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Singapore online content market to hit $24m

Kamlesh Kalwar, an industry analyst with Frost, said that the Singapore online content market, which is dominated by online gaming, was worth $13.4 million last year. “Online gaming accounts for just under 50 per cent of revenues (in the online content market in Singapore), followed by online videos and online music, in that order,” Kalwar […]

August 8, 2008

Cablevision wins playback ruling

The ruling by the US Court of Appeals is a setback for News Corp., Time Warner, Walt Disney, CBS, and NBC, which sued to prevent the system’s debut. They claimed the service, Remote Storage Digital Video Recorder, threatened their copyrights. The network DVR system allows cable customers who don’t have digital video recorders, such as […]

August 8, 2008

NDS reports fiscal year, goes private

The group reported revenues of $850.1 million, an increase of 20 per cent over the previous year, while operating income rose 21.8 per cent by the same comparison to reach $195.4 million. The number of active devices protected by NDS conditional access technology hit 90.3 million at the end of last June, whilst there were […]

August 8, 2008

Singapore online content market to hit $24m

Kamlesh Kalwar, an industry analyst with Frost, said that the Singapore online content market, which is dominated by online gaming, was worth $13.4 million last year. “Online gaming accounts for just under 50 per cent of revenues (in the online content market in Singapore), followed by online videos and online music, in that order,” Kalwar […]

August 8, 2008

Sky Sports catches cricket deal

ECB chairman Giles Clarke called for a public debate into the reasons why the BBC failed to make a bid for the various packages. A BBC spokeswoman rejected the ECB’s criticisms for not bidding for the television rights. “We’ve always said any bid for live Test cricket was subject to value for money and fitting […]

August 7, 2008