Screen has further expanded its product portfolio of broadcast solutions to include connected TV. Having only recently acquired fellow broadcast technology company SysMedia, Screen has announced that it has obtained the On Screen Publishing connected TV solution, now named ‘SceenConnect’, which allows the content owners to easily deploy and manage services across a range of […]

Apple is reportedly set to pay in excess of $400 million for Anobit, an Israeli start-up focused on flash memory and digital signal processing technologies. The deal, reported in the Israeli financial press, may indicate that Apple is looking to boost the memory on its devices and improve reliability. Anobit’s products are already integrated on […]

Amdocs, a provider of customer experience systems, has confirmed that Virgin Media has selected Amdocs to evolve its network inventory management systems. Amdocs will be responsible for the project’s overall system integration, end-to-end implementation, and program management.  The Amdocs OSS inventory solution, delivered with Amdocs’ consulting and implementation services, will enable Virgin Media to improve […]

Sigma Systems, a specialist in Advanced IP Service Fulfilment solutions, has announced record customer growth for its fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, bringing its total subscriber services under management to over 160 million for its cable and telecommunications customers worldwide. In FY 2011, Sigma secured contract extensions with several Tier 1 operators and increased […]

Civolution, a leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetising media content, announces that Fortium , a provider of content protection solutions for the film, entertainment and broadcast industries has integrated NexGuard watermarking technology in to its PIN-Play protection solution for files and  discs for its Studio customers. Furthermore, Civolution’s NexGuard – […]

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor expert serving customers, has released what it claims is the industry’s first validated drivers for OpenTV 5, the most advanced set-top box middleware from NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multi-screen television solutions. The validated drivers provide a rapid porting platform enabling significantly shorter time […]

Ericsson has supplied Tata Sky, an Indian DTH operator, with an advanced TV on-demand system that enables its eight million satellite subscribers to enjoy movies on-demand and catch-up TV. The deployment is one of the first in the world to be based on Ericsson’s Media Delivery Network (MDN), a media-centric solution for the distribution, delivery […]

To complement its launch of TV channels YouTube, Google has launched a significant redesign of the video site for a more TV-like feel, with customisable channels. In October, Google announced that YouTube would be expanding its original content with plans to launch some 96 new video channels over the next year from a variety of […]

Digital entertainment solutions provider Rovi and developer of products and services for broadband and broadcast operators Pace are combining respective strengths in applications and service platforms, and in hardware and middleware, jointly to develop an integrated hybrid Internet Protocol (IP) solution. The new solution, targeted to be available in the USA, Canada, and Latin America, […]

Telefonica’s IPTV service Movistar Imagenio (with over 800,000 subs) will be available from next week through Microsoft’s console Xbox 360 to the 160,000 existing users of the Xbox Live Gold (with a current potential reach of 1 million Xbox-equipped customers). The service is free of charge the first three months. Xbox 360 users will be […]