The UK’s Competition Commission (CC) has provisionally found that Sky’s control over pay-TV movie rights in the UK is restricting competition between pay-TV providers, leading to higher prices and reduced choice and innovation for subscribers. Sky has for many years held exclusively the rights to the movies of all six major Hollywood studios in the […]
News Corporation took a 22 per cent hit to its quarter profits on the losses caused by the sale of MySpace. The effect of the closure of the News of the World won’t be seen until the next reporting period but, as today’s numbers make clear, newspapers don’t make a significant contribution to the whole. […]
The BBC has launched a new version of BBC iPlayer specifically designed for TV viewing in the living room. The new, personalised version is designed to give audiences the control they want directly on the TV, so the BBC iPlayer experience feels just like TV. BBC iPlayer is now available on more than 300 different […]
The phone hacking scandal continues to claim victims; over the weekend former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks was arrested and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson resigned over links to a former News of the World executive who was arrested last week. James Murdoch will have to wait another week or so before learning […]
Ed Vaizey, the UK Minister for Culture, Communications and the Creative Industries, has criticised the continued legal action by ISPs BT and TalkTalk in respect of implementing aspects of the Digital Economy Act. Vaizey, in a keynote speech at the Intellect Consumer Electronics Conference in London, noted that in cross-industry discussions his department had facilitated […]
Computer hacker group Anonymous has posted data online that indicates it is able to breach Apple security. Reports say the breach, revealed via Twitter, gave a link to a public Pastebin page, which contained 27 internal Apple usernames and passwords. Although the data comes from an Apple server believed to be used for online surveys […]
A poll by Adweek and Harris shows that Americans may not be giving their undivided attention to their TV screens. According to the survey, while watching TV most Americans also surf the Internet (56 per cent) and many do other activities like read a book, magazine or newspaper (44 per cent), go on a social […]
Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its first quarter 2011 Cable, Satellite, IPTV, and OTT Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers market size, market share, and forecast report. “Despite a quarter-over-quarter decline in the global set-top box market, all major segments are up from this time a year ago in both revenue and shipments, indicating that the […]
The number of connected devices will reach over 15 billion – twice the world’s population – by 2015 predicts Cisco. It predicts the proliferation of tablets, mobile phones, connected appliances and other smart devices will drive this growth and consumer video will continue to dominate Internet traffic; that by 2015 one million minutes of video […]
Arqiva is to close online TV venture SeeSaw after failing to find an investment partner or buyer. The company, which is a partner in the BBC-backed YouView video-on-demand venture, will pull the plug on SeeSaw next month. The shutdown comes five months after Arqiva appointed Ingenious Media to find an investment partner or buyer for […]