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"The Cable Show" Set for 2008 Return to New Orleans
Sep 17, 2007 – Keeping a commitment to return its annual national convention to New Orleans post-Katrina, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) has announced that The Cable Show '08 is scheduled May 18-20, 2008 in the Big Easy.
News categories: The Cable Show, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, USA

TelecomView Study Measures TelcoTV Opportunities for Service Providers and Systems Companies
Sep 17, 2007 – The global growth of TelcoTV services has demonstrated that significant opportunities exist. TelecomView's new report "Opportunities in TelcoTV: Forecast & Market Shares - 2006 to 2012" sizes the available opportunities and identifies which companies are most likely to capitalize on it.
News categories: TelecomView, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box

Anevia and Netgem provide IPTV and VOD head-end and set top-box for Telco customers
Sep 14, 2007 – Anevia and Netgem have announced the successful integration of their IPTV technology. Anevia advanced TV services such as catch up TV, network PVR, start over, and pause TV are now available on Netgem STBs.
News categories: Netgem, Anevia, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box

SK Telecom and T-Systems to tackle Europe mobile TV
Sep 12, 2007 – SK Telecom, South Korea's top mobile operator, said it has reached a preliminary deal with T-Systems, a unit of Deutsche Telekom, to jointly enter the mobile broadcasting market in Europe and Asia.
News categories: Asia, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Europe, Mobile

Microsoft Announces New Partners, Customers and Programs at IBC2007 to Further Its Digital Media Strategy
Sep 7, 2007 – This week at IBC2007, Microsoft Corp. is announcing new customers, partners and programs that further underscore the value Microsoft provides to organizations in the media and entertainment industry.
News categories: Microsoft, Michael O'Hara, Content Distribution, Content Protection, IBCShow, IPTV, Media Player, Middleware, Software, Streaming

Verimatrix Enters the Cable Market with VCAS for Cable IPTV
Sep 4, 2007 – Verimatrix has announced its latest content security solution VCAS™ for Cable IPTV, an innovative solution for affordable delivery of secure IPTV services over cable.
News categories: Verimatrix, GoBackTV, Cable Modem, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Content Protection, DOCSIS, IBCShow, IPTV

DTC Communications Selects Kasenna's PortalTV Solution for Delivery of Feature-Rich IPTV Services
Jun 18, 2007 – Kasenna has announced that DTC Communications has selected Kasenna's PortalTV product suite including LivingRoom™ middleware, and MediaBase XMP™ VOD server as the core components of a fully integrated IPTV service to be rolled out in Tennessee.
News categories: Kasenna, DTC Communications, Broadband, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, USA

ATIS Releases IPTV High Level Architecture
Jun 14, 2007 – ATIS has announced the release of its IPTV High Level Architecture Standard, developed by the ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF). It serves as a reference architecture for IPTV functional specifications being developed by the IIF.
News categories: IIF, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV

China launches communications satellite 'SinoSat-3'
Jun 1, 2007 – China on early Friday morning launched 'SinoSat-3', a communications satellite for radio and television broadcasting, aboard a Long March-3A carrier rocket, marking the 100th flight of its Long March series.
News categories: SinoSat, China, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Satellite