Japanese electronic rivals Panasonic and Sanyo are starting alliance talks, which could result in Panasonic taking over the smaller company. Panasonic said it wanted to make Sanyo its subsidiary, effectively creating Japan’s largest electronics maker. Sanyo has been facing problems in recent years, cutting thousands of jobs and selling unprofitable operations. “Panasonic and Sanyo will […]
Video search engine blinkx has formed a partnership with ExitReality, the company 'that converts the Web into three dimensions.' Users of ExitReality will now have access to millions of hours of Internet video to view and share in 3D spaces, courtesy of blinkx. Gartner analysts have predicted that 80 per cent of all active Internet […]
MySpace US users can now upload MTV Networks videos without fear of having them taken down. News Corp's MySpace social network has signed a deal with Viacom's MTV Networks and online video technology company Auditude to allow the automatic identifying of online video clips uploaded by its hundreds of millions of users. Auditude's system will […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome The Portuguese Government has announced a tender that will award a license to a new free-to-air TV channel, which will be distributed exclusively by digital terrestrial television. Interested parties will have until 21 January 2009 to submit their bids to the country's media sector regulator, the Regulating Body for Social […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome The Portuguese Government has announced a tender that will award a license to a new free-to-air TV channel, which will be distributed exclusively by digital terrestrial television. Interested parties will have until 21 January 2009 to submit their bids to the country's media sector regulator, the Regulating Body for Social […]
BSkyB is to launch a Christmas advertising campaign worth as much as £15m (E19m). The satellite broadcaster, which unveiled better-than-expected subscriber and revenue numbers in its results for the three months to the end of September, is launching the media blitz with the tagline “Come home to Christmas with Sky”. The TV ad, created in-house […]
Can't decide to what to watch? Now you can watch two programmes simultaneously. Texas Instruments, the maker of the DLP Cinema chip, is developing technology that might fix the problem. The company outlined some of its early developments that use 3-D technology for home entertainment at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Technical […]
Nearly a third of all U.S. household Internet activity takes place while the user watches television, suggesting new and old media often share rather than compete for attention, the Nielsen Company reports. In fact, the study found that heavy Internet users are among the most dedicated of TV viewers, spending more than 250 minutes a […]
Orca Interactive and BCC Company, a leading systems integrator in Russia, have joined forces to deliver a wholesale IPTV solution across Russia. The highly customizable solution is already deployed by the Russian regional incumbent operators North-West Telecom, Sibir Telecom and Southern Telecommunications Company, and Orca and BCC plan to continue marketing the new offering throughout […]
Sky is reportedly in exclusive talks to acquire Tiscali's UK business. Sky has tabled an offer of £450m (E571m) for the UK business after last rival Carphone Warehouse pulled out of the auction The acquisition would be a major boost to Sky's broadband services, making it the third largest provider after BT and Virgin Media. […]