Middleware and Operating System (OS) News

OpenTV Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Results
Feb 25, 2009 – OpenTV (Nasdaq:OPTV) has announced financial results for its fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2008. For the full year, revenues were $116.5 million, 5.9% higher than revenues of $110.0 million in 2007.
News categories: OpenTV, Middleware, Results

Tele Columbus and PrimaCom Choose NDS MediaHighway®
Feb 25, 2009 – NDS has announced that Tele Columbus and PrimaCom have selected NDS' advanced MediaHighway® middleware solution to power their pay-TV business, further reinforcing MediaHighway's leadership in the German pay-TV industry.
News categories: NDS Group, Tele Columbus, PrimaCom, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Germany, Middleware, Set Top Box

ADB Group Reports Record Financial Results For 2008
Feb 24, 2009 – ADB Holdings (SIX: ADBN) has reported ADB Group's financial results for the full year 2008. High-definition TV (HDTV) product sales grew significantly, accounting for 72% of the Digital TV Equipment segment's revenue, up from 57% in 2007.
News categories: Advanced Digital Broadcast, Cable TV, DVB-MHP, IPTV, Middleware, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Broadcom Extends chumby® Platform to Internet-Connected TVs, Set-Top Boxes and Blu-ray Disc® Players
Feb 23, 2009 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) and chumby® have announced the integration of the chumby rich media Internet platform into Broadcom's latest digital television (DTV), set-top box (STB) and Blu-ray Disc® system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions.
News categories: Broadcom, chumby, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming

Chunghwa Telecom selects ANT Browser for Taiwanese TV Service Expansion
Feb 19, 2009 – ANT Software (London:ANTP) has announced that Chunghwa Telecom (TAIEX: 2412, NYSE: CHT) has chosen the ANT Galio Browser as the user interface platform upon which to develop a successor to Chunghwa Telecom's successful Multimedia on Demand (MOD) Service.
News categories: ANT Software, Chunghwa Telecom, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Taiwan

ACCESS Exhibits Industry's Broadest Range of Mobile Solutions at GSMA Mobile World Congress
Feb 16, 2009 – ACCESS will be exhibiting its menu of advanced home-network solutions. Attendees will be introduced to a DTV solution developed with integrated ACCESS technologies that allows users to access seamlessly various types of content on a TV.
News categories: ACCESS CO., Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Smart Home

NXP Software's LifeVibes™ QuickStart Boosts the Mobile TV Experience!
Feb 16, 2009 – NXP Software has unveiled its LifeVibes™ QuickStart software. QuickStart is designed to boost the quality of the user experience of mobile TV. It can cut times needed to buffer video streams by up to a factor of 3, so viewing starts more quickly.
News categories: NXP Software, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24

Discretix, DiBcom & Expway Demonstrate Complete Mobile TV Reference Design at 2009 Mobile World Congress
Feb 16, 2009 – DiBcom, Expway and Discretix have announced the debut of an end-to-end, standards-based mobile TV reference design, that will be on display at the 2009 Mobile World Congress.
News categories: DiBcom, Expway, Discretix, Content Protection, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor

PacketVideo Brings Live TV to the iPhone
Feb 16, 2009 – PacketVideo (PV) [NASDAQ: WAVE] has announced the commercial availability of PV's mobile video application for the Apple iPhone, enabling the delivery of operator-branded TV and video services on the popular smartphone for the first time.
News categories: PacketVideo, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24