TV
Microtune to acquire Auvitek
Microtune has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Auvitek International. Under the terms of the agreement, Microtune will pay approximately $6.8m in cash and one million shares of Microtune stock, with a current value of approximately $2.2m, for the Auvitek business. The acquisition is expected to close during the month of [...]
AT&T extends network integration contract with Alca-Lu
AT&T has extended Alcatel-Lucent’s contract for end-to-end multivendor network integration for AT&T U-verse. The AT&T U-verse portfolio brings together U-verse TV, U-verse High Speed Internet and U-verse Voice services all delivered over AT&T’s advanced Internet Protocol (IP) network using Alcatel-Lucent’s Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA). Under the latest agreement, Alcatel-Lucent will continue to provide [...]
Idea Asia, GMEG enter acquisition agreement
Asia Global Holdings’ subsidiary Idea Asia and Global Media & Entertainment (GMEG) have entered into an agreement whereby GMEG has agreed to acquire Idea Asia from AAGH subsidiary Sino Trade Intelligent Development (Sino Trade) in return for 7.5% of GMEG’s common stock and other considerations. The deal is pending exchange of consideration on or before [...]
Orange inks mobile and internet deal with Wikimedia
Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation have announced a wide-ranging strategic partnership designed to mutually benefit each organisation’s users by extending the way people can access free knowledge. Orange, the European telco player, will initially provide customers in France, the UK, Spain and Poland with access to co-branded content from the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organisation [...]
Teliasonera to deliver content from NY to Sweden in 55 milliseconds
Teliasonera International Carrier has signed a deal to deliver live television broadcasts of a Swedish entertainment show from New York to Sweden – which, the company informed, it will do in 55 milliseconds. Teliasonera claims to be the first network operator with its own fibre-based media network to offer this service on an international and [...]
Trident to acquire 3 consumer product lines from Micronas
Trident Microsystems, a player in semiconductor system solutions for the multimedia and digital television (DTV) markets, has entered into a definitive agreement with Micronas Semiconductor Holding to acquire selected assets of the frame rate converter (FRC), demodulator and audio product lines of Micronas’ Consumer Division. The consideration payable to Micronas will consist of 7.0m shares [...]
Telefonica selects Alcatel-Lucent solution
Alcatel-Lucent has announced its collaboration with Telefonica in an interactive IPTV advertising proof of concept pilot for its Imagenio IPTV customers throughout Spain. Telefonica has relied on an application enablement solution from Alcatel-Lucent in a bid to bring increased interactivity and web 2.0 features to the TV experience of Imagenio’s IPTV platform. Alca-Lu has informed [...]
Turk Telekom selects Envivio Convergence series encoding platform
Envivio, a technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, has announced that its Convergence Series video headend has been selected for Turk Telekom’s IPTV project in Turkey. Turk Telekom will use Envivio 4Caster C4 SD and 4Caster HD30 HD MPEG-4 AVC encoders and the 4Manager NMS, to deliver an extensive [...]
NXP unveils new DVB-C solution, STB150
NXP Semiconductors, a semiconductor company founded by Philips, has unveiled the new STB150 system solution, delivering a complete production-ready platform for the digital cable TV services market. The NXP STB150 integrates a new single-chip CX2448x MPEG-2 decoder for DVB-C (Digital Video Broadcasting – Cable) reception with a TDA18252HN silicon tuner and complete software stack, giving [...]
Hathway to launch NDS-powered DVR services
NDS, a provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has announced that Hathway, a digital cable provider in India, has launched its Digital Box PLUS DVR solution, based on NDS XTV DVR technology. The new DVR solution is aimed at enabling subscribers to take control over what they watch and when they watch it. The [...]
