Amazon has unveiled its colour tablet computer, the Kindle Fire which at $199 is less than half the price of Apple’s iPad. It runs a modified version of Google’s Android operating system. But its most compelling proposition is its direct connection to Amazon’s ocean of content – books, music, magazines, videos and films – not […]
DISH Network, the number two US DTH platform, has bid for Hulu to add it to a growing portfolio of content delivery platforms that includes Blockbuster. Headed by Charlie Ergen, DISH has reportedly offered more than Yahoo or Amazon with a figure said to top $1.9 billion. However, such is the frenzy for the $500 […]
As broadband subscriptions continue to grow in the EU, Point Topic has announced analysis on how many subscribers there will be and how many will take an IPTV service as well. According to the leading global broadband analyst firm, IPTV is set to treble by 2020. “We’re projecting just over 160 million broadband subscribers in […]
Paramount Pictures has become the latest studio to consolidate many of its distribution operations to reflect the growing importance of international markets and new digital platforms through which people watch movies. Under the new structure, unveiled by studio chairman Brad Grey, DVD, digital and television licensing will be merged into a newly created umbrella division […]
TidalTV, an online video advertising network and solutions provider, is now working with Roku, the Internet TV platform, to offer OTT video advertising as it continues to develop its strategy to leverage multi-screen, platform-agnostic advertising solutions. This new video platform expands TidalTV’s advanced targeting and optimisation offering, which previously included online and mobile capabilities. “In […]
Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), a supplier of advanced solutions for the connected home and beyond, has announced that it will deliver its intelligent wireless ADSL & GBETH gateways and Epicentro software to TEO, the largest provider of integrated telecommunication, IT and TV services in Lithuania. ADB Broadband has been supplying TEO with its broadband devices […]
A new report on UK cable operator Virgin Media’s prospects (from investment bankers Morgan Stanley) says that TiVo’s functionality will make life very hard for YouView or BSkyB. Virgin’s senior staffers say that their TiVo box, now rolling out to its customer base, will beat to the punch the UK’s digital terrestrial service YouView and […]
The Broadband and IPTV Growth Report presented at the Broadband World Forum in Paris has revealed that broadband continued to show healthy growth in the first half of 2011. Prepared for the Broadband Forum by industry analysts Point Topic, the figures reveal the broadband subscriber total at the end of June 2011 is now standing […]
China’s leading real-name social networking Internet platform Renren is to acquire 100 per cent of 56.com, a leading user generated content (UGC) online video sharing site in China in a $80 million cash deal. The acquisition is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2011, subject to customary closing conditions. Founded in 2005, […]
Multi-screen video solutions specialist SeaChange has confirmed that Liberty Global has selected SeaChange’s Adrenalin multi-screen video back office and client publishing solutions for Liberty Global’s Horizon media and entertainment platform rollouts. Following current field trials, the multiple system operator is targeting commercial launch of Horizon at UPC in the Netherlands first, to be followed closely […]