Saudi Arabia has been banned from paying to promote its reform agenda on UK television screens following a ruling by Ofcom. The Saudi government had paid to air a 60 second commercial– which included images of women driving, theatres being reopened and members of the Saudi royal family – during this year’s visit to the […]
HDR10+ Technologies, LLC, a joint venture among 20th Century Fox, Panasonic Corporation and Samsung Electronics has announced the first certified products and first adopters for the HDR10+ licence programme. Panasonic and Samsung are also among the first to announce firmware has been deployed to select 2018 television models enabling support of HDR10+ for consumers. HDR10+ […]
Saudi Arabia has banned beIN Sports, which is the legitimate holder of various TV broadcasting rights to transmit over the Middle East. Saudi Arabia has cancelled beIN Media’s licence to operate which – in effect – means the only way viewers in the Kingdom can watch beIN Sports transmissions is via the widely condemned beoutQ […]
China’s Huawei and ZTE have been banned from providing 5G technology with the Australian government citing national security concerns. “This is a extremely disappointing result for consumers,” Huawei posted on Twitter. Huawei is the world’s biggest producer of telecoms equipment. It also ranks second in global smartphone sales, behind Samsung and ahead of Apple. In […]
UK’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has proposed a tax on firms such as Facebook, Google and Netflix, to subsidise the BBC licence fee. He declared a “few tech giants and unaccountable billionaires will control huge swathes of our public space and debate” and that intervention is now required. In a speech at the Edinburgh […]
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin has urged the dominant Internet platforms to take action to confront a growing list of online problems, including election meddling, hate speech, and piracy. Delivering a keynote address, A Declaration for Accountability in Cyberspace, at the Tech Policy Institute’s (TPI) Aspen Forum – his […]
The Premier League, the top flight of the professional football game in England, has strongly condemned what it describes as “illegal broadcast piracy emanating from Saudi Arabia”. All 20 Premier League matches played during the first two weekends of the season were broadcast illegally on the beoutQ service, which it is alleged steals content from […]
Nigeria’s Federal High Court has ruled Multichoice cannot increase subscription rates on its local DStv pay-TV service. The action was brought by Nigeria’s Consumer Protection Council (CPC), and which had asked for an interim injunction on the planned price rises pending a full court hearing. The CPC argued that it wanted an investigation into DStv […]
Alexei Beloborodov, the deputy director of Russian space and rocket engine company RSC Energia, has been arrested along with two of his subordinates, and accused of alleged fraud. “Energia’s deputy director Alexei Beloborodov and two of his subordinates were arrested and charged with attempted fraud,” the Investigative Committee of Russia said in a statement, citing […]
Local businesses in areas covered by the UK Government’s rollout of superfast broadband have seen a combined £9 billion (€10.05bn) increase in turnover since the boost to their broadband speed, new figures have revealed. The report, The Evaluation of the Economic Impact and Public Value of the Superfast Broadband Programme, is an independent assessment of […]