Middleware and Operating System (OS) News

Blusens Relies on Sigma Designs' Technology to Empower HDTV Home Entertainment Device
Jan 22, 2009 – Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM) has announced that their SMP8634 has been selected by Blusens as the main processing unit in the Blusens 'blu:brain' HDTV Home Entertainment Device.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Blusens, LambdaStream, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Placeshifting, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming, Terrestrial

Tatung receives STB order from Guangzhou Cable TV
Jan 21, 2009 – Tatung has received an IPTV set-top box (STB) order from Guangzhou Cable TV. The STBs for Guangzhou Cable TV will support Microsoft Mediaroom.
News categories: Tatung, Guangzhou Cable TV, China, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box

Axel Technologies Closes €2.4 million Investment Round To Boost The Development of Multistandard Mobile TV technology
Jan 20, 2009 – Axel Technologies has announced that they have secured a new €2.4 million investment for business and product development. Axel Technologies develops mobile TV technology that enables device manufactures to bring mobile TV to all portable devices.
News categories: Axel Technologies, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, Venture Capital

MTS Allstream first with Microsoft Mediaroom in Canada
Jan 19, 2009 – MTS Allstream (Toronto: MBT) has launched a new digital television service in Portage la Prairie. MTS is the first company in Canada to launch with technology from Alcatel-Lucent and using the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform.
News categories: MTS Allstream, Microsoft, Kelvin Shepherd, Canada, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Middleware

BH Telecom selected Smart Com to build converged IPTV and IP telephony service delivery platform
Jan 16, 2009 – BH Telecom of Bosnia & Herzegovina has selected Smart Com to deliver and integrate a complete converged IPTV and IP telephony service delivery platform based on Smart Com's BeeSmart middleware.
News categories: Smart Com, BH Telecom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware

Brazil's digital TV to go interactive in 2010
Jan 16, 2009 – Sales of Set-Top-Boxes fitted with the Brazilian interactive middleware 'Ginga' will start in December this year. The system will be interactive by 2010 instead of this year as originally planned.
News categories: Ginga, Brazil, Digital TV, Middleware, SBTVD, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

ADB Group and TFN Media Bring Advanced Interactive HDTV Experience to Taiwan
Jan 13, 2009 – Advanced Digital Broadcast (SIX: ADBN) has announced that it has signed a three-year contract with TFN Media for the delivery of an end-to-end solution for TFN Media's deployment of interactive digital cable services in Taiwan starting in early 2009.
News categories: Advanced Digital Broadcast, TFN Media, Foxconn Technology, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DOCSIS, DVB-MHP, Middleware, Set Top Box, Taiwan

China Gets First Taste of Anytime TV
Jan 12, 2009 – Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has announced that Guangzhou Digital Media Group has formally launched Zhujiang Digital, a connected TV service powered by the Microsoft Mediaroom Internet Protocol television (IPTV) platform.
News categories: Microsoft, Guangzhou Digital Media, Enrique Rodriguez, Guan Zhijian, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware

Sigma Designs To Retain 100% Share Of Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV Platform
Jan 12, 2009 – BWS Financial is saying that Sigma Designs (NASDAQ:SIGM) could retain a 100 percent market share position in the Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) platform IPTV service owing to delays in field trials of Motorola's (NYSE: MOT) set-top box.
News categories: Sigma Designs, CES2025, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box