Reinforcing remarks mid-December that creative technology and creative content were “absolutely essential to each other”, Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the MPAA has stated that the future of commerce and content on the Internet will be guided by technology companies and the entertainment industry growing together Speaking on Bloomberg TV’s Bloomberg West, Dodd […]
Sky Brazil, a subsidiary of DirecTV, in a statement says it plans to buy Acom Comunicacoes, the biggest provider of pay-TV and Internet services in Brazil. Acom uses MMDS to distribute its signals using wireless operating in the 2.5 GHz band. Sky Brazil, in a statement, said it is now seeking formal approval from local […]
US wireless cellco MetroPCS Communications and broadcaster Joint Venture the Mobile Content Venture (MCV) are partnering to enable MetroPCS customers to watch live, local broadcast television on their mobile phones later this year. MetroPCS will be the first wireless service provider to offer Dyle Mobile TV to consumers on devices that are pre-loaded with the […]
ACCESS, a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, has announced the availability of NetFront Browser NX 2.0 DTV Profile, an advanced new WebKit-based HTML5 browser that features extremely efficient memory usage, high stability, high portability and comprehensive support for DTV and IPTV standards including HbbTV, BBC iPlayer, […]
Putting the word oblivion in the name of your business is a bit of a hostage to fortune. So it has proved for Beyond Oblivion, the music start up that was meant to take on the likes of Spotify and iTunes. Over two years, the company raised $87 million from backers including News Corp as […]
Modern Times Group is to recognise around SEK3.2 billion (€360 million) of write downs mainly on its Bulgarian operation and the shutdown of broadcasting in Slovenia. The move made followed an annual ‘asset impairment test’.The write-offs will be included in the group’s financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2011. Hans-Holger Albrecht, president […]
A January 3rd report covered by BBC Monitoring says that recent Chinese clamp downs on entertainment and variety shows enforced by the Chinese media regulator (SARFT) has seen two-thirds of the shows vanish from viewer’s screens. Some 34 satellite channels are affected according to the country’s top broadcasting watchdog. Out have gone talent contents, talk […]
Most observers anticipated TiVo winning its long-running patent dispute with US telco AT&T having already won a similar action with EchoStar last year. But the terms of AT&T’s settlement with TiVo are impressive. AT&T will pay at least $215 million to close the litigation and will in addition pay TiVo to license its IP. TiVo […]
Unruly Media, which makes video campaigns designed for social sharing, has announced a $25 (£16.04) million first VC funding round to pay for international expansion. The money comes from Amadeus Capital Partners, Van den Ende & Deitmers and the UK’s Business Growth Fund, a fund formed by five banks. London-based Unruly, with 100 staff claims […]
Lattelecom’s latest figures has led the telco to claim it is now the largest TV operator in the Baltics. The Latvian IPTV and DTT operator ended 2011 with 230,000 TV subscribers, compared to Lithuania’s TEO with 147,100 and Estonia’s Elion with 134,600 subscribers. “Lattelecom as the industry leader is working on product development and provides […]