Mumbai – Eros International has launched an advertising-supported on-demand streaming movie streaming service to offer content online, free of charge to consumers. The service, accessible at http://ondemand.erosentertainment.com offers exclusive content from the Eros movie catalogue [...]
New Delhi – India-based IT service provider Goldstone Technologies is working with Synap Media and Infotech Ltd to launch an IPTV service in Thailand. The Thai service provides 20 TV channels which offers movies in Hindi, English and various regional languages via the Internet and [...]
Taipei/Melbourne – Portico Media, a Taiwanese cross-platform media company and Vividas, a video streaming technology provider, have partnered to bring a HD video streaming service to Taiwan. The agreement is also part of the latter’s efforts to expand into Asia Pacific. Using [...]
Kuala Lumpur – MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd will provide SkyVision Global Networks LLC, a global provider of Internet services over satellite and terrestrial fibre optic systems, with C-Band capacity on the newly commissioned AFRICASAT-1 satellite. Under the multi-transponder [...]
Los Angeles – Hollywood screenwriters have ended their strike following a 92.5% vote by members of the Writer Guild of America (WGA) in favour of resuming work after a three-month long dispute. The vote follows the presentation of a new contract to WGA members over the Feb 9 weekend. [...]
Seattle – Microsoft is looking to up the stakes against Google in the global digital advertising and web search market with a US$44.6 billion bid to acquire Yahoo! It is understood that the proposed deal involves a 50-50 stock and cash offer to maintain its US$21 billion funds. Announced [...]
Worldwide growth in new media platforms including the Internet, 3G and mobile TV technologies, as well as IPTV and VOD services, has driven service providers to increasingly seek content to cater to consumption supplementary to ‘traditional’ media consumption - which has continued [...]
With The Golf Channel; Goal TV, Neo Sports and Eurosport aiming to make in-roads into the Asia Pacific region, new channels dedicated to individual sports, and digital media, are just two of ESPN STAR Sports’ (ESS) emphases for the coming year. Exactly which other sportsspecific [...]
Taipei - Disney Channel has launched Disney Channel@Play in Taiwan on Jan 25, its first broadband service in Asia Pacific and the third such service worldwide. Disney Channel@Play offers full-length, Mandarin-dubbed, Chinese subtitled episodes of its animated and live-action [...]
London – BBC Worldwide and MySpace have partnered to provide BBC programmes to the social networking website’s 100 million users via a dedicated MySpaceTV channel. Starting from Jan 24, BBC Worldwide’s content will be available in seven languages across the 27 territories that [...]