Middleware and Operating System (OS) News

Espial Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Kasenna
Jun 30, 2008 – Espial® Group (TSX: ESP) has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Espial will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Kasenna in exchange for an aggregate of 4,722,224 Espial common shares.
News categories: Espial, Kasenna, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, MandA, Middleware

Spain - AETIC to test interactive services for DTT platform
Jun 25, 2008 – The Asociación de Empresas de Electrónica, Tecnologías de la Información y Telecomunicaciones de España (AETIC) has presented its plans to provide testing of DVB-MHP interactive services on the DTT platform.
News categories: AETIC, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, Spain, Terrestrial

OpenTV and FOXTEL launch quad tuner high definition PVR
Jun 25, 2008 – OpenTV (NASDAQ: OPTV) has announced the launch of the new FOXTEL iQ2 High Definition PVR, a quad tuner set-top box that has almost double the recordable capacity of the current FOXTEL iQ and provides an HD platform to FOXTEL subscribers.
News categories: OpenTV, FOXTEL, Australia, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box

Sigma Media Processors Power Advanced Communications' IPTV Set-top Boxes Across Japan
Jun 25, 2008 – Sigma Designs (NASDAQ:SIGM) and Advanced Communications (Adcom) have announced that Sigma's SMP8654 media processors will be used to power Advanced Communications' IPv6 set-top boxes (STBs) currently being deployed throughout Japan.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Adcom, Digital TV, IPTV, Japan, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming

UpdateLogic® to Provide Update Services for Tru2way™ Interactive Cable Devices
Jun 24, 2008 – UpdateLogic has announced support for tru2way™ technology - the rapidly emerging Java-based set of specifications that enables a wave of new interactive digital and high-definition video services.
News categories: UpdateLogic, Cable TV, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, USA

IPTV middleware spending spree expected
Jun 24, 2008 – Communications market research firm Infonetics Research has reported that the combined Internet protocol television (IPTV) and switched digital video (SDV) equipment market increased 12% sequentially to $1.3 billion worldwide in 1Q08.
News categories: Infonetics Research, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box, Subscribers

ASEAN reaches agreement on specifications for Set-top Boxes and Analogue Broadcasting Switch-off
Jun 19, 2008 – The 6th ASEAN Digital Broadcasting (ADB) Meeting in Singapore successfully concluded with officials agreeing on a common set of technical specifications for Standard Definition and High Definition digital set-top-boxes for ASEAN.
News categories: ASEAN, Brunei, Cambodia, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Set Top Box, Singapore, Terrestrial, Thailand, Vietnam

Telstra Selects Streamezzo to Power Interactive TV Offering
Jun 18, 2008 – Streamezzo has announced that Telstra has selected Streamezzo's software platform and professional services team to design, develop and deploy the first fully interactive Mobile TV service in Australia.
News categories: Streamezzo, Telstra, Australia, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile

Digisoft announces availability of eRental Movie Download Platform
Jun 17, 2008 – Digisoft.tv has announced the general availability of it's eRental Movie Download Platform. The solution enables customers to download HD and SD movies from an in-store kiosk to a portable storage device for later viewing at home.
News categories: DigiSoft, BroadcastAsia, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Streaming