Ignoring Bob Iger's dismissal of the online subscription model, Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes unveiled HBO Go, a broadband complement to the premium network only for subscribers to the linear service. “We’re all being too slow,” Bewkes said. “We should put up all our networks on the Internet, out on broadband right now. […]

Phorm, the ad targeting company, is facing a major setback, with several of the world’s largest dotcom companies considering boycotting its controversial online advertising technology. Last month Open Rights Group, the privacy campaign group, sent a letter to nine of the internet’s biggest names – including Google, Bebo, Facebook and Yahoo – asking them to […]

French pay TV group Canal Plus has announced a switchover from analogue to digital via an offer available to subscribers immediately. All new subscribers to the group’s analogue service will now have access to Canal Plus Cinema and Canal Plus Sport, plus HD viewing and all 18 channels on the country’s DTT platform via a […]

According to German press reports the federal compeition authorities are set to block any putitive merger of the country's major operators. There has been much specualtion that the major three networks, KDG, Unity and Kabel BW – all owned by private equity and all derived from the former Deutsche Telekom network – want to 're-merge' […]

The Australian Government has revealed plans to set up a majority owned company to build a A$43 billion national high speed broadband network after no single company was willing to meet its needs in a tender process. The new company, which could be 49 per cent owned by the private sector, will invest the A$43 […]

Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger has told NCTA that cable must find an online model that works for both programmers and distributors, appearing to dismiss a subscription model proposal, TV Everywhere, made earlier this year by Time Warner. "Cable television is vitally important to our company. It provides us with a crucial connection with […]

Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts told NCTA in Washington that cable programming online could be a boon for distributors who are smart enough to figure out how to monetize it. “I think it’s a friend, not a foe. It is powering our broadband business, one of the fastest growing parts of Comcast. For programmers, […]

Internet traffic in Sweden fell by 33% as the country’s new anti-piracy law came into effect. Sweden’s new policy – the Local IPRED law – allows copyright holders to force internet service providers (ISP) to reveal details of users sharing files. The new law, which is based on the European Union’s Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement […]

Viewers should see the same commercials during television shows on the Web as they do on traditional TV, Time Warner Cable Chief Operating Officer Landel Hobbs said. At sites like Hulu and others, shows are seen with limited, short commercial breaks, compared with more frequent and lengthier groups of ads on TV. Time Warner Cable […]

Cable Europe Labs has granted EuroDOCSIS 3.0 certification status to the Thomson TCM470 cable modem and EuroDOCSIS 3.0 / EuroPacketCable 1.5 certification status to EMTAs from Ambit (EVM3200), Cisco (EPC3212) and Thomson (THG570) following a Certification Board meeting in London. The Certification Board also granted EuroDOCSIS 2.0 certification status to cable modems from Motorola (SB5101NE) […]