Motorola Solutions and Huawei Technologies have entered into an agreement to settle all pending litigation between them on breach of trade secrets. Motorola Solutions has agreed to withdraw its claims and dismiss, with prejudice, Huawei as a defendant in the Motorola v. Lemko litigation pending in the Chicago court. For its part, Huawei has agreed […]

Production house Dori Media, which specialises in producing Latino soap operas and telenovellas, is to delist from London’s AIM share market. It held an IPO in March 2005 and raised just over £3 million and a market valuation at the time of £22 million (at £1.18 a share).  The shares have since fallen back. The […]

Media Excel, a provider of live and file based encoding and n-Screen adaptive bitrate transcoding, and Verimatrix, have formed a partnership that enables digital TV service operators to securely deploy high quality video over any IP network to multiple screens – TVs, PCs, mobile devices and beyond. A combination of the Verimatrix VCAS for Internet […]

1,772,856 subscribers to Digital Plus are suffering pay-TV blackouts as a result of the general strike by workers at Prisa TV, owner of the platform, to protest against job cuts. Several channels produced by Prisa TV such as Infometeo, Viajar or some of the Canal Plus family are being affected by the strike with partial […]

Geo News and Geo Super have seemingly upset Pakistan’s regulator, and not for the first time. Now Pakistan’s media regulator (PEMRA) having taken note of what they say are “perpetual violations” committed by the two channels for “airing false news reports” has issued formal notices and is now blocking the channels distribution in the country. […]

Clearlake Capital has led a recapitalisation of 3D camera rig specialists 3ality Digital. In connection with the deal, Clearlake has acquired the majority of the newly-issued preferred stock of the company and will own a majority of the voting shares of 3ality Digital.  3ality management also participated in the transaction.  Terms were not disclosed. “Clearlake […]

The UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has decided not to prosecute BT and Phorm for secretly tracking the online habits of 18,000 Internet users. BT and Phorm sparked controversy in 2006 and 2007 when it emerged that the companies were covertly trialing software tracking users behaviour in order to deliver targeted advertising. BT ditched the […]

KIT digital, the premium software and technology services provider for multi-screen video delivery, has moved to strengthen its ability to manage complex and large-scale IP video deployments in the US and the UK by signing a definitive agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the capital stock of digital media platform specialist ioko365 Ltd (ioko) […]

WRN Broadcast, the international broadcast services company, has announced the appointment of Tim Ashburner as Chairman. Ashburner, who is currently Technology Director, has been appointed following the opening of WRN Broadcast’s state-of-the-art Media Centre and the launch of its London-based Media Village aimed at like-minded broadcast clients. A former Senior Audio Supervisor at the BBC, […]