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  • Cable Opens Up As Web Content Gathers Speed

    by User Not Found | 6月 04, 2008
    We have always cited the cable industry as the archetypal vertical or closed content-to-device business model. Ever since the US cable network providers (MSOs) ... ...
  • BT ToGo not challenging mobile service providers - yet

    by User Not Found | 5月 07, 2008
    BT launched its Total Broadband Anywhere service today. It is available to Option 3 broadband customers starting at an additional £5/month and includes a free s... ...
  • Freesat HD Advantage Hit By UK’s Euro Football Absence

    by User Not Found | 5月 06, 2008
    Today's launch of the first dedicated free-to-air satellite service, Freesat, will help inject some much-needed competition into the UK's HDTV market. Even thou... ...
  • Sezmi boldly goes where… many have been before

    by User Not Found | 5月 02, 2008
    Much hype in the last 24 hours about yet another new IP video venture. Sezmi, formerly known as Building-B, has received $17.5 million in funding from venture c... ...
  • ARM Will Beat Intel in $17 Billion Mobile Internet Device Market

    by User Not Found | 5月 01, 2008
    We have just published a major piece of research into what amounts to a new digital consumer device segment: Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). With screen diagona... ...
  • HDTV Suffers In Silence Beneath Sky’s Headline Growth

    by User Not Found | 4月 30, 2008
    Sky’s quarterly results announcement today focused on steady growth in the total customer base. Given the tough economic background and talk of falling consumer... ...
  • Mobile Phones 2008: The Year of the Koreans

    by User Not Found | 4月 25, 2008
    Strategy Analytics' latest quarterly mobile phone handset data is released today. In spite of fears of a global recession unit sales were up 14% in Q108 v. the ... ...
  • Sony BMG deal confirms potential of Nokia’s Comes With Music

    by User Not Found | 4月 22, 2008
    Nokia brought analysts together today to discuss the introduction of Sony BMG as the second major partner in its Comes With Music (CWM) digital music venture. T... ...
  • Blu-ray already saviour for US video market

    by User Not Found | 4月 18, 2008
    It's early days in the era of high def discs, but already it seems as though the post-DVD transition is having the desired effect for the studios. According to ... ...
  • Premiere deal secures NDS position as leading content security vendor

    by User Not Found | 4月 16, 2008
    Premiere, the biggest pay TV provider in Germany and Austria, yesterday confirmed what had been expected for some time, namely that it will begin using NDS’s Vi... ...
  • Blinkx Survey: Viewers Watching Web, not TV

    by User Not Found | 3月 28, 2008
    In contrast to my assertion that interactive TV was struggling, video search engine Blinkx claims that we are now a nation of interactive TV users. And althoug... ...
  • US DTV Transition: APTS survey adds to switch-off confusion

    by User Not Found | 3月 27, 2008
    My attention was drawn to the headline on the APTS's recent news item More Than Half of Over-The-Air Consumers Prefer Free Broadcast Television After The DTV Tr... ...
  • Blu-ray Disc in 29.4 million homes this year

    by User Not Found | 3月 25, 2008
    Advance warning of a press release we are distributing later today: Blu-ray Disc’s victory in the recent format war with HD-DVD will propel the technology into... ...
  • Off-the-shelf IPTV From Industria

    by User Not Found | 3月 14, 2008
    At the IPTV World Forum I spent some time with Gudjon Mar Gudjonsson, the founder and CEO of Industria. Gudjon is an Icelandic entrepreneur and Industria is his... ...
  • IPTV World Forum: Good signs for VOD

    by User Not Found | 3月 12, 2008
    IPTV World Forum’s main conference got off to a bad start today when it kicked off at 9am with hundreds of delegates still locked outside the venue. The chaotic... ...
  • IPTV’s ARPU Challenge

    by User Not Found | 3月 12, 2008
    At the IPTV World Forum today, I chaired a panel during a session on IPTV ARPUs. The preceding presentations had demonstrated how difficult it is to stay focuse... ...
  • IPTV World Forum preview

    by User Not Found | 3月 10, 2008
    This week at London's Olympia we are attending the IPTV World Forum, which has become one of the world's largest events focused on the subject. Last year's even... ...
  • Lower Xbox prices put renewed pressure on PS3

    by User Not Found | 3月 10, 2008
    Widespread rumours of Xbox console price cuts in Europe were confirmed today. The entry level SKU, Arcade, will fall to GBP159.99. The mid-range Pro will sell a... ...
  • Pioneer’s HD-DVD Moment: Plasma Exit Imminent

    by User Not Found | 3月 05, 2008
    News reports today suggest that Pioneer is about to bite the bullet and exit manufacturing of plasma displays. It is in negotiations to have the panels made by ... ...
  • Sony Targets OLED To Regain Panel Leadership

    by User Not Found | 2月 20, 2008
    As if to demonstrate that it was not resting on its laurels after Blu-ray's defeat of HD-DVD, Sony yesterday also announced new investment in OLED technology. T... ...

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