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11-March-2009 International technology company *** has won a significant contract in Switzerland from Kudelski's Nagravision. The country’s largest pay-TV operator Teleclub will in future encrypt its digital subscription package on cable networks in VideoGuard. For existing subscribers...

Spain's national public broadcaster Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) lost €71.8 million in 2008. But the company plans to save nearly €97 million this year due to the absence of the Olympic Games, the most expensive event for the company last year. Luis Fernández, RTVE's president said the...

German telco Deutsche Telekom appears to be suffering enormous technical problems with one of its most important projects, the IPTV platform T-Home Entertain. In an internal forum Telekom customer service advisors and technicians describe serious problems, German magazine Stern reports in its...

Sex And The City creator Darren Star has signed to create a new series for HBO, claims The Hollywood Reporter. Starr has finalised a two-year deal with the network which will see him produce his first solo show in ten years since Sex debuted on the channel in 1998. "They say you can never go...

Portugal's pay TV operator Meo has just launched a new service called 'My Meo' to closer engage with its subscribers. The service incorporates new functionalities and contents such as the TV Guide, a videoclub with more than 1,500 films which can be searched by the name of director or title...

BT has issued a response to IPTV News following the recent statement by the UK's communications watchdog Ofcom that it will present "no regulatory barrier" to investment in fibre networks by UK telcos. Ian Livingston, Chief Executive of BT Group, said: "We are encouraged by the clarity that...

Tiscali has admitted that protracted negotiations over a possible sale of its UK operations to Sky have now become almost "impossible" to continue. Trading in shares of the Italian company was suspended on Friday. It has also asked its bankers to suspend interest payments on its €500m debt...