Accenture has acquired the software and skills of Nokia Siemens Networks’ IPTV business for an undisclosed sum. It plans to integrate its newly-acquired IPTV software, assets and capabilities with the Accenture Video Solution – a software product and a suite of services that enables companies to launch new over-the-top TV and services quickly and economically […]
The BBC iPlayer reached a new record high this summer, as viewers used the VoD service to catch up on action from the London 2012 Olympic Games. In August, iPlayer attracted 196 million programme requests across radio and television content. The highest-ever requests in a single week on iPlayer came in the seven days commencing […]
US retailer of content, digital media and educational products Barnes & Noble has become the latest outlet to add video to its product portfolio with the announcement that its NOOK e-reader will première NOOK Video this autumn, with blockbuster movies, classic films and original TV shows from major studios including HBO, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, […]
In a seeming about-turn from its previous position, US telecoms and media company Cablevision is putting its support behind major US broadcast networks in their attempts to stop online television start-up Aereo from broadcasting TV programming over the Internet. Cablevision had been the subject of an action from companies such as Disney and News Corp […]
Further details have emerged of the Redbox Instant by Verizon online entertainment joint venture formed between US telco Verizon and retail solutions specialist Coinstar. Eric Bruno, Verizon’s vice president of strategy and planning for consumer and mass business markets, told Bloomberg that the service would offer subscription streaming, movie sales and rentals by Christmas, along […]
Canadian communications and media company Shaw Communications is taking the battle to OTT providers such as Netflix by launching Shaw Go, a service delivering the latest premium television programmes to customers anyplace, anytime on popular mobile devices, including the Apple iPad and new iPhone 5. The first phase of Shaw Go is the Movie Central […]
Global mobile satellite communications services provider Inmarsat has launched SBTV, a platform that enables airlines to provide real-time and updated on-demand entertainment content to passengers’ own devices. News, sports and other video content is transmitted to the aircraft over the SwiftBroadband network and then distributed wirelessly to passengers’ own devices, which can include smartphones, laptops, […]
In Q1 2012, Americans spent nearly 35 hours per week watching video across screens and close to another five hours using the Internet on a computer. Amercians spend 1 hour 38 minutes per week on gaming devices and among owners of gaming devices that have the ability to stream video content (also referred to as […]
The number of older viewers in the US watching TV shows and movies weekly on tablets has skyrocketed in the last year while usage among tablet owners under 45 has plateaued, according to an annual survey of consumer video viewing habits conducted by Altman Vilandrie & Company and Research Now. The survey showed tablet owners […]
While many TV forecast that spending more time watching programmes on non-TV platforms such as iPads means spending less time watching “regular” television, just the opposite is the case. According to research from TDG, 88 per cent of adult tablet owners use the device to watch video, with television programmes ranking high on their content […]