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Content Security - New Challenges and Opportunities for Service Providers
White Papers Content security offers comprehensive protection against email-based threats - an important benefit for both Service Providers and their customers. The ability to deliver content security can represent a vital differentiator for Providers compared...
[November 6, 2003, 5:01]
TV without frontiers, lawmakers in tears
News When the new rules are applied, [content providers] can get authorisation in Britain and spread into 25 countries. This is the dilemma that has European legislators, content providers and the UK Government tied in inextricable knots as they attempt...
[July 11, 2006, 15:35]
Real takes charge in subscription software
News A mélange of content providers have signed up for the service: SoapCity, which streams on-demand audio episodes of the dramas "The Young and the Restless" and "Days of Our Lives"; Campus Crusade for Christ and Cutting Edge International, which...
[April 10, 2002, 7:31]
Collaborative Micropayment Systems
White Papers Because of this variety, content providers and customers may rely on different systems. As a result, customers may be unable to buy content from providers using a different system. This payment gateway enables content providers and customer to use...
[December 15, 2005, 0:01]
Web Services for Remote Portals
White Papers Typically, portal vendors or organizations running portals had to write special adapters to allow portals to communicate with applications and content providers to accommodate the variety of different interfaces and protocols those providers used.
[October 7, 2003, 11:51]
Modeling and Simulation of Media-On-Demand Services - Evaluating a Digital Media Grid Architecture
White Papers Work on Video-on-demand has focused on protocols and bandwidth allocation between content providers to consumers in the past. This paper proposes a three-tier hierarchy of few initial media sources (original content providers) with distribution...
[June 24, 2009, 15:19]
MS Webcasts push plans
News Big Green said Dow Jones, Forbes, Fortune, PointCast, Reed Elsevier and the Wall Street Journal will be among content providers when Internet Explorer 4.0 launches later this year. UK-specific content providers are currently being sought.
[May 22, 1997, 15:20]
The end of Net access as we know it...
News Internet access providers are rushing to jump into bed with Internet content providers of every sort. Ownership of customers is moving from ISPs to content providers and it's all about branding and advertising.
[August 17, 1999, 11:53]
MSN relaunched... again
News Though primarily a consumer service it has tied up with key business content providers such as the Economist and the Financial Times to offer business news and stock quotes. The makeover is evidence that MSN has moved away from the expensive...
[May 20, 1998, 7:30]
Converged Video Network Management and Billing
White Papers The telecommunications service provider's new role as the supplier of video content and an intermediary between content providers and end users presents new challenges for delivering, managing and billing for video services.
[February 28, 2009, 0:26]
BT wants BBC to pay for iPlayer
News Internet service provider BT has admitted to throttling provision of the BBC iPlayer, and has called for content providers to shoulder some of the costs of content provision. The spokesperson said the burden of cost for high-bandwidth connections...
[June 11, 2009, 17:07]
Counterfeit-Resistant Optical Fiber
White Papers Providers of sensitive digital content use digital signatures to faithfully identify themselves as the providers of that content to consumers. However, digital signatures currently work only for content created on a computer and consumed on a...
[November 13, 2008, 0:21]
Is this the future for legal P2P?
Blog The background is that of internet service providers, the "content" industry and the vast swathes of naughty people illegally downloading and uploading content over P2P networks. Personally, my money's on Virgin, although they haven't said anything...
[August 13, 2008, 15:23]
Comdex '99: Microsoft trumpets MP3 alternative
News The deals with both technology and content providers highlight Microsoft's increasingly aggressive foray into the online entertainment arena. Crucial in the development of online multimedia distribution is the support of the major record labels and...
[November 17, 1999, 9:01]
Porn access debate hots up in Australia
News A think-tank whose new report has sparked a national outcry over underage access to pornographic Internet content has slammed Internet service providers' stance on filtering and blocking technologies as "irresponsible".
[March 4, 2003, 8:33]
UK regulator clamps down on porn sites
News The cases involved Web site content promoted by two different service providers, Spanish-based Greenock and German-based Premium Call GmbH. The UK's premium rate phone services regulator has fined and barred two online porn providers.
[October 23, 2002, 10:44]
ISPs win crucial legal protections
News Internet service providers and network operators in the UK have won protection from legal action over content held on, or passing through, their networks. Although the final regulations have removed doubt over limitations on civil and criminal...
[August 14, 2002, 10:48]
Music Vflash
Downloads Content providers include House Blues, Sonicnet, World Entertainment Network, Pollstar, Throttlebox, Eritmo, Wired Planet and Jazzreview. Whenever there is new information that matches the user's profile, the icon blinks prompting the user to...
[December 22, 2000, 6:00]
AOL's immunity from child porn to set UK precedent
News A Supreme Court's decision to shield America Online from responsibility for the sale of child pornography in its chatrooms, could soon be imitated by European legislation that is expected to exempt Internet Service Providers (ISP's) from liability...
[March 9, 2001, 14:45]
BBC proposes ISP 'broadband charter'
News In a posting on the BBC blog, Highfield, the corporation's director of future media and technology, said: "I would not suggest that ISPs start to try and charge content providers. Highfield said doing so would mean users wouldn't know which content...
[April 7, 2008, 8:50]
