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CyberLink Corp. has announced that CyberLink YouCam is shipped with all Alienware notebooks equipped with a webcam. The combo allows customers of Alienware‘s Area-51 m15x and Area-51 m9750 notebooks to experience webcam capabilities. The webcam supports the majority of instant messaging (IM) communication tools in the market.
Factum Electronics AB is going to supply the head-end system for the first commercial DAB+ launch in Europe. The system Factum delivers to Digi B Network is IP-based and includes several advanced DAB+ audio and data services.
Television New Zealand has deployed, from Harmonic, that company’s DiviCom Electra 7000 HD and Electra 5400 SD MPEG-4 AVC (H.265) encoders for their new Freeview digital terrestrial television (DTT) service just launched. This is New Zealand’s first HD digital service and is available to approximately 75 percent of the homes nationwide.
Juniper Networks, Inc. has announced its J-Partner Program has once again earned top honors in the annual VARBusiness Partner Program Guide (PPG) and was recently named a CRN ‘Channel Champion.’ Out of the hundreds of vendor program entries received by VARBusiness, Juniper’s J-Partner Program was rated among the best, receiving a 5-Star Gold Overall rating, as well as 5-Star Silver ratings in several of the PPG categories, including sales support, partner profitability, channel operations, and partner recruitment.
Juniper Networks, Inc. has released ‘JUNOS Enterprise Routing: A Practical Guide to JUNOS Software and Enterprise Certification.’ Co-authored by instructors and creators of the Juniper Networks Enterprise Routing certification exams, this guide includes complete coverage of all the services available to the JUNOS administrator, including a practical introduction to the recently available JUNOS software 9.0 with security services for implementation on the Juniper Networks J-series services routers.
MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems, a leading provider of fiber optics for the transport of video and audio, has revealed that VegasHD, a new mobile HD television production facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, has selected the MultiDyne HD-3000 series 3Gb/s serial digital video fiber optic transport link for the first permanent HD broadcast studio on the Las Vegas Strip, located within Trader Vic’s at the Planet Hollywood Resort Casino.
Nokia Siemens Networks and Wataniya Telecom Algerie announced that WTA will deploy Nokia Siemens Networks’ state–of-the art 3GPP Release 4 mobile softswitching solution. Wataniya Telecom Algerie – Nedjma is the country’s first operator to provide innovative multimedia services. Nedjma is operating a state-of-the-art GPRS/EDGE network, providing advanced wireless voice and data services to a customer base of nearly 5 million users in the Algerian market. Nokia Siemens Networks currently has also 190 customers using mobile softswitching in over 110 live networks and is one of the world’s leading enablers of telecom technology. -
CONTENT + DELIVERY—Home2US has expanded its core direct-to-home content lineup. Home2US has added BVN Television, six Radio Netherlands channels, and a new international community to its digital dial. BVN offers a compilation of Dutch television and radio programming, including a wide selection of news, sports, and entertainment shows that are broadcast in English, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, and Portuguese to audiences living and working throughout North and South America. Home2US also announced it has signed long-term programming distribution agreement renewals with The Asia Network (TAN TV) to continue the delivery of Korean language programming to Korean communities and families anywhere in the U.S. The Home2US lineup features news updates, entertainment, and sports action programming from all five of the major South Korean broadcast networks, including EBS-America, KBS, MBC, SBS, and YTN. Content is delivered straight to subscriber homes across America over SES AMERICOM’s AMC-4 satellite. The Korean-based Christian Global Network (CGN TV), pleased with its growing success in the U.S. market, has also renewed its distribution alliance with Home2US. Under the new agreement, Home2US now provides CGN with an end-to-end solution featuring a fiber backhaul between the networks’ Seoul and Los Angeles studios and the SES AMERICOM earth station in Woodbine, Maryland. Home2US provides the same level of dedicated delivery to CGN audiences in Europe and the Middle East—Las Vegas, Nevada
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CREATION + DELIVERY—S3 Graphics has unveiled the S3 Graphics 4300E graphics processor for embedded markets. Featuring a performance-per-watt ratio that outperforms competitor products by as much as 30 percent, the S3 Graphics 4300E is currently the only discrete, high-performance HD video and graphics processor tailored specifically to cope with the rigid thermal requirements of the embedded industry. Developers can opt for maximum power-efficiency or for extreme multimedia performance, based on end-product requirements. Designed for DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 2.1 using the latest programmable unified shader architecture, system developers can now bring an immersive 3D experience to feature-rich product introductions. The S3 Graphics 4300E also incorporates a programmable video engine with media acceleration for H.264, VC-1, AVS, DivX, and MPEG-2 HD, plus the latest in display connectivity including HDMI with HDCP, dual channel LVDS, and dual-link DVI. The new 4300E multimedia processor joins the already-shipping 2300E family. An SDK and hardware development kit for the 2300E is available to developers now, while the 4300E development kit will be available in June 2008—Fremont, California
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ANALYSIS—Total spending on mobile media services by consumers and advertisers, including web access, video and music products, will more than double? from almost $47 billion in 2007 to over $102 billion by 2012 according to a new Strategy Analytics report, “Global Cellular Media Forecast 2007 – 2011.” Strategy Analytics also projects that the population of cellular users engaging in mobile content and applications delivered over cellular networks will ramp from 406 million to over 870 million across the same period—Boston, Massachusetts
- REGULATORY—The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is vigorously supporting pending FCC proposals that call for updates to the Universal Service Fund (USF), including the establishment of a separate funding mechanism for broadband services. TIA believes these changes will facilitate widespread build-out of broadband networks throughout the United States and ensure that consumers in underserved and unserved areas can also benefit from next-generation products and services. As part of its comments, TIA urges the Commission to create a separate technology- and competitively-neutral broadband fund that will grow as funds are transitioned from support for narrowband services. Additionally, TIA argues that these funds should be supported via reverse auctions or other neutral market-based funding mechanisms that will be more equitable than current processes. For more information about TIA’s government affairs initiatives, please contact Danielle Coffey at [email protected]. For information about TIA, please contact Taly Walsh at [email protected].
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