The latest findings from the comScore Video Metrix service indicate that 182 million US Internet users watched online video content in September for an average of 19.5 hours per viewer. The total US Internet audience engaged in 39.8 billion video views. Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, were once again ranked as […]
Owners of Nintendo 3DS and Wii consoles will soon have the ability to access an even wider selection of TV shows and movies: the Hulu Plus subscription online video service is being made available on both systems. Nintendo is also announcing new features being added to the Nintendo 3DS system, including the ability to record […]
Korean broadcaster MBC has agreed with Google to provide its TV drama and entertainment programmes through the latter’s online video sharing site YouTube. Under the agreement, MBC will provide 10,000 hours of dramas and entertainment shows aired before 2005 for YouTube, which will be distributed around the world starting next year, according to the broadcaster. […]
Australian pay-TV operator Optus is linking with OTT supplier Fetch TV to offer would-be subscribers a number of low-cost packages of channels and downloaded content. At a cost of A$9.95 (€7.45) subscribers get a 1 Terabyte set-top box that can record, pause and replay free-to-air and digital channels, as well as tap into Fetch TV’s […]
Microsoft has recovered access to its You Tube channel after it was hacked over the weekend. Graham Cluley of security firm Sophos has reported that Redmond’s YouTube page had been hacked. All of Microsoft’s videos were taken down and replaced with videos calling on other YouTube users to upload their own or provide sponsorship. While […]
A survey carried out by Galaxy Research for networking hardware vendor Netgear has found that Australians own a lot of Internet-enabled devices that they don’t bother to put online. The report shows that there are almost 70 million Internet-enabled devices in Australian homes, but nearly 19 million aren’t connected. Game consoles are amongst the most […]
Digital rights management business Base79, backed by Peter Bazalgette and Kelvin MacKenzie, is expanding. It has made two high-profile hirings: Gulliver Smithers joins from ITV as Base79’s CTO while Gideon Summerfield joins from the BBC as Head of Project Management. Base79 gets its name from the atomic number for gold. The pair will join Base79 […]
Bridge Technologies has begun shipping an enhanced version of the ground-breaking microVB miniaturised digital media probe for subscriber premises. With its ability to report second-by-second data on all traffic passing through the set-top box, combined with new functionality for analysing OTT service quality, the microVB 2.0 provides the industry’s most complete capability for monitoring the […]
Cisco has announced its intent to acquire privately-held BNI Video. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., BNI Video supplies service providers with two major video products that offer video back-office and content delivery network (CDN) analytic capabilities. The cash acquisition – rated at $99 million – will advance the capabilities of Cisco’s Videoscape TV platform, which allows […]
AT&T, the largest US telecommunications group by revenues, reported third-quarter earnings in line with most expectations. Net income fell to $3.62 billion for the July to September period, down from $12.3 billion a year ago when the figures were boosted by a $8.3 billion one-time gain related to the sale of a subsidiary and a […]