For Connected TV, The New Last Mile Is Dining Room To Living Room
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Last week, I lambasted Virgin Media for taking two years to launch its iPad TV guide for its TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set-top box.
I have since le… Read more »
Virgin's TiVo Slow-Mo: An iPad App, Two Years Later
Talk about “agile development”! Virgin Media has finally put a September 2012 launch date on the long-promised iPad controller for its TiVo… Read more »
Virgin Media Slow To Build A Revolution On TiVo
Virgin Media thinks its new-ish TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set top box is a game changer. But, whilst the new box – with a big PVR drive, capability… Read more »
Virgin Media Profits As On-Demand Viewing Grows
UK pay-TV and broadband telco Virgin Media clocked its first annual profit in 2011, as its TV set top boxes continued to be an engine of vid… Read more »
First Look: Spotify's TiVo App On Virgin Media UK
Virgin Media has finally made live Spotify’s first UK TV app. Virgin Media customers who are Spotify Premium subscribers can access the musi… Read more »
BT Takes Virgin's Green As TV Exec For YouView Push
Virgin Media’s TV and online commercial executive director Alex Green is defecting to BT (NYSE: BT) to become TV commercial and product dire… Read more »
Branson's Next Mobile Act: An Investment In Mobile Payments Startup Square
Richard Branson is no stranger to investing in mobile media: among his more notable moves have been establishing *Virgin Mobile* years ago,… Read more »
Two Tracks For Digital Music: Aspiro White Label Deal; 7digital Tablet App
According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expect… Read more »
Virgin Media’s Spotify Discounts Will Be Short-Term
When Virgin Media’s CEO said this summer he would bundle Spotify with his services at “significantly less” than Spotify’s own £9.99 Premium… Read more »
Virgin Wrings More Money From Customers
“Appetite for next-generation services is growing faster than we anticipated,” Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett told City analysts… Read more »
Virgin’s iPad Mag Project Reboots On Newsstand Under New Ownership
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The co-creators of the Virgin-branded iPad magazine Project are merging it with an iPad newsstand service, Other Edition, creating a new com… Read more »
T-Mobile, Orange Reboot Their Mobile TV Services In UK
Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks –… Read more »
Orange Duets With Spotify Competitor Deezer On New UK Mobile Music Service
Another mobile operator is taking a crack at the streaming music market: France Telecom’s Orange is partnering with Deezer — France’s answe… Read more »
Channel 4, FilmFlex Position Themselves For Possible TV Movie Subscriptions
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Back in November, Channel 4 launched Film4oD, a web-based, on-demand adjunct to its Film4 linear channels that requires payment for movies.… Read more »
BSkyB Told To Weaken Stranglehold On Hollywood Movies
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has been ordered to weaken its stranglehold on Hollywood films on pay-TV after an investigation by the Competition Commiss… Read more »
Virgin Will Price Spotify ‘Significantly Less’ Than Spotify Does
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett says he will bundle Spotify with his broadband service for a “very, very low monthly subscription… Read more »
Update: Everything Everywhere: Tom Alexander Out, Olaf Swantee In As CEO
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All change in the UK mobile world: Tom Alexander, the CEO of Everything Everywhere — the mobile operator JV between France Telecom’s Orange… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 7-6-11: EU Roaming Rates; Spotify; HTC; Nokia; Microsoft
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Mobile roaming: A big set of proposals were put forward today recommending huge cost red… Read more »
Virgin Media Close To Deal To Pave Way For Digital Music Service
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is close to announcing a deal with Spotify and four record companies to launch a new digital music service – mor… Read more »
TiVo Earnings Soar After Patent Settlement
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TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) had a great quarter-no surprise, since the numbers include a big chunk of the $500 million patent settlement it won from D… Read more »
Virgin Media May Buy/Build A Public WiFi Network
UK telco and TV platform Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) could ape its rival BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) by investing in a public WiFi network, so that its… Read more »
Google Buys PushLife For $25 Million: A Piece In Its Mobile Music Strategy?
We still don’t have the official, bigger picture of what Google (NSDQ: GOOG) intends to do in its music strategy, and whether it will have w… Read more »
Virgin Media Picks Motricity For Mobile TV, Services
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is extending its existing relationship with mobile data company Motricity, as it aims to make mobile entertainment… Read more »
Rovi Loses PVR Patent Suit Against Virgin Media
The UK’s Court of Appeal has upheld a decision that strips TV EPG maker Gemstar, now part of Rovi, of three patents. Read more »
‘No Walled Gardens’: Virgin Media Sees TiVo As Cross-Platform Magic Glue
UK cable telco Virgin Media’s average customer take climbed to a record £47.51 ($76.61) per month in Q4 – but that could boom when it launc… Read more »
Industry Moves: AOP Committee, C4 Audiences, Virgin Media Sales
– AOP: GNM’s product development head Piers Jones (pictured) will chair the AOP’s product development committee, taking over from the FT’s… Read more »
‘Pernicious Gremlins’ Delayed Issue #2 Of Virgin’s iPad-Only Mag, Now Out
I was literally in the middle of writing about Project’s delayed second issue when I had to reload the page and it was for sale. Oddly, the… Read more »
@ CES: Tivo’s Tom Rogers Sizes Up Cable And Competition
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As CES has confirmed, the world has woken up to the potential of over-the-top TV. To which Tivo CEO Tom Rogers might say, what took everyone… Read more »
More Consolidation In Mobile Content: Livewire Buys Fonestarz
More consolidation among mobile content players: LiveWire Mobile, a U.S.-based company that sells music and related content like ringback to… Read more »
Virgin Media, PushLife Offer iTunes Syncing On Android+RIM, But Not iPhones
Virgin Media has yet to go commercial on an all-you-can-eat music service it announced way back in June 2009, but it is still forging ahead… Read more »
Spotify Could Go On Virgin Media; Virgin Wants Exclusive
Spotify and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) are in talks to carry the music service to the cable company’s customers, paidContent:UK understands. Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.06.10
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» AOL (NYSE: AOL) is looking at a major restructuring that could include the jettisoning of its revenue-generating dial-up busine… Read more »
Interview: Virgin Media’s Cindy Rose On The Connected-TV Explosion
“2011 is going to be pretty transformative for the UK television landscape,” says Virgin Media’s director of digital entertainment Cindy Ros… Read more »
Virgin Media Puts Its Connected-TV Future in TiVo’s Hands
UK cable operator Virgin Media’s connected-TV future now rests firmly in the hands of TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO), which is re-entering Britain after… Read more »
Video: Virgin’s iPad Mag ‘Project’ Gets Animated, Coming Tuesday
Word reaches us that Virgin’s virgin iPad-only magazine is Christened “Project” and is due to hit the tablet’s iTunes Store at this link wit… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Windows 7 Phones; Docomo LTE; Carphone’s ’99p Mobile’
– Windows Phone 7: Devices built on Microsoft’s latest mobile platform finally go on sale in the U.S. First models out the door, as listed… Read more »
Sprint Fails To Wow Investors Despite Some Gains
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Sprint (NYSE: S) had good things to say about in the third quarter: It added more subscribers than it had since 2006, and reported its first… Read more »
Virgin Media Revenue Rises As It Rolls Out Super Fast Broadband
Virgin Media’s revenue increased 6.4% year on year in the third quarter to £978m, as it announced it would roll out superfast 100Mb broadba… Read more »
AmEx Snags Two More Execs From Sprint Nextel For Big Mobile Payments Push
In an effort to beef up its alternative payments efforts, American Express has picked up two additional Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel executives.… Read more »
Verizon Wireless Offers Very First Prepaid Smartphone Data Plans
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As if a sign of the times, Verizon Wireless is offering data to smartphone users who prefer to pay by the month and not commit to a long-ter… Read more »
