Brightcove, the online video platform, has licensed Adobe Pass authentication and authorisation technology and has become a certified Adobe Pass Enablement Partner. Brightcove is using the technology to offer new TV Everywhere authorisation services to broadcasters, cable programming networks, and distributors to streamline their initiatives to provide on-demand access to TV content across both Adobe […]
The Japanese earthquake and tsunami will “likely” push Japan into a “short and deep recession” affecting some Consumer Electronics sectors, according to a major report from investment bankers Morgan Stanley. The bank says Japan’s GDP will shrink by 1-3 per cent this year. Morgan Stanley says that prior to the Japanese catastrophes the world was […]
UK rights holders from the music and film industries have identified about 100 websites that they want ISPs to block. Under a voluntary code content owners and ISPs are trying to work out, rights owners would pass evidence of illegal filesharing sites to ISPs, which would then take action against those sites. However, the proposals […]
Ofcom has launched a consultation on how best to sell off the rights to the next generation of mobile networks. The auction of 4G spectrum will be the biggest ever, equivalent to three quarters of the mobile spectrum in use today. The last Ofcom mobile network auction for 3G in 2000 it raised £22.5 billion […]
Liberty Global has entered into an agreement to acquire Kabel BW Erste Beteiligungs (KBW), the third largest cable TV operator in Germany controlled by EQT private equity. As of December 31st, 2010, KBW’s broadband communications network passed 3.7 million homes and served 2.4 million customers who subscribed to 3.9 million basic cable, pay TV, telephony […]
Long time Harmonic exec David Price is switching to rival Ericsson as vice president, business development. Price was Vice President, Business Development and Marketing Communication at Harmionic for 12 years. In his new role at Ericsson, he will concentrate on compression systems.
The UK government has admitted that it cannot implement legislation to curb Internet piracy until spring 2012 at the earliest, as it prepares for a legal battle in the High Court. The already-delayed Digital Economy Act (DEA) will be challenged by BT and TalkTalk this week in a judicial review. The two companies aim to […]
US communications giant AT&T has moved to protect itself from future problems of spectrum exhaust resulting from burgeoning demand for mobile broadband by acquiring rival mobile operator T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash-and-stock deal currently valued at approximately $39 billion. The pair say the transaction enhances network capacity, output and quality in near […]
A slew of reports over the weekend suggest that any formal objections to the News Corp bid to buy the 61 per cent of BSkyB that it does not already own see little prospects of success. Any objections to the bid need to be submitted by midday March 21st. According to the Financial Times, the […]
The BBC World Service is to receive a “significant” sum of money from the US government to help combat the blocking of TV and Internet services in countries including Iran and China. In what the BBC said is the first deal of its kind, an agreement is expected to be signed later this month that […]