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Tuesday 9 February, 2010
 

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3 February, 2010
 
  Comcast – The applause not quite deafening as it tries to be a telco
  iPad we love you - Let us count the reasons why
  AT&T analysts focus on wireless, but U-Verse is results bedrock
  FLO TV shrinks in the US, but spends $ millions on Superbowl ads
  The chips are no longer down – SIA says Semiconductors rising
  Sony Ericsson and Motorola – stable, but still on life support
  ExoPC is first iPad-alike to launch, days after Apple
  Kindle readers take 6 Amazon books to every 10 physical books sold
  Underlying broadband price falls slowing says researcher
  Cisco weighs in on smart grid aspects of US broadband plan
  Clearwire gains market confidence, others eye multi-provider model
  Pay-TV declines at Time Warner, as broadband, voice look good
  New music file formats debut at MIDEM - MP3 is so last decade
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
27 January, 2010
 
  iPad disappoints, then wildly celebrated, as “Raison d'être” sinks in
  Liberty dumps Japanese cable, stalks Europe with a fat wallet
  TiVo looks stronger against AT&T, Microsoft than counter suit
  Authorities try to give kiss of life to German and French DVB-H
  Mexican Cablecos call on watchdog to block Slim quad play plans
  Orange, China’s BesTV collaborate on three-screen convergence
  To infinity and beyond - BT gets fiber offering into UK homes
  Satellite sidelined in new round of US stimulus awards?
  Google taunts Apple as Voice appears as iPhone web app
  The death of PNDs - Nokia gives away $ billions in navigation aid
  Orange UK offers Blyk inspired advertising service
  Vodafone jumps to 450,000 subs, as it gets its music act together
  Live Nation Ticketmaster merger goes through with few concessions
  Samsung shoots for 3D TV and glasses leadership with first factory
  Apple knocks spots off its numbers
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
20 January, 2010
 
  European TV database shows continued channel fragmentation
  Apple will not trip up on new iPhones, but must be wary of IP abuse
  Carphone update suggests Euro spending habits are back to normal
  3D's cold shower – 3D Standards merely sub-standard
  Pace puts out BT Vision+ box – merges DVR with VoD service
  DECE selects Neustar to operate DRM rights database
  Netgem grows through 2009, then hurt by French consolidations
  US streamlines process for second round of stimulus funds
  French broadband plan gets first round of cash – way short of target
  China Unicom delays Android launches amid Google row
  Apple may deliver tablet, but expect one, maybe two, new services
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
13 January, 2010
 
  Motorola buys DRM pioneer – but why exactly?
  Siano absorbs $24 million to keep up with China’s MoTV chip supply
  Microsoft integrates streaming with IPTV – shuts down an industry
  SiBeam signs Vizio, shows 2nd Gen WirelessHD chips, boosts funds
  Liberty Global rumors of German cable deals a bit premature
  Vizio adds ATSC M/H to its portable TVs in US
  Next generation iPhone could appear as early as April
  Whatever the Apple Tablet is, it apparently leaks like a sieve
  Mobinnova shows off Tegra Android powered Beam Smartbook
  FCC delays broadband plan amid cries for more and more spectrum
  The new living room default; Being internet connected
  US TV maker Vizio to come to market first with 3D LCD glasses
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
6 January, 2010
 
  Nexus One may come to be seen as a decision which haunts Google
  CES gives a glimpse of the rising age of Smartbooks
  Apple clarifies the battle lines for future mobile advertising
  Tivit ready for Spring US launch for mobile TV on Wi-Fi
  US TV scrabbles to change priorities toward paid content
  LG readies US Mobile TV and compatible phone for CES
  FLO TV gets live sport, iPhone battery dongle in Christmas stocking
  Mirics takes broadcast TV on a PC, ships it to any portable device
  Bluetooth standard gains low energy mode
  European casual gaming group, to push games onto connected TVs
  Quantenna puts in its bid for the wireless home with reference design
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
16 December, 2009
 
  TV Everywhere – Is this the death of the triple play?
  Life-shifting, Work-shifting, Shape-shifting and the boredom chasm
  Pass the parcel MGM-ogram back on the market
  France $50 billion spend, spend, spend policy could draw Euro ire
  Digital home connection standards all hit their stride at once
  Ofcom opens file on BtB system to spruce up unbundling
  Report shows broadband ‘second wave’ countries in rapid growth
  AT&T exec upbeat on U-Verse pay-TV & iPhone
  Widevine soaks up another $15 million – Chases TV Everywhere
  Apple countersues Nokia on 13 patent counts
  Technology group blows Fuse in handset of the near future
  US Consumers want Mobile TV - period
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
9 December, 2009
 
  Chinese mobile TV going through the gears, but still not cruising
  Comcast NBCU deal looks like it will survive lengthy legal scrutiny
  MaxLinear unveils diversity chip for broadcast mobile TV
  Tiny Mirics dreams a dream of one software configured radio for TV
  Despite setbacks, WHDI still thinks it can outshine Wi-Fi video
  Sony counting on 3D for revival in TV sets
  Google looks to enrich mobile search in face of Bing
  FLO TV opens purse to drag in top Disney content
  Glide OS: don’t write it off in the move to the mobile cloud
  Android struggles in Europe, but HTC rises to challenge
  Orange has App Shop working in UK and France
  Google uses Goggles to Ogle the things around you
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
2 December, 2009
 
  BMCO brings together DVB-H backers as handset buyers club
  Virgin win in UK court on Rovi patents, throws cloud over revenues
  Charter emerges from pre-pack bankruptcy ready to go cash positive
  France Telecom sets up strong Swisscom rival as it acquires Sunrise
  DS2 powers VideoLAN for spreading HDMI throughout home
  Cable to recover and take 39% of Western European pay TV
  Gaming survey shows online models on the rise
  There IS consumer pull for TV on portable devices says Mirics report
  Lenovo buys back its mobile arm for new cellphone assault
  Baidu to challenge Google with preloaded search engine
  Telstra's T-Box gets on-demand movies, local TV and web video
  SOS online entertainment service embedded in every Sony device
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
25 November, 2009
 
  Telegent chases Max Linear into $250 million mobile TV IPO
  TiVo lands Virgin UK deal to push its service to 3 million homes
  TV Everywhere: Getting context behind the content
  21st Century Network will create a new digital divide in the UK
  Open IPTV Forum gathers momentum, tests interoperability
  O3b Networks gets $75m from SES Global
  Global TV set sales turn the corner in shipments, but not revenues
  OnLive quietly readied its launch money, in time for Christmas
  Euro Teleco reform passes uneventfully, promises immense change
  European Union abandons antitrust probe into Qualcomm
  SFR goes live with Femtocells, rejects quad play
  iPhone spreads its wings but anger with App Store mounts
  Mobile broadband is rather narrow says Broadband Genie
  Sezmi's single play broadband/broadcast service threatens pay-TV
  Mobile screens point to 15% growth in devices, Nokia fall from grace
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
18 November, 2009
 
  IPTV-er Bitband acquired by division of Motorola, itself on the block
  Liberty grabs Unity to break the 20 million customer barrier
  IP Wireless funding keeps alive the vision of unpaired TDD services
  Show points to parlous state of European broadcast Mobile TV
  Orange signs 324,000 in one year for Movie and TV series bouquet
  Kudelski strong-arms OpenTV shareholders into submission
  Carphone to offer IP Vision's do-it-all FetchTV SmartBox
  Skype founders settle with eBay over
  Ruckus offers end to end Wi-Fi broadband for unwired Telcos
  Amimon shifts focus to Wi-Fi as Sony drops it for WirelessHD
  Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 breaks box office records
  Massive and comScore creates activity measurement for in-game ads
  TVGuide.com adds online DVR alerts
  After 4 year wait, FLO TV can finally be bought in US shops
  Powering base stations with green energy becomes big business
  Finally a cheap DVB-H phone from Nokia – but maybe it’s too late
  Behold - T-Mobile adds its fourth Android – this one from Samsung
  Qualcomm to attack China now other cellular markets are sewn up
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
11 November, 2009
 
  Apple building broadcaster interest in US TV armageddon
  Google feels the need to move hard and early into mobile ads
  Trial to deploy base stations via Weather balloon reaches fruition
  BI CodecSys gets a chance to strut its stuff at Mediaroom account
  Silicon Image – the brains behind the Wireless HD Interface
  Rogers seeks alternative to Tru2way
  French pay-TV service Canal+ launches internet connectable TV sets
  Nokia N900 Maemo phone back on pre-Christmas agenda
  Sky offers all live sport streamed on an iPhone
  Samsung Bada to push smartphone features to really cheap phones
  Could mobile satellite operators provide FCC with the spectrum it needs?
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
4 November, 2009
 
  Telefonica closing in on Hansenet deal, sets new price for broadband
  Amino trips over disrupted customers and component shortages
  Kudelski hopes for OpenTV take crushing blow from upbeat results
  Motorola TV business appears to have lost market share in Q3
  EU and US want more TV spectrum for wireless
  CableLabs set task of selecting standards for TV Everywhere
  Microsoft partners open up Mediaroom for smaller players
  Bluetooth SIG transfers affections from UWB to 60GHz
  Novatel warns on disappointing MiFi outlook
  Disney creates its own App King
  BT’s Ribbit creates an App Store for the network itself
  You don’t want a PC, you want a Cloud gateway device
  CBS jumps to fourth in US online ratings
  Netflix going global
  Sony finally partners Netflix movies to PS3
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
28 October, 2009
 
  Verizon slips behind AT&T pay TV install rate
  Disney to introduce Keychest, a working digital content ecosystem
  Pace HCS capable of spraying 9 TV channels around your home
  Nokia takes bite of Apple, may find it’s more than it can chew
  Motorola has 300 Mbps version of DOCSIS 3.0
  HomePlug and MoCA's super alliance poses major threat to G.hn
  Netbook bundling could open the back door for US mobile TV
  Mobile 4.0 rises from the German ashes in the Netherlands
  Exclusivity will drive Mobile TV, just as it worked with the iPhone
  Europe doesn’t see broadcast getting any UHF dividend spectrum
  Marvell Armada and ARM’s Sparrow up the ante against Atom
  Samsung brings “Needle Slim” 40 inch LED TV to market
  US net neutrality plans faces opposition, but Europe avoids the issue
  Joltid suit over Skype could financially damage eBay
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
21 October, 2009
 
  Verizon joins AT&T in pushing Quad play out to hurt cablecos
  Barnes & Noble shoots at Kindle, adds Wi-Fi, lending and browsing
  If the iPhone is the My Space of apps, Google will be the Facebook
  Should we measure audiences in mobile TV, or something more?
  Games rebound on back of cheap PS3s, as it storms America
  Bell Canada copies US cable’s TV Everwhere with US supplier
  Time Warner Cable readies Clearwire services in Charlotte
  EverZing indexes the audio in videos
  AP, News Corp ramp up Pay-to-Read efforts
  Bluetooth low energy to reach handsets in 2010
  Silicon Image puts 18 MP cameras on handset near horizon
  Vodafone and partners convince top handset makers to back JIL
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
14 October, 2009
 
  Broadcom MoCA invasion triggers chase for key home technologies
  DVB-H interest grows post recession, as TDF pushes agenda
  Intel CE4100 variant embraces Flash and DiVX, Amino on board
  Innovative media measurement is really about interacting with ads
  Canvas a superset of HbbTV says BBC, but it’s not open says BSkyB
  G.hn standard done and dusted, now race is on for compliant devices
  Intel shows 3-tuner DVR with True2Way and MoCA
  Comcast-NBCU deal hits French snag
  SiBeam tries to stay ahead of the big guns in WirelessHD
  Some of Apple wipes off on Disney through its largest shareholder
  Hardcover book sales following music industry's downward path
  Vodafone and EMC offer PC backup, with wireless access
  Nokia ports key Symbian development tool to N900
  Cisco buys Starent, boosting 4G strategy and outsmarting Juniper
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
7 October, 2009
 
  MediaFLO has first handheld, way too expensive, but it’s a start
  Toshiba Cell RTegza 55X1 – a new way to think about TV
  Kudelski renews its interest in the rest of OpenTV
  New members join to support WiGig sci fi project
  More South American countries joined rush to ISDB-T and One Seg
  Adobe embraces HTTP streaming at last
  Vook adds videos to text in eBooks
  Joltid suit against eBay asks for $27.3m a year in damages
  Opera, Nokia and Korean quartet boost AT&T’s new web platform
  Forget the Sony PlayStation phone, it already exists
  Verizon gets together with Google for sideswipe at Apple - AT&T
  Microsoft uses CTIA as springboard for App Store and WinMo 6.5
  JumperTel wants to take on Skype from scratch with VoIP service
  ARM ups the low power ante on Atom with GlobalFoundries deal
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
30 September, 2009
 
  TV and phone makers decide on wired and powered connectivity
  Intel cuts deal to put Nagra decoder engine on its CE chip
  Mirics offers ubiquitous PC TV processing through Nvidia Cuda
  EchoStar bids for $1bn stimulus funds, takes $400mn in debt
  Broadcom’s latest ARM deal could signal move into netbooks
  Latest Apple iPad rumours cite two versions, one cellular
  Amazon to offer its own branded CE gear
  Vodafone says “me too” to carry iPhone, but not ‘til after Christmas
  AT&T and Terrestar show off dual-mode satphone
  Palm future rests with Pre, and has already stacked the channel
  Epix MegaPlex to offer 3,000 shows online
  Netflix CEO: New console, mobile service in future
  Akamai launches HD steaming across the net - Again
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
23 September, 2009
 
  T-Mobile kicks over burnt remains of DVB-H in Germany, sees life
  Chile follows Argentina and backs Japanese mobile TV standard
  Comcast turns investor attention to mobile cable
  Cable supplier Arris enters the world of IP and UIs with Digeo buy
  Turkish set top firm puts HD over Wi-Fi, adds Flash based DVR
  Nagra widgets to help Numericable switch to multicast cable
  A single chip with ALL HDTV formats on board
  Satellite industry in rude health as HDTV, internet access climbs
  Joltid sues eBay's Skype for $75m a day for Copyright Infringement
  Blockbuster buddies up to traditional MSO enemies
  Mobile Data revenues on the up and up, Verizon about to take lead
  Wireless industry gears up to fight FCC’s net neutrality plans
  Favorite rumors – Apple tablet, MS handset, now an MS tablet?
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
16 September, 2009
 
  Argentina ISDB-T decision redraws TV and Mobile TV global map
  “MediaFLO to hit 10 million in just over a year” – but how exactly?
  At IBC everyone is offering over the top video and hybrid TV
  Atheros and IBM make new deals to support powerline
  U-Verse gets Mosiac interface 4 years on, plus media sharing
  Pace shows off finished DVB-T2 HD Freeview+ box
  Entropic, NXP unveil MoCA ready design for Networked DVRs
  Ruckus Wireless lands its largest US Telco
  Freesat momentum continues - jumps 50% since May
  Home Gateway initiative is coming soon
  Adobe picks “expensive” web analytics firm for next acquisition
  Three or four networks per operator, in small cells: the face of 4G?
 
 
9 September, 2009
 
  IMB gets GSMA backing for next push to cellular broadcasts
  Jobs delights the Apple faithful by an appearance at iPod event
  Near-global acceptance puts new momentum behind WirelessHD
  Vodafone to shutter German IPTV effort, and try again
  Espial picks up VoD contract for Swedish cable outfit
  Amino and beeTV echo trend of personalized TV channels
  Mediaroom adds up its numbers for IBC and finds 4 million
  OpenTV opens audience APIs, NDS drills down to individuals
  “Pay as you view” business models need new CA service says NDS
  TiVo gets next big pay day in court – Dish running out of options
  IBM patents social media remote
  For Apple, think “what’s next?” For Sony, think “embarrassment”
  ASUS to join eBook reader market with Netbook style device
  DoCoMo leads in plan to make IMS more relevant
  UK T-Mobile Orange merger could also break mobile TV deadlock
  YouTube eyes movie rentals
  Tesco, UK’s biggest grocer, initiates lame online movie service
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
2 September, 2009
 
  Turning doubters to believers over TiVo’s significant IPR hoard
  HbbTV shows wide industry support – why not merge Canvas with it?
  Disney wades in with $4 billion for marvellous Marvel
  eBay sells out most of Skype despite Joltid legal snag
  Nokia launches what appears to be.. well.. er.. the Apple Tablet
  German broadband unbundling market still runs counter to Europe
  First round of broadband Stimulus funds 7 times oversubscribed
  Nagravision flips to a service model and climbs back into profit
  US analyst tries to guess how Apple will invade the TV world
  News Corp touting Hulu-like venture for newspapers
  Apple finally nails China deal, as Ophone lurches into view
  MediaFLO plans stand alone personal TV
  CBS, Pepsi put a video ad in your magazine
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
26 August, 2009
 
  How to turn a world leader into a fourth rate broadband economy
  Vodafone IPTV strategy leans towards Mediaroom in Europe
  AT&T ties U-Verse to Wireless and Broadband in special bundle
  Sony squares up to Kindle after a two year head start
  Set tops defy economic gravity, cable and IPTV dominate
  Optibase reveals its encoders were used in big Venezuelan IPTV deal
  Vodafone gets go ahead to take over BT Ireland’s access networks
  Arqiva closes Kangaroo acquisition, puts in new CEO, plans launch
  TV shipments fall, LCD up, just holding its own in revenues
  US researcher produces OLED device roadmap
  Microsoft recasts its mobile strategy from OS to Apps with OneApp
  UK piracy about turn stirs outrage, meets resistance
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
19 August, 2009
 
  PlayStation 3 refresh fires opening salvo in console price war
  Top ten Euro incumbents point to glowing health of IPTV
  How will we use devices when digital photos are everywhere
  Major US operators shake heads at stimulus finds, Leap leaps in
  BT late to deploy ADSL2+ in UK but at least offers it for free
  Phoenix of Iridium gets FCC nod, on way to public quote
  Blockbuster to put movies on demand on Motorola phones
  Analog Mobile TV will grow thru 2013, reach 300 million devices
  O2 can’t wait for DVB-H, embraces TV streaming, in Ireland first
  Sony battery design makes rechargeable batteries last 4X as long
  Zune HD almost as critical to Nvidia as Microsoft
  $1 a night DVD kiosk firm starts legal war with Hollywood
  Sony boosts ebook challenge to Amazon with open standards
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
12 August, 2009
 
  This week’s headlines shows TV world on brink of change
  Motorola lands its first ever DVB-H deal – in Poland of all places
  Nokia and Microsoft alliance – the big guns shift Office to Symbian
  On2 Technologies is no fire sale as Google swoops to own a codec
  Deutsche Telekom surprisingly on track for 1 million IPTV homes
  Dish raises specter of TiVo reverse to hide bad and sad figures
  Motorola's Home unit carries the ball
  MTNL seeks WiMAX partner in India
  Indonesia to finally get two mobile TV networks
  Apple may develop digital payments platform
  Sony Ericsson introduces a “fashion” phone – strictly for the girls
  Alliance aims for compatibility among all CE devices
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
29 July, 2009
 
  China Mobile uptake of CMMB almost killed Chinese Mobile TV
  Apple TV looking for redemption through play
  Google seeks role in defining US national broadband policy
  Apple agrees prepay deal with Toshiba to secure Flash reserves
  AT&T uses iPhone to blow the top off mobile broadband results
  Cable in Europe grew by 5.4% in revenue, rapidly going digital
  Pace keeps Pace with upgraded set top expectations
  Pioneer SureWest caves in and moves to Mediaroom for IPTV
  Thomson prime contractor on the Bouygues IPTV deal
  Orange pushes free music for pay as you go phone owners in UK
  Qualcomm and Verizon add their weight to M2M mobile market
  Blyk changes tack, drops UK MVNO, will court other operators
  BBC stumbles into another legal row over partnering newspapers
  Kazaa returns 100% legal with unlimited download deal
  Bluetooth finds new home in ‘Television 2.0’
  Patent holder seeks US ban on devices with Samsung Nand flash
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
22 July, 2009
 
  Vodafone mimics German IPTV in Portugal, others must follow
  The entire broadband stimulus would still not ease Qwest’s IP quest
  Verizon doublespeak exclusively points finger at AT&T exclusives
  CBS, Starz, 17 other pay channels join Comcast's TV Everywhere
  Microsoft to beat Sony Ericsson to games phone with Xbox Mobile?
  Civolution gets its hands on Thomson rival watermarking system
  Satellite set tops doing okay but India is the key
  Telco IPTV on the rise – 50% growth this year says Parks
  Will all cellphones be banned in US cars soon?
  How long can this winning steak at Apple continue?
  LG sells $3.4 billion of flat TVs, chases Sony’s tail
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
15 July, 2009
 
  Are Telcos up a creek without a paddle on DSL installations?
  Anti-trust bomb falls in LCD price fix scam – more could follow
  Carphone ponders a full Quad play as it closes Tiscali UK deal
  India’s quarterly update shows a country in love with satellite TV
  Google’s pincer movement is essential, but which way will Intel jump?
  Intel’s bounceback helped by buoyant Atom
  Nokia joins MTN and Multichoice in Free African mobile TV service
  Envivio puts live US, European TV on the iPhone
  Commissioner Reding lays down new gauntlet on digital dividend
  Monopoly debate rages as ticket and promotional giants seek merger
  TiVo, Best Buy partner up in symbiotic deal
  Watermarking and a decent experience can save Video says report
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
8 July, 2009
 
  Day of the Google – Chrome OS to assassinate PCs, annex Netbooks
  US can use “give me an iPhone” frenzy to reshape Telecoms sector
  SoundExchange offers US webcasters new copyright deal
  The future is Project Canvas says BBC, not traditional broadcast
  Bertelsmann and KKR create joint venture music rights business
  IPTV service discovery sneaks out to ripple of bemused applause
  Danish IPTV software house steals Smile away from Dreampark
  Canada’s Bell Aliant copies Verizon, goes for fiber
  Ofcom shows cellular 3G maps of the UK – more buildout required
  Vendors rush to create customized App Stores for India
  DoCoMo takes stake in PacketVideo, looking to LTE and Android
  Vodafone rues Carphone falling out, makes nicey, nicey
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
1 July, 2009
 
  US court ignores studios protests on nPVR, Pay TV to change path
  How credible are rumours of Nokia turning to Android in Netbooks?
  ION broadcasting ATSC M/H in DC, LG delivers chip volumes
  RIP - Joost accepts its failure - offers to white label video delivery
  Intel and Apple increase stakes in Imagination
  IPTV in Asia – painted like it was easy pickings – we’re not so sure
  Alcatel pays for evidence that broadband is recession proof
  Sony PlayStation - looking for something it’s lost – Its touch
  Nvidia set for its first tier one phone deal, Motorola in the frame
  New Vizio HDTVs previews the future of TV
  Studio CTOs: “DVDs; Blu-rays still producing lots of revenue”
  Disney’s ESPN to build non-US sports assets starting with UK soccer
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
24 June, 2009
 
  TiVo’s court win open doors, but Sling might open even more
  Nokia throws mobile technology lifeline to straggling Intel
  The jury is out on the man who cried “Jobs”
  NSN bids for Nortel wireless units, taking CDMA as route to LTE
  Canoe cancels version one of zoned ads, starts on 21st century version
  Ovum details the fall and fall of voice revenues, as data rises
  Qualcomm under new antitrust pressure, this time in Korea
  Conceptronic does back to back deal through bankrupcy
  Chips for TV crashed in Q1, but will be on track before 2010
  Motorola Androids still not been shown, but have major US deals
  Intel researchers chase wirelessly transmitted power
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
17 June, 2009
 
  Opera Unite – build your own Facebook, photo gallery or YouTube
  PwC warns of structural changes ahead, masked by the recession
  Digital Britain – not likely a template for a European policy
  Recession has held back technology in most countries
  Reasons why Dell will not buy Palm
  DTV transition has hiccups echoing around the US
  Major studios offer free HD movies on the web for Pay-TV subs
  MySpace overtaken in US, cuts staffing, beds in for long recession
  PCCW launches Eye 2, TV, camera, music player, video phone
  US regulator called on to scrutinize cellular exclusives
  Nokia beefs up music phone range to support Comes with Music
  Data and prepaid services cushion effect of cellular downturn in Q1
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
10 June, 2009
 
  MedioFLO to go direct to consumers – but is married to Cellcos
  The dark days of an interregnum are upon us – is history immutable?
  Palm Pre arrives as handset industry crosses multiple tipping points
  Not a marriage made in heaven – OpenTV and Kudelski
  Apple mumbles and the entire US gets excited
  Intel makes bold mobile and embedded purchase with Wind River
  Video to take up 91% of global IP traffic by 2013 says router king
  Aspera can transfer 1,000 movies in two hours
  YouTube ups its TV ante to include Wii, PS3
  Broadband CPE just rises in 2008, cable falls, Huawei, 2Wire gain
  IPTV to go through slowdown, then double Pay TV share by 2014
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
3 June, 2009
 
  Microsoft controller free paradigm is next major console war
  TiVo jumps 30% after Judge loses patience with Dish in patent case
  PSPgo makes PlayStation neat, small slider – discards UMDs
  Qualcomm turns its envious eyes on Broadcom’s Wi-Fi demesne
  Sony turns PlayNow into App as well as content store
  Internet videos streamed under broadcaster control direct to TV sets
  Microsoft pushes toward HD streaming on the Xbox, shared movies
  IPTV set top shipments to slow says In-Stat - We’re not so sure
  Mexican cable major opts for fully IP network – through HFCnet
  China gets the Magic 'OPhone'
  Samsung chases Sony Ericsson into megapixel orbit
  Cellular talking up the Smartbook over the Netbook at Computex
  Google Wave and MS Bing to go mobile soon
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
27 May, 2009
 
  Next generation Zune, quality spec, with Xbox ties
  Kabel Deutschland opts for O2 MVNO – triggers Quad play war
  All advertising markets need consolidation – Cinema included
  Conceptronic reference framework for Intel 3100 internet TV chip
  Sun to unveil Java App store, Apple app revenues “not meaningful”
  PlayReady sneaks out while we weren’t looking – devices due Fall
  Wal-Mart overhauling 3,500 electronics departments
  Acer launches $399 home server - 1TB to 7TB of storage
  Nokia Ovi Store launches on time – AT&T deal promised
  Little significance of Norway’s stand on Mobile TV technology
  HTC widens its Android lead with China Mobile deal
  New iPhone will have 32 GB storage say German leaks
  New Consortium aims to use mobile phones for good
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
20 May, 2009
 
  Europe steps nimbly over mobile radio and TV license hurdle
  India slows up its Mobile TV plans, looks for PPP deal
  IPTV gathers pace, cable lifts ARPU, DTH marking time in Europe
  RealNetworks says its license to CSS lets it copy DVDs – sues studios
  Verizon sells off its rural areas to Frontier focuses on fiber
  Telecoms Cooperative spends to put TVN and Avail together
  Sony reports $1bn loss - outlook gloomy too
  Real Netbooks on their way – as Intel tries to keep pace with Atom
  Guess what? Japan and Korea have more mobile multimedia than us
  India up, Turkey and Spain down: Vodafone’s mixed 2009 bag
  Yahoo courts mobile disaster by killing new apps strategy
  AT&T network full of smart phones and QWERTY phones
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
13 May, 2009
 
  Intel’s gut reaction to fight $1.45 billion EU fine is wrong
  WiGig flaunts Wi-Fi roots to stake claim on super fast home nets
  TV photorealism requires some freakishly fast home networks
  Talk Talk to bring Quad play rival to UK market with Tiscali buy
  Vodafone opens APIs in bid to create giant mobile software store
  Microsoft ticks Russian box in its BRIC IPTV deals for Mediaroom
  Virgin Media: Broadband, pay-TV up, declines in profits, revenue
  Dish suffers as AT&T becomes less and less of its sales equation
  blinkx set to benefit from opening doors between TV and the net
  Murdoch: 'Current days of the Internet will soon be over'
  Mobile advertising – doing better in the UK than anyone expected
  Nokia puts its new NFC SIM based handset into contactless context
  ZigBee Alliance embraces IP to strengthen its role in smart grids
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
6 May, 2009
 
  Kindle DX disappoints on price, leaves the door open for rivals
  Euro Commissioners plan to revolutionize online transactions
  Apple – casual games aficionado or future gaming megalith?
  German shareholders call for T-Mobile UK sale
  CE makers raise a ruckus over Project Canvas
  Pay TV numbers up, revenues down says report
  BT combines mobile and home broadband into one $24 package
  UK fixed lines down, call volumes down, cellular ARPU down
  Disney to buy 30% stake in Hulu
  Apple builds on PA acquisition to create iPhone chip design team
  Cellcos face huge dilemmas over LTE voice models
  Clearwire and KT no longer lonely trailblazers for WiMAX mobile broadband
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
29 April, 2009
 
  FilmOn - UK German streaming player plans HD web TV splash
  Verizon Apple in the balance, but new Apple devices are coming
  Joost on the bloc, Babelgum almost sure to follow
  Sky introduces adverts you can “book” to watch later
  Broadcom vs Qualcomm - The war is over - Now who shall we fight?
  Nokia reduces N-Gage to Ovi only, opens doors to portal partners
  Amazon’s Stanza buy could be first step to an open platform
  Cellphones bolster Samsung’s quarter as it launches first Android
  Nokia clarifies backing Mobile payments with classic NFC phone
  End of “roaming rip off” says Euro minister
  Analysts look for cracks in Apple results over seasonal workforce
  Will Pirate Bay judge walk the plank?
  Flat TVs still rising, make up virtually all European TV purchases
  NEC and Renesas to merge into world’s third largest chip business
  Samsung leads in OLED displays, as phones drive uptake
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
22 April, 2009
 
  MobiTV adds icing to make US Mobile TV irresistible to MNOs
  Telefonica bids for German ISP from close partner Telecom Italia
  Chinese firms behind new cabling initiative attract CE majors
  Cisco drops pebble into IPTV market – still no rocks
  Adobe talks many remaining chip makers into believing in FLV
  LG says that ATSC M/H chips will go to volume in June
  Thomson gets around to ATSC version of Mobile TV at last
  Android makes slow market progress, but ambitions grow broader
  Yahoo down 13%, keeps cash generation going, lays off staff
  Inuk buy offers PC platform to make Move Networks look like TV
  AT&T throws off recessionary forces, thanks U-Verse, iPhone
  Télébec selects Vecima for Canadian wireless broadband deal
  Qtrax launches free song downloads
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
15 April, 2009
 
  eBay shifts resolution of Skype ownership off into 2010
  TiVo numbers show what’s REALLY going on in DVR homes
  TV overtaken by net in 2010, triggers ad transition - Microsoft
  US cable in dog fight with broadcast over how to embrace internet
  Public Service broadcast funding getting the once over in Europe
  US report says all is well in Pay TV land, but we’re not so sure
  UTStarcom owns Asian IPTV, Microsoft, Verimatrix score well
  Ateme chases contribution video with first 10-bit H.264 encoder
  Wireless broadband in the US slowed to a crawl in the fourth quarter
  Barnes and Noble seeks cellcos for Kindle Challenge
  ‘Nautilus’ shows Nokia getting serious about touchscreens
  Narrowstep TV operations sidestep into KIT
  Anonymity comes to browser, search history
  France drops 'Three-Strikes' policy
  Researcher says advertising recession will eat into online ads
  Atom sales drop but Intel says PC market has bottomed out
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
8 April, 2009
 
  Murdoch points to Kindle approach for newspapers
  Trademark registration has us all guessing over Sony Cloud services
  Skype is just the banner under which a thousand IP services march
  German regulator blocking creation of cable based rival to DT
  DTH dominates UK TV, but Freeview and Freesat grows ominously
  From the floor of the Cable Show 2009: Six things we learned
  TVBlob: All-consuming set-top box
  Apple pushes trigger on ALL iTunes going DRM free
  Time for all publishers to desert the format they’ve loved for so long
  Blockbuster has to complete debt refinancing deal to survive
  Nokia tries to cement its future in India with third world Life Tools
  One day all European cars will have cellular “crash” alert
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
1 April, 2009
 
  Nokia buttresses Ovi store content with Heroes creator
  Ericsson sharpens pay TV plans – Timeshifting ads, CMS upgrade
  Kids not consuming as much music says report – Are you sure?
  Subsidized netbook model could sweep away 20 years of PC history
  Complex real time TV encoder mix to slide in 2009, 2010
  US internet advertising still stealing ground from traditional markets
  April Fool: Hands up all those who stuck their tongues out at their browser
  Broadband continues to rise as IPTV rockets
  TVs to come with Macrovision’s EPG for local TV stations
  New Sony receiver has DLNA, SHOUTcast and Rhapsody
  Samsung shows early Mondi device for Clear at CTIA
  Skype and ALU respond to Google Voice
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
25 March, 2009
 
  New games paradigm based on streaming video changes all the rules
  Beware of Mobile TV regulators with their firearms pointed down
  US consumers happier, but not ready to spend on tech says survey
  EchoStar targets Euro IPTV’s soft set top underbelly with Sling
  If the UWB war is over – then nobody won
  Sony confirms plans to join the Freesat eco-system
  Vizimo – trying to apply logic to “what do you fancy watching?”
  Alcatel rolls out Telefonica IPTV Ad system for Spanish trials
  Edgeware rubs shoulders with Ericsson, lands funding
  Amino has China at its feet with ZTE deal
  Samsung finally opts into world of mobile services with movies
  LG plans 50 Windows Mobile devices in three years
  Nokia leaves N-Gage in the cold over processing power problems
  Vodafone and Telefonica merge networks for huge efficiency gains
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
18 March, 2009
 
  IGA Worldwide up for sale as ad revenues plummet
  Google not yet done tampering with the voice interface
  To hell in a bucket and the six dimensions of success
  UK advertising reflects US, last quarter fell off cliff, online healthy
  WiMedia Alliance shuts down in another blow for UWB
  Small earthquake in cellular IPR Court, no-one hurt
  Hulu moves up to number 2, adds social features
  IDC handset predictions: A collapsing fairytale of despair
  Apple unveils touch software update – Listens hard to developers
  Social networks are driving Americans to the mobile web
  Motorola-tel or Nortorola – silly idea so let’s pick a silly name
  Telefonica sneaks eagerly awaited Pre from under Vodafone’s nose
  Sirius numbers add up, show why Liberty was happy to help
  Five years ‘til DOCSIS 3.0 deployed, will chase Stimulus cash
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
11 March, 2009
 
  European mobile data roaming capped as promised – law by July
  Poland mobile TV snubs cellular operators with DVB-H award
  UK TV viewing, ads to hit wall unless web based VoD brought to life
  Tiscali waits too long for sale of the century ISP deal – all bets are off
  Mobile TV alive and well and living in Japan, other parts of the world
  “Small network in US gets access to some films at last” - Sony
  Touch – the sixth sense after all
  Has Samsung beaten Apple to a new-look ‘tablet-phone’ format?
  Nokia refreshes music phones yet again, adds stores and free music
  Palm and Microsoft on defensive against Apple, Google
  Set-top boxes change allegiances, TV model
  Intel's 4 new Atom chips not for PCs
  Thomson write down is big, but business still seems viable, cuts planned
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
4 March, 2009
 
  DirecTV nods assent to “TV Everywhere” – but it’s oh so dangerous
  Nagravision is ready with 4 million CMMB DRM chips for China
  Digital Fountain IPR ends up at its natural home - Qualcomm
  Blockbuster hangs on by its fingernails, asks lawyer to look at options
  Dish subscriber losses mount, and there’s worse quarters to come
  US consumers finally “get” internet video says survey
  Sorry your credit rating isn’t good enough to see the Mercedes advert
  Obama proposes new spectrum fees, FCC promises reform
  3 home network groups formally back HomeGrid's G.hn efforts
  Telecom Italia gets Mediaset soccer to drive IPTV, Fastweb up
  France Telecom hit by writedowns and iPhone loss, TV up 66%
  Chumby the product becomes Chumby the CE platform
  Amazon has free Kindle app for iPhone, extending its mobile model
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
25 February, 2009
 
  US Cable and Content in talks to annex video on the web
  DVB-H suffers another setback as South Africa puts Mobile TV on ice
  The great American myth – we watch TV all day long
  DSL shipments down for 2008, will recover then slide, post 2010
  Netflix: Streaming-only option by 2010
  Whoever replaces News Corp’s Chernin is bound to be a Murdoch
  Comcast: What recession?
  Panasonic signing European content for internet to TV content
  Flat screens taking over TV, but demand is still falling
  Siano now attacks the rest of MoTV from its secure Chinese base
  Researcher says mobile broadband prices are unsustainable
  Visto buys Good from Motorola to form anti-RIM alliance
  Zeemote drives gaming eco-system for handsets
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
18 February, 2009
 
  Dish hopes dashed as Liberty steps in to salvage Sirius
  Nokia-Qualcomm accord signals race to LTE, with all that entails
  Mobile TV inevitable, but not here yet at MWC Barcelona
  MusicStation to move from phones to homes in the name of piracy
  US digital switchover phase one goes off without a hitch
  Nokia App Store to reach 300 million devices by 2012
  Free has the best rates for broadband price, customer satisfaction
  Netflix numbers “alarmingly” up as US begins shift to online viewing
  Apple television may speed move to internet-ready TV sets
  Touch screen phones are mostly rubbish says survey
  LG Arena is the first iPhone rival that discovers new ground
  New HTC Android shows up wearing Vodafone colors
  TI’s OMAP lines up against Qualcomm’s multimode and Gobi chips
  Broadcom has reference platform to speed more Androids to market
  Mobile World Congress and other stuff
 
 
11 February, 2009
 
  Apple cannot avoid being invited to everyone’s mobile TV party
  Dish and Echostar stalk debt stake in Sirius - but for what exactly?
  Siano trumps DiBcom move to multi-protocol with iPhone win in Japan
  Amazon Kindle 2 – So many reasons for this to be a software platform
  App store DRM cracked; No one really cares
  French regulator shows telecomms in rude health, IPTV surging
  Does Wi-Fi 802.11y threaten WiMAX?
  White spaces supporters work on anti-interference database
  As MWC looms, what will be the key trends in Barcelona?
  Archos pushes Android into high definition video world
  Sony Ericsson pushes Walkman, Cyber brands to cheaper phones
  LG plans to continue investing through recession say executives
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
4 February, 2009
 
  AT&T finally introduces the quad play we’ve been expecting for years
  DiBcom makes major comeback with Mobile TV chip for any standard
  Time Warner Cable slowing down, impairments overshadow sales
  Nielsen online TV research only scratches the surface of what’s possible
  Thomson urgent cash needs – Grass Valley, PRN on the block
  Digital Britain – minus the bluster – leaves little new on the agenda
  WiMAX subscribers stalling, but networks still getting built
  Cox hits 4 million broadband subscribers
  US DTV transition slowly heads towards inevitable delay
  Multichoice pounces on soccer rights for Africa as GTV shuts its doors
  RIAA reportedly picks up Comcast, AT&T for anti-piracy
  PC builders mistakenly follow Windows into the Smart phone world
  Motorola running out of time to survive in handset market
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
28 January, 2009
 
  Sonic takes the covers off the new CinemaNow DRM reality
  Obama stimulus pack to throw $10 billion at broadband – but just how?
  Actors union fire “strike” negotiator after close call with Hollywood
  What recession? Deutsche Telekom sees IPTV doubling, staffing up
  YouTube aims to be TV juggernaut, Nintendo, Sony already on board
  IMS reckons that digital TV set tops are flying out the door until 2011
  US Senate votes through DTV delay – Congress likely to pass it too
  U-Verse and FiOS numbers strong as RBOCs re-assure market
  Flash market will shoot to $61 billion on back of PCs and Videocams
  Is Plastic Optic Fiber the next medium for home networks?
  Nokia ships first 1 million devices of iPhone rival
  Apple multitouch patent could spell bad news for Palm
  Sun finally puts flesh on JavaFX mobile challenge to Nokia and Google
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
21 January, 2009
 
  In a world where devices are homogenizing, why do we need stores?
  DTV delay gaining traction – Qualcomm puts its case
  Wii’s games console lead is staggering – leading us to ask what’s next?
  Online film player Jaman begins new international sites
  UK advisor may push for switch off spectrum to be given away
  Qualcomm:AMD - Business as usual or the start of a friendship
  Sony could kick Ericsson contribution into touch on PlayStation phone
  Study: Mobile media demand still limited
  Apple opens up cautiously to third party browsers, MS to follow?
  Cisco survey puts online video into perspective – especially Hulu
  AT&T, Verizon driving down prices for bundles
  US advertising shortfall hurts Clear Channel, Warner Brothers
  US retail spend plummets as expected, electronics not so bad
  Music heads up renewed MSN Mobile drive
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
14 January, 2009
 
  Steve Jobs stands down as health issues continue
  Siano is now king of the mobile chip makers after Dell and ZTE wins
  Mobile TV is coming to America in 2009 whether AT&T likes it or not
  Genachowski – Obama’s man to clean up the FCC image
  Omnifone offers genuine music portability to attack iTunes, Nokia
  60GHz, UWB and WHDI battle for relevance in HD wireless war
  Sonic and Blockbuster join hands to update online film concept
  NBC, CBS up the webisode ante
  Motorola could halve handset workforce and product range
  Nortel files for Chapter 11
  TiVo IV – The knockout – War with EchoStar looking like Rocky films
  Mediaroom makes it to China – but through a cable operator
  Freesat momentum on track to disturb global pay TV
  Expect a music video Hulu
  Vodafone in the UK opens door on the “other” P2P app - TV
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
7 January, 2009
 
  Apple is doing anything but “capitulating” over iTunes changes
  Intel CE 3100 shows its hand through Samsung CES TV launch
  China is ramping mobile TV phenomenally faster than the West
  Time Warner Cable Viacom dispute – The first of many
  As you were – Digital Home not in sight after all
  Alcatel-Lucent leads the DSL, fiber-optic markets
  Orange reports upswing in mobile broadband usage
  IP Wireless re-merges from shadow of collapsing NextWave
  Figures show that more people are buying more music than ever
  TV chip makers to suffer same challenges as LCD market
  Lionsgate takes TV Guide channels for $255 million
  Cisco steps up consumer efforts with hosted social networks
  Adobe plays on both sides in the mobile web and media game
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
17 December, 2008
 
  Digital home versions one and two almost ready to rock and roll
  EU now wants to put import duties back onto mobile phones
  So what was it like Dad when you had an antenna on your roof?
  Strike or no strike - Actors decision to reshape visual entertainment
  Barack 'Broadband' Obama wants it 'Now'
  BitBand is next VoD-er to use Flash to serve video
  IP Prime IPTV services fall from the sky – almost literally
  Delay in AWS-3 vote may force rethink of US free wireless plan
  Bell Canada buyout crashes
  Envivio says that its three screen encoder is going into several cellcos
  Nokia’s NoTA approach could transform cellphone economics
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
10 December, 2008
 
  Advertising will change forever during this recession
  Round one to White Space lovers, but it remains a long road
  South Africa gives DVB-H a fillip, two services opening in 2009
  Sony – the incredible shrinking company shrinks yet again
  EC crows over endorsement of a mobile TV plan that will never work
  FCC chairman tainted by claims of gross manipulation
  TiVo can load relevant adverts, searches when TV is paused
  In-car tuner for every type of TV on the planet
  After string of wireless chip warnings, who is poised to survive?
  IEEE enlists Via Licensing for wireless patent pools
  Amazon launches iPhone app
  Not one, but two, standards planned for High Speed Bluetooth
  MobiTV hits 5 million viewer mark
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
3 December, 2008
 
  If in-game ads can help make a president, what can they do for you
  Investors look to retail numbers for silver lining in US recession
  Vodafone Kabel rumors denied – doesn’t mean nothing’s happening
  Radio chip maker Mirics gets its CMMB act together
  UK Broadcaster quantifies popularity of video overlay advertising
  Hand of Murdoch seen behind determined soccer win at Premiere
  When will Ericsson land an IPTV client, not another supplier?
  Clearwire becomes ‘Clear’ but credit crisis casts shadow over merger
  Microsoft drops CSF platform to concentrate on hosted telco services
  Europe remains hotbed of broadband, but DSL growth slowing says EC
  UK viewers love DVRs almost as much as Americans says Parks
  Nokia World: N97 grabs headlines, but Ovi and S40 chase real growth
  That beep? Oh it just means my central heating went on at home
  Bronfman Jr increases Warner Music's market share
  Sony goes snap, crackle, pop with new made-for-web video content
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
26 November, 2008
 
  Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics and TV viewing figures
  Blockbuster set top – could do better, but deal shows 2Wire dominance
  Sigma blames IPTV for slow down, or is it something else?
  Semiconductors to plummet in line with PC and handset falls in 2009
  Sony Ericsson snatches handset third place by just 0.1%
  Vodafone fleshes out German Videotheque plans
  Amino buys Swedish IPTV set top marker Tilgin
  TiVo makes $100 million, has $200 million in the bank
  Google CEO calls for bailout of infrastructure
  Pace consolidates set top lead with hot new Canal+ deal
  Report: Pay-TV not bullet-proof
  Deutsche Telekom asks rivals to help build broadband network
  Orange takes its mobile TV offering to its Wi-Fi UMA platform
  SeaChange makes the long overdue move into VoD for mobiles
  Nokia adopts radical measures to improve fortunes in US and Japan
  Microsoft smartphone, Zune or otherwise to appear in 2009?
  Comverse takes sideways step out of billing to embrace mobile ads
  Redstone dilemma hints at entertainment asset changes ahead
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
19 November, 2008
 
  France will not get DVB-H working before 2010 - Orange
  Vodafone is hatching a global quad play in Germany
  Chinese mobile TV system now confirmed as African winner
  TNTSAT in France picks up another 400,000 since May
  Yang falls on his sword – Yahoo now up for grabs
  Mobile TV to sleep – then reach $10 billion by 2013 says report
  Contrasting styles and success from three DVB-H case studies
  Dilithium embraces Android in its high speed cellular video world
  European Commission collects evidence in celco versus VoIP war
  Broadband hits 400 million. How many more homes will take it?
  BitTorrent hits snag
  Consumers thinking Apple laptops, Dell desktops
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
12 November, 2008
 
  US pay TV buyers just want it cheap says survey
  It’s time advertisers spoke up about where Yahoo assets should be
  $10 billion retail giant teeters on brink, Circuit City opts for Chapter XI
  BBC exec finally raises issue of iPlayer being opened up internationally
  US IPTV wholesale systems come to boil after slow burn at Telco TV
  Dish has its expected disaster, but why is AT&T calling the DTH shots?
  Cisco focuses on mobile and video explosion to withstand downturn
  Software defined radios make 4G and white spaces usable
  Dell jumps on white space like white on rice
  Touchscreens and 8MP camera on Nokia’s 2009 roadmap
  Dish experimenting in addressable advertising ahead of the US crowd
  AOL powers G1 Android campaign to saturate online ad world
  MGM, MTV online sorties, but Nokia readies Comes with Video
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
5 November, 2008
 
  Requiem for a technology: DVB-H hanging on by its fingertips
  China’s claims for Mobile TV take up “exaggerated” but still thriving
  IPTV shrank in second quarter, but is growing once again
  iPhone to take on 1 Seg to ease Japanese sales
  Comcast adds more broadband subscribers than US Telcos combined
  FCC’s election day marathon lets slip the wireless dogs of war
  Broadband prices fall, but DSL still costs more per Megabit
  China jumps to 1.5 million IPTV homes – wants 2 million by year end
  Pace shows TV to be counter cyclical – currency is the only problem
  CBS writes down TV, radio and outdoor – ups online performance
  Intel ends UWB project, in possible deathknell for WiMedia
  Hulu beats out ESPN and CNN
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
29 October, 2008
 
  Entertainment and networks gritty results seem largely recession proof
  Two schools of thought on future of 3G iPhone – it’s hot or it’s not
  Second Thoughts on Broadcasting in the post 2009 Tsunami
  Daggers out for Windows Mobile
  Flat screen TV pricing has fallen, will fall a lot more
  Comcast getting ready to roll out DOCSIS 3.0 in more markets
  Cox and Xohm: raising hopes that carriers will invest through recession
  Orca tries second attempt to conquer Russian market
  Belt tightening right across the digital media landscape
  AOL still on top on music and video
  Akamai and Microsoft get closer over HD web video
  Qualcomm's $1bn challenge from GPS firm
  Hands-On challenges Java’s dominance in games
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
22 October, 2008
 
  Investors must look to consumer passion, network tuning technologies
  France shows its true colors on broadband, spectrum and digital divide
  Can FEC adapt DVB-T networks for mobile TV?
  Results show business was booming before finance train wreck hit
  France gets its fourth and least likely IPTV network from Bouygues
  US cable TV faces customer satisfaction issues
  IneoQuest adds the video dimension to its Quality of Experience line
  Verizon, Sprint see blue skies ahead
  Opposition mounts to FCC’s white spaces and AWS-3 proposals
  Intel and Ericsson team on embedded HSPA
  iTunes store sees over 200m TV show downloads
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
15 October, 2008
 
  BBC iPlayer opens DRM box of tricks, will it boost N96 sales?
  European mobile satellite war invites US attention, legal actions
  Thoughts on Broadcasting in the post 2009 Tsunami
  Microsoft Silverlight barred from iPhone, but should support Android
  Should we turn set tops into open platforms with published APIs?
  Ofcom chairman looks back on “improving” telecoms sector
  China ahead of US broadband, as recession halt broadband uptake
  FCC chairman wants to fiddle with US interconnection charges
  Intel preaches unity in order to dominate 60GHz standards
  Italian free satellite service name as Tivu
  Qualcomm wins a legal round against Broadcom, chip ban lifted
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
8 October, 2008
 
  TiVo final patent victory – EchoStar fumblings will not go unpunished
  Netflix suffers from “jumpy” shareholders – first media stock to warn
  CFOs must not fall back on saying “It’s the economy stupid”
  Germany authorities move to fix mobile TV impasse
  In the US internet advertising revenues flatline, the rest is healthy
  CDMA iPhone would expose the poor deal for US HSPA customers
  Nokia Tube, RIM Storm, LG Renoir - Three touchscreen big hitters
  News Corp takes rest of Jamba as Verisign exits non-core businesses
  US researcher sees huge CE growth regardless of any US slowdown
  Apple dodges royalty hike in iTunes
  MySpace music finds equity partners and criticism
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
1 October, 2008
 
  BMCO Director hints at broadening of European DVB-H markets
  Clone Wars: An avalanche of US Androids to spill over into Europe
  What shape may WiMAX video take? – We ask Sprint’s VoD company
  Freesat numbers endorse view that Pay TV faces major hurdle
  DirecTV pushes Dish from the AT&T table
  Xohm in Baltimore: A real mobile internet milestone
  Broadband continues to grow, but spend cooling rapidly
  Studios come after RealDVD – just as we said they had to
  Google’s ‘instant bid’ patent puts new weight behind an old idea
  Adobe tightens up its security for fun and profit
  Yalp gets recognition 5 months too late, but Cisco can take a bow
  Surprise: Home will be main location for mobile voice & data
  Prediction: 200 million ultra-mobile devices in 2013
  GSMA to push “Broadband inside” label into laptops
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
24 September, 2008
 
  SanDisk slotMusic cannot be all that it appears
  Europe plots to prevent incumbent telcos keeping fiber to themselves
  Qualcomm to put CDMA in the sky through US MSS players
  BMCO points to potential MoTV business models but not the winner
  NextWave avoids financial ruin but must sell off its crown jewels
  Sony baffles the market by adding MusicStation to PlayNow
  T-Mobile puts flesh on the bones of Google’s Android
  Nokia gives N96 its own TV channel to mark Europe launch
  Dutch first in Europe to get 100 Mbps DOCSIS 3.0
  Free satellites TV services picking up momentum
  German Cartel Office to take long hard look at pay TV set tops
  AT&T to integrate iPhone into U-Verse
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
17 September, 2008
 
  Samsung moves in for the kill in the over fed Flash market
  IPTV reaches out to reliability, advertising and the internet at IBC
  Web TV, format wars, application battles – Next stop for IPTV
  Europe starts rule making process for digital dividend
  Opera and Nvidia work on full web-on-mobile experience
  Mobile TV travels incognito at Europe’s IBC show
  Sony open content market opens as DECE
  Miniweb Brings Net-like Interactivity to TV
  Irdeto lines up new Indian DTH service with CA
  Sony Unveils a New Blu-ray Lineup
  Napster sold to Best Buy, but the logic is not appealing
  Yes there are 6,000 free movies on IMDB but are they worth watching?
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
10 September, 2008
 
  Ericsson IPTV middleware launches 3 years too late, with scant detail
  Digital TV on the rise says report – but just what form will it take?
  Nokia tweaks Ovi with integrated Avvenu file sharing, placeshifting
  Vodafone aims to change Live! portal “beyond recognition”
  Is RealDVD legal or not? A tough question which depends on its uptake
  Verimatrix and Latens chase one way networks, NDS goes after PCs
  HPNA flicks its nose at MoCA, lands Canada’s Telus
  AT&T finally introduces Total Home DVR, starting in Bay Area
  OpenTV gets embedded version of Flash Lite
  Next stop for NDS is to deliver operators more profitable advertising
  Harmonic wins all important encoding vote in Adobe Flash
  DirecTV tightens grip on NFL by taking it online
  Mobile TV chip makers target PCs and DTT networks
  Sony Ericsson lines up iPhone challenger Xperia for September
  Symbian build up - support now at 40 companies, 100s in the wings
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
3 September, 2008
 
  Shiny new Chrome, looks for success from IE failings
  Digital TV world awaits DVB-T2 chips with bated breath
  Broadcom backs WirelessHD for home video networks – or does it?
  Motorola kicks out Cisco, Tatung in Deutsche Telekom IPTV
  Nagravision wins Chinese mobile TV conditional access contract
  ALU gains Verwaayen, one of the few CEOs up to the challenge
  DVR’s are now indispensable says NDS study
  Comcast errs on the side of generous with its new ISP data cap
  DirecTV and TiVo falling in love all over again
  Qualcomm loses another legal battle with Broadcom
  Final Fantasy author may trigger Japanese gaming consolidation
  Japan seeks upper hand as emerging markets drive mobile wallets
  Nokia’s Comes With Music goes to UK first
  Vudu Lays Off 20%, Hires CFO
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
27 August, 2008
 
  Intel Yahoo widgets initiative catapults them to the head of digital home
  DRM Trust Authority to emerge with the blessing of Hollywood
  Cellular streaming TV to make a comeback with breakthrough codec
  Alcatel finally clambers onto the BCAST bandwagon in Singapore
  Broadcom tops and tails its DTV chips with AMD division
  IPTV prices crash in Germany, new Hansenet bosses follow suit
  Comcast FCC war may need lawyers to resolve entrenched positions
  Nokia upgrades multimedia Nseries – OLED screen, bundled games
  Intel’s next attempt to define standards: the mobile wallet
  What do you get when you marry a PMP and an internet tablet?
  Intel puts in a bid to unify 60GHz efforts
  UK legal firm triggers massive bout of suing P2P gamers
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
20 August, 2008
 
  Nokia takes on Intertrust DRM patents after years in the wilderness
  What will the NDS strategy be, under private equity control?
  Ericsson ST move helps consolidate wireless chip makers
  Cox Cable lays out simple plans to conquer quad play using 700 MHz
  Netherlands mobile TV system finally opens arms to Nokia devices
  Norway sticks to its T-DMB guns for mobile TV
  “Lonely Planet” guides killer app to go with Nokia Maps
  Samsung leads in US LCD TV market, Sony market share falls
  Silicon Image shows HDMI chips for multi-room multi-device video
  BitTorrent Shaky
  US handset market appear to plummet
  BitBand offers ten myths of IPTV to expectant IBC crowd
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
14 August, 2008
 
  Korean Telcos finally to be allowed to launch IPTV services
  Qualcomm: Interview with a cellular Vampire
  Siano funding round comes on the back of breaking into China
  Digital UK: More broadband, digital TV and internet advertising
  AppStore on way to $500m, but beware of the threat from open phones
  MediaFLO alive and well and biding its time
  German Mobile TV - Still in search of a business model?
  Qualcomm demos 20 Mbps from a phone – ahead of the crowd
  Telefonica to spend heavily to extend TVA TV reach in Brazil
  Pulse~Link scores much-needed standards win on coax
  Motorola looks to steal a march in white spaces debate
  Motorola readies its Tru2way offering
  AT&T and Verizon have disastrous Broadband quarter
  Sony takes rest of Sony BMG, Bertelsmann goes back to music rights
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
30 July, 2008
 
  Sony, Samsung lend weight to HD wireless home effort from Amimon
  Satellite Radio: A merger for investors, stalled by bureaucracy
  Disruptive Freesat eco-system and momentum begin to build in UK
  Is Dark Knight going to hold the box office record for some time?
  Counting the IPTV subscribers suggests that cable is suffering
  Motorola restructures again, with full break-up now a possibility
  AT&T dust up with Sprint over WiMAX plans
  Top UK ISPs to police consumers in P2P music piracy deal
  AT&T to offer new broadband tiers, bye-bye "up to" pricing schemes
  Microsoft and Google shift war further towards mobile
  Qualcomm-Nokia wars: Peace breaks out suddenly – as predicted
  NDS lands first DVB-H deal, with Russian major Sistema
  Netflix numbers show the effects of online initiatives
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
23 July, 2008
 
  Gaming riding waves of mergers, console wars, advertising and mobility
  All’s well at AT&T – but is it enough to stop a rocking US economy?
  WiMedia Alliance board shrinks in line with promise of its technology
  Amazon changes course in online video wars - heads for streaming
  Sony gathers supporters to make TransferJet a de facto standard
  G.hn looms in battle for wired digital home
  Predictable running order for CA DRM system comparison
  FCC Commissioners play political games over satellite radio merger
  Sony Ericsson rolls out Christmas music phones – with few surprises
  Symbian hints at Google truce for handset unified platform
  Despite iPhone, simple handsets still main vehicle for the mobile web
  Telecom and Media face a harsh quarter of sub-prime panic economics
  LCD screens set to take most of the global TV market by 2012
  FCC indecency fines get another courtroom reversal
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
16 July, 2008
 
  India awakens sleepy cable sector with $ billions of cash for digitization
  Motivated, moneyed, murderous – is that enough in defense of IPTV
  If we don’t see a PSP phone by Christmas, it will be too late
  iPhone scores on apps despite activation "fiasco"
  Macrovision sees single user interface for TV shows, movies, music
  Will first generation addressable advertising systems be a disaster?
  BT to lay fiber to 10 million homes, bids for Ofcom deal on pricing
  “Homes need 2 Wi-Fi networks, one for video, one for data” - Linksys
  Pace lands prime HD set top deal at Sky Italia
  DVB-T2 ready, being tested and will hit during 2009
  Can Guitar Hero and the top record label take on Apple’s iTunes
  Sony and Microsoft lead E3 efforts with online films, price cuts
  Just when you thought it was safe to use your phone – Spam II
  New entrant Silicon Image wants to drag HDMI onto the handset
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
9 July, 2008
 
  Nielsen good news report disguises an industry in flux
  Yahoo-Google-Microsoft wars - as much about the mobile as the net
  Broadband shifts emphasis to fiber, but not here
  Sony puts more and more of the PSP into a phone
  Cartiza gets Comcast boost for mobile content platform
  Let’s watch some music on the TV
  Google Viacom will form the case law to build an industry on
  Widevine files its third patent suit against Verimatrix, but no-one else
  Apple promises ambitious global launch for “unhackable” 3G iPhone
  GSMA groans at prospect of regulator intervention on data roaming
  Mobile TV is $15 billion opportunity
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
2 July, 2008
 
  Permira bid for NDS hints at new era for News Corp orphan
  Sony to send films to US homes, aims for 3 new $10 billion businesses
  The only European mobile TV success story – now wants to change tack
  Long wait to use mobile as a wallet should end in 2009
  Dish given notice by AT&T, also wants its $500 million back
  Nokia “Comes with Music” partners with Warner
  Intel approaches fortieth birthday at a wireless crossroads
  Google signs with TeleAtlas, challenging Nokia Navteq
  Game changer? NetEx touts 10X speed increase over existing wires
  Another IPTV pioneer bites the dust as Espial sweeps up Kasenna
  Sirius to go cash generative overnight after merger
  AT&T Enters Content Delivery Network Market
  Fragmented media will thrive on fragmented 10 second advertising
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
25 June, 2008
 
  DVB-H on/off show doesn’t mean that China’s STiMi won’t happen
  Comcast and friends could put a femtocell in most US cable homes
  UWB patent stands up against Tzero on HD over Coax
  Nokia gathers its forces to strike back at Android and Linux
  US Newspaper industry ready for massive consolidation
  Nokia plans dominance of mobile advertising, which is on its way
  FCC defies chairman to rap Verizon over-aggressive marketing
  NXTcomm: Wireless broadband, home networks, copper wires
  Muni wi-fi is baaaack - SkyZhone resurrects hopes for muni wi-fi
  European set top tax just part of wider job exodus to China
  Nokia buys Symbian, to turn it into Google’s open source nightmare
  FCC raises notion of free mobile broadband - We’ve heard it all before
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
18 June, 2008
 
  MHP licensing to be kick started in the free to air sector
  FCC chairman pushes for Satellite radio deal, wants open devices
  Delay or failure of Chinese Mobile TV satellite, may hurt EchoStar
  Sony Ericsson reaches for PlayStation, Cybershot to invigorate handsets
  Apple and Adobe further apart than ever on iPhone Flash issue
  Sigma Designs takes its HDMI UWB system to market with Monster
  Huawei to add DiBcom DVB-T chip to laptop HSPA dongles
  Supreme Court ruling hits Qualcomm, but its 3G forecasts are up
  Mobile broadband to be bigger than wired broadband in 2 years
  GPS pioneer loses out to Broadcom in round one of IPR legal battle
  EA continues forlorn undervalued bid for GTA owner Take-Two
  Mediaroom makes new friends, Microsoft buys interactive Ad company
  New EMI owner could be on the verge of selling out
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
11 June, 2008
 
  In-Game advertising endorsed by Sony, tear up your old forecasts
  You can copy the iPhone, but not the iPhone experience
  NextWave next stop is Taiwan – to show what MXtv can do
  Apple sacrifices iPhone price for volume, carriers may bear the burden
  Wi-Fi, UWB and WirelessHD battle for IEEE’s 60GHz standards
  AT&T offers single triple play bundle wireline with wireless broadband
  Iliad’s Free looks to have landed Telecom Italia’s French ISP Alice
  Top US cablecos test ways to better manage Internet traffic
  Amino provides a home for struggling AssetHouse
  European operators pushing free IPTV to capture broadband riches
  Microsoft enhances CSF to target key role in ‘Telco 2.0’ value chain
  Comes with internet video: What a good idea for a TV maker like Sony
  XM settles last Inno “hear it, click it, save it,” lawsuit
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
4 June, 2008
 
  Sony is just one of the problems on the dark Motorola horizon
  If you’re starting a technology revolution: Makes sure everyone gets it
  Blockbuster dusts off video kiosk idea, says it will work
  Philips, Axel Springer promise electronic guide for TV and the net
  Intel inspired PC PAN eco-system gives rise to Ozmo low power Wi-Fi
  Italy next in line to launch free to air satellite HD TV
  Russia opens its doors to Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV
  Nvidia takes major gamble in targeting Intel Atom
  Flash memory accelerating towards storage dominance
  Chinese telco reorganization should be clean sweep for LTE
  Korean S-DMB Mobile TV shifts to free TV in SKT bundles
  Amazon to move up to streaming movies from Unboxed downloads
  Triple and Quad Play News
  Internet TV and Advertising News
  Mobile and Mobile TV News
 
 
28 May, 2008
 
  France sticks with its “communal” populist model for DVB-H
  Sony agrees terms to liberate US cable from clutches of Moto and SFA
  The potential for Apple’s future extends way beyond the digital home
  Cellular mergers made in heaven or the newspapers
  Akimbo caves in, its new ideas have no time to take
  EU may not be able to crush levies, but it can at least harmonize them
  Sarin gives way to Colao; Vodafone looks like real mobile data giant
  On-device portals find their place at the heart of new mobile internet
  US mobile phone sales down 22%
  Seagate 'showcases' new DVR storage
  Time Warner Cable – Could a cash cow feed the crows
  Watch out for when the whole studio industry goes straight to DVD
  Products, Partnerships and Deals
 
 
21 May, 2008
 
  DVB-T2 puts mobile TV on the back burner, says DVB-T has long life
  Qualcomm and BSkyB, a scary unpredictable combination
  Vodafone and BSkyB likely to fight over Tiscali spoils
  US inches towards a Mobile TV strategy – no DVB-H comeback
  Yahoo Microsoft talks back on, over ad cooperation, not merger
  US Cablecos keep broadband and market share lead with 54.8%
  Qualcomm takes largest slice of $30 billion wireless chip cake in 2007
  MBMS not exactly limited to 7 TV channels says Ericsson
  Dilithium tackles mobile video delivery
  Time Warner Cable pays $11 bn dowry to separate from Time Warner
  IPTV growing to $37 billion service business by 2012
  DSL pricing up, but speeds up too says researcher
  IPTV counts for European majors all headed upwards
  Netflix intros direct to TV device for its online video service
  Dish, NagraStar suit on NDS disappears in a puff of smoke
  Deals and Devices
  Financial and Regulatory News
  Mobile and Mobile TV News
 
 
14 May, 2008
 
  Korean partners sit down and agree to set aside ATSC differences
  MBMS is inevitably seeping into the 3G eco-system
  Will broadcast TV die or just settle to something smaller than it was
  Apple shifts iPhone model chasing market share, fending off RIM, HTC
  Cablevision buys piece of New York history, builds a piece of its future
  Hard times ahead for DSL
  How many telcos does it take to kill Skype?
  Pay TV styles are neck and neck in the first quarter
  Sprint and Sun push Java as the unifying force for the ‘middle web’
  Carphone partners Best Buy for retail, looks to broadband for growth
  Microsoft cozies up to content owners
  Video search co blinkx tipped for acquisition among usual web suspects
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
7 May, 2008
 
  Sprint-Nextel puts together Clearwire deal with Google, Intel, Cablecos
  Cellcos and friends back European report to speed UHF allocation
  Both Microsoft and Yahoo NEED a new deal – what about each other
  Ruckus claims patent breach at Netgear as MIMO becomes commodity
  AT&T launches “me too” mobile TV service destined for early failure
  Format, codec fragmentation drives managed video market says Nativ
  Iridium enjoys 41% growth but plows different furrow from Inmarsat
  GoView! download service from BSkyB to Sony PSP coming in Summer
  Motorola building online movie store
  Adobe’s Open Screen boosts its bid for mobile media standards
  Kontiki released to plow its own furrow
  Microsoft tweaks Zune recommendations, adds stacks of video
  Widevine says it can protect ALL Microsoft video formats, and Flash
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
30 April, 2008
 
  Texas confesses that UWB simply not mature enough, looks to wi-fi
  Adobe’s sprint into DRM may just be the start of a marathon
  Dish deal over DVB-SH may well decide Alcatel’s future in mobile TV
  Widevine lands plum Motorola reseller deal
  Sprint still needs cablecos as Pivot fails, but will Comcast go it alone?
  TIA report touches every forecast in the communications industries
  Growing field of contenders for internet-connected set-top boxes
  Conexant bows out of set tops in $145 million NXP deal
  NextWave simplifies its story with return to spectrum trading
  Sun, Apple each buy chip start-ups for influence in handhelds
  TV Shows Start Appearing Online Illegally Within Minutes
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
23 April, 2008
 
  Gracenote fingerprinting, metadata to enrich all future Sony offerings
  Conditions for conditional access drive new strategies at NAB
  Video Wars: Microsoft’s journey from monopoly to ecology in web video
  Is video quality becoming the next frontier in IPTV?
  Qualcomm sees UK L Band as latest chance for a European beach head
  Magic box promises all web content (legal & otherwise) on the TV
  What’s the hullabaloo about Hulu or Paramount’s film channel?
  News Corp ponders damage to FCC ownership regulations on new deal
  Nokia Music Store hits France and Australia with new phones
  AT&T lawyer throws a lot of mud at Net Neutrality wall. None sticks
  Nokia shares fall on warnings over handset prices and “crazy currency”
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
16 April, 2008
 
  US Mobile TV moves at NAB begin to shape its ATSC M/H future
  Sony feels new HD confidence in aftermath of Blu-ray win
  Philips watermarking coming to the aid of internet video
  ioko taps Kontiki partner for US CEO, targets tier 1 accounts
  Are film studios and broadcasters lightening up?
  Mediaroom quietly moves towards scale and promised feature set
  STMicro-NXP wireless venture signifies handset realignment
  Has Texas fallen away from the WiMedia Alliance UWB effort?
  Nokia Comes with Music will be a game-changer
  NBC Universal says mobile platform is crucial
  Blockbuster Circuit City deal seen a solution to all that real estate
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
9 April, 2008
 
  MOCA – Trying to build a European bridgehead from FiOS success
  My name is Motorola, king of mobile: Look on my works, and despair
  Telcos look to entertainment for growth in France and Ireland
  Malone takes yet more of DirecTV as it loses AT&T’s favor
  Yahoo and Microsoft face off, bolster mobile software armories
  ICO launches satellite to support mobile TV ambitions
  Microsoft fights back with Windows Mobile upgrade
  Sprint CEO hits out at doubting Thomases - WiMAX is not slideware
  What about putting iPhone OS on a non-iPhone phone?
  Tandberg updates Mediapath for something other than cable VoD
  RIAA takes a step back in onus of proof in piracy cases
  Deals, launches and products
 
 
2 April, 2008
 
  Broadcast International - First HD at 3 Mbps, now MoTV at 46 kbps
  DVB-H patent pool is set, but grumblings likely from rivals, cellcos
  One of the last great French sales threatens new ISP map
  Why are the TV and Mobile global maps the way they are?
  Google looks to white spaces to be ‘third time lucky’ for open access
  Thomson properties likely to go on the block as CEO departs
  Mobile TV – a service which cellular operators don’t yet control
  Motorola DVB-H push, round 2 – looks more and more the part
  AT&T MediaFLO deal likely to launch Sony film channel
  Poland may have delays to 2009/2010 for DVB-H Mobile TV
  Gartner Report: 10 million 3G Capable iPhones Coming
  Revived cableco alliance could save Xohm – and Sprint
  Comcast, BitTorrent Snuggle Up for More Efficient Broadband Use
  Legend harnesses aigo for USB dongle to show Olympic HD on PCs
  Harmonic’s Rhozet wins deal at Akimbo
 
 
26 March, 2008
 
  Dishing up a new mobile TV approach – with a spattering of Chinese?
  Karmazin to turn red ink to black, when he unveils post merger plans
  The last great American movie scam
  Adobe completes video DRM to support all online business models
  European broadband revenue topped $98bn in 2007
  TiVo allows access to web videos
  Look East if you happen to want to supply cable and IPTV systems
  Enfant Terrible of Digital Music Defends New Startup
  Japan joins countries where ISP will crack down on piracy
  Could the flat rate plan by why iPhone users access the web so often?
  French Quad player offers DVB-T handset, calls it mobile TV
  Motorola to be broken into handsets and the rest
  Triple and Quad Play News
 
 
19 March, 2008
 
  The rise of the P4P architecture to turn the Internet into a big TV set
  Satellite madness halts US DTH rush to Russian space craft – HD stalls
  NEC’s arrival unlikely to make a dent in Europe’s IPTV scene
  EU backs DVB-H – but we see Mobile TV splintering in Europe
  Plan mooted for European super-chipmaker to challenge Intel
  Vodafone silences the mobile data cynics with fourfold growth in usage
  Comcast not going to stand idly by and be capped by the FCC
  UPC Romania may fall to partner Orange
  Researchers sees TV advertising rising to 2012 – were not so sure
  What do you call an Xbox without a DVD drive? – An ExBox
  Hollywood Lobs Hulu Missile at Arrivistes
  Windows Mobile signs for Adobe Flash Lite, now on 500m devices
  EMI Cuts Anti-Piracy Funding of IFPI
  Triple and Quad Play news
  Regulator and Financial News
  Mobile and Mobile TV News
 
 
12 March, 2008
 
  NextWave waving (not drowning) – as it solves the WiMAX TV riddle
  Orca Viaccess deal is far from black and white
  Apple unveils iPhone SDK and iFund, but developers remain frustrated
  Inmarsat in talks with three national carriers about satellite services
  IPTV World Forum - Content, DRM strive for three screens – but why?
  Edgeware lands its first tier 1 telco for breakthrough Flash VoD
  PCCW takes the first steps to HD on back of Harmonic deal
  Neptuny offers hosted IPTV recommendation engine for smaller Telcos
  Motorola extends DVB-H reach with investment in Italy’s Quantum
  Regulatory and Financial news
  Triple and Quad Play News
 
 
5 March, 2008
 
  Will US 700 MHz auction be remembered for dismembering wireless
  Nokia gets the upper hand in global IPR wrestle with Qualcomm
  Sprint-Nexel: Waiting for a way to walk the WiMAX walk
  Will future generations do three things at once, and talk less
  Sony PlayTV combines DVR and Placeshifting, for $200 on PS3
  Nokia and Microsoft get closer with Silverlight deal to challenge Adobe
  European cellcos split on Nokia Ovi, T-Mobile latest to be hostile
  Is it too soon for a Zune phone?
  Handset makers ready to deploy contactless payment standard
  Akimbo business strategy all Akimbo – still
  US homes need 10 Mbps so they can watch HD web video, placeshifting
  Japan launches Big Kizuna satellite broadband
  Cablevision approaching 50% broadband penetration
  Mobile and Mobile TV News
  Triple and Quad Play News
  Regulatory and Financial News
 
 
27 February, 2008
 
  IP Wireless and cousin Packet Video make bid for all DVB-H refugees
  Quietly creating a Ruckus while holding the hands of telcos
  As the US Upfront process transitions, networks psych themselves up
  Thomson France Telecom Sagem pact to open up home IP service stack
  DISH subscriber rates crash and burn in the fourth quarter
  Will embedded 3G on PCs force Intel’s hand to support cellular
  Disney ups the ante in online multiplayer games
  Google move to video overlay adverts – a follower not a leader
  P2P research plans Europe wide broadband broadcasting network
  DVD Jon strikes music CDs this time
  MySpace planning move into crowded music market
  AT&T's MediaFLO mobile TV delayed again
  Motorola launches DOCSIS 3.0, buys Chinese cable set top maker
  Regulatory and Financial News
  Mobile and Mobile TV News
  Quad and Triple Play News
 
 
20 February, 2008
 
  HD DVD is dead – Will Sony turns its big guns to the Xbox now
  Can the US Mobile Satellite Services market ignite in the near term
  NDS EchoStar trial on hacking comes to court after 5 years
  Net Neutrality with sanity – This time it might make it
  Mobile TV chip market attracting more and more players at MWC
  Linux takes helm of mobile web, but too immature to bear the burden
  Siano partners India’s Tata to court local and global DVB-H market
  Better late than never – NXP, Thomson put analog tuners into JV
  DirecTV seems to be flourishing in the teeth of US recession woes
  Cox thrives as Comcast broadband growth slows
  Starbucks dumps T-Mobile for AT&T
  Clear Channel still haggling over the deals that will rejuvenate it
  Nokia rolls out mobile ad network building on Enpocket acquisition
  What Darwin might have said about the Hollywood writers strike
  Products, Partnerships and Deals
 
 
13 February, 2008
 
  European Cellcos act rather than wait for DVB-H spectrum
  Texas says 2008 for a chip to put TV projector into a handset
  Mobile TV gets to grips with integration
  Top device makers flood MWC with GPS, music, FM and megapixels
  Nokia is happy to take on Google Search as a front door for its mapping
  Nvidia thinks it’s time to go after handset application CPU role
  If a Nortel Motorola tie up is the answer, what’s the question?
  Microsoft and Yahoo just coy while they think about marriage terms
  BT Vision now promised a future – BT Fusion is quietly buried
  Motorola joins lengthening list of companies taking Intertrust patents
  Content delivery legal spat reduced to single Akamai patent
  Verizon goes after Charter now, is it lining up entire cable industry?
  Products, Partnerships and Deals
 
 
6 February, 2008
 
  IBM’s Cell Z Series marriage – the tools for a gaming revolution
  Now Broadcom wades into mobile TV market on the heels of NXP
  Microsoft-Yahoo - Perhaps the first internet-mobile internet combo
  Digital Fountain Raptor FEC for IPTV installed first European Telco
  TiVo EchoStar and Dish need to sit down and work it out
  Yahoo takes Rhapsody, may buy Maven. Both are snubs for Microsoft
  DiBcom will deliver Alcatel DVB-SH receiver in Q3
  Giants and minnows adopt strategies to feast on LTE transition
  Garmin offers touch screen handset, mp3 player, maps, GPS
  Top ten things that will NOT make any difference to technology
  Move over Apple & Microsoft, here comes Amazon
  Amazon Europe drops out of online DVD rental, partners LOVEFiLM
  Sony dampens PS3 sales forecast
  Products, Partnerships and Deals
 
 
30 January, 2008
 
  NXP re-awakens mobile TV chips efforts with $2, low power device
  Mobile TV – Operators still have their head in the clouds
  Nokia will bring Indonesia to the DVB-H fold after two years trying
  Microsoft lands Wall Street Journal web ad serving deal
  Nokia Trolltech purchase directed at Google
  Tiscali CEO sees things the same way we do
  Grown up Pace Micro, happier in itself, looking forward to marriage