Virgin Media has launched three new services a major online content, it will offer shows from its recently launched digital TV service Virgin 1, as well as games and music content. Virgin has also signed deals with music platforms OD2 and Vidzone to supply it with music tracks and videos in preparation to ramp up […]
Cisco has revealed that Hanaro Telecom, Korea’s major broadband service provider, has chosen Cisco’s standards-based channel-bonding technology for the world’s largest deployment of 100-megabits-per-second broadband services, now reaching more 200,000 customers. Through Cisco’s multiservice cable broadband technology, Hanaro Telecom was able to deploy the 100Mbps wideband services market ahead of its competitors.
It has emerged BSkyB had a private equity partner lined up to take part in its £940 million (E1.36bn) raid on ITV late last year. At the last minute the private equity house pulled out so Sky had to decide whether to go ahead and buy all of the blocking stake to prevent Virgin's takeover […]
From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris French company Mobibase has launched One TV, a platform of TV channels made specifically for viewing on mobile phones on the Orange Gallery service. A small selection of the channels has already been available on test over the summer. One TV should be available via other operators soon – SFR […]
Gorillabox, a new fully managed mobile TV enabler, has launched with a proposition to stream video content to any mobile handset, anywhere in Europe and the US. Central to the Gorillabox plan is a unique fixed fee commercial model, which will allow network operators, content owners, brand owners and ad agencies to take advantage of […]
ITN has signed a deal with IPTV platform Joost to provide its news, entertainment and sports content and a new weekly programme entitled Movie Buff. ITN will keep Joost viewers up to date with all the latest UK, world, sports, showbiz and business news throughout the day. Joost viewers can also tune into weather from […]
Investors embraced China Digital TV Holding Co.’s IPO last week, more than doubling the value of the company’s shares in the first hour of trading. After opening at a high of $37.50, well over double the IPO price of $16 per share, the stock has traded only as low as $29.04. China Digital provides conditional […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), has revealed that MTG Norway and Canal Digital have signed a non-exclusivity agreement, whereby both parties have agreed not to exclusively distribute any of the five most watched channels in Norway. NRK1 and NRK2 are already distributed on both the Viasat and the Canal Digital satellite pay-TV platforms, and both TV […]
Vode, the UK based VoD specialist has announced its latest digital storage and distribution deal with UK and US based music and entertainment specialist, Eagle Rock Entertainment Eagle Rock supplied Vode with its content library in digi beta format which was then digitised and stored in the VodeVault, serving as Eagle Rock's 'virtual archive.' The […]
Google 'could do a better job' at preventing illegally copied video from appearing on its YouTube site, Peter Chernin, president and chief operating officer of News Corp, told the FT. The comments come ahead of News Corp's launch this month of Hulu, a site for professionally produced video with NBC Universal. Chernin said there was […]