Senior DirecTV executives, meeting with Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, say they expect to invest $32 million into the country about one third of which will go into the manufacturing of locally-produced set-top boxes. The balance will go into building a new broadcast centre at San Isidro, to the north of Buenos Aires. The […]
Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecom operator, is driving towards the digitalisation of television across Russia and has selected to work with Motorola Mobility to expand its digital TV services across the country, which will include the introduction of new video on demand and interactive TV experiences. “This announcement marks the beginning of a strategic collaboration between […]
AirTies Wireless Networks, the innovative wireless home networking and Set-top box vendor, has announced the appointment of Nadeem Ullah as Director of Hardware Engineering. Nadeem Ullah is promoted to the position, Director of Hardware Engineering, where he will manage AirTies’ growing Hardware Engineering Team that works to deliver next generation Hybrid Set-Top Boxes and wireless […]
In one of the earliest deployments of its kind, AirTies Wireless Networks, a supplier of advanced technology to the Broadcast and Broadband industry, will deliver OTT STB’s to International Latin Broadcasting, through its ILBtv pay-as-you-go service. This new service targets the Spanish language communities residing in the United States. The AirTies and ILBtv partnership makes […]
Technicolor’s French set-top box plant in Angers is the subject of industrial action. Some 350 people work at the facility, which is Technicolor’s last remaining factory in France. Technicolor management had been seeking a separate sale of the factory in order to preserve local jobs. The local union is additionally lobbying for France Telecom to […]
AirTies Networks, a supplier of advanced technology to the Broadcast and Broadband industry, has announced that it will deliver its Air7120 IP Set-top box to Síminn of Iceland. AirTies Wireless Networks and Síminn work in tandem to upgrade Síminn’s IPTV service to next generation STB’s, offering advanced graphics and HTML5 with the Air7120. This partnership […]
Chip maker Intel is said to be talking to US media companies about an Internet-based TV service powered by its chips. Intel would sell STBs or gateways containing its chips and access to broadcaster services and movies, reports the WSJ. It would represent a new departure into content delivery for the group. The exploration is […]
AirTies is delivering its multi-format Air7120 STB and Air7130 PVR to Waoo, one of Europe’s most technically advanced service providers and Denmark’s leading provider of triple-play service. The agreement is in partnership with the Danish IPTV middleware provider Nordija A/S. Bülent Çelebi, AirTies CEO, said: “Working closely with Waoo’s technical team, AirTies has created an […]
As part of Apple’s San Francisco event for the new iPad, the company announced that Apple TV would get an upgrade. The system will support 1080p movies and TV shows. Navigation has been improved and movies and TV shows will be supported in iCloud so they can be accessed from iPads and iPhones as well. […]
Following its suggestion February 20 that networking giant Cisco was looking to sell off its set-top box business – swiftly denied by the company – the New York Post is now reporting that Google is trying to sell the pay-TV set-top box (STB) unit that it will acquire with Motorola Mobility once the $12.5 billion […]