Ian Chin of BesTV New Media to Present at CDN Asia Summit
MarketWatch (press release)
HONG KONG, Jan 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ahead of the CDN Asia Summit IPTV News caught up with Ian Chin, Chief Operating Officer at China's BesTV New Media (a subsidiary of Shanghai Media Group). As well as speaking at the CDN Asia Summit along with ...

Vision IPTV's white label video apps deliver crystal clear video content to ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Vision IPTV, UK's leading online video platform, has been shortlisted today as the UK's Most Innovative Mobile Company by Smart UK Project. Along with its suite of services for broadcasters, Vision IPTV also provides white label video apps for delivery ...

KT's IPTV base exceeds 3 mln
Telecompaper (subscription)
South Korean communications provider KT ended 2011 with 3.076 million IPTV subscribers, up from 2.085 million in December 2010. KT added 82000 new IPTV subscribers in December. The company also had 221000 Wi-Fi customers, a number which has been ...

Embedded Senior Software Engineer - DTV, IPTV, STB
ElectronicsWeekly.com
The role will require the embedded engineer to carry out the whole SDLC on cutting edge applications on embedded devices including DVB Set-top-boxes, IPTV and HDTVs. If you feel you are the perfect Set-top box (STB)/DVB/IPTV embedded engineer for this ...

BT Vision to add social media
Broadband TV News
BT Vision is to redesign its IPTV service to offer a more personalised experience and to include elements of social media. A report in the Financial Times ...

Big December pushes BBC iPlayer to record figures
Computer Business Review
BBC's iPlayer has recorded record viewing figures, driven by the growth of mobiles, tablets and IPTV usage across 2011, followed by a particularly big December. The corporation says it saw 1.94 billion TV and radio requests across the iPlayer platform, ...

Political parties like Congress, BJP, SP reaching out to voters via social media
Economic Times
While the Congress and Samajwadi Party are using social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, the BJP is using the Internet protocol television (IPTV) to reach out. Even the BSP, which spends little by way of publicity, ...

Give me my IPTV: Consumers prepared to do almost anything for ...
Herald Sun
You want Roku, you'll have to buy a set top box overseas as it's not available in Australia. Picture: Roku Source: Supplied CONSUMERS fed-up with waiting ... 

IPTV licenses likely in next 2 months
Republica
KATHMANDU, Jan 15: Nine different operators who have applied and are waiting for more than a year for license to run Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services are likely to receive operating licenses in next two months. IPTV allows customers having ...

BJP set to take hi-tech route in campaigning
Daily Pioneer
The BJP is all set to launch its own Internet Protocol (IP) TV — a dedicated news and views channel — that will be aggressively used in campaigning in the five States going to poll between January and March. IPTV is a system through which television ...

BT Vision gets social
Advanced Television
BT is to revamp is BT Vision IPTV service to offer a more personalised experience and social media elements, reports the FT. The move comes as competition in the UK pay-TV has increased with the launch of online movie and TV service Netflix, ...

Sigma, Qualcomm exhibit platform for Wi-Fi Display
Telecompaper (subscription) 
Fabless semiconductor provider Sigma Designs and Qualcomm Atheros have jointly developed a Wi-Fi Display / DLNA IPTV reference design. ...

Give me my IPTV: Consumers prepared to do almost anything for ...
Herald Sun
You want Roku, you'll have to buy a set top box overseas as it's not available in Australia. Picture: Roku Source: Supplied CONSUMERS fed-up with waiting ...

BBC iPlayer sees record-breaking 2011, mobiles and connected TVs ...
Pocket-lint.com
This is matched by games consoles, also taking 5 per cent, with "IPTV devices" (eg BT Vision) claiming 4 per cent. A final "other devices" category claims ...


Panasonic Expands and Enhances Viera Connect's Video Social Experience
IEWY News
“VIERA Connect is a cloud based and a robust IPTV platform that lets ... Panasonic introduced its IPTV platform four years ago and in that time the internet ...

Russia a "major success story" as worldwide IPTV subs pass 54mn

IPTV News
The number of IPTV subscribers globally increased 6.06% in the third quarter of 2011 to reach 54.4mn, according to new figures prepared by Point Topic for the Broadband Forum. IPTV continues to grow steadily, generating "significant" additional ...

Home Networks Get New Options
PCWorld
By Megan Geuss, PCWorld Your IPTV needs an Internet connection. But your living room is too far from your router to run an Ethernet cable, so what do you do? Or perhaps you have an office in the basement and need to transmit large files to the desktop ...

Now Watch Costa Rican Television On your iPhone Or Android
Inside Costa Rica
By way of IPTV the App brings Costa Rica's local television channels to a handheld unit connect to the internet, either by way of WiFi or with a ...

IPTV a relatively new business for TM
Malaysia Star
Telekom Malaysia Bhd's (TM) venture into the IPTV market has not come easy, it is a new area of business, and though it has hired some experienced people, ...


Stingray Digital Partners With EMI Music In Digital Worldwide ...
Billboard.biz
The content will appear on Stingray's multiple platforms: digital cable, Internet Protocol television (IPTV) and mobile. Some 40 million customers will have ... 

Global broadband subscribers inch up to 600 million
GigaOm 
13, 2012, 9:13am PT 2 Comments At the end of Q3 there were a total of 54.4 million IPTV subscribers, up 6.06 percent over the previous quarter. ...


Global broadband subs surge
Telecoms.com (blog)
There were an estimated 54.4 million IPTV subscribers worldwide by the end of ... Asia was once again the fastest-growing region for IPTV, but European ...

Europe edges out Asia in IPTV as networks show strong growth
Rapid tv news
Broadband and IPTV have shown a significant surge in growth in Q3-2011 to more than 581 million subs with more additions in the quarter than at any time since early 2009. The figures published by the Broadband Forum by Point Topic ...

Rostelecom inks Disney deal, eyes Armenia
Broadband TV News
The Russian telco Rostelecom has signed a licensing agreement with Disney under which it will be able to offer the latter's content – both in SD and HD – to its IPTV subscribers on an on demand basis. Although Rostelecom currently operates IPTV ...

Dish closing more Blockbuster stores than planned
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Showtime taps Azuki to deliver content to Apple's iPad
FierceIPTV
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 World broadband lines grow by 17.4 mln in Q3
Telecompaper (subscription)
Meanwhile the IPTV market grew by 6.1 percent to 54.4 million users. This was led by growth in France (the biggest market for IPTV), China and Russia; ...

Xbox 360 IPTV scrapped by Microsoft for now
TECH.BLORGE.com
by Mike Ferro Last year Microsoft made a huge deal about its new IPTV service that would be coming to the Xbox 360. The initiative came from the big man himself, Steve Ballmer. However, it looks like Microsoft may have gotten ahead of itself on this ...