The European Commission is set to present a new guidelines aimed at paving the way for the spread of mobile television in Europe “within a few weeks,” EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding has said. She gave positive signals on advertising on mobile handsets, but warned of dangers regarding invasion of privacy. Brussels pushed European […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel has confirmed it will launch an IPTV service in the first half of 2009, which will be delivered to the currently inactive Ethernet port on the back of its ‘iQ2’ set-top boxes. The service will be available to all subscribers, giving them access to VOD and other interactive services.
Channel 4 is to shut down its red button and mobile ad departments as part of its plans to save £100m (E127m) over the next two years. Channel 4 will stop serving interactive TV and mobile ads from 31 December 2008. Channel 4 has already closed 4DS, its online ad sales house, as part of […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid UTECA, Spain’s private TV Association, has urged the Government to take the necessary measures to revamp the TV market as “the system is heading for bankruptcy”, according to Maurizio Carlotti, Vice president of Antena 3 TV, member of the Association along with Tele 5, Sogecable, Net TV and Veo […]
Representatives from UEFA and four pay broadcasters have stood side by side in the English High Court to push for the chance to have their say in the European test case on foreign satellite football. The Football Association, Setanta, BSkyB, Canal + and the Motion Picture Association have applied for a late intervention into the […]
As an open-source technology protocol, the file-sharing system BitTorrent represents about half the world's Internet traffic by some measures. But the San Francisco company, BitTorrent, is showing signs of serious trouble while it tries to commercialize the technology. BitTorrent has informed about half its employees, or 18 people, that they were being let go, according […]
YouTube will show full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s archives in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programing. The new partnerships put YouTube in more direct competition with Hulu, the online video site owned by News Corp and NBC Universal. YouTube in October forged a similar partnership with CBS to […]
Video site Blinkx lost $3.26 million between April and September – down from the $12.8 million loss recorded in the same period last year, when the company was spun off from Autonomy and floated on London's AIM market. What started as just a video search index has added a glut of products this year – […]
US electronics firm Circuit City has filed for bankruptcy protection. The retailer filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors at the US bankruptcy court in Richmond, Virginia, where it has its headquarters. The company said it had secured $1.1bn in loans to provide working capital while it was under Chapter 11 protection. Last week, it […]
BSkyB is to launch an online subscription service allowing consumers to watch channels including Sky Sports via the Internet for the first time. Mike Darcey, BSkyB chief operating officer, said the new service would be launched “in the next few months”. The online channels will be made available on the Sky Player and viewers will […]