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• Line of Duty clocks highest audience (The Guardian)

  Published March 20, 2014

  The eagerly awaited final episode of BBC2 drama’s “Line of Duty” pulled in its highest audience of the second series on Wednesday, with 3 million viewers tuning in to find out if Keeley Hawes’ detective was guilty of conspiring in the murder of police colleagues. The police corruption drama had a 12.9% share of the […]

• BBC outlines plans for iPlayer (Broadband TV News)

  Published March 20, 2014

  The BBC plans to increase the seven-day viewing period for iPlayer to 30 days as standard, according to BBC Head of iPlayer Dan Taylor. It also intends to introduce new channels, a Radio 1 video version and is looking to test auto-play. Taylor said the BBC has been supporting a lot of technologies in the […]

• StoryToys brings characters to life for Very Hungry Caterpillar Day (Silicon Republic)

  Published March 20, 2014

  Dublin-based interactive story and activity-book publisher StoryToys has teamed up with The World of Eric Carle to produce the first in a series of 3D pop-up apps based on work of the beloved children’s author. “The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends – Play & Explore” brings a sprinkling of StoryToys magic (also known as 3D […]

• Puttnam: “Copyright needs to be argued for” (Advanced Television)

  Published March 20, 2014

  David Puttnam, President of the UK’s Film Distributors’ Association, has declared that respect for copyright needs to be argued for and in a well-run world the copyright system would be cherished, not merely respected or tolerated. His remarks came in a keynote speech to a film industry audience in London, in which he described film […]

• Eircom unveils first phase Vectoring rollout (TeleGeography)

  Published March 20, 2014

  Ireland’s fixed line operator Eircom has revealed the deployment of VDSL2 vectoring technology on its fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) network, enabling speeds of up to 100Mbps to be achieved via copper last-mile connections. Eircom is amongst the first batch of operators in the world to deploy vectoring technology, which uses noise cancelling to eliminate ‘crosstalk’ on copper […]

• Bouygues Turns Into Iliad Target After Losing SFR Bid (Bloomberg Business Week)

  Published March 20, 2014

  Vivendi SA (VIV) agreed last week to start exclusive talks about merging its SFR phone business with billionaire Patrick Drahi’s Numericable Group, turning down a rival offer from fellow billionaire Martin Bouygues’s construction and telecommunications company. After losing the bidding war for SFR, France’s second-biggest mobile carrier, Bouygues SA’s best move may be to turn […]