Microsoft has beaten off competition from Google to pay $240 million for a 1.6 per cent stake in Facebook that values the popular social networking site at $15 billion. Microsoft will also sell internet ads for Facebook outside the United States as part of the deal that took several weeks of negotiating. Microsoft already provides […]
The group – Hong Kong Digital Terrestrial Television Local Testing Group – is to support both the rollout and testing of digital TV broadcasting technology in Hong Kong, particularly the testing of set-top boxes and digital TV sets, its business development and technology support. “Our testing can help manufacturers from Hong Kong, the mainland and […]
The European Commission has decided that plans to finance part of the fees commercial broadcasters pay for the transmission of their programmes on the DVB-T network in North Rhine-Westphalia are not compatible with the EC state aid rules. The Commission said it fully supported the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting, however, the proposed measures […]
SES Americom has teamed with advertising technology specialist Packet Vision, to enable telecommunications carriers using SES Americom’s IP-Prime IPTV service to generate advertising revenue through the insertion of targeted local ads. SES says using Packet Vision’s advanced IP-based advertising solution, operators offering IP-Prime service will be able to maximise the use of their local ad […]
French broadcasting regulator the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel is allowing broadcast transmission specialist TDF to carry out a trial of personal mobile television in the stations and tunnels of Paris's urban transport network. The three-month trial ends on January 15 2008.
Verizon Wireless has formed an agreement with Sony Pictures Television to offer The Minisode Network on V CAST. The channel offers four to six minute versions of the studio's television shows and allows customers with V CAST-enabled phones to watch the minisodes through their mobile phones. The shows offered as minisodes include classics such as […]
Latens Systems announced that Farmers Telephone Cooperative, in South Carolina, has selected Latens' Foundation CA Solution (FCAS) to secure its IPTV services. FTC has chosen the pre-integrated Latens and Minerva solution, which comprises Latens FCAS and Minerva's iTV Manager middleware. This will run on set-top boxes from Motorola and ADB, to provide FTC with a […]
New research from Vividas reveals that issues including complicated set up, slow to download files and crashing content are cited as a major barrier to consumer take-up of watching video online. The research also shows that poor picture quality and incomplete downloads cost a quarter of broadcasters up to £10,000 (E14.5k) in customer refunds and […]
UKTV has hailed the launch of the Dave channel (which replaced UKG2) as a success, with ratings for the company’s overall Freeview offering up 27 per cent in the channel’s first week. Dave attracted a share of 2.2 per cent in Freeview homes in its first full week after its debut on October 15, UKTV […]
The UK ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) has banned a Sky advert following complaints over the claim that new and existing customers get equally good deals with the company. The advert claimed that Virgin Media’s policy was to give better deals to new customers, stated: “At Sky we think it’s wrong to advertise attractive sounding prices […]