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NDS Declared Global IPTV DRM Leader by Two Independent Analyst Firms
Sep 9, 2008 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that it has been ranked by both ABI Research and Current Analysis as the leading content security and Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology vendor worldwide.
News categories: NDS Group, CAM, Conditional Access, Content Protection, DRM, IPTV, Market Research, Streaming

DoÄŸan Yayın (D Smart) Business Review & 1H08 Results
Aug 29, 2008 – DoÄŸan Yayın Holding A.Åž. (DYH) (Istanbul:DYHOL) has published its 1H08 Results and Business Review. Dogan's DTH satellite service, D Smart, now has over 600 thousand subscribers, up from 91 thousand one year ago.
News categories: DoÄŸan, D Smart, CAM, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Turkey

Kudelski Group 1st half 2008 - migration to service mode on track
Aug 29, 2008 – The Kudelski Group (SWX: KUD.VX) has announced results for its first half year ended June 30, 2008. In the first half 2008, Nagravision expanded its global reach with 92.3 million active devices for conditional access.
News categories: Nagravision, Kudelski, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, Iraq, Middleware, Mobile, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Alcatel-Lucent supports launch of world's first commercial trial of mobile TV service based on the Open Mobile Alliance's BCAST Smartcard Profile
Aug 20, 2008 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has announced its support for the world's first commercial trial of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)'s new BCAST Smartcard Profile by MobileOne (M1) and MediaCorp in Singapore.
News categories: Alcatel-Lucent, MobileOne, MediaCorp, CAM, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DRM, Mobile, Singapore

Q2 2008: Premiere increases revenues to EUR 272.4 million
Aug 7, 2008 – As of June 30, 2008, Premiere (PRE.XE) had a total of 4,157,810 customers: 3,554,696 direct subscribers (June 30, 2007: 3,473,174) and 603,114 indirect arena customers.
News categories: Premiere AG, Austria, CAM, Conditional Access, Germany, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

China Digital TV Announces Unaudited Second Quarter 2008 Results
Aug 6, 2008 – China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) has announced its results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008. In the quarter, China Digital TV launched STV-RT10UP, a chip which enables PCs to support DVR and HDTV functions on three channels simultaneously.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Mobile, Peripherals / Accessories, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming

Premiere: Decisive phase in the fight against the organized theft of rights
Aug 5, 2008 – Premiere (PRE.XE) has developed and successfully tested an extensive security package together with its encryption partners NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) and Nagravision (SWX:KUD.VX) to ensure that all pirate viewers will be greeted with a blank screen soon.
News categories: Premiere AG, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Germany, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box

NDS Group PLC Reports Fiscal Year 2008 Results
Aug 5, 2008 – NDS Group (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced its results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008. 90.3 million active devices were protected by NDS conditional access technology and 92.5 million middleware clients were deployed at the end of the period.
News categories: NDS Group, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, DRM, DVR, IPTV, MandA, Market Research, Middleware, Mobile, Private Equity, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

Integrated Digital TV Shipments to Grow to 143 million. Is the Set-top Box Under Threat?
Aug 4, 2008 – IMS Research is forecasting that shipments of integrated digital TVs (iDTVs) will grow to 143 million in 2013, up from and estimated 52 million in 2007.
News categories: IMS Research, Cable TV, CAM, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, DVR, Market Research, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial