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NewsReliance eyes IPTV launch this year
Reliance Communications reiterated that it is planning to launch IPTV service before the end of 2008, according to a statement by company president Mahesh Prasad in The Economic Times of India. As Read more...
Microsoft pushes into TV ads with Navic buy
Meeting primarly with a telco audience at NXTcomm last week, Microsoft focused its efforts on demonstrating the capabilities of its Mediaroom TV platform and discussing its latest ecosystem Read more...
Microsoft Mediaroom adds partners, reaches 2 million
Microsoft recently announced a beta version of its Mediarrom Presentation Framework, and now says that it is bringing on several new partners to its Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV ecosystem. Those partners Read more...
Russia's Corbina aims for mid-year IPTV launch
Russia's Corbina Telecom, a subsidiary of wireless and wireline carrier giant VimpelCom, is planning to launch a Corbina TV IPTV service in Moscow and other Russian cities, as well as in the Read more...
Microsoft releases Mediaroom Presentation Framework
IPTV service providers AT&T and BT are among those that have in their hands the new release of the Mediaroom Presentation Framework from software giant Microsoft. The two are among the more than Read more...
Mediaroom pal Sigma offers new chip
Semiconductor company Sigma Designs has introduced a second-generation chip for IPTV set-top boxes that the company claims offers a 50% performance improvement. Sigma has been the only set-top chip Read more...
180Squared Launches Mediaroom Interface
A team of former Microsoft Mediaroom engineers now known as 180Squared has announced the availability of Read more...
Hollywood veteran set to make shows for Xbox 360
Microsoft is continuing its effort to make the Xbox the STB of choice for younger IPTVers, cutting a deal with Hollywood veteran Peter Safran to produce original content targeted at 14- to Read more...
Mediaroom enters TV streaming war
Microsoft's next upgrade of its Mediaroom software will enable the fusion of live video and web streams to the TV. The "Milwaukee" upgrade is also promising improved personalization and Read more...
Microsoft gets bumped by Alca-Lu and Telefonica
It is slightly old news but Microsoft's grip on the big European IPTV market is waning with Telecom Italia ditching Mediaroom in favor of Alcatel-Lucent's Spanish-developed middleware MiViewTV Read more...
| Press ReleasesMicrosoft Helps New T-Mobile Sidekick Get PersonalAvailable today from T-Mobile USA Inc., the new T-Mobile(R) Sidekick(R) powered by Danger (a subsidiary of Microsoft Corp.) introduces innovative software, services and hardware customization that Read more... Unisys Employs Quintum’s Tenor VoIP Gateway in Service Offering for Customer Trials of Microsoft’s Unified Communications TechnEATONTOWN, NJ July 22nd, 2008 Quintum
Technologies, LLC, an innovator in VoIP technologies and a subsidiary
of Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: NWK), announced today
that Unisys Read more... Microsoft Response Point Service Pack 1 Available for Free DownloadHOUSTON — July 8, 2008 — Today
at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008, Microsoft Corp.
announced that Response Point Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now generally
available. SP1 is a Read more... Microsoft Reaches for Clouds and Deepens Mobile Possibilities With Planned MobiComp AcquisitionMicrosoft Corp today announced it intends to acquire MobiComp, a company that helped pioneer technologies allowing the backup and restoration of mobile data and mobile posting of social content to Read more... Microsoft and Nortel Make Unified Communications Available to Businesses EverywhereLAS VEGAS – June 16, 2008 - Today at NXTcomm08, Microsoft Corp. and Nortel* [NYSE/TSX: NT]
announced a fully hosted carrier solution that delivers a Read more... |