A week after announcing its divestment of its broadcast business, video-on-demand specialist SeaChange has said it will sell its services business On Demand Group, in order to concentrate on its software. Speaking at the release of the company’s results CEO Raghu Rau said the company will seek a buyer for all its media services business. […]
NDS, the subject of a major BBC investigation for its Panorama flagship current affairs show earlier this week, has hit back. A letter from Dr Abe Peled, executive chairman of NDS, accuses the BBC of deliberately “manipulating” e-mails to indicate that they had been sent by NDS or its staff, when in fact they were […]
Rupert Murdoch has hit back at reports that a News Corporation subsidiary was allegedly involved in piracy, undermining competitors within the nascent Australian pay-TV industry. The News Corp chief has used Twitter, accusing rival publications of “lies and libels” after the Australian Financial Review reported that Operational Security, established within News subsidiary NDS in the […]
Richard Hooper –a former Deputy Chairman of Ofcom – has published his diagnostic report on how fit for purpose is copyright licensing for the digital age. Hooper was appointed by Business Secretary Vince Cable to lead an independent feasibility study into a Digital Copyright Exchange (DCE) on 22 November. The report is based evidence collected […]
Netgem has reported a net profit down 54 per cent to €10.7 million in 2011, including €1.5 million from a one-off gain and €3.4 million in tax expenses. The French IPTV STB maker’s gross margin was stable at 38.2 per cent on revenue down 37 per cent to €84.7 million. Operating expenses came down by […]
In Australia, News Corp’s pay-TV platform Foxtel has denied any involvement in promoting piracy following allegations that a covert unit within NDS set out to sabotage rivals. The Australian Financial Review (AFR) had reported that a unit within News Corporation hacked smartcards of Austar – a competitor to the partly News Corporation-owned Foxtel. The allegations […]
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has delayed its decision on the Foxtel-Austar merger pending further discussions with Foxtel, reports The Australian. The move comes in the wake of protests from Telstra competitors who complained the deal gave Telstra a free hand in the emerging IPTV sector. Other competitors complained the wording of the undertakings […]
Cisco has announced its intent to acquire privately held ClearAccess, a Vancouver based company that provides TR-069-based software to service providers for the provisioning and management of residential and mobile devices. This acquisition includes ClearAccess’ software business and talent. The hardware portion of ClearAccess’ business, Smart RG Gateways, will continue forward as SmartRG. Cisco and […]
In terms of revelations, Panorama provided not much that wasn’t already known, or assumed, in the NDS hacking saga: Criminals allege criminal behaviour in the inevitably very murky world of encryption, hacking and counter measures. NDS admit hacking – to test its rival’s technology – and it is accepted as standard practice. NDS strenuously denies […]
The UK High Court has ordered O2 to hand over the personal details of more than 9,000 O2 broadband subscribers to Golden Eye International and the adult programme producer Ben Dover Productions. Ben Dover is a pseudonym of Lindsay Honey, a British performer, director and producer of pornography, who set up Golden Eye International in […]