HbbTV take-up could be higher in Italy than any other leading television market in Western Europe by 2015. According to Idate, the number of connected TV households among managed broadcast networks…
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Italy leads in HbbTV potential
TeliaSonera Announces Managed CDN and Site Acceleration Deal With EdgeCast – Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com
“Earlier in the week, TeliaSonera announced a deal with EdgeCast to do a large managed CDN and site acceleration deployment in 3-4 countries where they are the incumbent telecom and have built a specialized sales team of CDN professionals to sell the solutions.”
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MediaPost Publications: DirecTV Could Pose Aereo-type Threat
“CBS CEO Leslie Moonves says he’s not losing sleep over Aereo. But DirecTV could bring some restless nights with the amount of money it could ultimately deny broadcasters.”
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Motorola prepares for the all-channel multiscreen line-up | Videonet
The trend in multiscreen TV is ‘absolutely towards the entire channel line-ups being made available to different devices’.”
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That’s a lot of videos: YouTube now responsible for 17% of home Internet traffic – GigaOm
One out of six bytes sent to households in the US and Canada is part of a YouTube video: The service’s share of residential downstream traffic has been growing.
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WISI delivers HbbTV over IPTV
The blurring of TV and internet together with the emerging HbbTV services is providing a challenge for the futureproofing of TV headends and next-generation networks. WISI Communications will be de…
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Boxfish Releases TV Discovery and Search API
Boxfish, television discovery startup, released an improved TV discovery app this past week. With the new release, Boxfish decided to make its technology available to third parties via an API. Boxfish allows the use of natural language to search for particular topics currently discussed on TV, or users can find out what is currently most popular on tv.
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Brightcove Announces Live Streaming Platform – huffingtonpost
“BOSTON – Brightcove, the big video services company, announced today a full-blown, live streaming platform. The company allows the live file to be uploaded to the cloud and and then encoded into as many as 20 live renditions, says founder and executive chairman Jeremy Allaire in this interview with Beet.TV”
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McCain: Pay TV Business Is Rigged Against Consumers – Variety
“Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) tubthumped his proposed legislation to force pay TV providers to give Americans the option to buy cable TV channels individually, calling the system ‘rigged’ against consumers.”
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Microsoft Eyes OTT Set-Top
Microsoft Corp. may expand beyond the Xbox with a new streaming video set-top box that would compete against Apple TV, Google TV, Roku and other players in the retail market.
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