UK intellectual property protection organisation FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) has welcomed the recent move by Facebook to update its Commerce Policy to ban the sale of illicit streaming devices from its site. According to the site,items, products or services sold on Facebook must comply with its Community Standards, as well as the Commerce Policies, with […]
France Télévisions’s digital sport service Francetvsport, which host broadcasts the Roland-Garros tennis open, is launching a new interactive feature for the tournament branded Smart Replay. Created by French start-up Mojjo, Smart Replay will select key moments of a match within a 2, 5 or 10 minute time lapse and offer viewers a video summary of […]
Starz has confirmed the launch of its Starz app on select Samsung Smart TVs. Starz subscribers can now watch exclusive Starz Original series including American Gods, The White Princess, Black Sails, The Missing, Outlander and Power; as well as hundreds of movies and first-run films on Samsung Smart TVs. The Starz app on Samsung Smart […]
In the past, the only way to catch a big game was to tune in on network TV; for smaller events, cable or satellite television was necessary. But today, many Americans are “cutting the cord” and forgoing traditional television altogether: 24 per cent don’t have a cable or satellite TV subscription. What’s more, 64 per cent […]
An app using similar technology to popular mobile game Pokemon Go is being developed to help teach road safety to primary school children in the UK. Pupils will be able to learn road-crossing skills through the VR game. The app has been developed by University of South Wales (USW) academics, who have received £67,500 funding […]
US TV brand and streaming content provider TCL has published the results of a new national survey conducted by Ipsos on TV app usage, the proliferation of streaming on the big screen and the popularity of specific apps. According to the survey which uncovered and ranked the Top 25 apps used for streaming on TVs, […]
Telefónica, the University Carlos III and FASOCIDE (the Federation of Deaf-Blind People) have developed an app called GoAll, based on PervasivSUB technology, which allows people who are both deaf and blind (of which there are 20,000 in Spain) to receive and enjoy TV content without intermediaries at the same time as others around them. PervasiveSUB […]
Entertainment network Epix, an MGM company, has announced that the Epix app is now available on Amazon Fire TV. “Amazon and Epix share a common vision to revolutionize the way people can enjoy content through new platforms, screens and devices,” said Mark Greenberg, President and CEO of Epix. “From Alexa to AWS (Amazon Web Services) […]
US pay-TV provider DISH has launched a Spanish-language customer service app, with easy access to a variety of account-related services from a smartphone or tablet. The announcement comes as DishLATINO also unveils a new Spanish-language user interface for the Hopper DVR, Joey and Wally set-top boxes. “With an estimated 71 per cent of US Hispanics […]
Facebook has been fined €110 million by the EU for providing “incorrect or misleading” information on its purchase of WhatsApp in 2014. The European Commission said Facebook had promised it could not automatically match user accounts on its own platform and WhatsApp. But two years later it launched a service that did exactly that. The […]