Posted on May 16, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Richard Baker, EVP of sales
and marketing at UK-based interactive TV software provider, ANT
(note: Baker, who joined the company earlier this year, was previously
general manager of technology products and services for the EMEA
region at RealNetworks), discusses the company’s new multiplatform
application [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by itvtwp
–Launches ITV Services in More Markets
–Launches Free Olympics VOD Service
–Signs VOD Deal with Rotten Tomatoes
US incumbent telco, AT&T, has generated a fair amount of interactive
TV- and VOD-related news over the past few weeks:
The company has teamed with Yahoo!-owned photo-sharing site,
Flickr, to launch an interactive TV application on its U-verse IPTV
[...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
Israeli IPTV middleware and applications provider, Orca Interactive, is
to be acquired by France Telecom-subsidiary, Viaccess, in a deal that
values it at approximately $21.4 million (note: for more info on recent
product announcements by Orca). The deal is subject to various
conditions, including approval by an extraordinary general meeting of
Orca Interactive. Viaccess is a provider of content-protection
technology, [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
Canadian telecommunications equipment giant, Nortel, last month
launched a new IPTV solution which it claims is designed to make it
simple and inexpensive for its service provider customers to offer video
services, complete with integrated communications capabilities, over
their existing networks. According to the company, the new solution is
already being trialed by a number of tier-one operators around the
world, [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
Cork, Ireland-based interactive TV and IPTV technology provider,
DigiSoft (note: the company, which has racked up some significant
successes in the Italian market, also operates offices in the US, the UK,
Singapore and New Zealand; for an in-depth interview with its CEO,
John Allen, see [itvt] Issue 6.40), announced earlier this month that it
has signed a global “Binary Value [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
Integra5, a Burlington, Massachusetts-based company that specializes
in technologies for converged services, announced last month that
Panhandle Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (PTCI), a quad-play provider
that offers both IPTV and digital cable services in Oklahoma and
Texas, has become the first operator to launch personalized
multi-device converged services based on Integra5’s TV and PC
“Picture” Caller-ID applications. The applications, which [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–Launches New Version of its MediaPath Secure Content Delivery System
–Secures New Deals in China, Poland and Dubai
Tandberg Television–the company which over the past two years or so
has purchased VOD infrastructure provider, N2 Broadband, interactive
TV technology and services provider, GoldPocket Interactive, IPTV
content delivery company, SkyStream Networks, and Internet video
company, Zetools; and which was itself subsequently [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–Launches ITV Services in More Markets
–Launches Free Olympics VOD Service
–Signs VOD Deal with Rotten Tomatoes
US incumbent telco, AT&T, has generated a fair amount of interactive
TV- and VOD-related news over the past few weeks:
The company has teamed with Yahoo!-owned photo-sharing site,
Flickr, to launch an interactive TV application on its U-verse IPTV
[...]
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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 17, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Gary Sohmers, president and chairman of Interactive Meet and Greet Entertainment (IMAGE), discusses his company’s flagship Video Queue technology, which allows TV viewers to have face-to-face encounters with celebrities. (Note: Sohmers will probably be familiar to [itvt] [...]
Filed under: Interviews | Tagged: appraiser, autographs, cable, celebrities, celebrity, digital converter box, digital television, digital tv, interactive, interactive television, iptv, itv, pbs, satellite | No Comments »
