BT and Virgin Media have launched legal action against Birmingham City Council over its plans to build a superfast broadband network. The council had successfully applied for European Commission State Aid funding for the scheme. The council argues that it will help local areas which are underserved by existing providers. However Virgin Media argues there […]
Joanna Shields, for many years a leading executive at a range of global new media companies, is to leave Facebook, where she is Vice-President and Managing Director Europe, Middle East and Africa, to take up the role of Chief Executive of the Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO), set up in April 2011 as part of […]
UK PM David Cameron joined the chorus of criticism of the BBC saying the corporation had “serious questions to answer” about why it in effect changed its story on the reasons why it dropped a Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile abuse allegations. “The developments today are concerning because the BBC has effectively changed its story […]
South Korea’s LG and Samsung electronics giants have again delayed their launches of large-format OLED displays. While attendees at trade shows continue to be astounded by OLED’s colour reproduction it is now clear that the (once-promised) 2012 shipping dates are being further delayed. Industry sources suggest that 55” OLEDs are proving harder to produce in […]
Cable Europe has confirmed the arrival of Matthias Kurth who is joining its team as Executive Chairman. Kurth will sit on Cable Europe’s Executive Committee which has oversight of the cable industry’s main representational duties in Europe. Kurth recently held the position of President of the German Federal Network Agency, Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA), the authority for […]
Rodolphe Belmer has been promoted to managing director of Vivendi-owned Canal Plus Group, putting him in charge of editorial, distribution, commercial and technical activities. Belmer will pilot the company’s pay TV operations, notably paybox Canal Plus, and its newly-launched free DTT nets, D8 and D17. Belmer joined Vivendi in 2001 as head of strategy and […]
Swisscom has launched its Swisscom TV app, allowing users to watch more than 80 channels and live sporting events. Programmes can be recorded while on the move and accessed later on a TV, PC, tablet or smartphone, regardless of which device the programme was recorded on. The live pause and replay functions for time-delayed television […]
In advance of TelcoTV, the largest conference and expo focused on video broadband network service providers in the US, a preview of results from the annual Heavy Reading State of the Video Consumer Survey have been released. Complete findings from the 2012 survey will be presented during a keynote address by Aditya Kishore, Senior Analyst, […]
The new PlayStation Store has gone live in the UK, after initial “teething problems” meant last week’s roll-out was stalled in Europe. The store – which offers games, movies and TV shows to rent or buy – is now more visually-oriented and carousel-based to make it quicker and easier to browse. The UI makes use […]
ALi Corporation, a set-top-box solution provider, has announced that ALi and MNITI have agreed to join forces on introducing a reference STB solution to assist Russian STB manufacturers in the deployment of digital terrestrial television adopting the DVB-T2 standard. MNITI, Moscow Scientific-Research Television Institute, is the leading organisation in Russia in the field of television […]