The tablet market will grow to a $49 billion business by 2015, research firm Strategy Analytics said. This will make it the third largest consumer electronics sector, after televisions and personal computers, the research firm said, forecasting 149 million units will be sold in 2015, growing eightfold from 2010. “Tablets are a high-value casual-computing segment […]
Apple is suing Samsung Electronics for allegedly copying the design of its iPad and iPhone. In the latest of a flurry of patent breach and copying law suits between technology firms and CE makers, Apple claims Samsung’s Galaxy range of mobile phones and tablet “slavishly” copy the iPhone and iPad, according to the filing. Apple’s […]
ITV, PACT, Channel 4 and BSkyB have jointly commissioned an independent report into the contribution made by the UK audiovisual industry to the economic growth and cultural success of the nation – and how that momentum can be sustained. The Chief Executives of all four organisations have also written to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, […]
US phone giant AT&T has an impressive 95.5 million wireless subscribers, and is offering them a $45 a month discount for 6 months if they switch to AT&T’s U-Verse IPTV service from cable or satellite. The offer is open to those taking at least AT&T’s Mobility Nation 450 cellular pricing plan and clients need to […]
Despite unit shipments remaining relatively flat over the last year, worldwide set top box revenues were actually up in Q4 2010 over Q4 2009. Total revenues for the quarter were $5.7 billion as compared to $5.3 billion in the same period the previous year, according to In-Stat. “Even though overall growth in the market was […]
LoveFilm, the UK DVD and online video rental business, has confirmed a deal to stream Disney films. LoveFilm subscribers will be able to watch more than 50 Disney titles. The company will also make new releases available to non-members around five months after their box office premiere for between £2.49 (€2.84) and £3.49 a film. […]
LG Electronics (LG), has revealed that over a third (37 per cent) of Brits say that the 2012 Olympics would tempt them to buy a 3D TV next year, with another 25 per cent saying that the Euro 2012 would also make them consider moving to a new dimension. The survey of 2,000 people, conducted […]
South Africa’s Top TV, the alternative pay-TV operator to Multichoice’s DStv, has won 283,000 subscribers (gross activations) in its first year of operation. The initial target for its first year of operation was 190,000-200,000, and CEO Vino Govender says that this is well ahead of expectations. Top TV went ‘live’ on May 1st last year. […]
Subhash Chandra’s Zee Entertainment Enterprises put on an impressive 48.8 per cent net profit for its Q4 period (to March 31st). The broadcaster’s shareholders have approved buying back up to 25 per cent of the company’s stock, at prices up to 126 Rupees a share. The quarter’s revenue growth rose 22.9 per cent on the […]
UK-based satellite operator Avanti Communications has won its legal action against rocket launch company SpaceX and will now recover its $7.56 million deposit paid against the planned launch of Hylas-1, its first satellite. The verdict, decided by the American Arbitration Association in New York, also sees Avanti get interest on its claim. SpaceX was originally […]