ESPN is to boost its mobile phone service with new Formula 1 and cricket apps, plus a revamped Premier League goals service for smartphones. The Disney-owned broadcaster will move into new territory with an ESPN Cricinfo app in time for the cricket World Cup later this month. The app, which will be available on iPhone […]
Alcatel-Lucent reported its most profitable quarter ever due in large part to American operators upgrading their networks to handle the smartphone boom. The company, formed in a merger more than four years ago, posted net profit of €340 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, a marked improvement from the €46 million in the period […]
Revenue fell 11.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2010, at Arris as sales to Comcast and Time Warner Cable – its two biggest customers – dropped compared with the year-earlier period. The leading supplier of cable modem and embedded multimedia terminal adapters, posted fourth quarter 2010 revenue of $266.2 million, versus $300.0 million […]
Hamlet, provider of television broadcast test, measurement and monitoring devices, has appointed well-known industry figure Brian Massie as UK and International sales manager. Massie’s experience in the industry includes positions with Oxtel, Miranda and Omnitek. He thus brings a broad range of experience covering infrastructure, graphics, control and branding as well as test and measurement […]
Allot Communications MobileTrends Report shows that mobile data bandwidth usage continued its phenomenal rise with 73 per cent growth during the second half (H2) of 2010. Video streaming continues to drive this growth as it remains the fastest growing application type, accounting for 37 per cent of mobile bandwidth. The H2 2010 MobileTrends Report reveals […]
The US government will propose a set of Internet piracy rules as the government seeks to “improve intellectual property enforcement,” says Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel. A number of Federal agencies including the US Departments of Commerce, Homeland Security and Justice, as well as the Office of the US Trade Representative, have developed a […]
Research specialist Euroconsult, in its latest study, says the market value for video transmission services over satellite, including video distribution services for TV channels and contribution services for permanent and occasional use is expected to reach $27 billion in 2020, up from $15.8 billion in 2010. “The anticipated revenue growth for video transmission services in […]
Five of the major motion picture studios in the US have launched the next phase of their ongoing campaign against against Hotfile.com, a so-called cyberlocker service that allows its is based on strong market drivers such as the multiplication of cusers to share and store large media files on its servers. The lawsuit claims damages […]
Walt Disney has reported a sharp rise in profits thanks to increased advertising revenue and the popularity of its theme parks. Net profit for the final quarter of last year came in at $1.3 billion up more than 50 per cent compared with the $844 million the company made a year earlier. Revenue rose by […]
The BBC cancelled a press announcement of their iPlayer for iPad and Android after one their own engineers leaked the news on Twitter. Now the BBC says: “All things being well we plan to have Android and iPad apps in stores by the end of the week.” iPlayer already works on iOS via mobile web, […]