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BlackRock lifts blinx stake

Investor BlackRock has lifted its stake in the company above 10 per cent as shares rose on the launch of its new web site. Nonetheless , at 65p, shares in the advanced video search engine are still short of last year’s 80p high.  Weakness in the online advertising market, on which blinkx’s revenues depend, have […]

January 25, 2013

Next-gen blinkx goes global

blinkx, the advanced video engine, has officially launched the next generation of its flagship product, blinkx.com. The new site was designed to enhance the video discovery and viewing experience, with strong recommendation and personalisation, as well as integration across users’ social graph. In open beta testing over the past four months, blinkx.com’s focus on delivering […]

January 22, 2013

blinkx partners with Dailymotion

blinkx, the advanced video search engine, has announced a partnership with Dailymotion, the online video portal. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will embed Dailymotion’s player alongside its own content to give users seamless access to Dailymotion’s video library on blinkx. Dailymotion will place advertising against these videos and share resulting revenue with blinkx. […]

January 21, 2013

Digicable upgrades to Conax Contego Plus

Conax, a global provider of  solutions for securing multi-device and digital TV services, has revealed that customer Digicable, Asia’s first 500 channel digital services provider, is upgrading to the Conax Contego Plus content security solution. Not only has the pan-Indian MSO already achieved one million digitised subscribers, but has also recently contracted an additional 600.000 […]

January 16, 2013

Jinni’s magnificent seven licensing agreements

Announcing a raft of licensing agreements, taste-and-mood based entertainment discovery engine specialist is now claiming to be the biggest discovery provider for Tier-1 providers worldwide, and that its semantic approach will be at the forefront of next-generation entertainment experience. Jinni says the deals represent aggressive worldwide growth and the beginning of market transformation from the […]

January 15, 2013By Colin Mann

Hisense picks Twonky from PacketVideo

PacketVideo has announced that its Twonky solution was selected by Hisense, a leading Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer, for use in their Google TV products and select Linux powered connected TVs shipped globally. Smart TVs with Twonky software offer a multi-screen experience, allowing users to play content from any device in their local network, or use […]

January 15, 2013

Jinni wins mark major global expansion

Video content discovery solutions provider Jinni, has announced the signing of seven new licensing agreements for the implementation of their unique semantic discovery for video guides. The deals represent aggressive worldwide growth and the beginning of market transformation from the old grid-style video guides to a new era of intuitive, personalized user experience. Jinni customers […]

January 14, 2013

Jinni speech recognition for search

At CES, Video content discovery solutions provider Jinni has unveiled a new NLU (natural language understanding) discovery engine to power voice-activated video guides that understand natural human language. The Jinni NLU engine leverages the company’s Entertainment Genome to interpret natural human speech and derive the underlying meaning to enable intuitive interaction between users and their […]

January 10, 2013

Red Bee metadata services for Samsung Smart TVs

Red Bee Media, a media management companies providing multi-platform technology and solutions, has announced a multi-year deal with Samsung Electronics to provide rich metadata services for Samsung’s new range of Smart TVs across 13 European countries. The deal, which was secured following a competitive pitch process, will see Red Bee Media provide rich EPG content, […]

January 8, 2013

Orange selects Movea for gesture-control STB

Movea, provider of data-fusion and motion-processing technologies for consumer electronics, has announced a collaboration with French telco Orange on a large scale commercial deployment of a gesture-control set-top boxes. The new Orange Livebox Play TV set-top box will run Movea’s SmartMotion Server, the motion processing engine for digital home entertainment, and will ship with a […]

January 7, 2013