Amazon unveiled its new "video on demand" service today, just three days after Netflix and Microsoft announced that they'd make 10,000 movies available for streaming via the Xbox 360, confirming that an all-out war is underway for the next big shift in movie/TV viewing habits. Amazon's program...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters UK) - South Africa's Telkom TKGJ said on Tuesday it was still in discussions with a Vodafone VOD unit that wants to buy part of its stake in mobile operator Vodacom, sending its shares up nearly 2 percent. Africa's biggest fixed-line telephone company said...
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Shares in Vodafone VOD rose after the mobile operator announced a deal with News Corp's NWSa MySpace under which footage from Vodafone-sponsored music events will be made available to users of the social networking website. The new service, Vodafone Music Reporter,...
ACCRA (Reuters UK) - Ghana's parliament delayed on Friday a decision on a deal that would allow Vodaphone Group VOD buy a 70 percent stake in Ghana Telecom, the country's third largest mobile phone operator. Vodafone signed a deal with the government in July to pay...
The article reveals that media companies, broadband providers, and PC makers are stalled as they try to develop video-on-demand services. The broadband companies and hardware manufacturers are concerned that if they play the role of copyright watchdogs, consumers will reject their services and products. While these companies hesitate, unauthorized online...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that the company will launch a pay-per-view movie service shortly. According to reports out of D6–Barron's Eric Savitz has the most complete account along with Silicon Alley Insider–Bezos said he's serious about music and video downloads. He should be considering the distribution...
Video-On-Demand IP VOD is one of the best known examples of "Next-generation" Internet applications cited as a goal by networking and multimedia researchers. Without empirical data, researchers ha have generally relied on simulated models to drive their design and developmental efforts. This paper presents one of the first measurement studies...
How can you increase operational efficiencies while growing new revenue streams? Today, Telco, Media/Entertainment and Publishing companies are challenged to get control over the vast amount of information that they use to run their business, and the media assets that generate revenue. View this on demand...
IPTV television service over IP networks and Video on Demand VoD provided by telecom service providers is starting to compete with existing broadcasting services via terrestrial, satellite and cable networks. Increased broadband network bandwidth, enhanced compression techniques and new distribution architectures have made IPTV/VoD technically feasible. Even more significantly, the...
In this paper the topic is on I-VODSA, the software security architecture for video on demand VOD pay-per- view PPV services that provides authentication and real time encryption services to individual video sessions. This security architecture has been implemented in Windows secure socket layer and tested its effect on the...
SCTE Cable-Tec EXPO -- June 26, 2008 --Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that Rogers Cable Communications Inc.,Canada's largest cable television operator, has selected the Cisco®Switched Digital Video SDV system for its Ontario customers. Cisco's SDVplatform is an integrated, cost-effective, and highly scalable solution. With the accelerating rollout of advanced, bandwidth-hungry...
Customers now benefit from improved image quality on the latest flat panel HDTVs PARIS, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- CEZZERR Multimedia Technologies is pleased to announce its high-definition HD video-on-demand VoD terminal, the CEZZER videoclub, which can provide VoD to Internet subscribers who have an unlimited Internet connection....
Press kits for Astute Networks are available online at the Virtual Press Office at http://virtualpressoffice.com/kit/AstuteNetworks or visit http://www.astutenetworks.com/pages/about/ab_pressCenter.html SAN DIEGO -- Astute Networks is the leading provider of bladed storage solutions optimized for the most demanding applications on the edge of the network. Whether you are deploying applications...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c93346) has announced the addition of "Europe - Convergence - Triple play and Digital TV" to their offering. During 2006 the triple play model in Europe saw widespread deployment by a number of network operators and providers. Through mergers and buyouts, the...
Revolutionary platform for digital cable video-on-demand VoD, now offers products for long-format video and the Web Kicks off products at 2008 CAB Show CHICAGO -- Liquidus, a pioneer of video-based classified advertising, today announced the official launch of new products based on its revolutionary video-based classified...
Mexican Cable Operator Deploys M-series and SSGs to Increase Security, Scalability and Reliability of VoIP and VoD Services SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that Mexican cable operator Cablecom Group increased the performance and security of its IP network by...
Harmonic Inc. announced that PCCW has deployed Harmonic's DiviCom Electra 7000 high-definition HD MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoders to power its HD channel service in Hong Kong. PCCW is a telecommunications service provider offering a full complement of video, voice, data, and mobile services to its customers...
Japan-based NEC is intending to launch IPTV Internet Protocol television business with next-generation networks NGN carrier applications and hopes to rake in around $504 million by 2010. NEC stated that it intends to provide its end-to-end UIPTV solutions for global carriers. According to Botaro Hirosaki, EVP...
France-based cable service provider Numericable has expanded its all-fiber network to five new cities: Martigues, Angers, Marseille, Lille, and Metz. The company claims that more than 2 million homes have been covered by this fiber-optic network. Lille and Marseille alone have around ...
Harmonic Inc. announced that PCCW has deployed Harmonic's DiviCom Electra 7000 high-definition HD MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoders to power its HD channel service in Hong Kong. PCCW is a telecommunications service provider offering a full complement of video, voice, data, and mobile services to its customers...
