The recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to raise FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) ceiling for DTH, IPTV from 49 per cent to 74 per cent have been “accepted” by the I&B Ministry. The recommendations have been accepted to bring parity between DTH and IPTV operators with other service providers said a Ministry […]
Brightcove, the cloud content services company, has unveiled Brightcove App Cloud, a content app platform for building and operating native apps and touch websites for Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones and tablets. App Cloud combines an open HTML5-based development model with intelligent cloud services for cross-platform compilation, automated app distribution, analytics, advertising, and connectors […]
Samsung Electronics Co. has announced that the Samsung Apps store has seen more than five million downloads of TV apps worldwide since it was launched in February 2010 and that consumers are now downloading about 25,000 TV apps a day. And the growth has been accelerating: two million apps were downloaded between the February 2010 […]
The newly released BroadbandSuite 4.1 extends the work of previous technical requirements to let service providers pinpoint problems that can emerge as consumers attach many new devices to their broadband services, such as Internet-enabled TVs and energy management sensors. Those new devices, as well as services such as home security and remote energy management, represent […]
World Wrestling Entertainment has appointed video ad network Web TV Enterprise to monetise its UK online video content. The exclusive deal is aimed at increasing the reach of the entertainment broadcaster’s TV campaigns. The first campaigns to roll out across the Web TV network include pre-rolls for the 20th Century Fox movie Cedar Rapids and […]
DVR specialist TiVo has confirmed that Hulu Plus is now available via subscription to TiVo subscribers with retail TiVo Premiere boxes. To mark the launch, TiVo and Hulu will give six months of free Hulu Plus service to newly purchased TiVo Premiere DVRs. A free trial of Hulu Plus is also available to current TiVo […]
LandscapeHD, the 1080p cloud delivered music television channel, has signed an exclusive pan-Europe partnership agreement with smartclip, the European video ad network. smartclip will be solely responsible for the roll out of advertising across LandscapeHD’s broadcasts. smartclip specialises in in-stream ad formats and operates in the new digital advertising distribution frontier across all Internet connected […]
emuse and ES3 have announced the establishment of an exclusive partnership that will see emuse’s Raven Advanced Advertising System pre-integrated into ES3’s suite of TV applications for Microsoft’s Mediaroom IPTV platform. Raven provides digital television platform operators and content owners with an end-to-end advertising decision, delivery and reporting solution, and has been deployed globally in […]
Online movie rental service Netflix appears to be recruiting staff in preparation for a major European initiative as soon as the second half of 2011. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings admitted late in 2010 that the company would consider expanding to Europe and Asia once the results of its Canadian operation, which it launched in the […]
Mediaset España, owner of commercial TV channels Tele 5 and Cuatro and operator of other four DTT channels (Factoria de Ficcion, La Siete, Boing and Divinity), and telco operator Telefonica have signed an agreement to develop an HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) service with a trial to be launched shortly, according to both companies. The […]