ESPN Star Sports, the official broadcaster and commercial partner of Nokia Champions League Twenty20, has announced a comprehensive line-up of global syndication partners that will showcase the tournament in more than 174 territories worldwide. ESPN Star Sports’ commitment to broaden the popularity of the sport has also ensured that the cricket spectacle will be televised […]
Dutch anti-Internet piracy group Brein has called on electronic payment companies such as PayPal and iDeal to cease processing payments to websites which facilitate illegal file-sharing. “These providers are providing payment services to websites and if these websites are breaking the law, they should not provide these services,” spokesman Tim Kuik told Tweakers.net. Brein also […]
Research by Sycamore Research & Marketing reveals that 72 per cent of Australian consumers say they would stop illegal downloading activities if they received an educational notice from their ISP. The study also revealed that consumers perceive the ISPs as actively encouraging them to share and download illegal content. The national survey asked respondents, aged […]
PlayJam, the TV Social Games Network, has announced that the PlayJam Games Channel will launch in November this year as an app on Panasonic’s VIERA Connect-enabled HDTVs worldwide. The PlayJam Games Channel will bring hundreds of casual games directly into the e connected living room via a single icon located within the main UI of […]
Metrological Media Innovations and Liberty Global have announced that Liberty Global will adopt Metrological’s Widget framework for its Next Generation TV platform – Project Horizon. The Widget framework establishes the bridge between Internet delivered content and pay-tv services in order to provide digital television subscribers a range of innovative interactive applications and enhanced services. The […]
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 […]
ITV has kicked off its IRB Rugby World Cup coverage from New Zealand only for its live mobile stream to fall over in the first game. The broadcaster has the UK’s exclusive live TV broadcast rights to the tournament but has yet to gain official approval from Apple to launch its rugby-themed World Cup app.
ESPN has extended its contract with the NFL by eight years in a record $15.2 billion deal that keeps live American football on Walt Disney’s sports cable television network. The deal covers ESPN’s prized Monday Night Football slot, one of the network’s most lucrative series and an enduring hit advertisers keen to target young male […]
Android smartphone users will download more apps than Apple iPhone owners this year, as sales of devices using the Google operating system surge ahead, according to a report from telecoms analyst Ovum Applications, which range from games to alarm clocks and weather information, will jump from a total 7.4 billion downloaded in 2010 to 18 […]
TiVo and Virgin Media have revealed details of an iPad app, to be released in the near future, which will allow users to control TiVo through their tablet. The iPad app will be released alongside a software update and other new features yet to be announced. Cindy Rose, executive director of digital entertainment at Virgin […]