Middleware and Operating System (OS) News

Via Licensing Announces Joint Patent License for Interactive Television Services Using the DVB-MHP Standard
Feb 13, 2007 – Via Licensing Corporation is pleased to announce the availability of a worldwide joint license agreement for patents deemed essential to implement the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB®) Multimedia Home Platform 1.0 standard (MHP® 1.0).
News categories: Via Licensing, DVB-MHP, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, Licensing, Middleware, Patent

ArcSoft TotalMedia™ Mobile for Portable Navigation Devices
Feb 12, 2007 – ArcSoft have announced ArcSoft TotalMedia™ Mobile for Portable Navigation Devices at the 3GSM World Congress 2007.
News categories: ArcSoft, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24

S3 and Irdeto bring DVB-H connectivity to the PC market
Feb 12, 2007 – Silicon & Software Systems Ltd. (S3 and Irdeto, a subsidiary of multinational media group Naspers (NASDAQ: NPSN and JSE: NPN), have announced a technology breakthrough that allows operators to deliver Mobile TV, via a DVB-H network, to both desktop and laptop PCs using commonly available components.
News categories: Irdeto, S3, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24

Nexstreaming integrates Irdeto's ISMACryp descrambler to play secure mobile TV services on DVB-H handsets, PC and laptops
Feb 12, 2007 – Nexstreaming and Irdeto, a subsidiary of multinational media group Naspers (NASDAQ: NPSN and JSE: NPN), have announced the successful integration of Irdeto's ISMACryp descrambler into Nexstreaming's media player.
News categories: Irdeto, Nexstreaming, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24

Irdeto and CyberLink Partner to Provide Secure Digital TV Solutions
Feb 12, 2007 – Irdeto and CyberLink have announced the integration of Irdeto's mobile conditional access solution into CyberLink's Mobile DTV solution.
News categories: Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24

S3 to launch onHandTV™ TSC software at 3GSM 2007
Feb 9, 2007 – Silicon & Software (S3) has launched its Transport Stream Controller (TSC). Targeted at silicon manufacturers, the TSC dramatically reduces the time-to-market and development cost by abstracting complex DVB-H receiver control functions.
News categories: Silicon & Software Systems, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor

Frontier Silicon and S3 demonstrate world's first turn-key solution for multi-mode mobile DTV
Feb 8, 2007 – At the 3GSM World Congress, S3 and Frontier Silicon demonstrated a reference design for Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) incorporating Frontier Silicon's Paradiso (FS1030) DVB-H/DVB-T/T-DMB/DAB-IP mobile TV receiver IC, and S3's onHandTV™ MDTV client software.
News categories: Silicon & Software Systems, Frontier Silicon, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor

New Penthera™ Mobile Broadcast Software Gives TV Fans Anytime, Anywhere Access
Feb 7, 2007 – Penthera Technologies has announced Penthera Mobile Broadcast Platform™ Version 2.0, which enables error-free broadcast delivery of any media file to broadcast-enabled mobile devices.
News categories: Penthera, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24

Belgium - Quarter of a million Telenet Digital TV RGU's
Feb 5, 2007 – Telenet has announced that it has passed the milestone of 250,000 digital TV customers. This success is partly due to the successful Christmas campaign that the Mechelen-based company ran.
News categories: Telenet, Belgium, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers