Microsoft predicted continued heavy costs from its attempt to go head-to-head with Google and has announced an online search alliance with Facebook, as it tried to convince Wall Street that it could recover from a failed bid for Yahoo. Microsoft predicted continued heavy costs from its attempt to go head-to-head with Google and has announced […]

Plans to regulate video-on -demand services and product placement on British television have been set out by Department of Culture Media and Sport in a consultation document published by Culture Secretary Andy Burnham. The proposals are part of a comprehensive consultation on how the UK should implement the EU Audio Visual Media Services (AVMS) Directive. […]

CanalSat has now won 80 per cent of subscribers to the former TPS platform according to parent company Vivendi. The company said the figures underlined its objective of having a single platform by the end of the year. CanalSat has now won 80 per cent of subscribers to the former TPS platform according to parent […]

Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin has confirmed that there is an agreement in principle to approve the XM Satellite Radio-Sirius Satellite Radio merger. Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin has confirmed that there is an agreement in principle to approve the XM Satellite Radio-Sirius Satellite Radio merger. Final conditions on approval included a three-year […]

Web video is no longer confined to PC users, according to Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service. A wave of recent announcements from major players such as Sony, Microsoft and Samsung confirms that Internet-enabled TVs, games consoles and peripherals, such as Blu-ray Disc players, will soon deliver web-based content to millions of TV viewers around […]

Russia’s third-placed search and portal operator Rambler is to launch a major TV and movie site – described as a “Russian Hulu”. Rambler Kinozal (“cinema”) will offer titles for download rather than web streaming. Russia’s third-placed search and portal operator Rambler is to launch a major TV and movie site – described as a "Russian […]

The consumer electronics industry will see overall shipment revenues top $173 billion in the US in 2008, according to data released by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). The semi-annual US Consumer Electronics Sales and Forecast shows CE shipment revenues will grow by 7.3 per cent this year, reaching more than $183 billion by 2009. “The […]

International entertainment broadcasting company Modern Times Group (MTG) has released figures for the second quarter and six months ended 30 June 2008. Group net sales were up 17 per cent year on year to SEK3.318 billion (E350m). Group operating income was up 26 per cent year on year to SEK673 million, with an increased operating […]

TiVo is teaming up with Amazon.com to make it easier for consumers to purchase products they see on television commercials and talk shows. TiVo plans to offer the feature to advertisers and programmers, giving viewers the chance to purchase products during commercials and product placements in shows. A “product purchase” feature on onscreen menus will […]

The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland has awarded – subject to contract – three national DTT multiplexes to a consortium of the Swedish DTT operator Boxer and the Communicorp Group, the Irish commercial radio group. They will have equal shares of a JV called of Boxer DTT Limited. Assuming final negotiations are successful, Boxer will construct […]