Leading Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo has reached a basic agreement with five companies — Fujitsu  Fujitsu Semiconductor, NEC Corporation, Panasonic Mobile Communications, and Samsung Electronics — to establish a fabless joint venture company by the end of March 2012 to develop and sell semiconductor products for mobile devices. The joint venture company, leveraging the six […]

Australia’s Treasurer Wayne Swan has given the green light for pay-TV provider Foxtel’s $2.5 billion takeover for regional pay-TV operator Austar. Approval from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is still needed for the deal to proceed. The ACCC raised some concerns about the tie-up in a statement of issues published in July and […]

GlobeCast and France 24 have confirmed they will launch a Hybrid Broadband Broadcast Television (HbbTV) trial in early 2012 with the support of Orange and SES. The service, to be offered to satellite viewers of France 24, initially in Western Europe, will add a layer of interactivity to satellite TV programming by harnessing the capability […]

Vevo, the online music video venture of Sony Music, Vivendi’s Universal Music and Abu Dhabi Media Company, is looking at launching a cable channel and also eyeing internet-connected devices as a way into the living room. Doug Morris, the Sony Music chief executive who launched it two years ago while running Universal, told the FT […]

Satellite operator SES says its ASTRA2Connect broadband-by-satellite service can now handle download speeds of up to 10 Mb/s. Following agreements with German Internet service provider Filiago and UK-based distribution partner BeyonDSL, end-users in Germany and in the UK and Ireland are now able to enjoy increased speeds with their satellite broadband Internet connection. Both companies […]

Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI), a division of Rambus, and INVIA have entered into an agreement enabling INVIA to develop products incorporating Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures for use by licensees of CRI’s DPA patents. INVIA provides security-related semiconductor design IP and embedded software to ASIC and FPGA designers. “As part of our focus on delivering […]

Cryptography Research, a division of Rambus, and INVIA  have entered into an agreement enabling INVIA to develop products incorporating Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures for use by licensees of CRI’s DPA patents. INVIA provides security-related semiconductor design IP and embedded software to ASIC and FPGA designers. “As part of our focus on delivering high-quality, tamper-resistant […]

Trilithic, a specialist in Broadband Instruments and Systems has named Mark Darragh, Product Manager for Trilithic’s Leakage Systems in the Broadband Instruments Group. In his new role, Darragh will be instrumental in further developing Trilithic’s popular leakage product portfolio to continue to propel the company’s continued industry leadership. Mr. Darragh joined Trilithic in July, 2007 […]

Liberty Global has announced that, following receipt of regulatory approval, it has completed the purchase of Kabel BW GmbH (KBW), the third largest cable TV operator in Germany, in accordance with the terms of its previously announced acquisition agreement. The acquisition of KBW, when combined with Unitymedia, the country’s second largest operator, will significantly increase […]

British consumers are gaining an appetite for superfast broadband services, says analyst firm, Point Topic. Research reveals that the UK broadband market has shrugged off talk of a double-dip recession, to deliver its best third quarter since 2008. The UK market added a net 289,000 broadband lines during the third quarter of 2011, markedly better […]