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Broadband Content Bits: BBC Video Increase, Video Traffic Up - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 27 Mar 2008 03:38 AM PST

- BBC video: Switching from RealMedia and Windows Media Video to Flash video is giving BBC News a ten-fold increase in the number of times a video is viewed. Trialled…

Broadband Content Bits: Virgin 50 Mbps, Kangaroo Ads, Velocix P2P - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 26 Mar 2008 05:23 AM PST

- Virgin 50 Mbps: Nine million VMED customers will have access to 50 Mbps cable this year, the company said, considering best methods for rollout: “Unlike big routed networks, we…

Broadband & Mobile Content Bits: BlinkBox; Travel Buddy; DIDMO - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 25 Mar 2008 06:13 AM PST

— BlinxBox Gets Fremantle Content: Digital video start up BlinkBox has struck a content deal with RTL-owned Fremantle Media, that will give BlinkBox users access to its library of shows,…

Broadband Content Bits: Orange TV; C4 On iTunes; Blinkx Desktop; EU Leads US - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 19 Mar 2008 05:26 AM PST

- Orange TV: Orange’s UK IPTV service still shows no signs of emerging from testing. The service already operates in France, Poland and Spain and had promised a 2007 UK…

Broadband Content Bits: ITV.com Gets F1; BBC IPTV Plans - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 14 Mar 2008 02:16 AM PST

- BBC IPTV plans: The BBC’s TV platforms controller Rahul Chakkara called on IPTV players, at the IPTV World Forum in London, to pull up their socks, arguing current packages…

MySpace UK To Launch “Hyper Targeted” Ads - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 12 Mar 2008 05:16 AM PST

In a bid to give British advertisers “more bang for their buck,” social network MySpace is rolling out a new advertising system in the UK that targets users based on…

Broadband Content Bits: Aardman And Digital Outlook; MyVideoRights; Trinity Mirror - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 12 Mar 2008 03:05 AM PST

— Aardman And Digital Outlook Launch Characters On Bebo: Wallace & Gromit producer Aardman and Digital Outlook studios have co-produced a set of musical characters for teens, which are debuting…

Broadband Content Bits: Five News/MySpace; DT’s IPTV/Web; Telecom Italia Moves; Norway Gets Voom HD - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 10 Mar 2008 08:32 AM PST

- Five News: In a rare online move, the fifth channel’s news show is to be carried on MySpace TV. NMA said a daily bulletin will be “co-branded” so it…

Pompei Falls As Tiscali Seeks A Buyer - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 29 Feb 2008 08:05 AM PST

Tiscali has appointed board member Mario Rosso its new CEO after the resignation of Tommaso Pompei yesterday - and it looks like his main task will be to steer the…

Web TV Streams Triple ISP Costs; PlusNet Blames iPlayer - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 21 Feb 2008 09:39 AM PST

BBC iPlayer has tripled ISP traffic costs, according to one carrier. BT-owned, Sheffield-based PlusNet reported a record customer bandwidth spike in January, 66 percent more streaming content used since December…

ISPs Hit Back Against Monitoring Digital Piracy - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 13 Feb 2008 03:57 AM PST

ISPs have hit back at mounting criticism—and pending regulatory action—that they are not doing enough to halt digital piracy. After months of vociferous complaints from music and film companies and…

Earnings: BSkyB Income Down A Quarter On Broadband, ITV, Legal Costs - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 06 Feb 2008 01:20 AM PST

BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) committed a full £103 million to its broadband rollout in the second half of 2007 - and saw its customer base grow 260,000 to 1.199 million. The…

Poll: Should ISPs Be Responsible For Tackling Illegal P2P? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 30 Jan 2008 03:53 AM PST

In recent weeks, the music business, software publishers and U2’s manager have supported French moves to make ISPs monitor and kick off customers engaging in illegal P2P - but Telefonica…

MySpaceTV Will Distribute BBC Worldwide Globally - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 23 Jan 2008 06:22 PM PST

MySpace and BBC Worldwide are partnering to deliver new and archived short-form BBC content through MySpaceTV. The deal is described as the first global agreement between MySpace and a major…

P2P Tech Firm CacheLogic Raises $25 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 23 Jan 2008 02:06 PM PST

CacheLogic, a Cambridge, UK-based P2P technology firm, has raised another big round: it has received $25 million in new fourth round of funding, according to Dan Rayburn, and has raised…

Tiscali Expects To Be Snapped Up Within Two Years - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Jan 2008 04:19 AM PST

Tiscali’s CEO expects to sell the business to bigger rivals within two years. Tommaso Pompei told FT.com he saw few acquisition targets for the company so it’s more likely Tiscali…

UK Round-Up: Virgin Support, S4C Courts Diaspora - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Jan 2008 03:29 AM PST

- Virgin Media: Philippines-based customer support call centre operator eTelecare will set up a UK subsidiary after winning a contract from Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED). The company told the Philippine…

Carphone Broadband Subs Grow; BSkyB Investment ‘To Pay Off’ In ‘09 - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Jan 2008 04:00 AM PST

Carphone Warehouse gained 118,000 net new broadband subscribers in the quarter to December 29, taking it up to 2.6 million, and the TalkTalk churn rate held steady. It helped fixed-line…

Round-Up: CNET Grows, VOD Survey, French ‘Piracy Champions’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Jan 2008 04:28 AM PST

- CNET: CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks may be facing a fight to control its board at home in San Francisco, but here in the UK the tech publisher’s flagship CNET.co.uk…

BT To Pilot Fibre-To-Home; 100Mbps For Instant Music Downloads - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 10 Jan 2008 03:50 AM PST

Lucky Ebbsfleet. BT’s (NYSE: BT) Openreach network access unit will join Virgin in testing next-generation access in the Kent town. It will lay down fibre to a planned 10,000-home estate…

Tiscali To Debut Mobile Phone Net In Quad-Play Drive - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 04 Jan 2008 03:56 AM PST

Italian broadband provider Tiscali is planning to roll out a UK mobile phone service in the last three months of 2008, according to Telegraph.co.uk. It’s currently in discussions with the…

BBC To Cache iPlayer Downloads With ISPs; Could Soothe Net Neutrality Fears: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Sun 23 Dec 2007 06:57 AM PST

The BBC is looking to alleviate ISPs’ concerns over iPlayer’s bandwidth consumption by trialling an effort to cache VOD shows at providers’ local exchanges. The corporation’s digital media technology head…

BBC Wants Faster, Fairer Networks For Future Interactive Services - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 17 Dec 2007 01:01 AM PST

Here’s another reason for Ofcom to convince telcos to build high-speed open networks - the very future of the BBC’s online provision. The broadcaster’s future media and technology director Ashley…

UK Digital Penetration Driven By Cheapest Bundles: Ofcom - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 12 Dec 2007 07:48 AM PST

British consumers are getting some of the best deals for broadband, mobile and television services in Europe, thanks to cheap bundled services, according to an exhaustive report from Ofcom, looking…

Online Video Entertainment In 2007, And What’s To Come in 2008: Our LA Year-End Review Panel - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 09 Dec 2007 06:24 PM PST

Last week in Los Angeles, we had our Year-End Review panel and ContentNext Mixer. The one -hour panel on digital video/entertainment in 2008 touched on a lot of points, and…