Rocketboom will be integrated with Sony's video site Crackle, as well as other Sony products such as the PS3 games console and direct to Sony Bravia TVs, while retaining existing distribution agreements with websites such as iTunes and TiVo. Sony will handle all Rocketboom's ad sales exclusively in a deal that is thought to include […]
Kamlesh Kalwar, an industry analyst with Frost, said that the Singapore online content market, which is dominated by online gaming, was worth $13.4 million last year. “Online gaming accounts for just under 50 per cent of revenues (in the online content market in Singapore), followed by online videos and online music, in that order,” Kalwar […]
The ruling by the US Court of Appeals is a setback for News Corp., Time Warner, Walt Disney, CBS, and NBC, which sued to prevent the system’s debut. They claimed the service, Remote Storage Digital Video Recorder, threatened their copyrights. The network DVR system allows cable customers who don’t have digital video recorders, such as […]
Kamlesh Kalwar, an industry analyst with Frost, said that the Singapore online content market, which is dominated by online gaming, was worth $13.4 million last year. “Online gaming accounts for just under 50 per cent of revenues (in the online content market in Singapore), followed by online videos and online music, in that order,” Kalwar […]
Virgin Media, which has Britain's highest broadband speeds and reaches more homes than its rivals, said it lost 19,500 net customers in the normally weak second quarter, taking the total of residential customers on its cable network to 4.74 million. Underlying operating profit rose 6 per cent to £333 million thanks to incremental cost cuts […]
“Marketing and perception are significant drivers for sales of access infrastructure equipment, especially for cable operators,” said Tam Dell’Oro, Founder of Dell’Oro Group. “While telecom operators are upgrading access networks with VDSL and PON to enable new services such as TV over broadband, Cable operators are upgrading for much different reasons. Cable’s TV service is […]
Ono added 41,000 new net clients on to its TV service during Q2, with 31,000 for broadband and 14,500 for the telephony area. As of June 30th the operator had 1,052,000 television subscribers, 16.4 per cent more than a year ago. Ono’s triple play offering the operator also took a step forward with 619,000 clients, […]
“Marketing and perception are significant drivers for sales of access infrastructure equipment, especially for cable operators,” said Tam Dell’Oro, Founder of Dell’Oro Group. “While telecom operators are upgrading access networks with VDSL and PON to enable new services such as TV over broadband, Cable operators are upgrading for much different reasons. Cable’s TV service is […]
Telefónica estimates its Imagenio IPTV added 22,513 new subscribers, down on the 32,307 recorded in the same period in 2007, and 65,471 in the first six months of 2008. This brings the subscriber base to 575,558, a year-on-year increase of 27.9%
Didier Lombard, France Telecom's chief executive, said the company continued to eye acquisitions in emerging markets but they would be small. The company benefited from the roll-out of new “triple-play” high-speed internet, digital television and internet telephone services. It also saw improvements in its Spanish and UK mobile operations, as customers with contracts replace those […]