Three in four Mobile Users (74 per cent) fully pay attention to mobile ads while surfing the web, according to a survey conducted by Prosper Mobile Insights. Further, the majority (59.5 per cent) of smartphone and tablet users say they regularly or occasionally pay full attention to ads they see while visiting social media sites […]
For many people around the world, the mobile phone will be the only means of accessing the Internet. According to Ericsson’s second Traffic and Market Report – On the Pulse of the Networked Society, 85 per cent of the world’s population will have Internet coverage via 3G by 2017 and there will be close to […]
Customers of the Swisscom TV plus service can now watch their recordings over the Internet, using a PC or laptop, as well as on their home television set, with immediate effect. From the start of July they will also be able to do so using their iPhone or iPad. In addition, the design of the […]
Canadian digital entertainment service CinemaNow is to start inserting full-version movie downloads within Blu-ray and DVD digital combo packs sold at Canada’s largest consumer electronics retailers, Best Buy Canada and Future Shop. Universal Studios is the first partner to integrate the CinemaNow digital copy into the DVD/Blu-ray/digital combo packages, beginning with American Reunion. Several titles […]
Independent online video technology company Tremor Video has unveiled research that indicates viewers are no longer confining content to specific devices in era of seamless connectivity, with tablet and Connected TV viewing on the rise. The study, conducted in partnership with research-based strategic consulting firm Frank N Magid Associates, suggests that viewers are moving seamlessly […]
New media delivery specialist Vidiator has partnered with Polish systems integrators FMS Media and New Vision to enable Orange Poland to provide mobile phone and tablet owners with living room quality live coverage of every match in this summer’s Euro 2012 Football Championship. Orange Poland’s service is being empowered by the Vidiator Xenon Live platform. […]
GFU, the German CE association, predicts 26.5 million Internet-connected devices will be sold in Germany this year. GFU says the market will be made up of 15 million smartphones, 1.4 million tablets, seven million notebook computers and 3.1 million smart TVs. The association said that over four million smart TVs had been sold so far, […]
BBC iPlayer has seen a very strong and stable performance throughout the beginning of 2012. Total requests between January and April have averaged around 190 million per month – with over 140 million for TV and around 46 million for Radio programmes – up 24 per cent on the same period last year. Mobile and […]
Is Sky planning its own mobile network? According to reports, it has been in talks with both Orange and T-Mobile as it ponders a bid for the airwaves put up for sale by their Everything Everywhere consortium. Mobile would make Sky a full-fledged multi-play provider with 4G capability. The investment required would be £3-4 billion […]
The BBC iPlayer application is set to launch on Microsoft’s platform within the next two weeks. The application is already available for Android, Apple and Blackberry devices, so adding support for the Windows Phone platform was inevitable. The iPlayer app enables users to catch up on BBC programming through their smartphone, and also view the […]