BT have today announced that it has successfully met its goal to launch half a million Wi-Fi hotspots in time for the London 2012 games, with almost 200,000 places to log-on being added in the last three months.The hotspots give Londoners, visitors, commercial and private river users access to more than one hundred places to… Continue reading BT hits 500,000 London Wi-Fi hotspots
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A day after Sky announced Now TV’s launch on Apple iPad and iPhone, Amazon has responded by following in its footsteps. Amazon Instant is now available to download on iTunes for iPad.By logging in with an Amazon username and password, users are able to purchase any movie or TV show from over 120,000 in the… Continue reading Amazon Instant launches on iPad to challenge Now TV
As part of a series of MediaCom interviews with some of the world’s best and brightest innovators, which can help brands enhance their social media development strategies, Ivan Fernandes, MediaCom global director, social media technology, interviews Graeme Boyd, social marketing manager, Xbox EMEA
A massive 9.1 million switched on to BBC One at 7.30pm to watch the swimming finals in the aquatics center (43.2% of the audience share). Viewers were in for a treat as GB’s Michael Jamieson raced to silver in men’s 200m breaststroke.Apart from swimming, the rowing finals and the cycling time trials were also popular… Continue reading TV Overnights: 9.1 million tune in to watch swimming
A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that the number of residential TVs, connected to the Internet via different platforms such as Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and consoles, and also via built in wireless or Ethernet connectivity, will reach almost 650 million by 2017.
Freeview set to revamp programme guide and will bring in 20 HD channels along with more changes.
Sky’s Now TV has been launched on iPhone and iPad to compete against LoveFilm and Netflix’s iOS services.
Hotmail is to be dropped by Microsoft in an attempt to relaunch Outlook as their new webmail service.
BBC One’s coverage of the Olympics once again swept the board with total dominance, with the exception of ITV1’s Emmerdale at 7pm and BBC Two’s Eastenders on at 7.30pm.
Steve Smith, head of thought leadership at Starcom MediaVest London, says: The recommendation about preparing for all television to be broadcast via the internet is especially pertinent given a growing number of households are likely to watch TV via a broadband connection…
