Software security and media technology specialist Irdeto is to acquire BayTSP, a search, discovery and anti-piracy company based in Santa Clara, California. Irdeto purchased BayTSP to expand its security portfolio and complement its Irdeto ActiveCloak solution. Following its recent acquisition of BD+ technology from Rovi Corporation, Irdeto suggests the BayTSP deal further demonstrates its commitment […]
Raising public awareness will play a significant role in ensuring the success of digital rights ecosystem UltraViolet, according to panellists at the Digital Hollywood conference in Marina del Rey. “True ownership of purchased content in the digital space, and the ability to use that content mostly anywhere you want, is the message the industry needs […]
Highwinds, a specialist in content delivery, network and cloud-based IP services, has announced the expansion of its managed services portfolio to include a Licensed CDN (content delivery network) offering for ISPs, telcos and MSOs. It enables last-mile providers to create new CDN-based revenue streams by delivering advanced CDN capabilities to their customers, while alleviating the […]
The UK’s only live boxing channel BoxNation has gone for PayWizard’s pay-TV payment solution. BoxNation is supported by promoter Frank Warren, and launched in September. Currently the channel is available free-to-air to UK viewers, but will encrypt before the end of the year. Subscription fee is £10 (€11.7) a month. BoxNation has agreed a long-term […]
The English Premier League has lost its fight before the European Court of Justice which has ruled there must be a free market in the provision of programme services. The judgement will be very costly to those who sell exclusive territorial rights to sports and other events and will be costly and complicated for the […]
NAGRA, the Kudelski Group company, has acquired Sigma Systems’ Subscriber Information Service platform (SIS) business. As part of the business partnership, Sigma Systems will continue its product development and deployment support associated with the launch of the SIS business for NAGRA. “NAGRA is committed to enabling advanced advertising capabilities, addressability in particular, for service […]
Pendrell Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Pendrell Technologies is to acquire 90.1% of privately-held ContentGuard Holdings, Inc., a leading inventor, developer and licensor of digital rights management (DRM) and related content distribution patents and technologies. The Company will pay $90.1 million in cash to the current ContentGuard shareholders. ContentGuard and its management team will […]
There are tipping points in all things. Not very long ago, it seems to me, technology companies, including CA vendors, were going to their pay-TV operator customers and trying to persuade them that the fantastic new functionality they had invented should be deployed. The response was often lukewarm; when your current business model produces profits […]
Video rights management specialists MyVideoRights has received a funding injection of £2.75 million, (€3.15m) and is re-branding to Base79. The cash injection was led by MMC Ventures, and will assist the firm’s international expansion. Based in London and New York, the company manages content for companies and artists including the Football Association, Mr Bean and […]
Just as Cloud based services – including CDNs – begin to attract attention a major outage of all Microsoft Cloud services will dent confidence. Hotmail, Office 365 and Skydrive were among the services affected. Microsoft was still analysing the cause of the problem this morning (Friday) but said it appeared to be related to the […]