DirecTV's single largest shareholder and its board chairman, is divesting most of his voting shares in the satellite television company. John Malone currently owns about 24.3 per cent of the company's voting shares, in a share exchange executed this week, his voting power in DirecTV will drop to 3 per cent. He will receive around […]
Virgin Media has once again come top in Cable.co.uk’s monthly broadband speed test. The study showed that Virgin Media offered an average connection speed of 8.4Mbps over the course of March, higher than the 6Mbps achieved by O2, which came in second. BT took third place with average connection speeds of 4.3Mbps, while Sky and […]
ISPs will have to do more to help content owners protect their content online following a High Court ruling. In a case brought by a group of film studios including Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal and Warner Bros, the judge found that Newzbin, a private online forum, was liable for its members' copyright infringement when […]
Net firms must do a better job of telling customers about broadband speeds or face stiffer regulation. Ofcom has warned following research the telecoms watchdog carried out on how ISPs sell broadband. It revealed that 74 per cent of customers were not told that the maximum speed on their line was likely to be higher […]
Access Systems, provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and digital television – and Pirelli Broadband Solutions, a leading supplier of broadband customer premises equipment announced that Pirelli’s Residential Gateway DRG A226M, operating with Access NetFront Living Connect, has successfully completed the DLNA Certification program and is granted use of the “DLNA Certified” logo. […]
From Colin Mann at the IPTV World Forum in London With the addition of another 58 million lines of broadband in 2009, there are now more than 466.95 million broadband customers in the world according to statistics released by industry group the Broadband Forum. The report, prepared for the Forum by industry analysts Point Topic, […]
Inter@ctive Reid Report says that for the first time ever in their tracking research, the weekly Internet usage of online Canadians has moved ahead of the number of hours spent watching television. This finding comes from the Overall, online Canadians are now spending more than 18 hours a week online, compared to 16.9 hours watching […]
Ofcom has published a series of proposals designed to promote competition and investment in current and super-fast broadband services. The proposed regulatory framework is designed to help encourage competition, whilst at the same time supporting investment and innovation. Ocom proposes to allow competitors to have access to a dedicated virtual link over new fibre lines […]
Americans are spending more time watching television and surfing the Internet simultaneously, and nearly 60 per cent of TV viewers use the Web at the same time at least once a month, according to a Nielsen report. The Nielsen Three Screen Report said the findings in its study belied early concerns that the growing popularity […]
From Colin Mann in London UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that he wants Britain to be the world leader in the digital economy which will create over a quarter of a million skilled jobs by 2020. “Underpinning the digital transformation that we are likely to see over the coming decade is the creation […]