Orange has launched a new TV App, designed specifically for the iPad, offering access to up to 21 live channels. Instant-access functions on the app include the day’s programme schedule, full-screen mode, channel zapping and information on future programmes. The app is available to download for free from the Apple store. The app can be […]
Pay TV subscriptions in Venezuela hit 2.57 million, as at the end of March this year. Venezuela’s National Telecommunications Commission said that according to preliminary figures – which might well grow – some 45,000 net new subs have been added since December 2010. However, this is well down on the net 232,000 who signed up […]
HBO Central Europe together with leading cable and broadband Internet providers SBB – Serbia Broadband (Serbia), Telemach _irokopasovne komunikacije (Slovenia), and Telemach d.o.o. (Bosnia and Herzegovina), has launched HBO GO, the internet streaming service available to HBO subscribers with a broadband internet connection in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia. HBO GO offers the latest […]
Google has moved swiftly to deny comments by its executive chairman (see below) were not a signal it is ready to violate content protection laws it does not agree with. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said in London “if there is a law that requires DNS, to do X and it’s passed by both houses of […]
Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, has said that proposals from the US and British governments to block Internet access to file-sharing websites would endanger freedom of speech and push both countries toward being more like China. “I would be very, very careful if I were a government about arbitrarily [implementing] simple solutions to complex problems,” […]
Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media Olympics and Sport, has hinted that the future for local TV in the UK is likely to be on the basis of a number of individual licensees, with IP the delivery format. Hunt told members of the Broadcasting Press Guild that he was confident the government […]
Intelsat’s governmental services division (IGS) has won a major contract to supply TV to the US armed forces serving overseas. The deal sees Intelsat having to supply satellite connectivity to the USA’s Armed Forces Radio & TV Service (AFTRS). “The AFRTS provides multi-channel, broadcast-quality radio and television programmes to military forces and their families stationed […]
US pay-TV service DirecTV has started field trial testing for its DirecTV Home Media Centre aimed at providing customers with a ‘receiver-less’ solution for many TVs in their homes. The launch of field trial testing for DirecTV’s model HR34 RVU-enabled server, the heart of the DirecTV Home Media Centre, marks a major milestone both for […]
Since the beginning of 2011, more than 1 million new households have installed a stand-alone DTT box in their home, while nearly 2.8 million DTT receivers (including integrated TVs and decoders) have been sold. Of the total receivers sold between January and March, about 62 per cent (1.7 million) are integrated, 33 per cent are […]
Sony is struggling to move beyond a high-profile and costly attack on its PlayStation Network that put at risk the personal details of more than 100 million customers. Now the company has faced new security and has taken down a website that allowed users of PlayStation Network and Qriocity, an online entertainment service, to reset […]