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PayWizard teams with Racing UK

PayWizard, the subscriber management and billing specialists for multi-screen media, has teamed up with Racing UK to launch Racing UK Anywhere, a service that allows consumers to watch horseracing on the move and on multiple devices. PayWizard worked closely with Racing UK on the launch of Racing UK Anywhere, upgrading the horseracing channel’s Subscriber Management […]

November 25, 2013

Mediacom rolls out Pace Multi-tuner Gateway with TiVo UI

Pace has announced another successful deployment resulting from its global, strategic partnership with TiVo. One of the largest US cable operators, Mediacom Communications Corporation, has chosen to deploy the Pace MG1 Multi-tuner Media Gateway with TiVo’s Advanced User Interface (UI) as its flagship platform. Mediacom will begin the roll out this month of Pace’s MG1 […]

November 18, 2013

Major makeover for Netflix UI

Online entertainment service Netflix has unveiled what it describes as the biggest update to its TV experience in the service’s history, a “radically new look” that makes Netflix on TVs a much richer and more immersive experience, according to the company. The new design was created specifically for the big screen, featuring multiple cinematic images […]

November 13, 2013By Colin Mann

MPAA’s Dodd urges stronger Google anti-piracy efforts

Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, has reiterated his stance that search engines play a significant role in introducing audiences to infringing movies and TV shows online and has urged Google to step up its fight against film piracy. Interviewed by the Financial Times, Dodd said that in […]

November 7, 2013By Colin Mann

Jinni launches new app and website

Jinni, the advanced TV and movie discovery engine available, has launched a new, free iPad app and web site. The new platforms deliver intuitive, personalised recommendations for movies, television and streaming content that match a user’s tastes and moods. “In viewing one’s own entertainment personality a user inevitably learns more about their own tastes. Jinni […]

November 7, 2013

Clearleap, PayWizard for multiscreen content

Clearleap, aprovider of multiscreen video logistics solutions for the television industry, has partnered with subscriber management and billing specialists PayWizard to introduce billing integration and subscription services across connected devices. The partnership will enable Clearleap to offer quick and secure single-click payments across multiple platforms to content owners and operators across Europe. The Clearleap platform […]

November 7, 2013

Radio Times DiscoverTV app for content discovery

UK TV listings publication Radio Times has launched Radio Times DiscoverTV App, a new daily TV and radio recommendations and discovery service designed to help viewers discover favourite programmes wherever they are – on TV, catch-up or on-demand. The App aims to cut through the ever-increasing broadcast choices with daily categorised recommendations to the best […]

November 6, 2013

Digitalsmiths used by 7 of top 10 US pay-TV providers

Digitalsmiths has reported record growth resulting in market leadership in the US. Seven of the top ten US pay-tv providers have selected Digitalsmiths Seamless Discovery platform to power their video discovery needs. The top 10 pay-tv providers in the US represent 94 per cent of all US Subscribers, and 86 per cent of all North […]

October 31, 2013

Ofcom supports PSB EPG review

Ed Richards, Ofcom’s Chief Executive, has suggested the government’s review of communications policy should include an assessment of the prominence the UK’s Public Service Broadcasters are afforded on Electronic Programme Guides in the converged age. Delivering an address at the Westminster eForum Keynote Seminar: Assessing the Government’s communications strategy: ‘Connectivity, Content and Consumers: Britain’s digital […]

October 30, 2013By Colin Mann

Intraway M2M platform adds BioScience hardware to mass deliver telemedicine Services

Intraway Corporation, a provider of convergent solutions for telecommunications companies, together with BioScience, introduce their solutions to improve health care services through the mass delivery of vital signs’ telemetry. BioScience BioWave hardware gets patient biological signals through various sensors and transmits the results on a 3G mobile network to Intraway’s M2M management platform. This platform has applications available to be […]

October 30, 2013