HP getting in the P2P TV game

Hewlett Packard has announced a deal to ship a P2P IPTV system with their notbooks (notably the Presario and Pavillion models) beginning in late September. The system is called Next.tv and powered by Dave Networks, a white label IPTV provider. For the launch, Next.tv will feature content from CBS, Freemantle, and Endemol. Their sneak preview also [...]

Off The Fence And Bablegum Announce Distribution Deal

Leading independent production and distribution company Off the Fence and Babelgum, the new generation global Internet TV network, has announced an important distribution deal for around 200 hours of non-fiction programming.

The content licensing deal, brokered by Off the Fence Head of Distribution Erik Schuit and Babelgum includes a diverse range of programming including travel, natural history, [...]

Babelgum Links With Giffoni Film Festival Channel

Babelgum has announced the launch of an entire channel dedicated to the Giffoni Film Festival, the largest film festival in Europe for the younger generation, now in its 37th year. Babelgum customers not able to attend the festival in Italy can now see the best in new talent from today’s young generation of independent producers at [...]

Valerio Zingarelli Appointed CEO Of Babelgum

Former Vodafone Global Director of Networks and Service Platforms, Valerio Zingarelli, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Babelgum.

Beyond the completion and refinement of the technical platform, Zingarelli will lead Babelgum into the next phase of launch as a new global media platform aimed at delivering targeted content to sharply profiled viewer groups everywhere in the [...]

Apple and Google are ready for the battle of your digital life

Have you noticed how Apple and Google have been teaming recently? All the pieces of the puzzle are falling in place for both of them to conquer your digital life. Steve Jobs has pulled a “Bill Gates” on Microsoft with it’s successful partnership with Google. In case you did not know, Microsoft success was [...]

VeohTV challenging Joost and Babelgum

Dmitry Shapiro is tired of hearing about Joost, the peer-to-peer Internet TV service launched by the founders of Skype. “Joost is your old man’s TV,” sneers Shapiro, the CEO of competing Web video service Veoh.

By that, he means that Joost is merely replicating the cable and satellite TV model using the Internet as the new [...]

MyTVPAL.com, Yet another TV over the web provider

In the age of Internet TV the battle over eyeballs will be won by the service provider who can provide a wide variety of content with high video quality that plays instantly over low bandwidth over both PC and TV.

With MyTVPAL.COM you can view over 1000 + free live TV channels and thousands of video on [...]

Chime.tv, an alternative to Joost and Babelgum

Chime.Tv’s video player has got the kind of flash and style Ruby developers would envy, especially since it’s programmed in PHP and AJAX. The player, which dishes out 22 themed channels of viral video content, with a bunch of added utilities. Like the IPTV guys, you can flip through pre-made channels, roll your own, or search [...]

Babelgum founder interview

For an Italian billionaire many times over, Silvio Scaglia seems and sounds very humble. Before founding Fastweb in 1999, Scaglia was CEO of Italian operator Omnitel, now Vodafone Italy. His new venture is Babelgum, a full-screen, high-res online video service which will always be compared to Joost, even though the two started around the [...]

How do Babelgum and Joost compare

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Babelgum, the new Internet TV provider set to compete with Joost, just opened up to a wide beta. How does it stack up against the incumbent? Babelgum is bankrolled by Silvio Scaglia, champion of fiber-to-the-home in Italy. Meanwhile Joost is founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, of Skype and KaZaA fame. Both [...]