Software (Media Players, Middleware, Browsers, Stacks, …) News

ArcSoft Launches Multimedia Solutions for Android Platform
Feb 17, 2009 – ArcSoft has announced the launch of ArcSoft PowerMobia™ for Android, the software-based multimedia turn-key solution, on the Android platform.
News categories: ArcSoft, OpenMax, Media Player, Mobile, MWC24

ACCESS Exhibits Industry's Broadest Range of Mobile Solutions at GSMA Mobile World Congress
Feb 16, 2009 – ACCESS will be exhibiting its menu of advanced home-network solutions. Attendees will be introduced to a DTV solution developed with integrated ACCESS technologies that allows users to access seamlessly various types of content on a TV.
News categories: ACCESS CO., Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Smart Home

NXP Software's LifeVibes™ QuickStart Boosts the Mobile TV Experience!
Feb 16, 2009 – NXP Software has unveiled its LifeVibes™ QuickStart software. QuickStart is designed to boost the quality of the user experience of mobile TV. It can cut times needed to buffer video streams by up to a factor of 3, so viewing starts more quickly.
News categories: NXP Software, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24

Broadcom Accelerates Flash Based Entertainment for Mobile Phones
Feb 16, 2009 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced the integration of the Adobe® Flash® Platform into Broadcom's advanced multimedia processor system-on-a- chip (SoC) solution featuring the company's latest version of VideoCore® mobile multimedia technology.
News categories: Broadcom, Adobe, Digital TV, Media Player, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor

NEC 3.1-inch 3D TFT LCD Module Provided for MOBILE3DTV Terminal Prototype
Feb 16, 2009 – NEC Electronics has announced that samples of NEC's 3.1-inch-diagonal 3D polysilicon thin-film-transistor (TFT) LCD module will be provided for the 'MOBILE3DTV' terminal prototype being displayed at Mobile World Congress 2009 (MWC2009).
News categories: NEC Electronics, Europe, Metaverse, Mobile, MWC24

Discretix, DiBcom & Expway Demonstrate Complete Mobile TV Reference Design at 2009 Mobile World Congress
Feb 16, 2009 – DiBcom, Expway and Discretix have announced the debut of an end-to-end, standards-based mobile TV reference design, that will be on display at the 2009 Mobile World Congress.
News categories: DiBcom, Expway, Discretix, Content Protection, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor

PacketVideo Brings Live TV to the iPhone
Feb 16, 2009 – PacketVideo (PV) [NASDAQ: WAVE] has announced the commercial availability of PV's mobile video application for the Apple iPhone, enabling the delivery of operator-branded TV and video services on the popular smartphone for the first time.
News categories: PacketVideo, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24

Ericsson launches Connected Home Gateway software enabling multimedia services to the home
Feb 12, 2009 – Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has launched its Connected Home Gateway software, giving consumers the freedom to access and interact with their home multimedia devices, services and media, wherever they are.
News categories: Ericsson, Gateway, IPTV, Middleware, MWC24, Smart Home

NDS End-to-End Solution Powers and Protects Mediascape's New Digital DTH Service for the Philippines
Feb 11, 2009 – NDS has announced that it has deployed a complete end-to-end pay-TV broadcast system for Cignal Digital TV, the new satellite-delivered digital TV platform in the Philippines recently launched by Mediascape.
News categories: NDS Group, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middleware, Philippines, Satellite