MUMBAI: Level 3 Communications which provides broadband network services has announced that it has been selected by US pay TV platform DirecTV to help provide the...
MUMBAI: This is a move aimed at boosting the accuracy of line calls during a tennis event. A technology ‘Hawk-Eye Officiating will be used for the...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is expected to formally notify the amendments in the uplink norms together with the first-ever downlink guidelines some time next week...
MUMBAI: America’s NPD Group which provides market information for the wireless industry has released a report stating that mobile phone sales to consumers in the US...
MUMBAI: Adlabs-Reliance (The joint venture between Adlabs Cinema Group and Reliance Infocom) has acquired the overseas distribution rights of the upcoming Hrithik starrer Krrish produced by...
MUMBAI: The Indian Media Group (IMG) has welcomed the decision of Union Cabinet to approve new uplinking & downlinking guidelines for satellite television channels. The new...
MUMBAI: The 14th edition of Scat which positions itself as South Asia’s largest tradeshow of the Indian satellite and cable TV industry kicks off tomorrow at...
MUMBAI: American digital television platofrm DirecTV has selected LG Electronics as the first supplier of digital high-definition television (HDTV) set-top boxes based on new video compression...
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet today gave approval to a host of stringent media related issues including mandatory sharing of sports content by private broadcasters with...
MUMBAI: Bose which seeks to develop sound solutions to meet any audio challenge has announced the launch of new products in India. One them is the...
MUMBAI: Consumer electronics major Sony has announced a restructuring plan that involves a seven per cent reduction of its global workforce and the selling off of...
MUMBAI: Digital Projection International (DPI), which manufactures projection systems, has announced an agreement with the Mumbai based UFO Moviez. It is part of the Valuable Media...
MUMBAI: While the development of mobile devices is characterised by the rapid development of advanced new features and technologies and the convergence of voice, data and...
MUMBAI: Mainland China’s production of consumer electronics will reach $67.3 billion in 2005 — up 22 per cent from 2004. This data is contained...
MUMBAI: Participants at the sports television market Sportel Monaco 2005 will be kept informed of news and events during the October market via an in-house radio...
MUMBAI: Communications service provider Harris has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Leitch Technology for $450 million. Leitch provides high-performance video systems for the television...
MUMBAI: Global alternative visual solutions provider Newsight GmbH has together with companies Grundig and 3D Image Processing (3D IP) succeeded in capturing live video and streaming...
TV Pulse 2005, the annual research initiative put together by the Joint Industry Body (JIB) and Tam Media, series continues with the paper – A study...
MUMBAI: Don’t get burned up over CD burning! That is the basic message that US organisation Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is trying to convey to America’s...
MUMBAI: After months of negotiations, plans for a unified format for next-generation DVDs have been scrapped after the competing groups – Sony and Toshiba – failed...
MUMBAI: China supplied 35 per cent of the worldwide digital set-top box market (including the Chinese market) in 2004, and more than 50 per cent of...
MUMBAI: For the consumer electronics division of Phillips Electronics India the going has been pretty strong. The company states that it expects its turnover from the...
MUMBAI: Phillips Electronics India is striving to up the ante in television technology to compete in an increasingly tough market. If last year, it introduced Pixel...
MUMBAI: With the government allowing foreign owned satellite radio services such as WorldSpace to operate in India, the latter is now going full steam ahead. Apart...
NEW DELHI: The government today referred to a group of ministers (GoM) the various changes being suggested in the uplinking policy. I&B minister Jaipal Reddy told...
NEW DELHI: The government today referred to a group of ministers (GoM) the various changes suggested in the uplink policy, including making sharing with Doordarshan on...
BANGALORE: US-based VeriSign, a provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the internet and telecommunications networks has set up their Indian Development Center (IDC) at Bangalore. An...
MUMBAI: Microsoft Corp. has launched a $19.95-a-year service that lets people download certain TV shows to portable devices such as media players and advanced cell phones....
MUMBAI: This is an initiative that seeks to take mobile content to the next level! Motorola, which provides mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems...
NEW DELHI: ATM, ethernet, RPR, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, satellite… What next? In this age of consumerism, it is not only content and marketing that are consumer driven,...
MUMBAI: The Ramesh Sharma-promoted Moving Picture Company India Ltd (MPCL) has received approval for uplinking its Delhi centric channel from the ministry of information & broadcasting....
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet today gave its approval to extend till 31 March, 2005 the deadline for conforming to the news channels’ uplinking guidelines. ...
MUMBAI: Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC) has bagged Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific Award 2004. The company has won the award for the second consecutive year....
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: News Corp owned Hughes Network Systems (HNS), which holds a 55 per cent controlling stake in the India-registered Hughes Software Systems Ltd...
Envivio, which provides MPEG-4 and H.264 broadcast and streaming solutions, has launched the 4Front MPEG-4 IPTV middleware for network operators. A company release informs that the...
You have to give it to the Hong Kong-based James Field, director solutions, NDS Asia Pacific. Field might be staring at another tough assignment as he...
A study carried out by Starcom Worldwide and Hansa Research Group to understand the viewer‘s viewpoint on CAS shows that not only is the consumer aware...
MUMBAI: Epson, which deals in data projectors, has announced the launch of the Epson EMP-TWD3. This is Epson‘s first combo projector to feature a built-in DVD...
ATLANTA: Cable set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta announced that the US International Trade Commission has ruled in its favour in a suit by Gemstar-TV Guide International brought...
BELGIUM: Barco, the image processing company, today signed a contract with TAN Projektionstechnologie GmbH & Co.KG and TAN AG, based in Düsseldorf, Germany and Marin, Switzerland....
MediaVault, a live IP Stream encryption system, has just entered the market. Launched by SpeedCast, which provides satellite based content delivery services throughout Asia and the...
Leading chip manufacturer Intel announced a new innovation in digital set top boxes this week. StrataFlash memory can be used by satellite vendors and cable networks....
Asia Global Crossing (AGC) will deploy an ATM service for Australia’s National Racing Broadcaster, Sky Channel. The leading pan-Asian telecom services provider says the ATM...
Retecal, The largest cable operator in Castillay Leon, one of Spain’s largest regions has signed a deal with Motorala to offer end to end, high speed...
Cable & satellite TV professionals and entrepreneurs made their annual pilgrimage to Indian cable TV hardware and software trade show ScaT India 2001, held at the...
TechSpan, Inc. has managed to put into place a Content Management System (CMS) for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). TechSpan’s speciality is integrating the internet business’s...
Overseas communications carrier and sole uplinking service provider Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd is working on providing digital uplinking facilities to encrypted channels from Indian soil. As...