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AWS boosts Six Nations rugby viewing experience

European rugby union’s premier international tournament the Guinness Six Nations Championship has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) analytics, machine learning, and deep learning services to deliver more in-depth insight into the Championship and enhance the match experience for rugby fans around the world. As well as providing the technology behind the live broadcast of on-screen […]

February 1, 2019By Colin Mann

Com Hem sets broadband World Record

Com Hem has been awarded the Fastest broadband network title by Guinness World Records. In 2018, during DreamHack Summer in Jönköping, Com Hem supplied a broadband connection of 1.6 terabits per second. It is now established by Guinness World Records, that it was the fastest internet connection ever used simultaneously by a large group of […]

January 31, 2019

Sky News taking viewers behind the scenes

Sky News is set to offer its viewers unprecedented access to every aspect of its digital, television, and radio operations during a full day of live ‘behind the scenes’ broadcasting. Sky News Raw, which will be broadcast on its own pop-up channel, will run from 7am-5pm on February 5th – 30 years to the day […]

January 31, 2019

Report: AR/VR investment stabilised in Q4

Digi-Capital tracked startups raising over $6 billion across AR/VR/computer vision in 2018, driven by large, late-stage deals in China. A decline in deal volumes (number of deals) during the first three quarters of the year stabilised in Q4, while deal value (dollars invested) returned to a two-year average after large spikes from a few mega-deals […]

January 31, 2019

Bodyguard 2018’s most-requested iPlayer show  

Award-winning British dramas Bodyguard, Killing Eve and McMafia have been revealed as the top programmes requested on BBC iPlayer in 2018. The most popular show of the year was Bodyguard, with the first episode becoming BBC iPlayer’s biggest ever programme, with 10.8 million requests across the year. All six episodes of the political thriller appear […]

January 31, 2019

kbro partners with NAGRA

NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has extended its content protection partnership with kbro, Taiwan’s number one cable operator, to include the service provider’s new 4K service delivered over a hybrid cable and OTT network. A NAGRA customer since 2009, kbro has deployed NAGRA Connect in […]

January 31, 2019

Premier Sports takes Serie A rights from Eleven Sports

Premier Sports has secured the UK and Ireland broadcast rights to Italy’s Serie A TIM from February 2019 and will air a minimum of six games per round until the end of the 2020/21 season. Weekly highlights and preview shows are set to be broadcast by Premier Sports as well as a number of games […]

January 30, 2019

VR headset shipments to exceed 21m in 2019

A study from Juniper Research forecasts that VR (Virtual Reality) headset shipments will reach 54 million by 2023, up from an estimated 21 million this year. This is a growth of 160 per cent, as demand increases following an underwhelming year for VR in 2018. The research found that Sony PlayStation VR will drive the console-based […]

January 30, 2019

UK towns with the most film & TV businesses revealed

According to Gov.uk more than £20 million is being injected into the UK’s increasing number of creative industries, in order to attract new talent, scale up businesses, boost skills and provide further education. The creative industries are currently a motor of growth within local economies spanning across the UK, not just in London and the […]

January 30, 2019

Kudelski Security launches Blockchain Security Center

Kudelski Security, the cybersecurity division of the Kudelski Group, has launched its Blockchain Security Center (BSC), making available its cryptography expertise into the rapidly evolving blockchain developer community. Expanding upon the company’s security services, the BSC will provide new offerings and has a concrete roadmap to develop foundational technologies that help integrate security into and […]

January 30, 2019