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NDS Group plc Reports First Quarter Results
Oct 23, 2008 – NDS (Nasdaq: NNDS) has announced its results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. 95.4 million active devices were protected by NDS conditional access and 98.7 million middleware clients were deployed at the end of the period.
News categories: NDS Group, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Content Protection, DRM, DVR, IPTV, Middleware, Mobile, Private Equity, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

Strong Wireless Gains, Sound Operational Execution Highlight AT&T's Third Quarter
Oct 22, 2008 – AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) further accelerated its ramp in U-verse TV growth with a net gain of 232,000 subscribers in the third quarter. At the end of the quarter, subscribers to the company's next-generation, IP-based TV service totaled 781,000.
News categories: U-verse, Broadband, DVR, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

KPN - Solid third quarter results
Oct 22, 2008 – At 30 September 2008, KPN (Amsterdam:KPN) served over 37 million customers, of which 29.8 million in wireless services, 4.0 million in wireline voice, 2.5 million in broadband Internet and 0.7 million in TV.
News categories: KPN, Fibre, IPTV, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

NXP Semiconductors Announces Third Quarter 2008 Results
Oct 21, 2008 – NXP Semiconductors has announced third quarter sales in line with expectations of USD 1,336 million, a comparable decrease of 4.2% on the third quarter of 2007 and a comparable increase of 1.0% over the second quarter of 2008.
News categories: NXP, Results, Semiconductor

Broadcom Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results
Oct 21, 2008 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has reported unaudited financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2008. Net revenue for the third quarter of 2008 was $1.298 billion, compared with the $950.0 million reported for the third quarter of 2007.
News categories: Broadcom, Results, Semiconductor

MTG Results for Period Ending 30 September 2008
Oct 21, 2008 – Modern Times Group MTG AB (OMX Nordic: MTGA, MTGB) has announced its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended 30 September 2008. Viasat Broadcasting's net sales were up 14% y-o-y to SEK 2,308 million.
News categories: Modern Times Group, Denmark, DVR, Finland, IPTV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

Prime Technology Ventures and Philips arrange for successful spin out of world leading content identification services: Civolution B.V.
Oct 20, 2008 – The company formerly known as Philips Content Identification, a leader in content identification services and technologies based on digital audio and video fingerprinting and watermarking, has announced the completion of its spin-out from Philips Corporate Technologies.
News categories: Civolution, Prime Technology Ventures, Content Protection, Venture Capital, Watermarking

Movidia secures funding to enable budding 'Spielbergs on the move'
Oct 17, 2008 – Movidia has announced that it has secured over US$14 million in Series A funding. Investments from an international syndicate will help the fabless semiconductor and software company to bring to market its innovative mobile video processor technology.
News categories: Movidia, Digital TV, Mobile, Semiconductor, Venture Capital

TEO revenues grew by 5.3 per cent for the nine months of 2008
Oct 16, 2008 – The total consolidated revenue of TEO LT, AB Group (Vilnius:TEO1L) for the nine months of 2008 was LTL 613 million. The total number of main telephone lines in service was 772.1 thousand, while the number of TV users (IPTV and DVB-T) - 47.5 thousand.
News categories: TEO LT, IPTV, Lithuania, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial