Middleware and Operating System (OS) News

Al-Falak announces the launch of the world's first fully integrated IPTV Triple Play project for Qatar Telecom (Qtel)
Jan 21, 2007 – Al-Falak has successfully completed the system integration of the world's first fully integrated and redundant IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) Triple Play project for Qatar Telecom (Qtel).
News categories: Qtel, Al-Falak, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Qatar, Set Top Box

SAMSUNG, Time Warner Cable And Advance/Newhouse Join Together To Launch OCAP On Interactive HDTV Sets And HD Set-Top Boxes
Jan 19, 2007 – Samsung, Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWX) and Advance/Newhouse Communications have announced that interactive digital cable services are now live on the Samsung HL-S5686C Open Cable Application Platform (OCAP™) compliant DLP HDTV and SMT-H3050 High Definition Set-top Boxes (HDSTB).
News categories: Samsung, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, Cable TV, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, USA

Opera supports single chip set-top box solutions from STMicroelectronics
Jan 17, 2007 – Opera Software has announced that the Opera SDK for Devices now supports STMicroelectronics' STi710X family of high-definition TV single-chip set-top box decoders.
News categories: Opera Software, STMicroelectronics, Digital TV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Austria - Initial results following DTT launch in October 2006
Jan 16, 2007 – Following the launch of DTT services in Austria last October, it is estimated that 100,000 DVB-T receivers have been sold. Of these, viewers have purchased 35,000 MHP-enabled receivers using a subsidy offered by the government.
News categories: Austria, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Skelmir Java Virtual Machines Ported to TI's DaVinci for STB Applications
Jan 9, 2007 – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) has announced that Skelmir's CEE-J™ Virtual Machines (VM) for embedded devices have been ported to, and optimized for, TI's DaVinci™ technology.
News categories: DaVinci, Skelmir, CES2025, Digital TV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Software

Middleware providers Iwedia (DVB) and AwoX (UPnP/DLNA) to cross-license their technologies
Jan 9, 2007 – Iwedia, a provider of embedded DVB-based software, and AwoX, a supplier of UPnP/DLNA-based solutions for networked audiovisual devices, have announced a cross-licensing process.
News categories: Iwedia, AwoX, CES2025, Digital TV, Middleware, Smart Home

TTP licenses mobile TV technology to ZTE
Jan 8, 2007 – Technology development and IP licensing group The Technology Partnership (TTP) has licensed its DBTV open standards based mobile television implementation to Chinese mobile phone manufacturer ZTE.
News categories: ZTE, The Technology Partnership (TTP), STMicroelectronics, 5G, Digital TV, DRM, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor

PacketVideo Achieves Instantaneous Mobile TV Channel Changing
Jan 8, 2007 – Consumers would not accept a six-second wait for the channel to change on their TV at home, and PacketVideo Corporation's new enhancement to its Digital Video Broadcast - Handsets (DVB-H) solution eliminates that delay on mobile devices.
News categories: PacketVideo, CES2025, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile

Comcast and Motorola Expand Relationship With Next-Generation Digital Set-Top Deal
Jan 8, 2007 – Motorola, Inc (NYSE:MOT) and Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) have announced that the companies have expanded their previously announced multi-year purchase agreement for digital set-tops.
News categories: Comcast, Motorola, Cable TV, CES2025, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA