Dreampark Boosts IPTV User Experience With Improved SVG Client for Middleware

September 9th, 2009 NORRKOPING, Sweden - Dreampark, one of the leading IPTV middleware providers on the European market, today announced its first customer in Latvia. LIVAS Telecommunications, a provider of TV and broadband services on the Latvian market, has chosen the Dreampark Middleware solution Dreamgallery(TM).

September 6th, 2009 Broadband World Forum Europe - PARIS - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced that Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC(du), has successfully launched du TV+, an advanced IPTV service, providing subscribers in its current fixed line areas with high-quality TV programming, and other multimedia content services delivered by Alcatel-Lucent. The new IPTV service has been enabled by Alcatel-Lucent's IPTV solution designed based upon the Microsoft Mediaroom middleware platform, Alcatel-Lucent Operations and Service Fulfilment solutions and complemented with some custom-specific applications and services.

August 17th, 2009 HILVERSUM, Netherlands and SAN JOSE, California - Breakthrough interactive experiences that can be delivered via both next-generation CI+ enabled televisions and existing set-top boxes will be showcased when ActiveVideo Networks(TM) demonstrates its cloud-based approach to redefining television (iTV 2.0) at IBC in September. The exhibit will show how processing in the network "cloud" can dramatically increase the interactive capabilities of the new CI+ standard and provide a uniform environment across CI+ supported TVs, digital and IPTV set-top boxes and broadband-connected CE devices.

July 5th, 2009 HARTFORD, Connecticut and PUNE, India - DiviNet, a leading provider of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) solutions, and Keisense, an innovative provider of user interface technologies for consumer electronic devices, today announced the successful integration of Keisense's ConnecTiVi into DiviNet's IPTV network. The combined solution will enable a range of interactive services over legacy television sets.

May 26th, 2009 COLOGNE, Germany - ActiveVideo Networks(TM) (www.activevideo.com/) announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire Avinity Systems BV, bringing together the two leading providers of cloud-based interactive TV platforms and applications, and expanding the reach and availability of the Web-based user experiences that are redefining interactive television (iTV 2.0). The transaction, which was announced at the ANGA Cable Trade Fair here, strengthens ActiveVideo Networks' technology and application offerings and creates a global leader in the fast-growing market for delivery of cloud-based services to televisions around the world.

May 25th, 2009 NORRKOPING, Sweden - Dreampark (www.dreampark.com), one of the leading IPTV middleware providers on the European market, today announced the delivery of its Dreamgallery(TM) middleware to the Croatian market with Croatian system integrator CS Computer Systems. The system was deployed for OiV, a Croatian state-owned nationwide broadcasting and channel aggregation organization.

April 5th, 2009 HATBORO, Pennsylvania - The Sports Network (TSN) -- Since the announcement that the real-time sports content distribution industry has been narrowed down to two organizations, one of them, The Sports Network, has reported experiencing an enormous increase in its client base and requests for its data, technology and global coverage. "It is," commented Ken Zajac, Director of Sales for TSN, "now a matter of Coca-Cola versus Pepsi-Cola, Budweiser and Miller, Chevrolet and Ford, Target selling against Wal-Mart, Starbucks encountering a huge and improved offering of coffee from Dunkin' Donuts.

March 23rd, 2009 NORRKOPING, Sweden - Dreampark, one of the leading IPTV middleware providers on the European market, today announced its first customer in Ireland as Irish IPTV and ISP provider Magnet Networks has upgraded their existing middleware solution to Dreampark's Dreamgallery(TM), further strengthening the company's position as the leading IPTV middleware provider in Europe. Magnet Networks, the largest provider of broadband and IPTV services on the Irish market, has chosen to change their current middleware solution to Dreamgallery after an extensive selection process that tested its speed, flexibility and user-friendliness.

March 23rd, 2009 SUNNYVALE, California - Spirent TestCenter Hypermetrics(TM) Provides Network Video Processing Leader with Unsurpassed Realism, Performance and Scalability Spirent Communications plc (www.spirent.com/)(LSE: SPT), a global leader in network testing, today announced that RGB Networks ( www.rgbnetworks.com/), the leader in network video processing, selected the award-winning Spirent TestCenter(TM) ( www.spirent.com/go/stc) platform to facilitate the testing of RGB's IPTV solutions. Additionally, RGB chose the Spirent TestCenter Hypermetrics(TM) Application Performance ( www.spirent.com/go/hypermetrics) module to conduct the industry's highest performance Layer 4-7, security and vulnerability assessment tests.

March 15th, 2009 LONDON - Ideaworks3D Ltd, developer of the cross-platform Airplay(TM) SDK for advanced native mobile games and applications, today announced that CRI Middleware have ported their Sofdec advanced video streaming technology to Airplay, and thus to a wide range of smartphone platforms. Airplay is a unique cross-platform technology for creating best-in-class native applications on mobile and handheld devices, enabling developers to build a single application binary and deploy it unmodified to all supported operating systems and devices.

May 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - UTStarcom, a US-based network solutions provider, Tuesday said it will support state-run telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to roll out IPTV (Internet protocol television) services. UTStarcom's existing contract with the Indian firm has been extended for this purpose, the company said in a statement.

September 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - The 19th Broadcast India 2009 Exhibition will be held in Mumbai from October 29-31. The Broadcast India 2009 show will cover all aspects of television, film, radio, video, audio, IPTV, mobile tv, computer graphics, visual effects, multimedia, music, lights, cable, satellite, broadband, internet, transmission and all the leading innovations from the infotainment industry.

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - According to ComScore, the Global Internet Information Provider, Naukri.com, garnered a traffic share of 61 per cent in February '09, the highest ever. Naukri.com is leading in unique visitors, total page views and time spent on the site, beating its competitors by considerable margins.

September 14th, 2009 MUMBAI - Private sector lender ING Vysya Bank Monday said it will raise Rs.416 crore by allotting equity on preferential issue basis and issuing shares to qualified institutional buyers. The investors committee has agreed to issue 92,70,455 shares to qualified institutional buyers at Rs.248.10 a piece, aggregating to Rs.230 crore, the bank said in a regulatory statement.

June 9th, 2009 TD Ameritrade May client trades grew 38 percentOMAHA, Neb. — Online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.

May 4th, 2009 BEIJING - Believe it or not, Chinese civil servants who refuse or fail to consume a sufficient amount of locally made cigarettes, will be fined. An order to this effect has been passed in Hubei Province.

July 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Describing it as a "landmark event", the US has said the end-user monitoring (EUM) arrangement agreed during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit has brought India into the nuclear non-proliferation mainstream. "It's a very significant agreement," State Department Spokesman Robert Wood told reporters Tuesday when asked to explain how the EUM for high-tech defence equipment and technology would work.

July 22nd, 2009 MUMBAI - The international photo sharing site MyAlbum.com has launched MyAlbum.in, a new website that makes free and private sharing of digital photos with friends and family more accessible to people in India. "MyAlbum.com has proven its strength over the years.

August 24th, 2009 Westlake Chemical boosts dividend to 5.75 centsHOUSTON — Westlake Chemical Corp. on Monday said its board declared a 9.5 percent increase in its quarterly dividend, to 5.75 cents per share.

August 5th, 2009 News Corp boosts stake in Sky DeutschlandNEW YORK — News Corp., the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has boosted its stake in German pay TV company Sky Deutschland AG to 39.96 percent. Sky Deutschland was formerly known as Premiere AG.