Middleware and Operating System (OS) News

Velton Telecom of the Ukraine relies on Alcatel-Lucent for IPTV launch
Feb 25, 2010 – Alcatel-Lucent (Paris and NYSE: ALU) has announced that Ukraine's Velton Telecom is launching a field trial of innovative IPTV services to subscribers in Kharkov and Poltava, utilizing the Microsoft Mediaroom platform.
News categories: Alcatel-Lucent, Velton Telecom, Alexander Tikhonov, Anatoly Protsyuk, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Ukraine

Pace partners with M7 Group in major HD roll out
Feb 22, 2010 – Luxembourg-based satellite TV operator M7 Group has chosen set-top box technology from Pace (LSE:PIC) to bring high definition (HD) TV content and personal video recording to its customers.
News categories: Pace plc, Belgium, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, Luxembourg, Middleware, Netherlands, Satellite, Set Top Box

S&T brings interactive content to Freeview HD with Humax
Feb 22, 2010 – Strategy & Technology (S&T) has announced that its RedKey™ 2 MHEG engine is powering the text and interactive services in the new Humax Freeview HD set-top box.
News categories: Strategy & Technology, Humax, Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK

NDS Provides On Digital Media with Key Technologies to Launch South African Pay-TV Platform
Feb 22, 2010 – NDS has announced that On Digital Media has selected NDS as technology provider and prime integrator to support the launch of its direct-to-home (DTH) platform in South Africa. The new service, TopTV, will go live in Q2 2010.
News categories: NDS Group, On Digital Media, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVB-S2, DVR, Middleware, Satellite, South Africa

Telekom Austria customers get enhanced IPTV
Feb 15, 2010 – Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) will replace the IPTV platform of Telekom Austria (VSE: TKA, OTC US: TKAGY) in order to deliver content services to multiple devices eliminating barriers between the TV set and PCs, and introduce a new user interface.
News categories: Ericsson, Telekom Austria, Austria, Content Distribution, IPTV, Middleware

Envivio On Demand Connects IPTV PVRs to Consumer Mobile Devices and PCs
Feb 15, 2010 – Envivio has introduced Envivio On Demand, a new set of solutions that enable operators to turn their subscribers' recorded content into premium on demand assets that can be made available to mobile and PC screens for later viewing, on the go.
News categories: Envivio, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Placeshifting, Streaming

Sonic Solutions and DivX Bring Strategic Partnership to Mobile Devices
Feb 15, 2010 – Sonic Solutions® (Nasdaq: SNIC) and DivX (Nasdaq: DIVX) have announced at Mobile World Congress an expanded partnership to enable the digital distribution of an extensive catalogue of premium titles on DivX Certified® mobile devices.
News categories: DivX, Sonic Solutions, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Streaming, Tablet

ETSI Formally Adopts New Release Of GEM/MHP Interactive Standards
Feb 15, 2010 – DVB has announced that ETSI has adopted as standards the new release versions of the MHP 1.2.2 and GEM 1.2.2 specifications. GEM now takes over the role of DVB's primary middleware specification, and MHP becomes a derived specification based on GEM.
News categories: DVB Project, Blu-ray, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, IPTV, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Newport Media and MediaTek Announce ISDB-T Cellular Phone Reference Design
Feb 15, 2010 – Newport Media and MediaTek (TPE: 2454) have announced the ISDB-T reference design that covers the system level pre-integration of mobile TV SoC and software into several of MediaTek's advanced GPRS-EDGE cellular baseband IC platforms.
News categories: Newport Media, MediaTek, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor