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digiGO!™ — The Digital (R)Evolution

At the 2010 NAB Show, never.no will highlight Interactivity Desk (ID), the software tool for on-air and off-air editorial control of interactive and multisourced content. ID reads various forms of internal and viewer contribution data, including text, images, audio, and video, and enables the editor to schedule, moderate, edit, and sort the data before submission to broadcast systems, blogs, Internet pages, or STB or IPTV middleware. ID can feed data to various systems in parallel for true multicast participation TV and Internet integration. ID contains a built-in scheduler, which automatically schedules the running of content or interactive elements such as quizzes, polls, votes, and games without the need for studio intervention. ID also provides basic and advanced broadcast control so that editors and moderators can automatically or manually trigger CG sequences, tickers, scrolls, bugs, or segments during direct or near-direct broadcasting. never.no offers turnkey integration with Vizrt®, Harris® RTX™, Adobe® Flash®, Microsoft® Silverlight™, and blog platforms. This is an open XML standard that can be adapted to other third-party systems is also available.

Telmap has announced the iPhone version of its mobile location companion has exceeded 100,000 downloads. Telmap provides a white label, hosted and managed mobile search, mapping and navigation solutions to mobile operators, working closely with them on making the solution compatible with a wide range of devices. The operator-branded iPhone version has been launched in several EMEA markets and in the US in the last quarter. Launching operator-branded, iPhone compatible versions has been a strategic move for mobile operators. Reaching more than 100,000 downloads so quickly presents a great achievement and serves as a testimony to operators’ strong position and unique relationship with subscribers, even in the app. store environment. Moreover, this end users’ vote of confidence demonstrates that the trusted operator-end user relationship proves to be even more important when it comes to mission-critical functions such as search, mapping and navigation.

Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc. Media Solutions Group has appointed VISLINK News & Entertainment to sell its new range of H.264 encoders and decoders. In addition, VISLINK will use the Fujitsu low delay H.264 technology to provide 4:2:0 SD/HD H.264 upgrades for the Advent DVE5100 MPEG2 Exciter and IRD5100, from Q2 2010.