Digital Home zone
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Samsung buys TV app maker MOVL
Korea's Samsung Electronics has purchased US firm MOVL, a developer of TV apps and app platforms which has previously won its Connected TV developer contest. -
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LG adds PayPal to Smart TVs
Korean electronics firm LG has integrated online transactions platform PayPal into its Smart TVs, letting owners quickly and securely log in and pay for VOD services and advertised products. -
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MWC: Samsung takes aim at Apple TV with HomeSync
Korea's Samsung Electronics has unveiled a new home hub device akin to the Apple TV at the Mobile World Congress event currently taking place in Barcelona, offering huge storage and new ways to access the best of Android gaming, movies, TV shows and streaming content on the living room TV.
Analysis & Opinion
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Innovation in services and partnerships hold the key to future growth
According to the results of Informa Telecoms & Media’s annual industry survey, innovation is a key priority for global telecoms and media players in 2013. Over 500 senior executives from across both these sectors were asked how their businesses and markets would perform in 2013 and the role innovation would play in driving future revenue growth.
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Tomorrow Calling – but will broadcasters and operators pick up?
Broadcasters and TV operators take note: consumers are tired of clunky user interfaces, weary of digital rights issues, and willing to run into the arms of a big technology company like Apple or Google if these problems are not resolved, and fast.
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Chunghwa Telecom goes OTT with You Tube – is this a big deal?
Taiwanese incumbent Chunghwa Telecom’s Multimedia-on-Demand (MOD) IPTV service has been through some tough times this year, with its subscriber take-up slowing significantly and the company still unable to access many of the country’s most popular cable-TV channels.
Xbox One raises pulses, tracks them
Digital Home World Summit looks at digital health as key area of growth
Netflix strikes exclusive deal with Disney/ABC
BT Sport channels free with BT broadband
Telefónica launches Movistar TV
OgilvyEntertainment: "Every brand has a story to tell"
INTERVIEWS
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Spotify: “By the end of the year, we hope to be on the majority of TVs”
Pascal De Mul, Global Head of Platform Partnerships at...
March 26th, 2013 -
Sony Pictures: “We are living in a world of connected devices”
Spencer Stephens, Chief Technology Officer at Sony Pictures Entertainment,...
August 15th, 2012 -
Rostelecom: “Cloud-based service provisioning is the only way to provide a real multiscreen TV service”
Andrey Kholodny, director of media products at Russia's Rostelecom,...
August 6th, 2012
EXPERTISE ZONE
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The operator survival guide: rules of engagementViaccess-Orca’s Ofer Weintraub discusses the requirements for second screen apps....
March 25th, 2013
By Dr. Ofer Weintraub -
IPTV meets Big Data – predicting user behaviour to create attractive offeringsThe tough challenges faced by communication service providers (CSPs) from...
March 13th, 2013
By Spyros Sakellariou -
Podcast: Multiscreen video, consumer expectations and user-generated contentIn this podcast, we speak to Steve McCaffery, VP and...
March 8th, 2013
By Jamie Beach
