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FilmOn.com to list in Frankfurt

FilmOn.com PLC, the Internet-based high-definition television service, has topped the European App Store Charts with its FilmOn Apple App for iPhone and iPad on the same day it announced it has listed its UK/European based Live Internet Television Service on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange with the trading symbol FMX. “Most of the Channels on the […]

August 15, 2011By Colin Mann

Boxee App for iPad

Boxee has confirmed the availability of its free app on Apple’s iPad. According to Boxee, the app consists of five major functions: Friends, Watch Later, Featured, PC to iPad and iPad to TV. Through the Friends function, Boxee delivers new videos friends are sharing on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr directly to the user’s iPad. The […]

August 11, 2011

Hauppauge brings live TV to iPad

Hauppauge Digital, a developer and manufacturer of TV tuner products for personal computers, has confirmed the launch of the ‘WinTV Extend for iPad’ application optimised for Apple’s iPad and available at no charge in the App Store. ‘WinTV Extend for iPad’ allows Hauppauge WinTV Extend customers to watch TV programmes live on their iPad in […]

August 5, 2011

Time Warner to debut UltraViolet cloud movies

Time Warner has confirmed that it is to introduce UltraViolet, the technology that bridges a single piece of content to a variety of devices, to its home movies the coming autumn. Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner’s chairman and chief executive, told analysts during a conference call that two movies, Horrible Bosses and Green Lantern, would be […]

August 4, 2011By Colin Mann

79% of Virgin TiVo owners using apps

Nearly four in five (79 per cent) of Brits using Virgin Media’s TiVo TV on demand service accessed web apps such as Twitter and YouTube via their TV, according to Virgin’s own research study. Virgin Media said on average, each TiVo box launched apps 4.5 times a week. Furthermore, one in every four views of […]

August 4, 2011

TV apps fail discovery test

Apps are increasingly popular with owners of Smart or Connected TVs, but they are only using apps they are already familiar with, according to a study carried out by the Strategy Analytics Digital Home Observatory. The research found that the most popular apps were Netflix, YouTube, Hulu Plus, Pandora and iPlayer. By contrast, usage of […]

August 3, 2011

Apps can increase viewer engagement

A study released by CTAM (the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing) – Roadmap to Video Apps (What Makes Viewers APPY?) – shows that sometimes the best things in life are still free. When rating the attributes of video applications, like YouTube, Hulu or iTunes for smartphones and tablets, 63 per cent of respondents said […]

August 3, 2011

Univision launches radio app

Univision Interactive Media has confirmed that its new Univision Radio App for iPhone and iPod touch is available on the App Store. The app, available in both English and Spanish, brings some of Hispanic America’s favourite radio personalities and programming from stations across the US and Puerto Rico to an ever-growing Hispanic mobile audience. iPhone […]

August 3, 2011

CashPlay TV goes live

CashPlayTV has launched, claiming to be the world’s first 24-hour quiz TV channel to run solely on social networks and mobile devices. The channel is licensed by UK comms regulator Ofcom and powered by the App:Play platform, the channel uses simulcast technology to transmit real-time video content to players, providing an unmatched, rich and collaborative […]

August 2, 2011

ESPN launches enhanced goals app

Following its launch for the 2010/11 English Premier League football season, ESPN has confirmed that its ESPN Goals app is now free for the coming campaign. Goals and video clips from all 380 Premier League matches will be available on mobile devices via Apple iTunes, Android Market Nokia’s OVI Store, the BlackBerry App World and […]

August 1, 2011By Colin Mann