News Corp Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch has issued his most forthright tweet since he activated his Twitter account on January 1st by accusing Internet giant Google of aiding film piracy. “Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts [advertisements] around them,” Murdoch wrote, adding later that film making was “risky as […]
A 23-year old UK student faces extradition to the US to face copyright infringement allegations, a London court has ruled. Richard O’Dwyer’s website, TV Shack, provided links to other websites where users could access content but did not host any of the content itself. O’Dwyer says he started the project to improve his computer programming […]
Since January 1st, 2012, Stefan Philipps, 47, is DEV Systemtechnik’s Area Sales Manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He succeeds Harald Busold, who left the company. Philipps reports to Rainer Lorger, Head of Sales and Marketing. After a vocational training to become an electrician, Philipps studied Electrical Engineering and started his professional career as a […]
A founder of NinjaVideo.net, a website that provided millions of users with the ability to illegally download high-quality copies of copyright-protected movies and television programmes, has been sentenced to 22 months in prison. Hana Amal Beshara was sentenced by US District Judge Anthony J. Trenga in the Eastern District of Virginia. Judge Trenga ordered Beshara […]
Matt Child is Solaris Mobile’s new CEO replacing Steve Maine who has left “to pursue other professional interests”. Dublin-based Solaris Mobile is the Eutelsat/SES joint-venture set up in 2006 to develop next-generation mobile communication services. Designed initially as a satellite and terrestrial platform in support of DVB-H and S-band transmissions to cellular and handheld devices, […]
Morten Solbakken, COO in Telenor Broadcast Holding, will take over as CEO at Conax with immediate effect. Solbakken has been acting CEO in Conax since September 14th. “Morten Solbakken knows the company well, as former board member and chairman of our encryption company and responsible for B2B units in Telenor Broadcast Holding. I am […]
With a view to boosting Euronews’ development, the channel’s Supervisory Board has designated its new Chairman and appointed a new Chief Executive Officer. Paolo Garimberti, current Chairman of the Italian public broadcaster, RAI, was elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He succeeds Pier Luigi Malesani. Paolo Garimberti will bring to Euronews his extensive career as […]
Trilithic, a specialist in Broadband Instruments and Systems has named Mark Darragh, Product Manager for Trilithic’s Leakage Systems in the Broadband Instruments Group. In his new role, Darragh will be instrumental in further developing Trilithic’s popular leakage product portfolio to continue to propel the company’s continued industry leadership. Mr. Darragh joined Trilithic in July, 2007 […]
Trilithic, a specialist in Broadband Instruments and Systems has named Daniel Dillon, Director of Product Marketing for it’s Mobile Systems Applications within Trilithic’s Broadband Instruments Division. In his new expanded role, Dillon will be responsible for product development and marketing of all mobile devices and software for the Broadband Instruments group. Dillon Joined Trilithic in […]
To make the point that if you are in the STB business you are in the ‘box business’, I was going to headline this piece ‘BS and basics in the brown goods business’, but I figured there were probably too few people out there who now remember that’s what we used to call all the […]