Orange Spain is making its Mobile TV service available for Android and iPhones with the launch of an own application called Orange TV Player claiming to be the first Spain’s operator to develop such a feature. Android and iPhone users will be able to have access to two different TV packages and pay per view […]
Just a few days after CNN made its decision to stream full live programming onto the web and onto mobile devices, its president, Jim Walton, says 10 million users have downloaded the broadcaster’s app. Walton told CNN staff in a memo: “As you know, this week CNN and HLN began streaming their full 24-hour television […]
Croatian telco T-Hrvatski Telekom (T-HT) has won the rights to show 100 games from the country’s premier football league live and exclusive on its IPTV service ‘MAXtv’. Under the terms of the agreement signed with the Croatian football league, T-HT will offer over 100 live games during the season to its subscribers. The telco will […]
blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, has formed a partnership with NewsLook, the video news service that curates and contextualises news from global partners. . Viewers can now watch over 1,500 informative NewsLook videos from prominent publishers such as the GlobalPost, Xinhua News Agency and UNTV through blinkx. Leveraging its AdHoc platform, blinkx will […]
Private Media Group, a provider of adult entertainment products, has announced that the company is expanding its VoD offering by signing a partnership with France’s AB Groupe to supply its VoD website XXL with Private’s premium quality content. Available to consumers via Free IPTV France, and launched in 2010, XXL is a dedicated adult cinema […]
Spanish actor Javier Bardem has joined with film-makers in urging Internet users to support creative industries struggling to survive in an age of digital piracy by shunning illegal downloading of free films and music. British film director Iain Smith, Egyptian producer Esaad Younis and Indian producer and director Bobby Bedi joined Bardem in appealing for […]
Baidu, the Chinese Internet search company, has signed a deal with three major record labels allowing it to offer free music downloads to users. The deal represents a coup for the company, which has beaten Western rivals such as Google to the punch. The US company, along with Amazon, recently announced the launch of a […]
Hackers from Lulz Sec seized control of the website of The Sun, the sister publication of the recently shuttered News of the World. The website briefly displayed a fake news story announcing that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch had been found dead. Soon after, the site began redirecting to the LulzSec Twitter feed of Lulz […]
ESPN Star Sports, Asia’s biggest sports content provider, has confirmed the launch of ESPN HD & Star Cricket HD, India’s first 24/7 HD sports channels. With the introduction of two new channels, ESPN Star Sports has expanded its bouquet to five channels in India – ESPN, Star Cricket, Star Sports, ESPN HD and Star Cricket […]
CNN and HLN’s complete 24-hour television networks will be streamed live on CNN.com, the CNN App for iPad and the CNN App for iPhone and iPod touch, effective immediately. CNN Worldwide is the first news organisation to stream its linear television channels online and on mobile devices to consumers who subscribe to a multi-channel video […]