When the News Corporation-controlled UK satellite broadcaster Sky launched a free iPad app for its Sky Sports News channel in September 2010, some wondered if it would also start to offer a paid version of the product. Well, it’s taken 15 months, but it’s happened.

The rumour mill for a supposed integrated Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) TV set is cranking up, with noted Taiwanese circuits news source Digitimes reporting Apple’s supply chain companies will start making components in the first quarter of 2012.

With the growth of over-the-top services that let users access the video they want over the internet (and often, for free), those companies offering pay-TV have to look for more bells and whistles to keep fickle consumers interested in their services. The latest offerings in this area come from France…

Last week, Verizon announced a $3.6 billion deal to buy wireless spectrum from cable operators and resell their pay-TV services. This week, Lowell McAdam, Verizon’s CEO, started to lay out how that deal will impact other services operated and sold by the carrier: it looks like it will not continue…

What with self-driving cars and such, Eric Schmidt is not averse to some blue-sky thinking. But one new prediction may be a moonshot too far.

Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) has put its digital eggs into one basket—centralizing all its global digital operations into one new unit—and with today’s results it’s easy to see why: the company today released some dismal results for some of its legacy businesses—namely in its home market of Spain—which have resulted in…

In the movie The Matrix, the main character Neo is offered a choice between a blue pill (“the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe”) and a red pill (“you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes”).

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is making a huge investment in devices and is buying *Motorola* Mobility for $12.5 billion in an all-cash deal.

The BBC’s international iPlayer iPad app will cost less than $10 (£6.13) a month when it launches later this year, according to director general Mark Thompson.

When is a smartphone not a smartphone? When it’s a connected-TV platform!

Orange, the French telecoms operator, has entered into exclusive negotiations to take a 49 percent stake in the online video company Dailymotion, for €58.8 million ($80 million), giving the company a full valuation of $160 million. The deal should close in the coming months, and Orange will have the option…

—FiOS: Verizon has enabled its IPTV service so that customers can now download video to their smartphones, tablets and other wireless devices, to watch even when there is no internet connectivity. Flex View, as the service is called, currently works with 1,400 movie titles, with 6,000 available by the end…

Last week, Vodafone’s Lisbon office issued a press release stating: “*Vodafone* Portugal has secured the broadcasting rights for the 18 football matches of the Champions League.” But that’s not the case, according to UEFA, the body which runs the league.

With the world’s richest soccer league, England’s Premier League, kicking off this weekend, mobile and online are set to play a bigger part than ever this season. ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Perform Group are launching new pay-for apps, while ESPN has secured more rights to show live matches on TV…

France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is looking for buyers for its Orange-branded IPTV channels, and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) is among the companies said to be potential buyers. Orange operates the most successful IPTV service in a country that is the world leader in IPTV adoption - some 2.9 million customers.

The rise of the mobile web has put strains on data networks; TV and video threatens to exacerbate the problem. So now carriers are trying the latest in a long line of mobile TV standards, in a bid to claw back their capacity. Three of the UK’s five main networks…

Want to watch Eurosport on your iPhone? That’ll cost you £2.39 a month. The sportscaster has released a mobile-app version of Eurosport Player, its direct-to-consumer subscription live service. Eurosport launched Eurosport Player in 2008, offering British Eurosport 1 and British Eurosport 2, and it now costs £3.99 a month or…

Twenty months after previewing an in-development app that would bring its live TV news service to iPhones, Livestation is finally taking its streaming offering mobile - but it’s resorting to the open web, and not Apple’s application platform. Livestation, which was started by Skinkers in 2007 using P2P algorithms acquired…

Stiff competition in the wireless sector is hurting revenues, and therefore even the cable industry is growing at a faster clip, according to a research note by Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett. Barron’s reports that while wireless subscriber growth is up, revenue per subscriber is down, resulting in overall revenue growth…