iPlayer general manager Daniel Danker has called on consumer electronic manufacturers to “go back to basics”.Speaking at the DTG Summit 2012 in London, the BBC manager said he believes that connected TV can make TV better – but manufacturers need to simplify products and services to make them more TV-like than PC-like.By 2015 he expects… Continue reading iPlayer boss urges manufacturers to simplify connected TVs
Showing 17381-17390 of 62,995
More Uk articles
RTL has reported a 4.6% increase in pre-tax profits to €1.19 billion (£0.99 billion) for 2011 – mainly based on higher revenues from FremantleMedia.
Bob Wootton, director of media & advertising at ISBA, says advertisers need real-time trading to be accompanied by an effective code of conduct, underpinned by an independent stamp of trust, to unlock the full potential that the technology offers…
Virgin Media has now added red button functionality to its TiVo service, starting with Sky Sports Red Button services.
Ever since the emergence of Web 2.0 there has been a tendency to confuse social media and word of mouth. In reality, as we have discovered through valuable tools such as Keller Fay’s TalkTrack research, one (social media) is very much a sub-set of the other (word of mouth).
A survey by the British Retail Consortium said retail sales remained sluggish last month – with like-for-like sales (a measure that does not include changes in floorspace and is favoured by equity analysts) down 0.3% year on year in February.
The second Sunday edition of The Sun sold in the region of 2.7 million copies. This is down just over 17% on the launch issue last week.
Monday night’s TV viewing was dominated by the build up to Frank Foster’s murder in Coronation Street, which brought in a massive 10 million viewers.
Although no official announcement has come for YouView’s actual launch date, a speaker at the Digital Media Group’s summit yesterday let slip that it will launch on 14 May.
You cannot go anywhere at the moment without someone mentioning Pinterest – the virtual pinboard that “lets you organise and share all the beautiful things you find on the web”.