Access, a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, has announced that Access’ NetFront Browser, an advanced and powerful mobile browser, has been selected by Nintendo as the new browser engine for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. The Nintendo 3DS was launched in Japan on Feburary 26th, […]
Motorola Mobility has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Swedish IPTV software provider Dreampark. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2011. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Dreampark’s software portfolio maximises operator flexibility and performance by taking advantage of the powers of open standards, such as HTML and scalable […]
Ofcom has launched a consultation on how best to sell off the rights to the next generation of mobile networks. The auction of 4G spectrum will be the biggest ever, equivalent to three quarters of the mobile spectrum in use today. The last Ofcom mobile network auction for 3G in 2000 it raised £22.5 billion […]
Sezmi Corporation and Grupo Iusacell, one of Mexico’s leading communications and television services companies, have announced that Grupo Iusacell has chosen Sezmi’s proven hybrid broadcast-broadband television platform to deploy multiple next-generation video services for its mobile businesses and its fiber-to-the-home business Totalplay. “Grupo Iusacell is committed to providing its customers with the most advanced video […]
Buyers of Japan’s high-tech consumer electronics kit and gadgets are about to find supplies drying up. Factory shutdowns because of the earthquake are beginning to impact the production of flat-panel TVs, iPads, tablets, games consoles, certain cameras and some ‘smart’ phones. The problems are compounded because of the mandatory electricity black-outs affecting much of the […]
US communications giant AT&T has moved to protect itself from future problems of spectrum exhaust resulting from burgeoning demand for mobile broadband by acquiring rival mobile operator T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash-and-stock deal currently valued at approximately $39 billion. The pair say the transaction enhances network capacity, output and quality in near […]
Despite the phenomenal growth in smartphone technology, there are still significant barriers to making mobile television a viable and sustainable industry, according to new research from Ovum. In a new report, the technology analyst claims that most attempts to deliver television services via mobile handsets have been unsuccessful, and this trend will continue due to […]
Horowitz Associates’s annual ‘State of Cable and Digital Media’ study reveal that, at least weekly, almost a third of US urban consumers (31 per cent) watch TV content via alternative platforms such as on a computer/laptop, on a mobile device/tablet, or streamed directly from the Internet to the TV through an OTT device such as […]
In what is still a young market, several technologies are vying for supremacy, but according to ABI Research the market will most likely favour hybrid solutions. In fact, many companies are already laying the foundation with standards such as P1905.1 and products featuring tri-band solutions in the works. ABI Research expects that just over 50 […]
The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) has selected Neustar to provide the Mobile DTV Trust Authority with the infrastructure necessary to deliver live, digital broadcast TV content to various mobile video-enabled devices such as mobile phones and portable media players. Neustar’s technology enables seamless connectivity across different networks, technologies and applications, and it possesses unique […]