Middleware and Operating System (OS) News

Russia - OpenTV Powers High Definition TV for NTV-Plus
May 8, 2007 – OpenTV (NASDAQ GM: OPTV) has announced that NTV-Plus, Russia’s first and only direct-to-home satellite TV operator, will launch high definition television services using OpenTV’s advanced digital television solutions. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Middleware, Russia, Satellite

Ocean Blue developing MHEG return channel software
May 2, 2007 – Ocean Blue Software is completing development of new MHEG return channel software to allow set-top boxes to connect to broadband, opening new opportunities for interactive “”red button”” services.” More …
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box

NDS Group plc Reports Third-Quarter Results
May 1, 2007 – NDS Group plc (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2007. More …
News categories: Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, Middleware, Results

Zodiac Releases PowerRamp, High-performance, Small Footprint Java Middleware for Legacy Set-Tops
Apr 30, 2007 – Zodiac Interactive, an Emmy Award winning developer of iTV applications, games and services-oriented middleware for cable, satellite and IPTV, has announced the availability of its Java Middleware solution, PowerRamp™.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Software

IWEDIA to reveal its market solution for cable operators at ANGA Cable
Apr 27, 2007 – At ANGA Cable, IWEDIA will be revealing a dedicated cable tv edition of their Comedia middleware pre-integrated with the Conax Conditional Access System (CAS7) running on ST's STi5107 chipset.
News categories: ANGA COM, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middleware, Semiconductor

New Access Browser to Support AcTVila TV Portal Service
Apr 21, 2007 – ACCESS CO., LTD. today announced that it has developed a new digital TV (DTV) browser that supports AcTVila, the broadband digital TV portal service offered by TV Portal Service Corporation (TVPS). More …
News categories: Digital TV, Japan, Middleware, Smart TV

Amino to port IntAct IPTV software to new Intel Media Processor
Apr 19, 2007 – Amino has announced today that its IntAct(TM) IPTV software stack will be ported on to the new Intel® CE 2110 Media Processor. More …
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, NABShow, Semiconductor, UK

PacketVideo and QUALCOMM Show MediaFLO Device at NAB
Apr 18, 2007 – PacketVideo worked jointly with QUALCOMM to develop a PacketVideo-powered, proof-of-concept demonstration of live streaming TV using MediaFLO(TM) mobile TV technology on a third-party application processor. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, NABShow, Smart TV

Orca Interactive Selected by Lattelecom for Baltic MPEG-4 IPTV Service
Apr 11, 2007 – Orca Interactive (LSE: ORCA) has announced that its IPTV middleware - RiGHTv™ - has been deployed in the first Baltic MPEG-4 IPTV solution for Lattelecom, Latvia's leading provider of information technology and telecommunications services.
News categories: Orca Interactive, IPTV, Latvia, Middleware