Dallas, Texas-based Bluestreak Network (note: the latter was founded in spring 2002, when John Reed, who currently serves as its chairman and CEO, and his partner, Tom Peters, who serves as its president and COO, used their own financial resources to purchase the interactive TV assets of Montreal-based software company, ZAQ, and the streaming-media assets of networking company, Source Media: Bluestreak's current product portfolio is based on patented technologies from both of those forbears) plans to unveil MachBlue for Mobile--which, as its name suggests, is a mobile version of the company's MachBlue television platform--at the IBC tradeshow and conference in Amsterdam next month. The new platform is designed to enable enhanced navigation and rich media portal capabilities on mobile devices, and is targeted both at operators and device manufacturers. Both the TV and the mobile versions of MachBlue are based on an optimized implementation of Flash and ActionScript, and are designed to support highly demanding interactive TV applications, such as games, multimedia portals, and EPG's: the company claims that the entire platform operates in less than 1MB of memory, and allows products and services authored in Flash to run on set-top boxes and mobile phones with a consistent look-and-feel. Bluestreak will team with OpenTV on a demo of the TV version of MachBlue running OpenTV ITV applications at the IBC show.
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