So reports WSJ...after numerous fits and starts and speculation about shortcomings in MSFT’s IPTV software, some more details about Verizon’s usage of it is coming out. Verizon IPTV service has…

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Kamera, the Swedish web and mobile TV firm, is producing three web TV channels for Norwegian magazine publisher Hjemmet Mortensen. The first of these, vimenn.com, launched Sept. 1 and partners…

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Anytime, a Singapore-based IPTV/VOD and online video firm, has received additional funding from Intel Capital, though the amount was not disclosed. The company is partly owned by previous investors Fox,…

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So this complicates things for AOL’s plans of selling off its German unit: European telco player Tiscali is considering selling off its German division to fund its UK digital media…

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This is smaller than Cisco buying Arroyo (we covered last night here): Video transport infrastructure specialist Harmonic is acquiring the IPTV networking software business of Entone Technologies, for about $45…

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AT&T’s Microsoft-powered U-verse is experiencing packet loss problems which show up as “little annoyances” like video stutters, pixillation, even freezes, according to LightReading. Microsoft is said to be working on…

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So the straight buyout hasn’t happened, though a variation of it has, after news leaks on this deal over the last week or so: Italian Internet firm Tiscali will merge…

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HomeChoice, the UK IPTV pioneer, which has been for sale for a while now after running into low adoption numbers, is about to be bought and merged the UK operations…

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Robbie Bach’s presentation at Microsoft Analysts’ Day and a follow-up q-and-a session are as good an overview of the company’s digital entertainment strategy as we’re likely to get for some…

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The graphic below says it all...a brilliant essay in latest BW, by Mark Gimein about, well, how telcos don’t get it. “Welcome to Telco Land, a strange country where the…

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South Korean regulators have resolved a long-standing dispute over IPTV, over who should regulate/oversee it...The Korean Broadcasting Commission and the Ministry of Information & Communication each had claimed the right…

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Verimatrix, the San Diego-based video content protection and DRM firm, has received $8 million in its second round of funding. The round was led by Crescendo Ventures and included Mission…

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A white paper by Alexander Cameron of Digital TX in London, about piracy, the failure of the music and movie industry to address customer demand, and how the ages of…

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Club Internet, the French subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom Group and the country’s fourth-ranked ISP, is planning to launch a triple-play package with IPTV, voice and data later this month—all powered…

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That’s a good thing as anyone who remembers the over-promised, under-delivered early days of DSL can tell you. AT&T can’t afford that kind of marketing hit or the customer service…

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This is probably the best thing to have happened in sports viewing in some time, at least in UK: BT and BSkyB have won the joint rights to show “near…

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German pay-TV operator Premiere has secured a deal with Deutsche Telekom to broadcast live games from Germany’s soccer league online and on IPTV. But as Premiere doesn’t have any Internet…

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Still absorbing the costs of the MCI acquisition, Verizon’s 1Q06 profits dipped year over year to $1.6 billion, or 56 cents a share, from $1.757 billion, or 63 cents a…

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The Microsoft musical-chairs continues: Moshe Lichtman, the man responsible for Microsoft’s IPTV division, has stepped down and will be replaced by Enrique Rodriguez, who comes from the company’s Xbox division.…

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That was quick: The BT executive overseeing the UK telecoms company’s move into IPTV and VOD later this year has quit “to pursue other interests.” Andrew Burke, who was named…

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MLBAM has licensed exclusive internet and wireless rights for the Korean market to MediaCorp, Inc. through 2008 in a “multi-million dollar” deal. MediaCorp’s rights include: -- an MLB Korean-language site…

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Lycos is partnering with India’s Globe 7 on a SIP softphone app that offers ad-supported phone time. What makes the Lycos Phone Beta worth covering here is the way it…

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Two broadband/telecom giants Lucent and Alcatel are in merger talks, reports WSJ. The two had similar talks in 2001, but nothing came out of it. If this does happen, it…

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When CBS was joined at the hip with Viacom’s MTV nets, retransmission rights for the network’s owned-and-operated stations were usually tied to cable distribution. In addition, distributors usually balk at…

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BT has certainly learned the art of trickling out information on its upcoming IPTV service: it will be known as BT Vision and will now be launched in the fall…

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