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Kudelski completes transition of CA to a service model
Aug 28, 2009 – The Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.VX) has announced its half year 2009 results. During this period, the Group started to reap the fruits of the migration of a significant share of its digital TV conditional access deployed base to the service model.
News categories: Kudelski, Advertising, Brazil, Cable TV, CAM, Canada, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Germany, IBCShow, IPTV, Mexico, Middleware, Mobile, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Streaming, Subscribers, Terrestrial, USA, Vietnam

NXP Launches New Smart Card Reader for Growing pay-TV Market
Aug 26, 2009 – NXP Semiconductors has launched its latest smart card interface - the TDA8034 - an NDS and EMV 4.2 compliant, cost-optimized solution for the pay-TV market. The TDA8034 supports all three levels of smart card classes defined by the ISO7816 standard.
News categories: NXP, CAM, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

China Digital TV Announces Unaudited First Quarter 2009 Results
May 12, 2009 – China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) has announced its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009. The company shipped approximately 2.38 million smart cards during the first quarter, an increase of 3.3% from the corresponding period in 2008.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Results

Telenor (Canal Digital) subscribers fall in Q1
May 5, 2009 – Telenor (Oslo:TEL) has released results for the first quarter of 2009. The number of Canal Digital DTH subscribers decreased by 17,000 and the number of Telenor cable subscribers fell by 7,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

China Digital TV Announces Unaudited Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Results
Mar 10, 2009 – China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) has announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2008. China Digital TV shipped approximately 2.66 million smart cards during the quarter, an increase of 2.1% from the corresponding period in 2007.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Results

Kudelski 2008 Results and New Client Wins
Feb 27, 2009 – The Kudelski Group (SWX:KUD.VX) has announced its 2008 annual results. Digital TV progressed well in the second half, generating a 46.1% net revenue growth compared to the first half. For the full year Digital TV achieved a 15.3% growth rate.
News categories: Kudelski, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPTV, MandA, Mexico, Middleware, Mobile, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Taiwan, Terrestrial

Gemalto Achieves Major Step in Advancing the Take-Off of Mobile TV
Feb 16, 2009 – Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) has announced that its UpTeq™ mobile TV SIM card is the first to earn certification that meets the SIMalliance Security Guidelines. These guidelines apply to OMA BCAST Smart Card Profile mobile TV products.
News categories: Gemalto, CAM, Conditional Access, Mobile, MWC24

Nagravision and CSM Enter Deployment Phase Two for China's National Mobile TV Service
Feb 13, 2009 – Nagravision (SWX:KUD) and mobile TV operator China Satellite Mobile Broadcasting (CSM) have entered the second deployment phase for China's CMMB national mobile TV service.
News categories: Nagravision, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Mobile

GlobeCast selects Viaccess OMA BCAST SCP solution for its DVB-H trial platform
Feb 13, 2009 – Viaccess (Paris & NYSE: FTE) has been selected by GlobeCast to provide its OMA BCAST Smartcard profile-based Mobile Broadcast service protection solution for use in a trial platform to faciliate the commercial launch of this technology in Europe.
News categories: Viaccess, CAM, DRM, Europe, Mobile