November 27, 2008

Livestation & CNN IBN cover Mumbai crisis

by Jan Harris

Livestation, a free player which broadcasts TV and radio online, has stepped in to support CNN IBN with its coverage of the ongoing crisis in Mumbai, India.
Since gunmen targeted seven sites in Mumbai yesterday, the website of Indian news channel, CNN IBN, has experienced massive global demand for live streaming of its coverage […]


November 21, 2008

Tilgin Sells IPTV Business To Amino

by Jan Harris

Swedish company, Tilgin AB, has sold its IPTV business to UK-based Amino Technologies Plc, in order to focus on expanding its profitable IP Residential Gateway business.
Amino acquired the IPTV business for SEK 30.0 million due in cash on 1 December 2008, with an additional payment of up to SEK 15.0 million depending on earnings. […]


November 21, 2008

Tele2 Winner of 2008 InfoWorld 100

by Alan Harten

Tele2 has been announced as one of the winners of the 2008 InfoWorld 100 which recognises emerging technologies not only from the companies that make use of them, but also from the providers of the solutions.
In this case the equipment in question is the ToughStream solution from Digital Fountain.
The solution helps to correct poor […]


November 20, 2008

Tiscali teams up with DSG

by tmasih

Tiscali, the broadband, telephone, TV and media company, today announces that, following its retail distribution deal with leading electrical retailer DSG international plc (DSGi), DSGi’s Currys and PC World stores across the UK will be offering a free Tiscali+ digital recorder set top box to customers signing up to the Tiscali TV, and broadband with […]


November 18, 2008

4Caster C4 Wins TelcoTV 2008 Vision Award

by Alan Harten

Last week’s TelcoTV 2008 conference in Anaheim, California, included the prestigious industry TelcoTV Vision Award.
The winner was announced at a ceremony during the event and the award went to Envivio for its 4Caster C4 Three Screens multi-channel, multi-profile encoder.
The C4 is used in IPTV, Internet TV and Mobile TV applications and was selected by […]


November 17, 2008

Brits embracing media convergence

by Jan Harris

A new report released today, “Converging Media: The Olswang Convergence Consumer Survey 2008″, suggests that Brits are rapidly adopting converged services such as the BBC iPlayer, Sky+ and on demand TV services.
According to the report, this marks a fundamental change in people’s relationship with television and movies, with increasing demand for free content that […]


November 14, 2008

Hamonic Picked For IPTV Delivery by MTS

by Alan Harten

At the TelcoTV 2008 in Anaheim California this week, Harmonic announced that MTS Allstream is to begin making use of the company’s MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) video processing solutions.
This will be part of MTS Allstream’s further expansion into the IPTV market.
Making use of Harmonic’s solutions will allow the […]


November 14, 2008

Allied Telesis and Comtrend Offer Interoperability for Bonded Solution

by Alan Harten

A provider of secure IP/Ethernet access solutions and IP Triple Play networks capable of operating over both fibre and other infrastructures, Allied Telesis, has entered into a partnership with home-networking solutions provider Comtrend.
Allied intends to make use of Comtrend’s NexusLink 5631 as its bonded solutions modem for use with the company’s 11.0 firmware for its […]


November 12, 2008

Avail Media and Verimatrix Sign up 40 Affiliates

by Alan Harten

Verimatrix, have made use of TelcoTV 08 running this week in Anaheim, California, to announce that it has managed to sign up over 40 new Avail Media affiliates.
According to the company’s calculations these 40 new members will bring around half a million homes under their umbrella.
Their members will now benefit from the company’s Video […]


November 10, 2008

Sky channels available via Internet

by Jan Harris

Sky is planning to launch an online subscription service, allowing viewers to watch TV via its Sky Player website.
The service will offer the main Sky channels, including Sky Sports via the internet for the first time.
It will also offer some channels from other broadcasters and will be independent of Sky’s satellite TV service, […]


Next Page »