Australian national public broadcaster ABC is seeking separate funding from the federal government for its iview online television catch-up service. In its response to the federal Convergence Review’s interim report published December 15 2011 – which expressed a need to ensure sufficient Australian-made programming is available online – the ABC said that the costs of […]
Information, entertainment and communications industry standards body ATIS has confirmed that its Cloud Services Forum (CSF) has released the CDN Interconnection Use Cases and Requirements for Multicast-Based Content Distribution (ATIS-0200004) standards document. This ATIS Standard provides a description of Multicast as a means for distributing content across two Content Distribution Network CDN Providers. It identifies […]
European Broadcasting Union (EBU) members have warned that the Radio Spectrum Policy Programme’s (RSPP) balanced approach in spectrum management might be put at risk at this year’s World Radio Conference (WRC-12) which is currently taking place in Geneva. The RSPP – to be approved this week by the European Parliament – is Europe’s five-year policy […]
Multichoice’s DStv is by any measure the largest supplier of premium sports, movies and TV content over Africa. Now Kenya’s competition regulator is to investigate DStv’s market dominance following on from the collapse of Smart TV last week. Smart TV wasn’t alone: Gateway’s GTV went bust in 2009, and while there there are other players […]
Netflix has paid $9 million dollars to settle a privacy-related legal action, a financial filing has revealed. The company, which made no admission of wrongdoing, said the settlement related to compliance with the Video Protection Privacy Act. The 1998 US law prohibits the disclosure of video rental histories and it is reported that the legal […]
US copyright-based industries private sector coalition the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) has submitted recommendations to the US Trade Representative (USTR) in its annual ‘Special 301’ review. The IIPA report documents rampant online and physical piracy of copyrighted works and severe market access barriers, surveys problems and developments in 41 countries/territories, and recommends that 32 […]
The Spanish broadcast transmission agency Abertis Telecom will have to pay a €13.7 million fine for abuse of dominant position in the DTT market. The fine is imposed by the National Competition Commission (CNC) following a complaint by SES Astra. In its ruling, the CNC argues that Abertis Telecom was preventing other operators from […]
KT, South Korea’s biggest Internet provider is to limit access to certain TV applications that slow down overall network speed in a move that may cause a clash with major television manufacturers aggressively marketing Internet-enabled TVs. “Internet-enabled TVs increase network traffic by up to 15 times compared to conventional IPTVs. At the current growth rate […]
Samsung’s reworked tablet PC is not a copycat version of the iPad, a German court said. Samsung changed the design of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 for the German market — naming it Galaxy Tab 10.1N — to get around a sales ban imposed by a court in September. Apple challenged the new version but has […]
Syria is continuing to jam the satellite signals of broadcasters such as Al Jazeera. Osama Saeed, a spokesman for the Al Jazeera news channel in Doha, Qatar, said the disruption is coming from the Syrian capital, Damascus. Al Jazeera is advising viewers to switch to a different frequency to access coverage, he said. The signal […]