Strategy Analytics predicts that over 2 billion DLNA-certified (Digital Living Network Alliance) products will be installed in consumers' homes or pockets by 2014. “Strategy Analytics forecasts 59 per cent growth in unit sales – to 200 million DLNA-certified devices in 2010 – rising to nearly 1 billion devices sold in 2014,” said Peter King, the […]
Japan’s NEC has developed a technology that can find illegal copies of videos uploaded to the Internet in seconds. This speed is attained by creating a comparison piece that is just 76 bytes from the original and compares it to the allegedly copied file. The technology is part of the MPEG-7 standard, and would help […]
New JV partners in the UK's biggest mobile network have announced the holding company will optimistically be called 'Everything Everywhere' and, as usual, the name is surrounded by TMs as though putting these words together was an original thought they can now protect. Thankfully, Orange and T-Mobile will continue as separate brands in the market […]
Apple has revealed that the iPad, which will go on sale in the UK on May 28th, will cost £429 (E495) for the basic version. Prices go up to £699 for the top of the range 64GB device with both Wi-Fi and 3G network access. Apple has already seen sales of the iPad pass 1 […]
France's football league, the LFP, plans to launch its own TV channel president Frédéric Thiriez has confirmed. Thiriez said they were talking with service providers including Numericable, SFR and Orange and also intend to see football on pay DTT. Initially the channel will show League 2 games, but Thiriez said the LFP's ambition was to […]
Singapore’s pay-TV operators SingTel and StarHub have secured the broadcast rights of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The deal follows months of negotiations by the pay-TV operators. The rights of the event would be the first high profile content that pay-TV operators will air simultaneously following a government regulation that allows pay-TV operators to carry […]
Orange has revived its long-held ambition to offer TV services over the broadband network. The mobile operator, which has access to almost 30 million customers after a merger with T-Mobile's UK arm in March, outsourced its fixed-line network to BT last month. It will now piggyback on BT's more advanced network that extends its coverage […]
ROK Entertainment Group, the mobile technology, applications and services company, has made an agreement with leading pan-African VAS aggregator, Groupe Digital Afrique (GDA), to deliver World Cup football content – supplied by Goal.com – to 25 countries and up to 45 Mobile Operators across Africa beginning 1st June. The ROK-powered WAP service containing goal alerts […]
ProSiebenSat.1, has announced a restructuring that sets up a New Media division under the leadership of Dan Marks, former head of BT Vision. The division includes Christoph Bellmer as head of new TV and CEO of SevenSenses and Silke Kuisle as managing director of MyVideo and Arnd Benninghoff as CEO of SevenOne Intermedia. “My goal […]
Italian ISPs Fastweb, Vodafone and Wind have again proposed a single fibre network infrastructure for the country. They already announced they would cooperate to take on Telecom Italia. The CEOs of the three companies, Carsten Schloter, Paolo Bertoluzzo an Luigi Gubitosi, have lobbied the government to a single fibre infrastructure company. The three have also […]