Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
The second annual tru2way Developers Conference will be held in
New Orleans on Saturday, May 17th and Sunday, May 18th, just prior
to the NCTA Cable Show. The conference is produced by the NCTA,
in partnership with CableLabs (the originator of the tru2way/OCAP
standard) and premier sponsor, Vidiom Systems, a company that
specializes in tru2way/OCAP technology and that has a [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
The NCTA and CableLabs have announced the line-up of companies
that will be participating in CableNET, their annual showcase of new
cable technologies and products at the NCTA’s Cable Show (takes
place May 18th-20th in New Orleans). A number of participating
companies, including UniSoft/Strategy & Technology, Sigma Designs
and Zodiac Interactive, will be demo’ing tru2way-based technologies,
and several other companies, including [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
At the MIPTV conference in Cannes earlier this month, the
International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the
winners of its International Interactive Emmy Awards (note: the
awards, which were organized in partnership with Reed MIDEM, were
hosted by UK comedian, Brian Conley). The winners (together with
descriptions of their winning projects, provided by the International
Academy) were:
Best Interactive [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
The BBC recently issued a tender for a five-year (with a two-year optional extension) contract for interactive services management. The
contract, which is worth up to £25 million, covers such areas as
interactive TV playout, systems management, online publishing and
monitoring of service levels. The BBC is seeking a single company to
fulfill all the areas described in [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
–Also Signs Deal with Gannett
–Company Offers Interactive Web Broadcasting Platform
Mogulus–a company which offers a free, ad-supported service that
allows people to launch their own live broadband TV stations (it claims
that its service, which launched last November, has already enabled
over 50,000 producers to launch their own Internet TV stations,
streaming over 100 million unique viewer minutes each month)–was
attempting [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
At the NAB show in Las Vegas earlier this month, Sun Microsystems
announced that it is expanding its Sun Streaming System product
portfolio to create what it claims is the only IPTV platform that can
scale “seamlessly and cost-effectively” from 100 to 160,000
simultaneous streams. The portfolio’s Sun Fire X4950 Streaming
Switch has been joined by new server and storage [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
–Features Content from CBS, MTV, PBS, Scripps and Others
Earlier this month, Adobe Systems launched its long-awaited Adobe
Media Player 1.0 software (available for download at
http://www.adobe.com/go.mp). The company touts the new
cross-platform, customizable media player as providing new ways for
viewers to discover and interact with content, and as offering content
providers a range of revenue- and brand-building opportunities. A
number [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
–Signs Deals with Bebo, Meebo, RockYou, Slide, Veoh, Gruner + Jahr
–Helps Power Showtime’s 2008 Primetime Emmys Campaign
Broadband video publishing services provider, Brightcove, has
announced plans to support Google’s new contextual advertising
technology for broadband video, AdSense for Video, which is currently
in beta. The company says that its participation in the AdSense for
Video beta program will provide its [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
–Deal Targets China and other Asia-Pacific Markets
–Company Appoints New VP’s of Programming and Business Development
ICTV, a Silicon Valley-based company that offers solutions for
bringing Web media to television, announced last month that it has
signed a deal with iPanel Technologies, a provider of embedded
software platforms for digital and IPTV services and applications. The
deal is designed to [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
–Player Version 2.7 Integrates Microsoft Silverlight, Atlas Ad Server
–Appoints New President and COO
–New Deals with tvtv, CAN Communicate and FIFA, Fox Intl’s BabyTV
Broadband TV infrastructure company, Narrowstep (note: the
company’s telvOS technology has been used to power a number of
high-profile broadband TV services, including the ITV Local service of
UK commercial terrestrial broadcaster, the Independent Television
Network; it [...]
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