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[TVover.net] Report: Spring 2010 Global IPTV Market Leaders - TVover.net: "Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola and Microsoft lead the global Market Leader Rankings in five of the six IPTV product categories," said Jose Alvear, IPTV Senior MRG Analyst. "What this means is that Vendors having a more complete IPTV ecosystem are more dominant than Vendors with just one IPTV product." Larger Vendors are building a full IPTV ecosystem so they can continue to work with large Telcos around the world.

[TechCrunch] The Long, Steady March of IPTV””Microsoft Set-Top Boxes Now in One ...: These include AT&T’s U-verse, Duetche Telekom, and Briitish Telecom’s BT Vision, which just announced that later this year it will make its IPTV service available in the UK to anyone with an xBox 360 console, in addition to the conventional set-top boxes it uses today.

[Business Insider] Fending Off Microsoft, Google Invests In TV Ad Startup Invidi: With these technologies INVIDI can tailor a custom solution to any operator’s specific needs. These solutions are deployed by various operators and tests have established the technology’s benefits, including greatly improving the relevance of television spots shown to consumers while always maintaining privacy and confidentiality based on parameters established by operators.

[Gawkwire: Web Hosting and Internet News Resource] Cable and IPTV Telcos Investing in Video on Demand Servers: Market share is provided for Alcatel-Lucent, ARRIS, BitBand, Cisco, Concurrent, Edgeware, Envivio, Ericsson, Espial, Harmonic, Huawei, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia Siemens, OptiBase, SeaChange, Tandberg TV, Technicolor (Thomson), UTStarcom, ZTE, and others.

[TechCrunch] 45% of Europeans watch TV online: The survey covering the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain found that the French lead Europe in terms of online television consumption with 59% of people choosing to watch previews and episodes of their favorite shows via the web with the Germans trailing at 33%.

[Digital TV News] 2009 worldwide STB revenue down 5% from 2008: Market share is provided for Alcatel-Lucent, ARRIS, BitBand, Cisco, Concurrent, Edgeware, Envivio, Ericsson, Espial, Harmonic, Huawei, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia Siemens, OptiBase, SeaChange, Tandberg TV, Technicolor (Thomson), UTStarcom, ZTE, and others.

[itvt] BT Vision IPTV Service Integrated with Microsoft Xbox 360 ...: According to the companies, BT Vision on Xbox will "combine the richness of the Microsoft Mediaroom-enabled TV service, with the benefits of next-generation gaming, as well as unique new capabilities that the integrated solution brings." Among other things, the partnership will see Microsoft's Xbox Live service, which combines on-demand programming content with social TV features, integrated with the BT Vision experience: the companies say that this integration will allow BT customers to access such features as voice chat, the ability to send and receive voice messages, and the ability to access the Xbox Live Marketplace and play Xbox games, all while watching TV.

[TVover.net] Report: Cisco on Motorola's heels in IP STB Market; 3Q IPTV/SDV ...: The report provides market size, market share, and forecasts for telco IPTV and cable IPTV and SDV equipment, including pure and hybrid IP STBs, integrated digital headend platforms, VOD and streaming content servers, IP video encoders, IPTV middleware and content delivery platforms, video content protection software, and universal edge QAMs. The report also tracks pure IPTV, hybrid IPTV/over-the-air, hybrid IPTV/QAM, and cable SDV services and subscribers.

[Everyone's Posts - Trender Researchâ™] Microsoft Mediaroom Podcast: The King of IPTV Keeps Polishing the ...: Consider the cable company-backed Canoe Ventures recent backtracking from its ambitious Community Address Messaging project (its targeted interactive advertising initiative) as evidence that cable has some fairly large obstacles to overcome before they will reach the interactivity potential of IPTV. Canoe Ventures is now driving to put lipstick on the Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF: pronounced “ee-biff” if you want to sound cool), a CableLabs-backed specification for more limited interactive TV applications that can run on low-end set-top boxes widely deployed by US cable operators.

[CNET News.com] RIM replaces Motorola as top-tier phone maker | Signal Strength ...: Marguerite Reardon has been covering the telecom beat for more than a decade and knows more about wireless and IP networking than she cares to admit. She has been a senior writer for CNET News since 2003, covering all things wireless and broadband related from iPhone launches to major telephone company mergers to IPTV developments.

[Techrights] Links 20/01/2009: RHEL 5.3, Mandriva 2009.1 Alpha 2 | Techrights: But in 2006, the company acquired its own IPTV software platform. It purchased Kreatel Communications, a Swedish company with a complete Linux-based IPTV solution, including applications, middleware, and set-top box designs featuring embedded Linux.

[Social Media Marketing News] Digital Hollywood Conference, May 3-6 2010, Schedule » Social ...: Keeping up with the Game Changers -- The pace of change across the media landscape is staggering, but staying abreast is less difficult if you keep your eye on those leading the pack. Who says a web series has to feature talking fruit or puerile jokes to be a success?

[Connected Systems Chilled Out Blog] BT Vision news: According to the companies, BT Vision on Xbox will "combine the richness of the Microsoft Mediaroom-enabled TV service, with the benefits of next-generation gaming, as well as unique new capabilities that the integrated solution brings." Among other things, the partnership will see Microsoft's Xbox Live service, which combines on-demand programming content with social TV features, integrated with the BT Vision experience: the companies say that this integration will allow BT customers to access such features as voice chat, the ability to send and receive voice messages, and the ability to access the Xbox Live Marketplace and play Xbox games, all while watching TV. "We are pleased to partner with Microsoft to deliver a truly compelling connected entertainment experience to our customers," BT Vision CEO, Dan Marks, said in a prepared statement.

[IT n Biz News] CIOs Must Make Organisations More Oppurtunity-Focused Than Problem ...: UTStarcom Partners With Ruckus Wireless For Wireless IPTV. eScan For Linux Version 3.0 Launched. IBM's 'FedFast' Eases Federal Bank's Remittance Process. Infosys BPO Launches Enhanced Sales Outsourcing Services ...

[Rubber Tyres --> Smooth Rides] T-Commerce - Teeing Off « Rubber Tyres -> Smooth Rides: This subscriber base has experienced increasing growth over the past 3 years, from 2004 to 2006, and the potential to convert these to IPTV customers increases as the broadband subscriber base increases. The other way to drive growth is to use the IPTV offerings to get television viewers (99% of the Cypriot population own a television) to switch over with a less intimidating offering, especially for non-computer owners (almost 50% of the population).

[Alan Quayle Weblog] Looking Back and Looking Forward - Alan Quayle Weblog: Hybrid TV is defined by the presence of a hybrid STB that is part IPTV (using a managed IP network) and part broadcast (receiving the broadcast digital content from a non-IP service like Digital Terrestrial, Digital Cable, or Digital Satellite). There are many examples including Verizon FiOS and BT Vision. 

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