From left: Fahad Alsukait, Chairman and CEO of Alarab News Channel, and Jamal Khashoggi, well-known Saudi journalist and General Manager of the channel, address the press ...
Intelsat has announced that current Intelsat President and Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Spengler has been promoted to Deputy Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.Under the companys succession plan, Intelsat Chairman and ...
Barajoun Entertainment, a Dubai-based animation and visual effects studio marked its debut outing at the Dubai International Film Festival with the announcement of a new film for 2015 featuring Hollywood actor ...
Sami Boutany, CEO, Yahlive,UAE-based satellite broadcasting company Yahlive is growing its platform with the addition of an African entertainment channel, Clouds TV International, with immediate activation. The new ...
Rabih Dabboussi, Managing Director, Cisco UAE.In a rapidly changing media environment, the boundaries between IT and broadcast are blurring. The two industries have to move hand ...
Canon Middle East has announced the three names of the finalists of its first-ever regional EOS short film competition. The three talented aspiring filmmakers will be the first users in ...
Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has announced the names of its sponsors and supporters for its 2014 edition.Swiss Luxury Watch manufacturer IWC; events agency Eventique; Dubai Airports; media names ZEE ...
Meghali Sharma, Intigral.Thanks to a world of ever-evolving smart applications, television viewership has become a multiscreen experience. The disruption has become the new industry norm, and ...
As a generation that grew up watching the iconic Star Trek, where Captain Kirk and Commander Spock commandeered the USS Enterprise into strange worlds light years away from our own, ...
Inmarsat has announced that Swiftbroadband Safety will play an integral part in the future of European air traffic management (ATM) infrastructure. The announcement follows the signing of a contract between Inmarsat and ...
From A to B.DIFFs Arabian Nights Programme has announced the first line-up of this years selection.Arabian Nights is a celebration of Arab cinema, showcasing films made ...
Traditional Data ApplicationsThere are two primary sets of applications for airborne COTM. The first is what are considered traditional data applications, such as email, video conferencing and VoIP. The second ...
Satellite is of upmost importance when it comes to the oil and gas industry. Reliable connectivity delivered via satellite is used to provide everything from high-speed broadband to real-time monitoring ...
Satellite solution provider Yazmi today announced a new e-learning scheme using the first satellite-enabled tablet, called Odyssey, and Newtec multicast technology to deliver content via satellite to rural, remote and ...
Nuoom Al Ghnem.Emirati filmmaker and poet Nujoom Al Ghanems latest documentary, Sounds of the Sea, opened at the Abu Dhabi Film festival to critical acclaim. The ...
Oscar-nominated producer, writer and director Lee Daniels will head the jury for the 11th Dubai International Film Festivals (DIFF) Muhr Feature Competition. This years edition of the festival will run ...
The countdown to the 2014 edition of ASBU BroadcastPro ME Awards has begun. The judges revealed the official shortlist of the nominations today. The ASBU BroadcastPro ME ...
Virgin Galactic’s partner Scaled Composites conducted a powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo on October 31. During the test, the vehicle suffered a serious anomaly resulting in the loss of the ...
Winners of the Abu Dhabi Film Festivals Black Pearl Awards in the three competition categories will be announced tonight. The ceremony marking the grand finale of the eighth edition of ...
Thuraya has announced its partnership with SOS Childrens Villages Internationals Gulf Area Office to bring satellite connectivity to remote communities in the Central African Republic (CAR). The collaboration facilitates communication ...
The second edition of the Sharjah International Children's Film Festival opened today at Al Jawaher Reception and Convention Centre, Sharjah.Running until 24 October, this year's edition will showcase many films ...
Officials from du and Microsoft at the launch of du view app on Xbox.Du has launched the regions first local Xbox One app, further enhancing the ...
Hendrik Verbrugghe.Television manufacturers are betting ultra high definition will be the next big thing in home entertainment, bringing out a range of sleek new UHD sets ...
Sam Nicholson.Sam Nicholson, CEO at Stargate Studios, speaks exclusively to BroadcastPro ME about the evolution of entertainment content and the road aheadDo you think Stargate Middle ...
A scene from the film Wild.Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has announced the first round of titles in its Cinema of the World section, which boasts ...
From left: Cisco's Rabih Dabboussi with Du's Saleem Al Balooshi.Du has selected Cisco to deploy Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) that offers full visibility and integrated management ...
Inmarsat is expanding the availability of mobile tactical Beyond-Line-of-Sight (BLOS) communications to actively deployed U.S. and coalition forces through the capabilities of its Inmarsat-4 satellite constellation.The companys innovative L-band Tactical ...
HEVC was developed in response to the growing need for higher compression of moving pictures. While it has much promise as a compression technology, HEVC is probably not the wisest ...
Yahsat, the Abu Dhabi based satellite operator, has announced its YahClick satellite broadband internet promotional offer in Uganda for a period of two months. Yahsat is offering a free satellite ...
The Middle Easts first radio station exclusively for children Pearl FM launched in Dubai today.The 24-hour station will broadcast in English on 102 FM from Al Jalila Cultural ...
Smoke2015 native support.With the arrival of the 2015 version of Flame, Autodesk seems to have brought the software back on track, says Alistair Rankine. He gives ...
BlackBerry 10 smartphones users around the world will now be able to access the latest news from the Middle East on a dedicated Al Arabiya News app. Faisal ...
Yalla Noros, the Arabic version of dance show So You Think You Can Dance is premiering on Fox Movies on September 28. The launch of the show which will ...
A still from the film Rainbow.Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF) 2014 has announced the selection for this years Emirates Film Competition (EFC).The upcoming edition of the ...
OSN has introduced CyberSource payment management solution for its subscribers, following an agreement with Mashreq, and CyberSource, a Visa company, delivering payment management solutions. The agreement will provide secure online ...
Francois Truffaut.Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF) will screen a selection of films by legendary filmmaker, François Truffaut, for the first time in Abu Dhabi. Truffaut passed ...
Dominic Baillie and Dave Mace, Sky News Arabia.IBC celebrated its awards on Sunday 14 September. The honours went to innovative production and extraordinary resilience; new ways ...
Etisalats business customers in the UAE are in for a major upgrade as Etisalat boosts broadband speeds by up to 2.5 times for free.Etisalat will double the speeds of its ...
Registration for IBC Content Everywhere MENA is now open. The event will take place in Dubai on 20-22 January 2015 at the Madinat Jumeirah. IBC Content Everywhere MENA will provide a ...
Work Microwave is showing the DVB-S2X IP modem at IBC this year. The device is a future-proof modulator-demodulator solution that maximizes flexibility, efficiency, and cost savings for satellite operators.Built on ...
Julián Fernández-Campón.In todays digital world, MAM offers much more than a database and has transitioned to a content management system thats fully integrated with the entire ...
Traditional pay-TV and telco companies are losing subscribersand revenue to the open internet and OTT players. They need to adapt quickly to stay in the game, says Ben KinealyYouTube channel ...
Ericssons June 2014 Mobility Report estimates a tenfold growth in mobile data traffic between 2013 and 2019, and that 50% of this traffic will be video. At IBC 2014, Ericsson ...
MBC Groups Chief Executive, Sam Barnett is a keynote speaker at IBC Conference set to open tomorrow. The keynote panel on the opening day of IBC2014 will take the pulse ...
Megahertz Ltd has added three highly experienced members to its sales and support team to get even closer to its customers. Tim Rawlings returns to Megahertz to look after the ...
EshailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, today announced that following an international consultation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO), has been selected to build the companys second satellite, Eshail 2.The new satellite will ...
Thaicoms THAICOM-7 satellite was successfully launched into orbit at 0500 UTC today, by a Falcon 9 rocket of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SPACE X) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.THAICOM-7 will ...
Without doubt, the rise of citizen journalism has transformed traditional means of newsgathering and dissemination. A new breed of public citizens and independent media are leveraging the latest advances in ...
O3b was a concept that was conceived in Rwanda seven years ago by Greg Wyler, the founder of the company. Wyler helped to create Africas first commercial 3G mobile and ...
Sony HXR-MC2500.Sony has announced the HXR-MC2500, a new addition to its High Definition (HD) range of memory camcorders. The HXR-MC2500 offers an ideal balance of performance ...
EIAST has announced that works entailing the construction of its primary facility for the manufacture of satellites were on schedule and expected to be completed in the next few months. ...
The number of pay-TV subscriptions in the Middle East and North Africa will increase from 10.6 million last year to 15.2 million by the end of 2019, according to London-based ...
The Blue Elephant, Arabic cinemas latest blockbuster, is set to be released in the UAE on 14 August. Details of the film and the production, which has taken the Egyptian ...
OSNs majority stakeholder Kuwait Projects Company (Kipco) and its fellow shareholder Mawarid Group have turned down the bid from an unnamed private equity firm in the US for between 51 ...
SpaceX is preparing to launch Asiasat 8, a commercial telecommunications satellite into orbit at 5:25 GMT on 5 August.A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air ...
Media Group International (MGI) has announced a new training academy for broadcast professionals. Due to open in September, the academy will offer courses to train media personnel to bridge the ...
Sony PXW X 70.Sony has launched the 4K-ready PXW-X70, the first compact XDCAM professional camcorder ever produced. Expanding the popular file-based XDCAM family to a new ...
I must confess that although Im no football fan, I was just as caught up in World Cup fever as everyone else. I think I even went so far as ...
IBC2014, where Axon celebrates its 20th presence, will mark the European launch of Axon's monitoring and control software Cerebrum.Where software normally is either specialised for use for control or for ...
DKT7DK-Technologies has upped the functionality of its competitively priced DK T7 audio, loudness and logging meter by adding Loudness Automation, a software update that is free ...
