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MediaTel: Newsline: MGEITF 2010: Canvas bows down to Google TV - 0 views

  • product is primarily a navigation device.
  • esearch consistently shows that audiences don't actually want this kind of clutter on their TV screen.
  • people are actually resistant to convergence on this scale
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  • Google's main aim for this initially is to create more search revenue
  • no monetisation of programme searching
  • ternet browser;
  • er different formats for viewers and different ways to monetise content.
  • emand is still less than 8% of total TV viewing
  • 'RIP Scheduled TV?'
  • o from Google's Jill Szuchmacher,
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,
Alex Street

Analyst: Paywall Subscribers Worth A Quarter Of Print Readers | paidContent - 0 views

  • Annual income per paywall subscriber on TheTimes.co.uk and WSJ.com is just a quarter that from subscriber
  • Switching off the presses
  • might save newspapers 25 percent of their total costs
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  • quandary of trading physical dollars for digital dimes
  • negatively to TheTimes.co.uk’s paywall: “We are just not advertising on it. If there’s no traffic on there
  • counter print circulation decline, publishers have added 20 percent more pages in the last decade, allowing the quality dailies to drive up cover prices by 112 percent
  • inflating the paper will no longer work: deflation is now the agenda,
Alex Street

Publications - 0 views

  • newspaper pay wall subscriber is worth only a quarter to a third of a print buyer
  • newspapers will still face a basic problem of scale
  • Pay walls will not be able to compensate for lower revenue per reade
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  • publishers may need to consider producing a newspaper its loyal readers recognise and value with just 200
Alex Street

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

FT.com / Media - Television goes smart in dramatic makeover - 0 views

  • Apple TV device is expected to be launched in September
  • smart TV
  • Web TV has failed to catch on in the pas
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  • ability to stream in HD quality has transformed the offering
  • “dumb” monitors
  • Retailers are looking to increase their margins
  • Media companies, too, are spreading their bets,
  • Netflix,
  • Technology companies aim to serve all sides
  • network equipment makers
  • fighting among themselves over standards.
  • Walmart bought the Vudu digital media servic
  • Sonic Solutions acquired DivX
  • Pace, the world’s biggest set-top box maker, is buying 2Wire to serve telcos
  • Google’s developer conference
  • Google, Intel, Sony, Logitech, Adobe, Dish Networks and Best Buy appeared on stage together to launch Google TV
  • experimentation.
  • competing services on the same device
  • etflix and Vudu streaming movies and Yahoo Widgets
  • , Google TV represents Google and Intel trying to simplify and spur mass adoption with their own content combinations, operating system and interface,
  • Google TV as a unifying solution
  • app developers to target a Google TV platform and end up on multiple devices
  • Google TV concept allows viewers to find the content they want through search, with results that mix regular broadcast programming with web content, recorded TV and personal media such as photos and music
  • Google’s Chrome browser is the interface to the web and there is a big-screen version of YouTube
  • “Google TV is not designed for local TV needs
  • “Different markets around the world have different requirements,
  • problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy,
  • TV industry has a subsidised model that gives everyone a set-top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box. Ask TiVo… ask us… ask Google in a few month
Alex Street

FT.com / Comment / Analysis - Entertainment: A pointer to profits - 0 views

  • cash-strapped young are leading those shunning cable subscription
  • sector lost more than 700,000 subscribers in the US in the second quarter of the year
  • partly because of competition from satellite operators and telecommunications
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  • But new streaming or “over the top” services such as Hulu were also a factor,
  • For Netflix, the pay-TV industry is as ripe for revolution as the DVD rental market was a decade ago
  • etflix’s DVD service has amassed 15m subscribers in the past 10 ye
  • 60 per cent have already tried the service
  • Canada in the next few months and, next year, in the UK, a
  • ernet “thrives on inefficiency”
  • cable TV, “the inefficiency is in the cost
  • 4bn at its peak in the US in 2004 to $10.87bn in 2009
  • sing the money saved on postage as customers shift from its DVD subscription service to streaming.
  •  
    "There's definitely some substitution taking place
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.
Alex Street

Deutsche Telecom plots partnership with Harbinger | Telecoms Europe - 0 views

  • Deutsche Telekom is mulling a partnership with US hedge fund Harbinger Capital
  • T-Mobile USA has been losing profit as it struggles to keep up with soaring demand for mobile data services. The company was two years behind its major competitors with a 3G network. But its 3G network now covers 205 million people and boasts industry-leading speeds.
  • Harbinger has not yet secured funding for the project, which aims to offer services to 9 million users at launch and 145 million in all major market by 2013.
Alex Street

FT.com / Telecoms - Deutsche Telekom looks to fund for US push - 0 views

  • Harbinger is not planning to provide services to consumers, but instead wants to strike wholesale deals with established mobile operators and potential new entrants in the telecoms industry
  • t started reporting falling revenue and profit last year
  • inability to capitalise on the growing consumer appetite to
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  • e fourth-largest US mobile operator was two years behind its rivals with the roll-out of a network based on 3G technology
  • fter buying radio spectrum, T-Mobile USA finally built a 3G network that covered 205m people by last December, and this year began offering industry-leading download speeds.
Alex Street

PE Firm Plans Open LTE Network to Challenge AT&T and Verizon « - 0 views

  • ambitious plan by Harbinger Capital Partners relies on deploying a Long Term Evolution network over spectrum owned by a few satellite companies
  • eate an open wholesale wireless network available to retail companies,
  • AT&T and Verizon could not buy up huge chunks of the network or spectrum to keep others off of it.
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  • 6,000 base stations that Harbinger plans to use, along with the tower sites, backhaul and other gear associated with a terrestrial network will require billions of dollars.
Alex Street

T-Mobile and 3 choose Arqiva for 3G network - 0 views

  • MBNL, the 3G network sharing venture between T-Mobile and 3, has chosen Arqiva as its principle cell site partner.
  • Arqiva will provide 5,100 sites for roll-out of the 3G network.
  • Mobile Broadband Network Limited (MBNL)
Alex Street

Arqiva named as principal cell site partner for pioneering 3G network integration pro - 0 views

  • fast turnaround and cost-effective sharing
  • Mobile Broadband Network Limited (MBNL), the joint venture between T-Mobile UK and 3 UK formed to create and manage what will be the UK’s most extensive 3G network, has selected Arqiva as its strategic partner for the provision of cell sites.
  • T-Mobile UK and 3 UK entered into an infrastructure consolidation agreement in
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  • principal cell site partner for pioneering 3G network integration pro
  • tegic site partner for T-Mobile UK and 3 UK joint venture
  • Arqiva to provide 5,100 sites to support acceleration of 3G network integration
  • Network consolidation
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    Arqiva named as principal cell site partner for pioneering 3G network integration project
Alex Street

Mobile Broadband Network Ltd - 0 views

  • MBNL manages and delivers the combined 3G access networks of the two companies.
  • increased both operators' 3G network quality and coverage
  • new high-speed mobile broadband services and delivering substantial cost savings as well as environmental benefits
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  • 3G access networks (the mobile masts and infrastructure that connects to each operator's separate core network) T-Mobile and 3 UK will create Europe's most extensive high-speed downlink packet access (
Alex Street

Arqiva partners MBNL in ten year deal | Telecoms Europe - 0 views

  • T-Mobile UK and 3 UK entered into an infrastructure consolidation agreement
  • y jointly managing and maintaining a shared network is
  • liver the sites and upgrades as the pace of network consolidation rapi
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    reducing capital investment in infrastructure:
Alex Street

FT.com / Telecoms - Nokia Siemens wins $7bn Harbinger deal - 0 views

  • SN, which is jointly owned by Finland’s Nokia and Germany’s Siemens, announced that it would strengthen its position in the US by buying most of Motorola’s network infrastructure unit for $1.2bn.Harbinger’s $7bn contract award to NSN underlines the h
  • $7bn contrac
  • ightSquared, w
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  • business model is based on securing wholesale rather than retail customers
  • 40,000 base stations that will cover 92 per cent of the US population by 2015.
  • eight-year contract w
  • Nokia Siemens Networks to build a high-speed mobile phone network in the US.
  • nfrastructure will combine an orthodox mobile network with a satellite-based phone and data service
  •  
    design, build and maintain the new network.
Alex Street

Exponentiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • ponents have their own pronu
  • stry, physics, and computer sci
Alex Street

UK ISPA - Member List - 0 views

  • BSkyB London Isleworth Corporate http://www.sky.com 08705 515515
  • BT London London Corporate http://www.btinternet.com
  • O2 UK South East Berkshire Corporate http://www.O2.co.uk 0800230 0202 customer.service@O2broadband.co.uk
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  • Orange London St Albans Corporate http://www.orange.co.uk 0844 873 0
  • THUS, a Cable&Wireless Worldwide Business London London Corporate http://www.thus.net
  • Virgin Media South East Hampshire Corporate http://www.virginmedia.com
Alex Street

Europe - Members - 0 views

  • SPA UK - Internet Services Providers Association UK
  • AIIP - Associazione Italiana Internet Providers
  •  AFA - Association des Fournisseurs d'Accès et de Services Internet
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