Siemens CMT and Indian media group Zee Entertainment have agreed on a worldwide long-term partnership in the development and establishment of online TV offerings. On the basis of the agreement, Zee TV, one of the leading TV networks in India, will deploy the OTT TV solution from Siemens CMT. International media group Zee Entertainment will […]
Exterity, the Building IPTV specialist, has unveiled a new version of its AvediaPlayer receiver range. The upgrade offers an enhanced core browser that improves visual functionality for organisations who want to provide live or on-demand access to TV, video and AV content over an IP Network. This latest version of the AvediaPlayer receiver harnesses the […]
More than 42 million homes across the US and Europe are using the Internet to watch television shows and movies on the TV screen, according to research from Strategy Analytics’ Connected Home Devices (CHD) service. The report – Multiscreen Connected TV: Assessing Device Usage and Ownership – bases its findings on a survey of 4,800 […]
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who created KaZaA, Skype, Joost and Rdio, are setting up a service called Vdio. The startup has $5.6 million backing and is headed by Europlay Capital Advisors’ Semion Smushkevich. It’s unclear what Vdio will be but it could be an unlimited movie subscription service like Netflix. Currently in closed beta, […]
ITV is to buy Channel Television, the Channel Islands commercial TV broadcaster, in a further consolidation of the network. The broadcaster is in negotiations to buy Channel TV from the private Yattendon Group. The value of the deal was not disclosed, but it is reported to be worth more than £10 million (€11.5m). Channel Television […]
ESPN Goals, the free mobile app which brings UK fans action and goals from every Barclays Premier League football match within just minutes of it taking place, notched up its one millionth UK download over the weekend of October 15-16. The app has also been deeply engaging, with fans registering more than 50 million page […]
Forty-four per cent of TV households in the United States have at least one Digital Video Recorder (DVR), and one-third of DVR households have more than one DVR -representing 14 per cent of all households having multiple DVRs according to recent consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG). In 2005, just 8 per cent of […]
Google has undertaken a major restructure that sees UK MD Matt Brittin moved up to a European role, replaced by Google’s European marketing chief Dan Cobley. The reshuffle has been sparked by the London-based VP of Google Europe Philipp Schindler’s move to a global business role based in Google’s California office. Brittin, who joined Google […]
Global mobile video traffic will account for more than 60 per cent of global mobile data traffic by 2016 according to a Visiongain report. The market will increase at a CAGR of 28 per cent with revenues reaching $22.5 billion by 2016. The mobile video and TV market needs to overcome several challenges during the […]
US telco AT&T has unveiled a number of ways to allow its U-verse TV customers to bring together their favourite social apps on their smartphone or tablet with what they’re watching on TV. With the U-verse IP platform, U-verse TV and High Speed Internet customers can now connect their qualifying smartphone or tablet to any […]