MUMBAI: Integrated Media Holdings (I-Media) has acquired global online auction and e-commerce company Bidchaser. I Media builds and operates digital communications and media technologies businesses. The...
MUMBAI: ASC Enterprises has appointed Hutchison Essar South Ltd Arun Kumar Kapoor as Dish TV CEO. Kapoor fills in the post that had been left vacant...
MUMBAI: IBM has filed two patent infringement lawsuits against online book and retail major Amazon.com for unspecified damages. The lawsuits come after nearly four years of...
MUMBAI: Viacom International Japan has launched the Flux video sharing site for broadband Internet users in Japan. Flux is a free, advertiser-supported next-generation entertainment service...
MUMBAI: Global European media conglomerate Vivendi has announced that it filed a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act (Rico) complaint in federal court in the State...
MUMBAI: The 16th Broadcast India 2006 Exhibition and Symposium will be held from 26-28 October 2006 at the World Trade Centre, Mumbai. Broadcast India 2006 will...
MUMBAI: Tata group company Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) has inked an MoU with global telecom firms to construct a new submarine cable linking India, Middle...
MUMBAI: Analysys International, an advisor of technology, media and telecom (TMT) industries in China, says in its recently released report China’s Handhold TV Annual Report 2006...
MUMBAI: Video content sharing site YouTube has deleted nearly 30,000 files over copyright concerns after being asked to do so by a group representing Japan‘s entertainment...
MUMBAI: US firm OpenTV which provide enabling technologies for advanced digital television services has announced that the Kudelski Group which works in the area of content...
MUMBAI: Drawing on its resources in media audience measurement, Nielsen Media Research has launched GamePlay Metrics in the US. This is a new rating service for...
MUMBAI: The worldwide cable TV industry is in a race to provision a ‘three-screen‘service that starts with HDTV sets, maps over to broadband-connected PCs, and follows...
MUMBAI: The mobile is increasingly becoming a way for channels to reach their consumers. A case in point is the action oriented AXN. AXN Mobile, a...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate NBC Universal has announced NBCU 2.0. This is a wide-ranging strategic initiative to assure future growth, streamline and strengthen operations, and exploit...
MUMBAI: Global media firm Bertelsmann has established a venture capital fund called Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI) and a Luxembourg company to execute and house the...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has expanded its mobile entertainment team to better serve its existing and new clients. SPTI is adding executives to oversee...
MUMBAI: Parag Kamani has joined Cornershop Entertainment – An Essel Group Enterprise – as Business Head Wireless. Parag will be reporting to director Cornershop, Chirag Shah...
MUMBAI: CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corporation, and Yahoo! Inc. have announced an exclusive video syndication agreement in which local news video from 16...
MUMBAI: Virgin Comics and Tiger Hill Entertainment have announced that their new comic John Woo’s Seven Brothers is available online exclusively through Yahoo!’s Internet Time Capsule,...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster MTV has announced a content and advertising alliance with Chinese search engine Baidu.com. The new strategic partnership will give China’s 123 million...
MUMBAI: The world‘s largest recording company, Universal Music Group is charging the operators of two video-sharing Web sites for illegal downloading. The company has filed lawsuits...
MUMBAI: Cellebrum, a MCorpGlobal group company and an integrated telecom VAS solutions provider has announced its tie-up with BSNL and MTNL in North India to launch...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks, a division of Viacom Inc has acquired Quizilla.com, an online, user-generated community of original teen authors, aged 14 and above, who create and...
MUMBAI:The Optus Networks Pty Ltd has launched into orbit a satellite — Optus D1 that will provide fixed communication and direct television broadcast services to Australia...
MUMBAI: The Synovate Pax survey 2006 has revealed insights into media consumption, product and service ownership, purchase intention, lifestyle and attitudes of affluent Asians. Synovate global...
MUMBAI: Archer Entertainment Media Communications Inc. will open its Beijing, China offices amid preparations to begin broadcasting of China‘s first television-over-the-Internet (IPTV) channels exclusively for the...
NEW DELHI: Star India looks like being the first major broadcaster to sign on to the CAS bandwagon. In a clear statement of intent directed at...
MUMBAI: Sales of digital music in the first half of this year rose by 106 per cent to $945 million when compared with the first six...
MUMBAI: Reliance Communications has selected Aicent MMS Gateway, developed by Aicent Inc. – the California-headquartered provider of mobile data network services and solutions – to offer...
MUMBAI: Liberty Media Corp. said it would probably swap its 19.1-percent stake in News Corp. for News Corp.’s 38.3 per cent controlling interest in DirecTV. Liberty...
NEW DELHI: Zee Turner Limited has switched off 19 bouquet channels on a leading multi system operator in Jaipur due to non-signing of agreement with correct...
MUMBAI: New Medium Enterprises (NME) which developes high-definition platforms, processes and technologies, has announced the release of its first-generation HD VMD player. The player, which will...
BANGALORE: Using crawl search technology, two Indian technology aspirants Anurag Dod and Gaurav Mishra have launched an India specific search engine Guruji.com. The duo claims that...
MUMBAI: Flash Media Limited has associated with the premium retail giant Shoppers Stop for installing and managing Imedia (Dynamic Digital Signage) in all its stores across...
MUMBAI: US pubcaster PBS has launched content on the iTunes Store. Users can purchase and download documentary specials and episodes from PBS primetime and children‘s programming....
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) chairman and CEO Harry Sloan, in delivering a keynote address todelegates at the MIPCOM global television market at Cannes, predicted a...
MUMBAI: 3UK, Orange, Telefonica and Vodafone have announced the launch of a technical trial of TDtv, the UMTS TD-CDMA-3GPP Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Services (MBMS) standard-based...
MUMBAI: blinkx, the video search engine on the Web, today unveiled a new site that combines the ‘sit back and watch‘ element of traditional television with...
MUMBAI: Tagged “From Bandwidth to Brandwidth”, the Casbaa Convention 2006, to be held from 24 to 27 October, is poised to shed light on using advancements...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi today assured fellow parliamentarians that the roadmap for CAS has been smoothened.Apprising members of the Consultative Committee...
BANGALORE: Aircel Business Solutions (ABS), part of Aircel, has launched wireless Internet services through Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access — popularly known as the WiMAX technology...
NEW DELHI: Indian broadcast regulator today came out with more details on quality of service (QoS) to be observed by MSOs and local cable operators in...
MUMBAI: Google Inc. has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65...
MUMBAI: In a bid to garner international subscription revenues and also expand its footprint in UK and Europe, SaharaOne Media and Entertainment has entered into a...
MUMBAI: Britain‘s media regulatory body Ofcom has published its Communications Market: Digital Television Progress Report for the second quarter of 2006 (April-June). The report shows that...
MUMBAI: Measat Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd.has appointed Vishal Mathur as South Asia sales director. In this role, Vishal will be responsible for building and supporting Measat’s...
MUMBAI: Former US Vice President Al Gore has unveiled plans to launch a UK version of his ‘user generated‘ network, Current TV. Current has signed an...
MUMBAI:Buena Vista International Television–Asia Pacific (BVITV-AP), the international television distribution arm of Disney has concluded a multi-year agreement with Korean pay-per-view (PPV) and video-on-demand (VoD) operator...
NEW DELHI: The Bobby Bedi promoted entertainment company Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt Ltd (KEPL) has announced a strategic partnership with leading Indian media conglomerate – ABP Pvt....
MUMBAI: MTV and Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions have joined forces to conduct a global study into the impact of technology on today’s youth. The study,...