Ericsson has published the latest edition of its annual ConsumerLab TV & Media Report, representative of the viewing habits of 680 million consumers across the globe. The report reveals that VoD services are meeting consumer needs and enabling them to change viewing habits. Consumers now spend six hours per week watching streamed on-demand TV content […]
Sony has unveiled its first smartphone to feature a 4K-resolution screen. The Xperia Z5 Premium model can both capture video in Ultra-HD and also play it back on its 14cm display without downgrading the footage. Sony’s mobile division loses money – and has done for considerable time – but its camera components are profitable. Sony […]
Telefonica has selected Juniper Networks’ MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers to build a metro network across Spain to deliver fixed and mobile broadband services, including TV for residential users, as well as cloud services for businesses, from a single IP network. Telefonica manages some 41 million accesses in Spain and runs the most extensive […]
AOL is to acquire mobile advertising specialist Millennial Media. AOL says the deal will give it a platform for app monetisation and add more than 65,000 apps to its offering, and bring more mobile ad scale to the ONE by AOL, its unified multiscreen digital ad platform. The deal values Millennial at $250 million (€220m) […]
Members of online video streaming service Amazon Prime in the UK, US, Germany and Austria are now be able to download movies and TV episodes, including Amazon Original Series, to iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets for offline viewing, at no additional charge. Amazon Video says that it is the only online subscription streaming video […]
The well-known STB vendor ADB has made a strategic move to address the growing convergence of TV and IoT with the launch of ADB Connected Solutions. A new range of application specific software solutions have been designed for Personal and Business TV and IoT. ADB says they are built on its proven expertise and 20 […]
The television viewing experience has changed forever according to research released by IAB Australia . The research explores new ground in the ongoing dramatic shift on consumers’ television viewing habits and offers marketers insights into reaching audiences as connected TV ownership and multiscreening becomes more prevalent. According to the study, The Changing TV Experience: Attitudes […]
Videotron is offering its mobile customers its new, free Unlimited Music service. Effective immediately, users of Stingray, Rdio, Google Play, Deezer and Spotify in Canada can listen to their favourite tracks anywhere, anytime or discover new artists without worrying about data usage. In the coming weeks and months, other popular services will be added to […]
The Secure Content Storage Association (SCSA) – a consortium of companies in the entertainment and storage industries focused on developing technologies to make it easy and secure for consumers to purchase, transfer and view content across multiple electronic devices – has released licensing specifications for the Vidity-branded technology which it says will enable the best […]
Amazon has launched Amazon Underground, a new app store that lets users play games for “actually free”. The app store, which can be downloaded for Android phones, looks set to take on the “freemium” model that has become popular with games developers. The business model sees publishers offers games for free initially — but then […]