Stories about: NTL

Ashwin Navin, co-founder and president of file sharing software developer BitTorrent, thinks that advertising-supported content will win out over DRM (digital rights management) in the long run for movie and TV show downloads. But his company is embracing DRM as it opens a new movie download Web site that will compete with the Unbox store launched by Amazon.com and Apple Computer's iTunes Store. In an interview with Dan Nystedt, he presented BitTorrent's views on DRM and its online movie store plan.

NTL's bid for British mobile phone company Virgin Mobile Holdings (UK) PLC has won the approval of Virgin Mobile's board, the companies announced Tuesday. The cash-and-stock offer values Virgin Mobile at £962 million (US$1.67 billion), NTL said.

Skype, once by far the dominant IP telephony service, has had its market share cut in half over the past year, according to a new study from network monitoring firm Sandvine.

Software utility house Imceda has developed a universal compression engine for databases which it claims can speed backups by a factor of five for a wide range of databases and applications.

The Federal Government will commence a review of the current datacasting rules in early 2002, and has released an issues paper and called for submissions to the Review of the Operation of Schedule 6 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (Datacasting Services).

In what it believes to be the first trial of its kind, U.K. cable company NTL Group Ltd. will launch a free trial of a wireless broadband network in London within the next two weeks.

After years of talk of convergence, managing multiple services over a single network connection looks to be one of the common themes of this year's Networks Telecom show, which kicks off in Birmingham, England, next Tuesday. The show serves as a European launchpad for new networking products such as routers, switches and software applications for LANs and WANs (wide area networks), and also for telecommunication consultancy services.

Microsoft Corp. and Vodafone Group PLC announced Monday the launch of a new service delivering real-time e-mail, SMS (short message service) and voice communication to corporate customers via the Outlook platform, powered by the Microsoft Mobile Information 2001 Server.

Federal Communication Minister Senator Richard Alston said the future of interactive information services for digital television would be decided before the Federal election.

U.K. telecommunication operator NTL Inc. Thursday signed an outsourcing agreement with IBM valued at over US$2 billion.

Labor has called on the Federal Government to urgently rewrite its digital television rules after lack of interest forced the cancellation of the datacasting spectrum auction.