Nokia has agreed to buy US mobile advertising firm Enpocket. Nokia claims that the move will allow it to accelerate the scaling of its mobile advertising business, taking advantage of Enpocket’s platform and strong partnerships with advertisers, publishers and operators.
EchoStar Communications Corp shares rose 4 per cent on speculation that US telco giant AT&T could buy the satellite television provider within a year. Echostar’s television service would complement AT&T’s efforts to expand a high-speed fibre network it is building to sell TV services to better compete with cable and telecommunications rivals.
Video search engine blinkx has partnered with Utarget, the UK online video advertising network, to place video advertising around its video content for UK audiences. Utarget will focus on monetising blinkx’s video inventory including ITN News and ITN Celebrity.
Video sharing Web site Vimeo is set to begin distributing videos in high-definition. While movie trailers and certain other professionally produced videos can be viewed online in high-definition, Vimeo is the first Web site to make HD available for user-generated videos.
Alcatel-Lucent and CableLabs have confirmeed the deployment of Alcatel-Lucent next-generation IP multimedia applications and core network technology in the CableLabs PacketCable 2.0 Applications Lab, as part of a cable industry program to increase new advanced services available to cable customers.
Sky Television and emuse absolutely have launched of the first Impulse Response Interactive Television advertisement in New Zealand for Mitsubishi Motors. Viewers who see the Mitsubishi Lancer advertisement will be invited to press Red on the SKY remote to request more information on the car. They simply follow the prompts on screen to select their […]
ITV has teamed up with Microsoft to offer web coverage of the next series of 'I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!', in November, through the MSN portal – the first time MSN has gone live with content from a UK broadcaster.
The Competition Commission has extended the timetable for completing its inquiry into BSkyB’s £940 million (E1.3bn) purchase of a 17.9 per cent stake in ITV until next year. It had intended to hand over the results of its inquiry to John Hutton, the secretary of state for business enterprise and regulatory reform, by November 7. […]
Industry body the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has applauded a call by regional political leaders for Governments to “effectively address” the issue of satellite and cable TV signal theft. “The new priority given by the APEC ministers to this problem is great news,” said Marcel Fenez, the Chairman of CASBAA. “With […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The sales of DTT boxes and integrated DTT TV sets are accelerating in Spain. More than 371,000 DTT devices were sold in July, of which more than 170,000 were integrated DTT TV sets, representing 45.8 per cent of the total. Currently, 19.4 per cent of Spanish homes are already […]