Channel 4 has teamed up with Hat Trick Productions and Widebeam Digital to become the UK’s first terrestrial channel to launch a publicly available mobile app that uses hidden audio triggers to unlock exclusive additional content. Enabled by Intrasonics Technology, viewers can enable the app to ‘listen in’ on episodes of Facejacker to unlock bonus […]
BBC News have confirmed the launch the BBC News app for Android large tablet devices for audiences all around the world. The app is available to download from Android Market. This launch follows the success of the BBC News app for Android smartphones, which has been downloaded more than three million times globally since launching […]
Switzerland’s Kudelski Group, owner of Nagravision, has revealed its 2011 annual results. Group revenues in constant currency declined by 3.8 per cent from CHF 1.069 billion (€887m) in 2010 to CHF 896.6 million in 2011, with the Digital TV segment driving most of the decline The continued fall of USD and Euro rates affected the […]
Following the stalling of the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy measures in the US Congress, largely in response to activist claims of Internet censorship, Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has continued to offer a more conciliatory approach to the technology community, while still stressing the importance of […]
UltraViolet (UV) – the studio-backed common file format and digital rights authentication system – has achieved a milestone of 800,000 household accounts in the US, according to the IHS Screen Digest US Video Market Intelligence Service from information and analysis provider IHS. The UV initiative has made rapid progress since the first UV-enabled DVD and […]
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 […]