BeeSmart, the acknowledged interactive TV solution provider for service operators and hospitality market, is proud to announce a successful deployment of BeeSmart interactive TV middleware platform with the initial set of 25.000 end-user licences for Post and Telecommunications of Kosovo J.S.C. (PTK) The whole project Supply and Installation of Platform for providing IPTV services was […]
Bridge Technologies celebrated the end of a very successful 2010 with the news that business consultancy Deloitte Touche Tomatsu (DTT) honored the company among Norway’s and Europe’s preeminent technology organisations. In the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 — the annual listing of Norway’s fastest growing technology companies — Deloitte ranked Bridge Technologies at 29. In its […]
Accedo Broadband, provider of app stores and applications for IPTV and Connected TV is working with Telstra to develop BigPond TV applications for multiple TV and blu-ray platforms. The applications launched in January and are delivering seven Telstra BigPond TV channels to LG and Samsung Connected TV sets and blu-ray players across Australia. The channels […]
Cisco is to acquire privately-held Inlet Technologies, a provider of Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) digital media processing platforms, in a $95 million deal. The acquisition will strengthen the capabilities of Cisco’s Videoscape TV platform, allowing service and content providers to deliver compelling video experiences to any device over any IP network. Enrique Rodriguez, senior vice […]
Cloud-based video distribution platform Miniweb has confirmed that woomi, its connected TV destination, is now live across the UK on all Samsung smart TVs that feature the Internet@TV portal. The UK launch marks the beginning of woomi’s European rollout. By mid 2011, Miniweb predicts woomi to be on more than half of the world’s connected […]
Croatian telecommunications operator Iskon has introduced the Iskon.TV Player which enables reception of TV channels on PCs, as well as on mobile devices connected to the Internet via WiFi or the T-Mobile 3G network, such as the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android devices. During the test phase, a total of six TV channels will […]
Softbank has become the leading shareholder in Synacast, the operator of a leading online television service in China, adding to the list of its investments in Chinese Internet companies. The Japanese mobile carrier has acquired a 35 per cent equity stake in Synacast for about 20 billion yen (€2.2bn) via a private placement. Softbank and […]
A new Humax TV Portal will be available on all Humax HDR-FOX T2 Freeview+ HD boxes, following an over-the-air download running from Friday 4th to Sunday 6th February. The TV Portal offers a gateway to a range of on-demand and Internet TV services, including Flickr, BBC iPlayer, Wiki@TV and Internet radio. Sky Player is expected […]
Jason Kilar, the chief executive of Hulu has criticised their traditional television business model. In a blog Kilar said “traditional TV has too many ads” while Hulu’s advertising is “twice as effective as traditional TV video advertising”. Kilar continued “In the near to mid term, we anticipate being able to generate higher advertising returns than […]
Telefonica’s IPTV service, Imagenio, is now available on mobile devices (3G mobile phone, tablet or notebook) with an offer of 25 TV channels and VoD services for a monthly fee of €5. The service will be promoted free-of-charge for the first month with subscribers enjoying channels like Gol TV, AXN, Fox, Eurosport, MTV, Calle 13, […]