MUMBAI: Internet delivery of television and movies has rocketed into the mainstream, but so-called over-the-top (OTT) substitution has remained a relatively small, though not inconsequential slice...
MUMBAI: Direct-to-Home service provider, Tata Sky, in association with Ryz Media has launched an app that enables subscribers to user their iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster CBS and online retail major Amazon.com have announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement that will enable Amazon customers to stream television shows from CBS‘s...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has sought the opinion of stakeholders on whether the current provisions under various licences (UASL, CMTS, Basic...
MUMBAI: Apple is hobnobbing with the idea of buying out online video service Hulu. Hulu‘s owners, including the Walt Disney Co, News Corp and Comcast, have...
MUMBAI: English news channel Times Now said today that it has been launched in the Island nation of Singapore on 15 July, marking its first presence...
MUMBAI: US media company Acorn Media Group has announced the launch of Acorn TV, a new streaming service that makes the company‘s British mysteries and dramas...
MUMBAI: India‘s leading DTH operator, Dish TV, is on course to swing into net profit this fiscal as its first-quarter operating margin continues to improve, subscriber...
NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecom is working on e-auction of further wireless broadband spectrum. Under pressure from the Finance Ministry to auction broadband spectrum at...
MUMBAI: IP-based independent game development company, 7Seas Entertainment, has launched ten mobile games of genres like action, racing, shooting, arcade and sports. These include Alexia The...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television‘s networks, Asia, is expanding distribution of One (Malay) in Singapore with a third feed of its first Asian entertainment channel launching on...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports today announced the launch of ESPN HD and Star Cricket HD, India‘s first 24×7 High Definition sports channels. ESPN HD and Star...
MUMBAI: Mobile content, advertising and commerce service provider One97 has invested 1 million Singapore dollars in the Singapore-based The Mobile Gamer (TMG). TMG is a publisher...
MUMBAI: Provider of on-demand Internet streaming video, Netflix has decided to open its business in the UK and Spain by the first quarter of 2012. Said...
MUMBAI: IDG Ventures India, a venture capital fund that invests in technology-related product and services companies in India, has invested $3 million in Vserv, a mobile-In...
MUMBAI: Airtel digital TV, the DTH service from Bharti Airtel, has added 41 new channels to its bouquet, making it the largest ever channel expansion exercise...
NEW DELHI: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India‘s incumbent and largest integrated telecom service provider, today announced joining with Sai InfoSystem (India) Ltd. (SIS) to launch...
MUMBAI: Canal+ Group chairman Bertrand Meheut and French telecom company Orange chairman and CEO Stéphane Richard have announced the finalisation of their proposed strategic partnership, which...
MUMBAI: SES World Skies has announced a new capacity deal on two SES satellites with transmission and live production provider Pacific Television Center aimed at expanding...
BANGALORE: India‘s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C17) successfully launched the Indian Space Research Organisation‘s (Isro) GSAT ‘12 communication satellite yesterday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC)...
MUMBAI: For Ofcom, the fiscal ended March 2011 has been very challenging as it had to reshape the organisation amid pressures on public finances. UK‘s media...
MUMBAI: UK media watchdog Ofcom has announced that the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport has approved a second term for Norman Blackwell...
NEW DELHI: Six major broadcasters have been directed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to adhere to the tariff order when charging from DTH and...
MUMBAI: In a new venture for BBC Worldwide, the BBC‘s commercial arm is offering a series of digitally remastered Doctor Who stories to rent via Facebook....
MUMBAI: CBS Interactive, a division of CBS, has announced the launch of the official Star Trek Padd app, based on thetelevision franchise ‘Star Trek‘. The Padd...
MUMBAI: NDS, which provides technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has announced that BSkyB has deployed a customised implementation of NDS‘ advanced set-top box software for its...
NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecomm wants Supreme Court to direct Sun Direct, the DTH venture promoted by the Kalanithi Maran family, to pay an annual...
MUMBAI: AXN HD, the high definition (HD) feed of action oriented English general entertainment channel AXN, has launched on Thai pay-TV platform TrueVisions. The debut of...
BANGALORE: The Launch Authorisation Board (LAB) for PSLV-C17/GSAT-12 mission, which met on 12 July at Satish Dhawan Space Centre – (SHAR), Sriharikota, has cleared the launch...
MUMBAI: Fox International Channels (FIC) has signed carriage agreement with DTH service provider Dish TV to offer the complete bouquet of National Geographic and Fox International...
BANGALORE: DTH service provider Dish TV today announced new packs for the multilingual viewers in South India. The packs, priced at Rs 165 and Rs 185...
NEW DELHI: Viacom18‘s flagship Hindi general entertainment channel Colors has syndicated its movies to Airtel Digital TV, the DTH arm of the Bharti Airtel. With the...
MUMBAI: Broadband service provider, You Broadband, has deployed Ruckus Wireless‘ managed Wi-Fi service offering within Mumbai‘s international airport. Ruckus Wireless, the supplier of wireless systems for...
MUMBAI: US kids broadcaster Nickelodeon‘s show SpongeBob SquarePants will flood the Twitter-verse with the first-time-ever debut of an original story created exclusively for the social networking...
MUMBAI: EA Sports president Peter Moore will be delivering a keynote presentation to an invitation only audience of 250 digital experts from brands, rights holders and...
MUMBAI: Asia-Pacific telcos are forecast to see service revenues from DSL, fibre broadband and IPTV rise from $52.5 billion in 2010 to $79.5 billion in 2016....
MUMBAI: Consumer survey results for the first quarter of 2011 show that take-up of digital television in UK households stood at 93.1 per cent, up by...
MUMBAI: now TV and Warner Bros. International Branded Services have announced that the WarnerTV linear channel has become available to Hong Kong television audiences. The general...
MUMBAI: Digital TV Research forecasts that the number of homes paying for IPTV will rocket to 155 million by end-2016, up from 35 million at end-2010....
MUMBAI: Online gaming portal Zapak.com has announced the launch of Zapak Plus, which is its first subscription gaming service. Zapak Plus offers a bouquet of full...
NEW DELHI: Yahoo! India has announced its collaboration with Dinamalar which will enable Yahoo! India to offer Tamil language content to its users in India and...
MUMBAI: The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) in the US and a coalition of its member companies have joined major broadband companies, the Recording Industry...
MUMBAI: Avid, which creates digital audio and video technology, has announced that it is offering a limited-time Final Cut Pro Crossgrade promotion for qualified Final Cut...
MUMBAI: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) has tied up with the Shah Rukh Khan film RA.ONE to create a PlayStation game on the film. The video...
MUMBAI: One97 Communications‘ subsidiary, paytm.com (Pay Through Mobile), has launched recharges for direct-to-home (DTH) television subscribers. Prepaid recharges can now be bought with a click of...
MUMBAI: SES Astra has announced that the Ukrainian digital terrestrial network provider, Zeonbud, has chosen it to provide capacity for Ukraine’s first digital terrestrial television network....
MUMBAI: UK media watchdog Ofcom has launched an interactive map of fixed broadband, using actual data provided by communications providers about the UK‘s broadband infrastructure. Ofcom...
MUMBAI: NDS, which provides technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has announced that NDS Studio Design has received the Red Dot Product Design Award for the new...
MUMBAI: Microblogging site Twitter Inc is said to be raising funding that values it at about $7 billion. In this connection, the San Francisco-based company is...
MUMBAI: Digital out-of-home media company, LiveMedia, has launched a digital marketing arm, LiveDigital. Anuj Kumar has been appointed as senior VP, and Ivon Parmanand has been...