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Witbe to showcase Quality of Experience test and monitoring solutions at TV Connect

Witbe, a provider of Quality of Experience monitoring solutions for multimedia services, over any network, to any device, will be showcasing its range of expertise during the TV Connect exhibition. Witbe’s latest innovations and client wins will also be announced during TV Connect, from 19 to 21 March, at London’s Olympia exhibition centre. Witbe offers […]

March 7, 2013

TiVo launches cross media measurement

TiVo Research and Analytics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TiVo, has announced the launch of TRA Cross Media Measurement, which enables advertisers, agencies and television networks to measure household-level exposure across TV and online advertising campaigns and content for more than 100,000 households – the industry’s largest single-source, naturally occurring data set of its kind by […]

February 26, 2013

Nielsen TV ratings to include ‘cord cutters’

TV ratings company Nielsen has revealed plans to expand their definition of “TV” to include viewers watching TV over broadband. The new definition of a “TV household,” is any household with “at least one operable TV/monitor with the ability to deliver video via traditional means of antennae, cable [set-top box] or satellite receiver and/or with […]

February 22, 2013

Rentrak measures DVR and VoD viewing

Rentrak, a company that precisely measures movies and TV everywhere, announced the release of Total Audience Viewing which combines DVR and VoD viewership information with that of the live TV audience. Previously, no report has shown the total audience viewing lift of programme audiences over a month period of time (28 days). With the new […]

February 20, 2013

Agama selected by TV 2 Norway

Agama Technologies, the video service quality assurance expert, has announced that Norway’s leading private broadcaster, TV 2, implements an Agama solution for service quality assurance in its sophisticated head-end and distribution environment. With the solution, TV 2 can ensure what enters and leaves its head-end and distribution sites really is the best it can be. […]

February 19, 2013

Verimatrix opens new R&D in Paris

Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, has established a development centre focused on R&D and product engineering efforts based in Paris, France. The expanded software and security engineering team will aid in the advancement of the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) suite of […]

February 13, 2013

Skyline DataMiner Mobile Gateway solution

Skyline Communications, a global expert in end-to-end multi-vendor network management solutions for the IPTV, satellite, HFC broadband and broadcast industry, has released its DataMiner Mobile Gateway solution. This innovative solution offers a complete suite of professional applications, supporting any mobile platform, including iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone and Android devices. The mobile applications offer comprehensive functionality […]

February 11, 2013

Havas Edge and Rentrak agreement

Rentrak, a company that measures movies and TV everywhere, has announced a multi-year TV Essentials and Station View Essentials contract with Havas Edge, the agency that is part of the Havas Worldwide Network. With Rentrak, Havas Edge will receive television-viewing information from more than 20 million TVs in over eight million households to garner deeper […]

February 8, 2013

Twitter buys TV chatter analyst

Twitter has confirmed it is acquiring Bluefin Labs, a company that analyses online chatter about TV shows and companies and sells its findings. Twitter is paying nearly $100 million for Bluefin, according to reports, making it the Web site’s biggest acquisition to date. The deal suggests a new line of business for Twitter, which is […]

February 6, 2013

ALi Corporation integrates Cryptography Research CryptoFirewall Security Core into next generation system-on-chip solutions

Cryptography Research, a division of Rambusand ALi Corporation, a provider of set-top box (STB) system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, has announced that ALi has completed integration of the CRI CryptoFirewall security technology into its multimedia STB SOC products. The CryptoFirewall core will be available in the ALi DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T2, ISDB-T, and IP STB chipsets beginning in […]

January 10, 2013