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Latens for Farmers

Latens Systems announced that Farmers Telephone Cooperative, in South Carolina, has selected Latens' Foundation CA Solution (FCAS) to secure its IPTV services. FTC has chosen the pre-integrated Latens and Minerva solution, which comprises Latens FCAS and Minerva's iTV Manager middleware. This will run on set-top boxes from Motorola and ADB, to provide FTC with a […]

October 25, 2007

NBC blanks YouTube ready for Hulu

NBC Universal has removed all its video clips from YouTube and closed a promotional channel on the site in advance of the launch next week of its own rival service, Hulu. NBC said it was intended to provide a boost to Hulu, which is a joint venture with News Corp's Fox division, and did not […]

October 24, 2007

EchoStar Unveils ViP-TV

EchoStar and its subsidiary EchoStar FSS have unveiled ViP-TV, an IP-based service that will transport more than 300 channels of secure broadcast programming delivered via satellite to telco, private and rural cable operators, municipalities and master planned community video providers.EchoStar described ViP-TV as its turnkey solution for wholesale multichannel content transport and distribution. The offering […]

October 24, 2007

NDS VideoGuard Express for Indian cable

NDS, provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has launched a new solution for the Indian cable TV market. NDS VideoGuard Express delivers robust CAS security and has been pre-integrated with a set-top box and electronic programme guide (EPG) ready for fast deployment. The system includes the VideoGuard Express headend and patented smart card technology. […]

October 24, 2007

UNE-EPM selects Orca

Orca Interactive, provider of IPTV middleware and applications, has confirmed that UNE-EPM Telecommunications, provider of Internet, telephony and television services in Colombia, has selected Orca's advanced RiGHTv middleware to enable the first IPTV service rollout in Colombia. The IPTV deployment will be carried out by Union Electrica Orca's partner and system integrator in the project, […]

October 24, 2007

Thomson watermarking for GDC digital cinema

Thomson has revealed that GDC, provider of soultions for digital cinema, has selected NexGuard, Thomson's comprehensive forensic tracking product line, for integration into 1,200 digital cinema servers. GDC digital cinema servers will now embed NexGuard's audio and visual forensic watermarking solution. NexGuard combats in-theatre piracy by offering forensic means to identify the date, time and […]

October 24, 2007

Viacom won't back down on Google

Viacom has stated that it will not drop its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube parent Google. Philippe Dauman, Viacom’s chief executive, said that Google had not done enough to prevent content from being illegally uploaded to YouTube. Viacom, owners of MTV and Nickelodeon, claims that Google allowed more than 160,000 clips of its programming to […]

October 23, 2007

MySpaceTV originals

MySpaceTV unveiled its first original Web series to give its users a television-like experience with the interactive benefits of the Internet. “Roommates” will track the lives of four women in their 20s who have recently graduated from college and are living together in Los Angeles. The Web show runs through December for a total of […]

October 23, 2007

Axiom.TV family-focused Internet TV channel

Axiom.TV is set to Beta launch the first comprehensive technology to make Internet TV user- friendly, legal and safe for families. To celebrate its international Beta launch, Axiom.TV will give away the movie 'Benji' to the first 33'000 subscribers. Axiom.TV is currently in final negotiations with several of the major studios for additional movie content, […]

October 23, 2007

Nortel and Widevine protect IPTV content

Nortel and Widevine Technologies have revealed that Widevine's content security solution has been integrated into Nortel's IPTV solution to protect telco operators' revenue streams and enable premium content licensing. This has been accomplished with the signing of a global reseller agreement. Nortel and Widevine have won multiple customers and are in trials at Telcos around […]

October 23, 2007