Free Internet TV channel Viewmy.TV has officially gone live, following a trial launch last summer. The site aggregates free web TV channels from around the world and combines them with an online community. The London-based portal offers free membership and grants access to more than 1300 channels from 100 different countries. It currently features a […]
Kate Burns, one of Google’s first UK managing director, has been hired to run the British operation of YouTube competitor Dailymotion. Burns has the job of increasing the online video website’s user numbers, the amount of user-generated and official content uploaded, and boosting revenues.
Pirelli Broadband Solutions announced the creation of OpenSet, a complete hardware and software platform of Set Top Boxes for IPTV applications, with an associated SDK package that allows third parties to access Pirelli's state-of-the-art embedded middleware for service customisations. With the OpenSet platform, operators, service providers and system integrators – whether in the Telco or […]
Yahoo and Time Warner have reportedly stepped up talks to create an alternative to Microsoft's offer for the web company. The WSJ reported talks centre on a deal that would fold Time Warner’s AOL Internet unit into Yahoo. Last month Microsoft made a $41 billion offer to buy Yahoo, which was rejected as undervaluing the […]
IPTV service revenues will approach $14 billion in 2012, growing from $694 million in 2007, according to “US IPTV Forecast and Outlook,” from Strategy Analytics. Although there are numerous IPTV providers of all shapes and sizes in the US, the landscape is dominated by the two incumbents: AT&T and Verizon, each of which has a […]
Tandberg Television, part of the Ericsson Group, has announced that its award-winning iPlex UltraCompression IPTV video processing and transcoding system has been selected by du, the Dubai-based telco, as the head-end for its IPTV services. du is the United Arab Emirates's newest telecommunications company, launched in February 2007, it already has 1.5 million customers.
eMarketer projects that nearly 80 per cent of US Internet users will watch online video at least once a month in 2008, meaning 52.5 per cent of all Americans or 154 million people will watch online video in 2008. That's a 12.1 per cent gain over 2007, but represents a slower increase, as more Internet […]
The head of online video site Hulu has called on advertisers to think outside the 30-second box for web video ads. In comments made at an Interactive Advertising Bureau meeting, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar suggested advertisers adopt different models for streaming video ads. Instead of simply repurposing 30 second TV spots, Kilar said, advertisers must […]
A report from MRG, IPTV Home Networking Strategies, 2008, has explored the importance of the Home Network for IPTV Operators. It reveals how effective Home Networking (HN) strategies can improve the competitiveness of an IPTV Operator against Cable and Satellite platforms, reposition the IPTV Operator in the growing battle against the PC and CE industries, […]
Deutsche Telekom has said that sales of television services to broadband customers will help it gain market share. The company wants to offer TV over the Internet to 20 million homes by the end of the year, board member Timotheus Hoettges said. A home entertainment package including about 150 TV channels and 2,600 video-on-demand titles […]