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Brightcove App Cloud unveiled

Brightcove, the cloud content services company, has unveiled Brightcove App Cloud, a content app platform for building and operating native apps and touch websites for Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones and tablets. App Cloud combines an open HTML5-based development model with intelligent cloud services for cross-platform compilation, automated app distribution, analytics, advertising, and connectors […]

May 25, 2011

WWE appoints Web TV to monetise

World Wrestling Entertainment has appointed video ad network Web TV Enterprise to monetise its UK online video content. The exclusive deal is aimed at increasing the reach of the entertainment broadcaster’s TV campaigns. The first campaigns to roll out across the Web TV network include pre-rolls for the 20th Century Fox movie Cedar Rapids and […]

May 24, 2011

ES3 and emuse deliver ad-powered TV apps

emuse and ES3 have announced the establishment of an exclusive partnership that will see emuse’s Raven Advanced Advertising System pre-integrated into ES3’s suite of TV applications for Microsoft’s Mediaroom IPTV platform. Raven provides digital television platform operators and content owners with an end-to-end advertising decision, delivery and reporting solution, and has been deployed globally in […]

May 23, 2011

DirecTV selects Amdocs Mediation solution

Amdocs, a provider of customer experience systems, has announced that DirecTV has deployed Amdocs Mediation software to support its growing number of partnerships with service providers that bundle DirecTV video services into their offerings. The announcement was made at Amdocs’ 2011 Global InTouch Business Forum, Amdocs’ annual customer and partner event taking place this week. […]

May 20, 2011

UTStarcom End-to-End IPTV for China

UTStarcom has launched its end-to-end Internet TV solution, and also won its first commercial contract to build up an Internet TV platform in Northern China. The new end-to-end Internet TV solution is derived from UTStarcom’s core RollingStream technology system. The Company’s Internet TV solution, based on cloud computing technology, has an open system structure, reliable […]

May 19, 2011

InOutTV chooses Opera browser for TV platform

Opera Software has confirmed that InOutTV, the largest OTT operator in Spain, has chosen the Opera browser for their television platform. This opens the door for advanced web technologies adoption as a seamless means to bring content to users running Opera on their TVs. Opera is a key enabler making content and applications available on […]

May 18, 2011

SeaChange advertising platform

SeaChange International has unveiled its new generation SeaChange Infusion Advanced Advertising Platform to help video operators manage centralised ad operations and scale to 150,000 insertable channels and millions of ad assets. The platform’s foundation is the new SeaChange Infusion Linear Advertising Server, shipping later this year, which enables linear ad insertion in an open plug-and-play […]

May 18, 2011

Espial aids RomTelecom IPTV take-up

Espial, a specialist in On-Demand TV solutions, has announced that RomTelecom has now surpassed 35,000 IPTV subscribers with access to on-demand TV services powered by Espial MediaBase. These include timeshift-TV and video-on-demand services. RomTelecom is the incumbent telecom provider in Romania with more than 2.7 million landlines.

May 17, 2011

KIT digital powers launch of China United Television

KIT digital, a cloud-based software solutions and technology services provider for multi-screen video delivery, has revealed that its KIT Platform, a multi-screen IP video software solution, will power the new China United Television (CUTV) project, a new media platform initially developed by a consortium of 19 leading television stations and newspapers throughout the People’s Republic […]

May 17, 2011

MPP to develop YouView payment module

MPP Global Solutions has been selected by Vision+Media to develop a payment module to integrate with YouView and other IPTV platforms for a new initiative. MPP, a provider of payment services and eCommerce solutions to the media and entertainment industries are to integrate their eCommerce payment services into various IPTV platforms but with focus on […]

May 11, 2011