Project Kangaroo's set back continue as CEO Ashley Highfield leaves the online venture before launch to become managing director for Microsoft UK’s online operation. He will be replaced on an interim basis by Rod Henwood, the former Channel 4 business director responsible for launching 4oD, the channel’s on-demand service, while a search for a replacement […]
Subscribers to TV services powered by the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia software platform have more than doubled, reaching over 2 million subscriber homes and powering services on nearly 4 million set-top boxes worldwide. In the past quarter Mediaroom customers have connected 500,000 new subscribers across the globe. AT&T is one of Microsoft's fastest-growing Mediaroom […]
Multimedia Research Group's latest IPTV Global Forecast shows that global IPTV subscribers will grow from 20.4 million IPTV subscribers in 2008 to 89.6 million in 2012. To drive this growth, IPTV Operators worldwide are expected to continue investing in improved Quality-of-Service, ease-of-operation, HD content, exclusive programming and time-shifting as differentiating features. In Europe, for example, […]
Despite the popularity of online video, new research shows that European content owners are struggling to turn a profit as delivery costs in many cases exceed advertising revenues. By comparison, businesses in the US have been more successful at making money from online content, having negotiated better technology distribution deals and established more effective advertising […]
BSkyB is to launch an online subscription service allowing consumers to watch channels including Sky Sports via the Internet for the first time. Mike Darcey, BSkyB chief operating officer, said the new service would be launched “in the next few months”. The online channels will be made available on the Sky Player and viewers will […]
As an open-source technology protocol, the file-sharing system BitTorrent represents about half the world's Internet traffic by some measures. But the San Francisco company, BitTorrent, is showing signs of serious trouble while it tries to commercialize the technology. BitTorrent has informed about half its employees, or 18 people, that they were being let go, according […]
Video site Blinkx lost $3.26 million between April and September – down from the $12.8 million loss recorded in the same period last year, when the company was spun off from Autonomy and floated on London's AIM market. What started as just a video search index has added a glut of products this year – […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel has confirmed it will launch an IPTV service in the first half of 2009, which will be delivered to the currently inactive Ethernet port on the back of its ‘iQ2’ set-top boxes. The service will be available to all subscribers, giving them access to VOD and other interactive services.
According to a survey of nearly 2000 UK digital TV viewers, commissioned by Microsoft-s Connected TV Business, over a quarter of digital viewers (27 per cent) still rely on flicking through all the channels to choose what to watch, wasting more than one week per year channel surfing. On average, digital viewers in the UK […]
Video search engine blinkx has formed a partnership with ExitReality, the company 'that converts the Web into three dimensions.' Users of ExitReality will now have access to millions of hours of Internet video to view and share in 3D spaces, courtesy of blinkx. Gartner analysts have predicted that 80 per cent of all active Internet […]