YouGov has released its Media, Technology & Telecoms outlook for 2014, setting out which device-driven trends to look out for over the coming year. Based on analysis of rich consumer data from the past 12 months, YouGov’s researchers have pin-pointed four areas
Amidst an uncertain economy in Malaysia and consumers holding back their spending, devices under the four screens—smartphones, tablets, laptops and TVs are still in demand as sales surged to over $3.86 billion in the first ten months of this year. Mobile handsets registered total sales volume of 939,000 in January to October 2013. Monthly sales […]
Australian online entertainment service Quickflix is now available on TiVo media devices in Australia and New Zealand. TiVo customers can now enjoy blockbuster movies and hit TV shows, including the best of the BBC and HBO, streamed straight to their TiVo and other connected devices. As a special introductory offer, Quickflix will be offering TiVo […]
Movie search website FindAnyFilm has become the first external partner to use the Playstation Store API, adding another legal point of purchase for consumers to the service but also extending the accessibility for in home viewing. FindAnyFilm.com aggregates film availability across all formats, allowing film fans to search for titles across localised cinema listings, comprehensive […]
Motive Television, a London-based provider of solutions to the TV industry, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with icube Corporation of Seoul, South Korea. Motive and icube will work together to develop retail products that will enable Freeview broadcast TV to be received on mobile devices in the UK. This agreement with icube is the […]
Ooyala has released its Q3 2013 Global Video Index, revealing distinct patterns in how viewers consume video across devices. While mobile viewing levels off in Q3 due to seasonal factors, the overall share of mobile and tablet video views increased by 74 per cent since January. Furthermore, mobile and tablet video plays have more than […]
A report by Juniper Research has found that by 2017, annual revenues from mobile entertainment services will reach almost $75 billion. This substantial growth, from an estimated $39 billion in 2013, is primarily driven by the emergence of more sophisticated monetisation strategies, allied to a nascent ecosystem of app-centric mobile devices, such as smart watches. […]
Horse & Country TV, the specialist international equestrian sports and lifestyle network, has appointed Simplestream to power its new H&C TV Everywhere service. H&C TV Everywhere uses Simplestream’s Media Manager to allow subscribers to watch H&C’s television channel, live and on-demand, across computers, mobiles and tablets. Media Manager is the only OTT platform specifically designed […]
LG Electronics (LG) has become the first company to incorporate the AllJoyn open source software framework into its Smart TV platform, giving users a new level of interoperability between devices. AllJoyn, developed by Qualcomm Innovation Center, is designed to create a common language that seamlessly connects the Internet of Things, regardless of brand or operating […]
According to a Strategy Analytics report, 2013 will see tablets ship in higher volumes than mobile PCs in 2013. The report is forecasting that shipments of tablets in 2013 will reach 231 million, compared to 186 million Mobile PCs, a trend that will continue through 2017. “The tablet has become