-- Opera on iPhone: Fresh from forcing Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to offer browser choices in Europe, Norway's Opera is copying Spotify by darin……
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Trilliant’s All-In-One Smart Grid Network
In the world of smart grid, there tends to be two kinds of networks — short range local area networks (LANs) that…
Read MoreBT Mulls Freeview Pay-TV, Bets Big On Fibre
BT (NYSE: BT) seemingly wants to show Sky Sports and Movies over Freeview as well as IPTV, if Ofcom's upcoming report on the pay-TV market c……
Read MoreYouTube’s Rental Box Office Totals Flop
A figure that doesn't seem to bode too well for paid content on YouTube: The video site grossed just $10,709.16 by renting five Sundance Fil……
Read MoreBroadband Content Bits: BT Fibre, Embarrassing Bodies, Pirate Anonymity, Radio Apps, BSkyB/ITV
-- BT (NYSE: BT) fibre: BT has launched a fibre-to-the-cabinet consumer broadband service, Infinity, offering up to 40Mbps starting at £19.……
Read MoreBroadband Content Bits: TV Metrics, Slicethepie Band, BT Football
-- TV viewing: Look out, BARB - TV overnights are no longer the sole determinant of a show's popularity. BBC Vision director Jana Bennett wr……
Read MoreVid-Biz: Boxee, Sling, NAB
Boxee Box Remote Has a QWERTY Keyboard; the company says for people to get the most out of the box the remote…
Read MoreCan We Kill Off Copper Next Decade?
The heads of British Sky Broadcasting and Carphone Warehouse, two smaller British ISPs, so far aren't impressed with BT's planned fiber-to-the-cabinet network because it isn't flexible enough, nor is it future-proof. Is this a sign that copper has no place in broadband networks any longer?…
Read MoreBT Vision Ad Banned For Claiming To Show New Films Before Sky
By Mark Sweney: An ad campaign by BT (NYSE: BT) Vision claiming that it runs new films before they appear on BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has been ba……
Read MoreBT Hopes to Fast-track Fiber Broadband
BT, a company known for dragging its feet when it comes to deploying a super-fast broadband network for its consumers, has surprised everyone by saying that it will ramp up the deployment of its ultra-speedy network and have it ready by the London Olympics in 2012.…
Read MoreBroadband Content Bits: Sky/Brightcove, Spotify In Stores, NBC On BT, Audioboo Desktop
-- Sky/Brightcove: Sky Italia is picking Brighcove for its sky.it sites. This will extend the pay-TV company's web efforts with advertising.……
Read MoreThe FCC Sees the Future — and It's VoIP
The FCC is prepping for a future without the circuit-switched network that currently handles most of the calls in this country, as we transition to an all-IP communications network. This transition requires regulatory reform, but will also enable new services that meld voice, video and data.…
Read MoreBT Vision Sign-Ups Halved As Profits Fall 45 Percent
BT (NYSE: BT) Vision added 18,000 customers in the three months to September 30, a fall of almost 50 percent on the previous quarter blamed……
Read MoreRibbit Mobile's Launch Shows BT's Strategy Isn't Just All Talk
BT’s Ribbit is taking on Google (s goog) Voice with a cloud-based service that combines Internet voice, smart call routing and voicemail…
Read MorePay TV Inquiry: BT Using Canvas As Stick For Sky Carrot
BT (NYSE: BT) is now using the cover of Project Canvas in its latest bid to get BSkyB's channels on its Vision TV service. The telco has pr……
Read MoreBT Vision Chief: ‘We Will Miss Three Million Subscriptions Target’
BT's IPTV service BT (NYSE: BT) Vision has no chance of hitting its target of two to three million subscriptions by December 2010, according……
Read MoreSky Agrees To Disconnect Pirates, Says Rightsholders Should Pay
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is going against other leading ISPs by supporting the government's proposal to add account suspensions to a list of "techn……
Read MoreBroadband Content Bits: IP Vision’s Disney Deal; German IPTV Row; BT Vision Shopping; Turkey-MySpace
-- IP Vision: The web TV start-up has signed a deal to show Disney (NYSE: DIS) movies on its Freeview-based Fetch TV VOD platform. New films……
Read MoreBroadband Content Bits: BT Vision Gets Bollywood; German Online Radio; Amino's PVR Release
-- MoMedia: The Endemol-based online content distributor is bringing a Bollywood-themed channel to the BT (NYSE: BT) Vision IPTV platform vi……
Read MoreISPs Oppose Mandelson's Copyright Disconnection Plan
The government's revised, tougher plans to tackle online piracy have been dismissed as "grossly unfair" and "misconceived" by the leaders of……
Read MoreIn the UK, Yahoo Using Google For Search
Yahoo (s YHOO) is now using Google (s GOOG) search in the UK. Confused? So was I, when I first read this…
Read MoreEarnings: BT Profits Nosedive But Next Gen Broadband Roll-Out Will Continue
"Low key" is how BT (NYSE: BT) CEO Ian Livingston describes his company's Q1 results: it's revenue and profits are falling, broadband adds c……
Read MoreBroadband Content Bits: We7 Stats, Music Royalties; ITV Friends Reunited Sale Reports; BT Vision
-- We7: Is We7 finally hitting the right note? Two weeks after saying it's getting two million monthly uniques, the site has leapfrogged Las……
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