital satellite platform Sky has reached its target of 10 million TV customers, equivalent to 36 per cent of households in the UK and Ireland. BSkyB set the target in August 2004, since when a further 2.6 million customers have subscribed. Sky TV now reaches more than 25 million people. Around a third of […]
The lenders of German cable operator PrimaCom have confirmed that they have taken over the company in a debt-for-equity swap. In exchange for writing down PrimaCom’s loans, the lenders – including US-based hedge fund Tennenbaum Capital Partners, Avenue Capital Group and London-based Alcentra Group – will acquire all of the shares in holding company Medfort […]
At its September results briefing, Telecom Retail chief executive Alan Gourdie said his company was talking to Sky TV in New Zealand about becoming a possible iSky partner. Sky TV’s new iSky service, launching by Christmas, will provide TV programmes and movies on-demand, delivered to a MySky HDi box via broadband. A raft of ISP […]
Digital TV technology specialist Pace has acquired Latens Systems, the Belfast-based specialist in software-based Conditional Access/DRM and Middleware solutions for the pay-TV market in a £28.75 million (E32.72m) cash deal, of which £10 million is deferred and payable in 2012 subject to the achievement of conditions. Latens offers its solutions across cable, IPTV, DTH,and DTT, […]
Recovering from a slight decline in the second quarter, global broadband subscriber growth is rebounding in the third and fourth quarters as China’s demand for high-speed Internet access soars, according to the market research firm iSuppli Corp. Across the major segments of DSL, cable and fibre, the number of new broadband subscribers worldwide in the […]
Logiways, a digital TV software expert, has announced the successful integration of a Light Internet access solution powered by MOBINCOM’s technology in VodAccess, its Push-VoD 2.0 solution. This integration gives access to all technologies of Telecommunication, TV, VoD and Internet to all Africans, in a cheap and simple way. “Our customers demand rich and flexible […]