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Sony Qriocity service takes on Apple iTunes with streaming music and video | Technology... - 0 views

  • Sony has embarked on an ambitious challenge to Apple's iTunes,
  • based around the PlayStation 3
  • movies and songs
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  • web-enabled Sony devices, including its TVs, laptops and digital music players
  • Amazon also thought to be aggressively planning a web-based subscription service
  • online TV-on-demand market is about to expand dramatically.
  • Fujio Nishida, Sony's president for Europe
  • major expansion of its Qriocity
  • Qriocit
  • Qriocit
  • Qriocity
  • Music streaming will be added to Qriocity by the end of this year.
  • pricing.
  • Initially the service will just work on new network-enabled Bravia TVs, Sony Vaios and the PS3
  • Restricting the service to Sony products may damage take-up
  • open it up over time.
  • 54 million registered PS3s in use worldwide
  • move comes three years after Sony decided to abandon an earlier music streaming site, Connect Music
  • sers were restricted to using Sony hardware and software to listen
Alex Street

Google TV to launch this year | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • global TV advertising market
  • oogle TV service,
  • turised version of his Apple TV
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  • full internet browsing via the television, would be free, and that Google would work with a variety of programme makers and electronics manufacturers
  • Google TV will consist of software written by Google embedded into hardware made by other companies:
  • HDTV set and a Blu-ray player from Sony, and a set-top box from Logitec
  • small apps
  • Adobe's Flash
  • t how easy it will be to integrate content
  • QWERTY keyboards" b
  • t a distance, with one hand, in the dark.
Nick Verkroost

Zynga revenues radically outstrip FarmVille creator's expectations | Technology | guard... - 0 views

  • worldwide revenues of $816m this year; $1.016m in 2012; $1.3bn in 2013, $1.43bn in 2014 and $1.5bn in 2015
  • Zynga,
  • expected to triple growth in revenues from $581m (£363m) last year to $1.5bn in 2015, according to the business plan, dated May 2010
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  • More than half of the revenue was forecast to be generated in the US with most of the non-US revenue coming from western Europe.
  • 215 million active users a month
  • 130 million players
Alex Street

AudioBoo gets a Guardian outing at the G20 protests | Media | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • personal podcasts.
  • enthusiastic audio bloggers
  • Matthew Weaver using it to report from the G20 protests in London.
Alex Street

BSkyB signs up 3 millionth subscriber to high-definition television service | Media | g... - 0 views

  • 3 millionth subscribe
  • 50 channels are available in high definition
  • total subscriber base, which stood at 9.86 million
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  • Sophie Turner Laing, Sky's managing director of entertainment
  • bumper second quarter boosted by the football
  • slowdown was predicted b
  • Jonathan Webb, managing director of the Living TV Group,
Nick Verkroost

Google wins YouTube case in Spain | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • Google wins YouTube case in Spain
  • Google has won a landmark ruling against Spanish broadcaster Telecinco
  • Telecinco had claimed YouTube was damaging its business by airing TV shows before they had been broadcast in Spain,
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  • Spanish court said it was the responsibility of the copyright owner to identify and tell Google when material that infringes intellectual property is on YouTube
  • In June this year Google won a similar case against US media conglomerate Viacom,
  • Google could not be held liable for having a "general awareness" that copyrighted videos might be posted to the site.
Alex Street

ITV's footie coverage - with added Twitter and AudioBoo | Media | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • hype-tastic iPhone audio tool AudioBoo will be integrated, so any relevant commentary from fans can be submitted to the ITV site
  • udioBoo tool is free, the 'magic tags' allow premium
Alex Street

Wi-Fi is drawing power from the mobile phone mast | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • Mobidia found 70% of smartphone internet traffic is carried by Wi-Fi
  • US, the total is two thirds
  • only Japan and Singapore show an even split between networks
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  • superfast mobile broadband
  • unlimited data plans
Alex Street

20111221 Sun Appeal verdict - 0 views

  • ATVOD RESPONDS TO OFCOM APPEAL DECISION
  • ATVOD to withdraw determinations
  • included a video on demand service
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  • ATVOD has today announced that it will withdraw its Determinations that The Sunday Times Video Library, Telegraph TV, The Independent Video, FT Video, Guardian Video, Guardian You Tube, News of the World TV and Elle TV were On-Demand Programme Services.
  • styled as ‘Sun TV
  • appeal judgement is the third made by Ofcom this year,
  • backed ATVOD’s rulings that ‘adult’ websites Demand Adult
Alex Street

All3Media to launch video-on-demand TV app | Media | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • kins, Midsomer Murders, The Cube and Peep Show, h
  • ideo-on-demand app on internet-connected Samsung and LG smart TVs
  • first UK indie to go direct
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  • branded A3M and carry the strapline "Best of British TV"
  • app is being viewed as an experiment to test pricing, appetite and extend the reach of its programmes.
  • 49p and 99p per episode to potentially offering shows for free on a promotional weekend.
  • monthly subscription and season pass option.
  • PayWizard,
  • All3Media application has been developed by connected TV software company Easeltv and video technology company Ooyala
  • The Only Way is Essex: online hit in the US
Alex Street

iPad to dominate tablet sales until 2015 as growth explodes, says Gartner | Technology ... - 0 views

  • Gartner tablet sales forecast 2010-2015
  • e: tablet data: Gartner (2013, 2014 inferrred from 2012, 2015 data); PC forecast: IDC
Alex Street

UK broadband market share | Business | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • Frankly, the way advertising for broadband or ISP providers in this country works is a national scandal. They're advertising "up to" rates that they damn well know the majority of their customers are not going to get even half way near. It's a disgrace. They're just plain liars; it's a national con trick.I live in a major conurbation a mile away from the hub exchange and I get one-third the advertised "up to rate". And that'
Alex Street

Monterosa to get TV firms making their own second-screen content | Technology | guardia... - 0 views

  • ttracted 1.3m players over the show's
  • create synchronised quizzes, audience polling and other interactive features
  • puts control back in the hands of the creative producers
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  • tools will be invitation-only for now, and are aimed at broadcasters, producers and brands.
  • Monterosa developed the tools based on the second-screen projects it has worked on with broadcasters
  • mission is to give them the mechanics to do it themselves."
  • Monterosa's self-service platform
  • useful for smaller digital channels with audiences around the 100,000 mark as for the largest broadcasters.
  • broadcasters don't want to actively promote a third-party service that will capture audience data and monetise it,
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