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IPTV broadcaster Backspace Communications is planning top introduce a mobile TV offering at this week's NXTcomm trade show in Las Vegas. The company, which was formed from the merger of an ISP and a Read more...

Remember "Startup.com," the 2001 (yes, that long ago) movie that tracked that rapid rise and fall of govWorks.com? Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, the face and money-man of govWorks and head of KIT Capital, has Read more...

Satellite TV provider DISH Networks spent about $700 million to win 168 spectrum licenses in the Federal Communications Commission 700 Mhz spectrum auction, and thus far it has been unclear how DISH Read more...

Mobile TV continues to be a source of excitement for the mobile industry, but the recent Mobile TV World Summit in London was a venue at which some firms involved in the mobile TV ecosystem vented Read more...

Warner Bros. Intl. TV and HBO have cut an exclusive multi-year deal to supply content to France Telecom Orange's new premium pay TV service, Orange Cinema Service. The deal is expected to be one of Read more...

A piece in the Herald Sun notes traditional free-over-the-air TV executives, gathered in Cannes this week for the MIPTV trade fair, are under siege from a variety Read more...

Mobile video-Where's the audience? Don't expect mobile video to be a buzzworthy topic at CTIA Wireless 2008 conference in Las Vegas April 1-3. Subscriber uptake is lagging and no one seems to have a Read more...

The mobile unit of Brazilian telecoms group Oi is launching a mobile TV service Nov. 19, including exclusive content which subscribers can buy a day pass to access. The mobile TV package has been put Read more...

Hitachi Ltd. displayed a prototype mobile TV for IPTV transmissions at CEATAC Japan 2007 last week. A report from Tech-On said the device had a five-inch IPS LCD capable of displaying 854-by-480 Read more...

Broadcasters uncertain of IPTV role
There were more questions than answers when it comes to broadcasters and IPTV. At last week's National Association of Broadcasters Conference in Las Read more...