Multi-screen digital TV services revenue and security enhancement specialist Verimatrix has confirmed that Quickflix, Australia’s leading online movie rental company, is securing its over-the-top (OTT) video-on-demand (VoD) service with the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for Internet TV. Quickflix’s Chief Executive Officer Chris Taylor OTT said Verimatrix’s expertise had enabled Quickflix to become one […]
Positioning themselves better to meet technological and business challenges faced by the content consumption market, France Telecom Group companies Viaccess and Orca Interactive are to merge their management structures. This new organisation will allow customers to benefit from the strength and expertise of legacy telecommunications combined with the innovative edge of an agile technology company […]
Multi-screen digital TV content security solutions specialist Conax has unveiled Conax Xtend Multiscreen, a new pre-integrated solution for enabling easy migration to advanced multiscreen services. The solution is a high performance, cost-efficient ecosystem for multiscreen hybrid-broadband-broadcast content delivery and consumption. The solution has been developed together with middleware provider, Cubiware, and content management system provider, […]
A significant share of TV viewers are using PCs and mobile devices as second and third screens to access video content, according to the results of a cross-platform pilot test to be presented by Arbitron and the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) at the Advertising Research Foundation Audience Measurement 7.0 conference in New York. […]
comScore has released insights on the US tablet market from comScore TabLens, its forthcoming monthly syndicated service providing insights into tablet ownership and usage. The report found that tablets have quickly reached a critical mass in the US with 1 in every 4 smartphone owners using tablets during the three-month average period ending April 2012. […]
Customers of Singaporean broadband communications and entertainment service StarHub TV will be able to watch their favourite TV channels across multiple screens, anytime, anywhere with its new value-added service – TV Anywhere. With the launch of the Internet TV platform starhubtv.com, TV Anywhere will be a key service offering, giving viewers access to cable TV […]
The growth in the tablet user base will cause the number of users of mobile adult video content on tablets to triple by 2015, a report from Juniper Research finds. This trend is repeated across all forms of mobile adult content on tablets with the number mobile adult subscribers and mobile adult videochat users also […]
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 […]
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 […]