KIT digital, a cloud-based software solutions and technology services provider, has deployed Irish broadcaster RTÉ’s RTÉ Player app for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. KIT digital is also involved in the ongoing development of RTÉ Connected Device apps. RTÉ is leveraging KIT digital’s Connected Device Framework and software platform to bring its programming alive in […]
Al Jazeera English has been named news channel of the year for the first time at the RTS television journalism awards. The channel took two awards also winning the innovative news prize for its social media and Skype-based show The Stream: Bahrain. Sky News took home four awards, including special correspondent Alex Crawford winning television […]
Sean Combs, better known as rapper P.Diddy, is to unveil plans for a music-oriented cable channel called Revolt, due to start by the end of the year. According to US reports, Combs will bill Revolt as a music and news television channel influenced by the nonstop chatter of social networking Web sites. Comcast, the nation’s […]
Bosnia’s BH Telecom has added 10 new channels to its Moja TV line-up. It means Moja now offers a total of 79 local and foreign stations. The new channels are: Hayat folk, Arena sport 1 Hrvatska, FaceTV, Jata Srebrenik, SmartTV Tesanj, Amna Tesanj, Al Jazeera Balkan, DM sat, BN and Kanal 1. The Moja TV […]
A diverse group of technology leaders have formed the DASH Promoters Group, a new organisation dedicated to driving the broad adoption of MPEG’s DASH (dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP) standard, which was ratified in November 2011. DASH is designed to address the dramatic growth of Internet video by defining a universal delivery format, which provides […]
The founder of the filesharing website Megaupload has been granted bail and released after a New Zealand judge determined that authorities have seized any funds he might have used to flee the country. Kim Dotcom, who US authorities allege facilitated millions of illegal downloads through his company, has been in custody since his arrest on […]
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay has said that it will adapt rather than die if blocked in the UK. The High Court ruled that the site facilitates copyright infringement and will decide in June whether ISPs must block UK customers from accessing the site. In response, The Pirate Bay said it would use other methods […]
The expansion of the Sky Go service in Germany will make now make it possible to watch films not only on the iPad, Web and the Xbox 360, but also on the iPod Touch and iPhone via WiFi and 3G. This extended Sky Go App rounds up the current offering including exclusive live sport access […]
The European Commission has asked the EU’s highest court to rule on the legality of a controversial treaty covering copyright, counterfeiting and Internet freedom. The EU executive said in a statement “[we have]…decided to ask the European Court of Justice for a legal opinion to clarify that the ACTA agreement and its implementation must be […]
The Pirate Bay site could be blocked in the UK, after a High Court judge ruled that the torrent site and its users are committing copyright infringement. The case was brought before the court by a coalition of major record labels, including Sony, EMI and Universal. They want the court to force ISPs to block […]