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Apple sells 2m iPads in less than 60 days

Apple has revealed that iPad sales have topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3rd. Apple began shipping the tablet computer in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK this past weekend. iPad will be available in nine more countries in July and additional countries […]

June 2, 2010

Online and mobile video set to eclipse TV

Online video consumption amongst younger age groups has now grown to the point that it looks set to overtake traditional television as the platform of choice. The results of the YouGov online research, commissioned by RealNetworks, have revealed that amongst 18 to 25 year olds, roughly half (46 per cent) split their video time at […]

May 31, 2010

Sky Mobile TV on iPad

Following up its iPhone app Sky has launched a Sky Mobile TV app for the Apple iPad, offering access to all Sky Sports channels and Sky News. The new bespoke app has been created to take advantage of the increased screen size offered by the new device. Sky Mobile TV app for iPad allows users […]

May 31, 2010

Movistar to launch HD on mobile phones

From David Del Valle in Paris Mobile operator Movistar is launching HD TV services through Apple’s iPhone at a fee of E4 to E5 a month. There will be four HD TV packages available: the first, called Futbol will include Gol TV and Tribuna’s six channels and Multigol; other thematic packages will be Musica, composed […]

May 26, 2010

On Demand Group brings HBO content to 3 UK

On Demand Group and HBO have announced a deal to provide on-demand access to full episodes television shows from HBO via 3 UK's TV: On Demand TV subscription VOD service. Under the terms of the deal, 3 UK's SVOD subscribers will be able to watch episodes of HBO hit series. The SVOD mobile service called […]

May 18, 2010

Spain puts Mobile TV and Interactive TV on hold

From David Del Valle in Madrid The Spanish Government has put DVB-H Mobile TV and Interactive TV on the back burner because, it says, “there isn’t sufficient demand and it lacks an adequate business model [for mobile TV].” For Interactive TV it says “it has very little or nil presence” in the market. The comments […]

May 17, 2010

ROK brings World Cup to mobile phones across Africa

ROK Entertainment Group, the mobile technology, applications and services company, has made an agreement with leading pan-African VAS aggregator, Groupe Digital Afrique (GDA), to deliver World Cup football content – supplied by Goal.com – to 25 countries and up to 45 Mobile Operators across Africa beginning 1st June. The ROK-powered WAP service containing goal alerts […]

May 11, 2010

Telegent ships 80m mobile TV chips

Telegent Systems has revealed that continuing growth in demand for its free-to-air mobile TV receivers has propelled it beyond a milestone of 80 million units shipped since it first launched its mobile TV receiver technology in mid-2007. Analyst firm Forward Concepts estimates that 78 million broadcast TV handsets were shipped globally in 2009. “We have […]

May 10, 2010

1.5m ABC plays on iPad

Walt Disney has said that owners of Apple's iPad played more than 1.5 million episodes of ABC television shows since the computer went on sale. More than 400,000 copies of the free ABC player have been downloaded since April 3rd, Disney said. Free shows are sponsored by advertisers, others are for sale from the Apple's […]

May 6, 2010

Mobile ads just £38m in UK

Spend on UK mobile ads rose 32 per cent from 2008 to £37.6 million (E44 million), says the Internet Advertising Bureau / PWC. This compares with £3.4 billion online. In keeping with online, search ads are the fastest-growing kind on mobile – up 42 per cent to £20.2 million. Display ads (banners, text links, pre-/post-roll […]

April 28, 2010