MUMBAI: The number of households with an installed high-definition television (HDTV) continues to grow worldwide. However, this installed base of households is decidedly biased to two...
MUMBAI: More than 6.5 million US households – or 5.7 per cent of all homes – are not ready for the upcoming transition to all-digital broadcasting...
MUMBAI: Online social network ibibo.com has announced the appointment of Sanjay Bhasin as executive VP, revenues and business development . In this role, Bhasin will drive...
NEW DELHI: Havas Media has elevated Gabriel Saenz de Buruaga and Anthony Rhind as joint CEOs in order to run its interactive group Havas Digital, the...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has released a consultation paper to seek the views of the service providers on the bandwidth required...
MUMBAI: Digital advertising and technology company Komli Media has announced the appointment of Prashant Mehta to the role of COO. Mehta will be responsible for the...
NEW DELHI: Virgin Mobile and social networking site MySpace has inked a partnership deal as per which MySpace will be available on Virgin Mobile’s WAP enabled...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Government turned down its request for enlarging the scope of the existing district level monitoring committees to monitor the proposed Quality...
NEW DELHI: Dentsu, the Japanese advertising agency, is set to partner with game maker Nintendo Co to launch a video distribution service on Nintendo‘s Wii console...
NEW DELHI: Chinese online media company Sina Corporation is to buy the core assets of country’s digital media company Focus Media for more than $ 1...
MUMBAI: Disney Interactive Studios and Excel Interactive have launched the video game – High School Musical 3-Senior Year Dance!– based on the American television film High...
MUMBAI: Hungama, the mobile and digital entertainment company, has launched a voice Vas contest with Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan for the film Rab Ne Bana...
MUMBAI: Aksh Optifibre has partnered with state-run MTNL to provide mobile TV services in Delhi and Mumbai. As part of the deal, Aksh will provide IPTV...
MUMBAI: ibibo.com, an entertainment and talent based social network service, has launched ‘iVideostar’ with an aim to provide the youth a platform wherein they can display...
MUMBAI: Dish TV has added Sahara Samay Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh to its bouquet of channels. Dish TV COO Salil Kapoor said, “At DishTV, we...
MUMBAI: In a deal inked with Korea Telecom’s Mega TV, AXN will be one of the six foreign re-transmission channels offered by the IPTV platform starting...
MUMBAI: Arab Radio and Television Network (Art), which showcases Arabic family programming and entertainment worldwide, will deploy Viaccess’ Praha card to secure its pay TV satellite...
MUMBAI: Web18’s social networking and web mail service in.com has launched Future Mail service. By the add on feature, users can schedule mails to be sent...
MUMBAI: Verimatrix, which offers content security technologies that enhance the value of pay-TV networks in the US, has announced that it has secured more than 40...
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc‘s (MGM) high-definition (HD) channel MGM HD has signed a carriage deal with the AT&T U-verse SM TV system to expand its audience reach....
MUMBAI: Raj Television Network has deployed the Omneon Spectrum media server for multichannel SD broadcasting, including four-channel ingest and six-channel playout. With the move, Raj Television...
MUMBAI: Chinese broadcaster CCTV has selected Globecast, subsidiary of France Telecom, for distribution of its French language channel CCTV-F in the European market. GlobeCast receives CCTV-F’s...
MUMBAI: The number of cable and satellite (C&S) homes in India has increased 26 per cent to 66.54 million, according to the latest Indian Readership Survey...
MUMBAI: WD which offers external storage solutions in the US, has introduced a way for consumers to play their stored digital content on their HDTV in...
MUMBAI: UKTV has replaced its major business systems – BSS and Preset – and six local ones with Sintec Media’s ‘OnAir’ broadcast management system The UK...
MUMBAI: For the first time since women surpassed men as the majority population on the Internet (emarketer), a new study reveals just how women live and...
MUMBAI: comscore, which measures the digital world, reports that 6.5 million Americans tuned into mobile video in August. Among the top operators in the US, AT&T...
MUMBAI: NBC Universal has launched its new mobile portal in Japan. The portal went live to coincide with the theatrical run, in Japan, of the movie...
MUMBAI: Tivo Inc has announced a partnership with online movie rental service Netflix Inc. Under the deal, Netflix and Tivo Series3, Tivo HD, and Tivo HD...
MUMBAI: Thumbplay has launched a full-service digital music store in Beta. Through Thumbplay, millions of music fans can now download — wirelessly — DRM-free songs directly...
MUMBAI: Broadcom Corp, the US-based integrated circuits (ICs) supplier for broadband communications, has completed the acquisition of AMD‘s (Advanced Micro Devices) digital TV (DTV) chip business....
NEW DELHI: Animation and graphics company DQ Entertainment (DQE) has conferred Lifetime Achievement Award to René Goscinny in Mipcom, in recognition of his contribution towards children...
MUMBAI: Mipcom has instituted a new section for the mobile and internet content. Time Broadband’s content ‘Hot Gossip Bollywood’ has been selected for special screening under...
MUMBAI: Not content with giving rival Hindi GECs sleepless nights in India, the two-odd-month-old Colors is now set to take the world by storm. Well, almost....
The organisers of the trade event BroadcastAsia have expressed satisfaction with the flexibility and service offeerd by the Singapore Expo team BroadcastAsia (BCA) which was co-located...
MUMBAI: Xinet Users Group (XUG) has elected JWT global operations director Laura Selfridge to its board of directors. XUG is a worldwide organisation serving the users...
MUMBAI: AT&T will market and sell DirecTV‘s service as a co-branded satellite television offering from 1 February 2009. As per the new agreement, AT&T/DirecTV customers will...
NEW DELHI: Yahoo! India has launched its first campaign, ‘Log on to new’ for its search engine service Yahoo! India Search. The campaign is currently...
CHENNAI: Real Image Media Technologies (P) Ltd. announced today that the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued patent 7,353,270 B2 for the company‘s...
NEW DELHI: Google India has launched the second edition of its nationwide internet safety campaign, ‘Be NetSmart,’ in association with Internet and Mobile Association of India...
MUMBAI: Zapak.com has announced the launch of zapak.com/sbssindex.zpk, a website for the latest Warner Bros. movie ‘Saas Bahu Aur Sensex’. The website includes a game...
MUMBAI: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) has rolled out the new series of PS2 in India with an aim to capture “sales opportunities” during the Diwali...
MUMBAI: Management solutions provider SintecMedia and Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset have joined hands to deploy SintecMedia‘s OnAir boadcast management solution across Italia 1, Canale 5, and...
NEW DELHI: Surf and Fish internet solutions has appointed Percept Knorigin, a Percept Limited company, as its online agency to promote www.nobrokerage.in. The website focuses on...
MUMBAI: Sony is adding high-definition movie recording to its digital camera line with the introduction of the Cyber-shot DSC-T500 model in the US. This 10-megapixel...
MUMBAI: Responding to the intense public interest in the upcoming presidential election in the US and in both the Democratic and Republican national conventions, CNN.com has...
NEW DELHI: Google has launched mapping tool “Google Map Maker”, mapmaker.google.com, in India. Developed by its Indian engineering team, the mapping tool allows users to...
MUMBAI: Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan is debuting with fellow Motorola brand ambassador and Grammy Award-winning international musician Wyclef Jean on a remix of his new single,...
MUMBAI: Alcatel-Lucent has announced its support for the world’s first commercial trial of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)’s new Bcast Smartcard Profile, a key emerging standard...
MUMBAI: The boards of directors of the ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC affiliate organisations in the US have agreed to support a voluntary month-long ’quiet period’....