The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that the FCC lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks. The verdict – a major blow to Net Neutrality – follows Comcast's challenge to the FCC's authority to rule that they […]
AOL is set to cut its losses on Bebo, admitting it will sell or, more likey, shut the failing the internet social network it purchased for close to $850 million in 2008. AOL – whose merger with Time Warner is regarded as the worst media deal in history – bought bebo hoping to redefine its […]
DirecTV's single largest shareholder and its board chairman, is divesting most of his voting shares in the satellite television company. John Malone currently owns about 24.3 per cent of the company's voting shares, in a share exchange executed this week, his voting power in DirecTV will drop to 3 per cent. He will receive around […]
Virgin Media has once again come top in Cable.co.uk’s monthly broadband speed test. The study showed that Virgin Media offered an average connection speed of 8.4Mbps over the course of March, higher than the 6Mbps achieved by O2, which came in second. BT took third place with average connection speeds of 4.3Mbps, while Sky and […]
Warner Bros is launching its on-demand WarnerTV branded service for the first time ever in Korea via an agreement with KT’s IPTV provider QOOK TV. WarnerTV will launch as a VOD service within QOOK TV at no extra charge for consumers who purchase QOOK TV’s subscription video-on-demand programming package. Each week, WarnerTV will deliver new […]
Civolution and Gracenote have announced an expanded long-term agreement by jointly launching and selling Mediahedge, the next generation audio and video content identification platform that enables content filtering, monitoring and monetisation for content owners and service providers. The Mediahedge platform combines Civolution’s video fingerprinting and Gracenote's audio fingerprinting identification technologies with extended content registration and […]
Telenor Group has confirmed that Jon Erik Haug has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Telenor in Denmark. Erik Haug will succeed Henrik Clausen, who is appointed CEO of DiGi, Telenor’s subsidiary in Malaysia. Erik Haug has held several positions within the Telenor Group, most recently as Marketing Director in Telenor in Sweden where he […]
Finland’s first Cable Video-on-Demand service will be launched in the spring of 2010. Turku Cable TV is starting VOD service test distribution in its cable TV network in the Turku area in April. The VOD service runs on the Teleste-developed MyCast application platform.
GlobeCast has completed a deal with leading Bollywood television network B4U to provide playout and media management services for eight of its worldwide channels. The five-year deal also includes the initial ingest and archive of 22,500 hours of content as well as the implementation of a fully tapeless workflow. GlobeCast's solution will allow B4U to […]
Envivio has confirmed that its 4Caster C4(2) video encoding/transcoding platform now offers support for the Apple iPad, enabling delivery of live and on demand HD TV services over Wi-Fi and 3G networks for Apple’s new device. Available for both the 4Caster C4 and 4Caster C4(2), the enhancement further expands the flexibility of the Three Screens […]