MUMBAI: The Supreme Court has issued a notice to internet giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to stop showing online advertising related to gender selection products. ...
NEW DELHI: Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (Tdsat) has in its judgment in the case between Dish TV and Star Den and MSM Discovery has...
MUMBAI: Pay-TV provider Dish Network Corporation and interactive TV company Ensequence have joined hands to provide interactive features to NBC Universal’s (NBCU) coverage of the Beijing...
MUMBAI: LG Electronics has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with six US cable operators, supporting the use of the tru2way technology platform...
MUMBAI: The spend on bbc.co.uk was ?110 milion in 2007-08, 48 per cent higher than the service licence baseline budget, revealed a review of bbc.co.uk by...
MUMBAI: BPL Mobile announced new wireless application protocol (WAP) portal for its users called ‘BPL Mobile @Cafe’. The new service enables subscribers to catch the latest...
MUMBAI: Criccontest.com, a live cricket gaming portal, has been launched by Reasonable Advertising Pvt Ltd (RAPL) Television. The portal allows one to bet with points and...
MUMBAI: BIGFlix.com, the home entertainment division of Reliance ADA group, has acquired the exclusive broadband rights from Shemaroo Entertainment, producers of ‘Shilpa’s Yoga’, to launch the...
BANGALORE: UTStarcom, Inc has signed a new contract with Aksh Optifibre, Ltd, expanding the operator‘s deployment of the RollingStream(R) Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) solution. This is...
MUMBAI: Reliance ADAG‘s upcoming direct-to-home (DTH) service Big TV has appointed Arun Kumar Kapoor as its president. Kapoor comes in from Zee‘s DTH company Dish TV...
MUMBAI: British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), the British pay-TV firm, is planning to make a bid of more than 2.5 billion euros ($4 billion) for Spanish pay-TV...
MUMBAI: Nimbuzz, the mobile Voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) and Instant Messaging (IM) provider, has raised $15 million in a second round funding. Nimbuzz will use this latest...
NEW DELHI: Zee’s direct-to-home (DTH) company Dish TV has appointed Salil Kapoor as its chief operating officer (COO). The appointment follows Vinay Agarwal‘s joining Dish...
MUMBAI: Visiware, the worldwide publisher of games for pay television, announces the launch of ‘Tweezle Lab’ on its interactive TV game channel Playin’TV. Tweezle Lab catapults...
MUMBAI: The National Film Board of Canada and video sharing site Youtube have struck a deal for Oscar shorts. Seven National Film Board of Canada shorts...
MUMBAI: INX Media is set to launch its Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC) 9X and music channel 9XM in the Middle East. The company has appointed...
MUMBAI: Compact Disc India (CDI), an integrated media and entertainment company, has teamed up with Singapore’s Golden Games Pte Ltd to set up a developing and...
NEW DELHI: The ministry of information & broadcasting has set up a centre for monitoring television channels, which is being handled by the Broadcast Engineers Consultancy...
MUMBAI: Direct-to-home (DTH) service provider Tata Sky has filed a petition with fair trade regulator Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC), alleging Dish TV’s free...
Pharos will attend Broadcast Asia for the first time and showcase the latest in integrated content management, multi-channel automation and control. With over 10 years experience,...
MUMBAI: United New Media Ventures (UNMVL), a wholly owned subsidiary of the UTV Software Communications focussed on internet, new media and digital activities, has completed the...
Dalet Digital Media Systems will showcase its range of media asset management (MAM) and broadcast solutions at Broadcast Asia 2008 which will be held in Singapore...
MUMBAI: Orange TV is planning to strengthen its hold on the French market with its triple play offer (telephone, Internet, TV) from 3 July. Orange TV...
MUMBAI: GlobeCast, the content management and delivery company, has signed a deal with Brazilian television giant Rede Record Internacional TV to launch its channels across the...
MUMBAI: A growing number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide are taking online social networking to the streets, research conducted by Nielsen reveals. The findings, released by...
MUMBAI: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and IMImobile, the global provider of value-added services (Vas), have announced that their personalised ring back tone service (PRBT) has...
MUMBAI: Samsung Telecommunications India (STI) has launched its latest mobile handset Samsung Guru200. In line with its brand positioning ‘Next is What?‘, Samsung Guru200 offers FM...
MUMBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced Getty Images, the digital media company, as its official photographic agency for the next four years. The deal,...
MUMBAI: US software major Microsoft has announced that its digital entertaintment Zune is adding new software features. Besides it will also add content to the Zune...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that The Embedded Media Player, rolled out on the BBC News and Sport websites a month ago, has helped...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate Tribunal has dismissed a plea from Indusind Media Communications Ltd regarding the tribunal‘s 29 April order appointing Meet Malhotra...
NEW DELHI: Orissa-based Ortel Communication‘s expansion plans to West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh has run into litigation, with the company suing Sun TV, Zee TV and...
MUMBAI: Stepping up the liberalisation drive, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India today recommended raising the foreign investment limit in news channels and FM radio to...
MUMBAI: Visiware, which publishes interactive television games, has launched the new version of its interactive games channel Playin’TV on Sky TV in New Zealand. Playin’TV is...
BANGALORE: Motorola, Inc. today announced the national launch of the MOTOROKR™U9 (ROKR U9) in Bangalore, which it is positioning as the ‘Stylish side of music’. ROKR...
MUMBAI: INX Media’s English news channel NewsX will be available on direct-to-home (DTH) platform Tata Sky from 14 April. INX News chairperson Indrani Mukerjea said, “We...
MUMBAI: Christian Finnegan will be hosting the MI6 awards this year which begins on 8 April this year and terminates on 9 April in San Francisco....
MUMBAI: Indiatimes 588888 introduces Mobile Voice value-added service (VAS), which enables a user to start listening to the gossips, news, astro tips and music. The...
BANGALORE: Bangalore based technological and value added solutions (VAS) provider WiFi Networks, has launched an interactive voice portal (IVP) ‘Hello Star‘. The portal will enable fans...
BANGALORE: Technicolor, the Services Division of Thomson announced the launch of a new compression and authoring (C&A) operation in Bangalore, to be co-located within Thomson‘s new,...
BANGALORE: Sony Ericsson today launched the latest addition to its Walkman® series portfolio – W890, with an exclusive launch from RPG Cellucom stores. Sony Ericsson has...
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting met with representatives of the cable TV industry today and asked for their recommendations and level of preparedness...
MUMBAI: Arab Digital Distribution (ADD) has added family entertainment channel Hallmark to its Pehla, Firstnet and ART packages for free of cost. Pehla is the bouquet...
MUMBAI: Harmonic has announced that its new DiviCom Ion AVC standard definition (SD) encoder has successfully completed encoder conformance testing for the Microsoft Mediaroom Internet Protocol...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate NBC Universal and LimeLif have launched a mobile game based on the show Law & Order. Law & Order: Celebrity Betrayal is...
NEW DELHI: NDTV Imagine may have brushed aside the existing players in the Hindi general entertainment space to grab the third spot with Ramayan as its...
BANGALORE: Dialogic Corporation (Dialogic), a global provider of products and technologies for media and signal processing, has acquired the OpenMediaLabs business from its founders Joe Mele...
MUMBAI: SeaChange International, which supplies technology to television broadcasters globally, has announced that Polimer TV has deployed a new play-to-air platform using its Broadcast MediaLibrary/MediaClient (BML/MCL)...
NEW DELHI: The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) has demanded various benefits for the digital cinema industry, including tax holiday under Income...
NEW DELHI: The government today denied reports that it had put a hold on the extension of Cas (conditional access system) to remaining areas of the...