News

• yARN: It’s time for AFACT to accept the facts

  By Nick Broughall | 30 April, 2012 12:04

  Recently, the highest court in Australia unanimously dismissed AFACT’s appeal that ISP iiNet was accountable for the bittorrent file-sharing occurring on its network. It was the final skirmish in the entertainment industry’s three-year fight to try and change the role of the ISP in its fight against piracy.

• Optus scores win against NRL and AFL

  By Spandas Lui | 02 February, 2012 09:31

  Optus has scored a win in its Federal Court case against the National Rugby League (NRL) and Australian Football League (AFL) over the telco’s Optus TV application.

• Your identity up for grabs

  By Mark Gibbs | 14 January, 2012 04:35

  Security was a big issue in 2011 with more sophisticated and a wider range of threats than ever before wasting even more of everyone's time at a cost of billions of dollars.

• AT&T settles TiVo patent suit for at least $215 million

  By John Ribeiro | 04 January, 2012 15:08

  AT&T will pay TiVo at least US$215 million to settle pending patent litigation relating to digital video recorder technology.

• Adobe advances entertainment apps for TVs

  By Hafizah Osman | 10 October, 2011 10:16

  Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced that LG and TiVo have become the latest partners to bring Adobe Flash-based applications via Adobe AIR to connect their TVs and digital home devices.

• Apple again rumored to be preparing TV release

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 29 August, 2011 03:12

  Apple is again rumored to be preparing to release a television set.

• Alcatel-Lucent trust sues Apple, others over video patents

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 29 December, 2010 10:39

  The Multimedia Patent Trust wants royalties every time Apple sells an iPhone

• vividwireless gives 4G subscribers unmetered TiVo content

  By ARN Staff | 21 April, 2010 11:29

  4G wireless provider, vividwireless, has signed an agreement with Hybrid TV to deliver the company’s on-demand TV shows, movies and music to its customers on an unmetered basis.

• Tivo's new set-top box unites TV, Internet programming

  By Agam Shah | 03 March, 2010 14:26

  Tivo on Tuesday took a step forward in marrying TV with the Web, introducing a new set-top box that will bring cable programming and streaming content from the Internet to TV screens.

• Tasmania ramps up NBN awareness

  By Spandas Lui | 25 November, 2009 16:30

  The Tasmanian Government has joined forces with TiVo licencee, Hybrid Television Services, to kickstart the Hybrid SmartStreet project in Tasmania and promote the benefits of the National Broadband Network (NBN).

• iiNet teams up with TiVo

  By ARN Staff | 09 November, 2009 11:26

  Following in the footsteps of Internode and iPrimus, WA-based ISP, iiNet, has jumped on the unmetered TiVo access bandwagon.

• Free TiVo BlackBerry app offers remote DVR features

  By Al Sacco | 01 October, 2009 04:22

  Ever been away from home and remembered at the last minute that you didn't set the TiVo to record the new episode of your favorite TV show? Or been running late and wanted to program the digital video recorder (DVR) from afar so you wouldn't miss the start of your ball game? If so, and you own a BlackBerry smartphone, you're in luck.

• Synnex switches on TiVo partnership

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 16 July, 2009 16:26

  Synnex has found a second key product for its consumer electronics ambitions in TiVo.

• Anyware recalls product due to TiVo legal challenge

  By Spandas Lui | 26 June, 2009 12:52

  Anyware has been forced to recall its Fiivo product following a legal challenge from TiVo Brands.

• Western Digital unveils 1TB TiVo external drive

  By Lucas Mearian | 23 April, 2009 08:23

  Western Digital Corp. Wednesday said that its TiVo-enabled My DVR Expander external hard drive is now available with a capacity of 1TB capacity. The external drive can store up to 600 hours of standard definition television or 140 hours of high-definition programs, the company said.