Monthly Archives: June, 2010

Today’s Digital News June 30, 2010

Hulu’s Pay Model Finally Official – ‘Hulu Plus’: $10 a month for entire show catalogs – dslreports.com Confirming several months of rumors, Hulu today officially unveiled Hulu Plus. As leaks suggested, Hulu's still keeping their free service — but users who want to be able to watch an entire season (or past seasons) of a [...]

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Today’s Digital News June 29, 2010

The Feldman File: Could Project Canvas become the template for "TV Everywhere" outside the U.S.? According to Wired UK, The BBC Trust has approved plans for "Project Canvas," an Internet-based on-demand video service co-sponsored by Britain's terrestrial broadcasters (the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five), plus communications companies Arqiva, TalkTalk and BT. The partners are [...]

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Today’s Digital News June 28, 2010

BBC iPlayer Now Available On Android – android BBC's popular iPlayer catchup service is now available on Android albeit on the latest version, Froyo or v2.2, as it can support Flash 10.1, one which is only supported by the latest smartphones on the market. Will Virgin Media Join Project Canvas After BBC Trust Approval? – [...]

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Today’s Digital News June 27, 2010

Bloomberg: Hulu coming to PlayStation network ‘soon’ — Engadget It was just two weeks ago in the runup to E3 that Reuters spread rumors of Hulu coming to the Xbox 360 and the iPad as some sort of paid service, and now Bloomberg is adding to the chatter, saying that everyone's favorite video service is [...]

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Today’s Digital News June 26, 2010

Canvas VOD JV Approved: BBC Must Publish Specs In 20 Days | paidContent The BBC has received final approval to join a joint venture with three other broadcasters that will add a range of VOD, IPTV and internet services to UK TVs. Online TV Services Coming To Freeview and Freesat PVRs | PVR Junction The [...]

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Today’s Digital News June 25, 2010

A Closer Look at the Future 100Mbps BT FTTP Superfast UK Broadband Service − ISPreview UK Telecoms operator BT is investing a staggering £2.5bn over the next few years so that 66% of the UK population can use its next generation of fibre optic broadband internet access services by 2015. Presently this roll-out has been [...]

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Revolution of Evolution

There was once a time (once being even today in some product companies), when companies would spend two to three years on making a new product. That was the competitive environment back in the day. These days though products are developed in much less time than that, with new product being produced at least every [...]

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Today’s Digital News June 24, 2010

NOR flash supply gap reaches 20%, says Winbond president NOR flash supply is currently short of demand by around 20%, according to Tung-Yi Chan, president of Taiwan-based Winbond Electronics. Prices for the memory chip will continue going up in the third quarter of 2010, said Chan, adding that he is fairly optimistic about the market [...]

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Today’s Digital News June 23, 2010

Mike Fries to keynote CTAM EuroSummit | Broadband TV News Mike Fries, CEO & president, Liberty Global, and Joshua Danowitz, general manager, TiVo International, will keynote at CTAM Europe’s EuroSummit 2010, which will take place in Budapest on September 23-24. UK trial for bandwidth saving Mobile TV technology | Broadband TV News Mobile operators O2, [...]

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Today’s Digital News June 21, 2010

The Feldman File: Disappearing DRM and other thoughts Note: The opinions expressed in the following posting are mine, and not those of any of my former, current or future clients or employers. I've long believed that Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a hopeless battle. DRM penalizes the legal, honest customers who purchase content and want [...]

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