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EC’s Kroes: SOPA, PIPA pause ‘right thing’

Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, has supported the decision by US legislators to put a hold on the contentious SOPA and PIPA bills and seek a better anti-piracy solution. She also confirmed that the Commission would present a European ‘Cloud’ Strategy, as well as issuing a paper on […]

January 25, 2012By Colin Mann

iPhones and iPads see record sales

Record sales of iPhones and iPads resulted in record profits at Apple in the final quarter of 2011. Apple more than doubled its profits: to $13.06 billion compared with $6 billion for the same quarter in 2010. Chief executive, Tim Cook said he was thrilled the company sold a record 37 million iPhones in the […]

January 25, 2012

Weather Channel wants international expansion

The USA’s Weather Channel is looking to expand overseas. On January 24th it announced a new CEO, David Kenny. Weather Channel is owned by a consortium led by Bain Capital, Blackstone Group and NBC Universal. Kenny is already a director of Yahoo, and most recently held a senior position at Akamai. He said he’d like […]

January 25, 2012By Chris Forrester

FiOS TV reaches 4.2m subs

Verizon Communications posted the highest year-over-year quarterly revenue growth in the company’s 11-year history in fourth-quarter 2011, fueled by continued strong demand for Verizon Wireless services and handsets, FiOS fiber-optic services, and strategic business products and services. “Verizon finished 2011 very strong, both in terms of revenue growth and by delivering an 18.2 per cent […]

January 24, 2012

Hitachi quits TV production

Hitachi is to close its one remaining Japanese factory producing TV sets. The facility, in Gifu prefecture, will instead turn out electronic components. The factory concentrated on making TVs for the Japanese market. A statement from Hitachi said simply: “We can’t expect the domestic TV market to grow much, and price competition is getting more […]

January 24, 2012By Chris Forrester

Winn joins VisionIPTV

Andrea Winn has joined Vision IPTV as the Sales Director. Winn’s wide range of expertise include TV platform content and commercial strategy development, broadcast operations, content management, playout and channel development strategies and international channel and platform network distribution.

January 24, 2012

Virgin’s Berkett attacks BBC Trust

Virgin Media’s chief executive Neil Berkett has called on the Government to rip up the rules on licensing film and television content and disband the BBC Trust. Berkett warned that content providers will fall behind the pace of change in the way people are watching films and television unless the forthcoming Communications Bill is used […]

January 23, 2012

EU’s Reding: Balance copyright, Internet freedom

EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has called for governments to strike a balance between policing the Internet to protect copyright and upholding freedom of expression. “The protection of creators must never be used as pretext to intervene in the freedom of the Internet,” Reding told the DLD conference on innovation, digital media, science and culture […]

January 23, 2012By Colin Mann

PIPA and SOPA bills on hold

The sponsors of both the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act anti-piracy measures have halted progress on their respective bills through the US legislature. Lamar Smith, who sponsored SOPA, said that he had “heard from the critics and I take seriously their concerns regarding proposed legislation to address the problem of online […]

January 23, 2012By Colin Mann

Philippines to decide on digital TV standard

The Philippines government will decide on its digital terrestrial TV operating system by mid-2012, according to local reports. The choice, between Europe’s DVB, the USA’s ATSC or the Japanese ISDB standard, is needed in order to start the nation’s migration from analogue to digital broadcasting. Gamaliel A. Cordoba, head of the nation’s National Telecommunications Commission, […]

January 23, 2012By Chris Forrester