Middleware and Operating System (OS) News

Major Cable Operators Sign Up for OCAP Technology Licenses
Jan 31, 2007 – Major cable operators Comcast and Time Warner Cable have executed required agreements to license essential OpenCable™ Applications Platform (OCAP™) intellectual property and obtain security certificates for OCAP applications.
News categories: Via Licensing, OpenCable, CableLabs, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cable TV, Digital TV, Middleware, USA

NDS Group plc Reports Second Quarter Results
Jan 30, 2007 – NDS Group plc (NASDAQ: NNDS), a majority owned subsidiary of News Corporation, has announced its results for the quarter ended December 31, 2006.
News categories: NDS Group, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middleware, Results

IBM, Cisco soft launch IPTV in Europe
Jan 30, 2007 – IBM and Cisco Systems have 'soft launched' an IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) with HD, video on demand, and other capabilities at a demonstration center at the IBM Industrial Solutions Center in La Gaude, outside Nice, France.
News categories: IBM, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Middleware

Penthera and Telegent Systems Team to Remove Hurdle for Mass Market Adoption of Mobile TV
Jan 30, 2007 – Penthera Technologies and Telegent Systems have announced a technology agreement that will make it easier for consumers to access TV content from their mobile phones and other portable devices, while increasing revenue possibilities for carriers.
News categories: Telegent Systems, Penthera, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, Semiconductor

NDS Adds Peer-To-Peer Content Sharing and Distributed-DVR
Jan 29, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced two new product enhancements to its IPTV middleware solution. Distributed-DVR and ShareTV are two patent pending product features which will deliver even more benefit to IPTV service providers.
News categories: NDS Group, Jungo, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Middleware, Streaming

NDS and Dogan TV Partner to Revolutionize Television in Turkey
Jan 29, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) and Dogan TV, owned by Turkey's leading media group Dogan Yayin Holding, have announced an agreement to deploy a broad range of NDS technologies and applications.
News categories: NDS Group, DoÄŸan Yayin Holding, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middleware, Turkey

AT&T's Delivery of TV Hits a Glitch
Jan 26, 2007 – AT&T Inc.'s rollout of its new television service is being delayed by glitches in the Microsoft Corp. technology that helps power the Internet-based system.
News categories: AT&T, Microsoft, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, USA

CableLabs® Adopts IPDR Streaming Protocol into OCAP™ Version 1.1 Set-Top Box
Jan 23, 2007 – The Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization (IPDR.org) has announced that CableLabs® has adopted IPDR.org's technologies into its OpenCable™ Application Platform (OCAP™) Version 1.1 initiative.
News categories: IPDR.org, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box

Irdeto to partner with Alticast, LG-Nortel and Kaon Media to deliver end-to-end IPTV solution
Jan 23, 2007 – Irdeto has announced that it is partnering with Alticast as well as LG-Nortel and Kaon Media to deliver an advanced, end-to-end IPTV solution worldwide.
News categories: Irdeto, Alticast, LG-Nortel, Kaon Media, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box