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04/11/2012
OTT Support For Vimond Customers
Norway’s Vimond Media Solutions is working with Akamai to bundle Akamai’s media-distribution services with its own online video platform. The partnership means Vimond can offer operators and other service providers a single source for designing, deploying, and supporting over-the-top (OTT) services. "Because of our deep competence and experience launching high-quality OTT services, many of our […]
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04/11/2012
DASH, Dolby Now On ViBE System
Thomson Video Networks has added Dolby audio processing and MPEG-DASH support for the ViBE VS7000 video system, its "anything in, anything out" encoding/transcoding platform for Web TV, over-the-top (OTT) services, IPTV and cable delivery. The ViBE VS7000 video system now provides a full range of Dolby audio technologies. Formerly available with AAC, HE-AAC, and MPEG-1 […]
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04/11/2012
Smartphone Shutoffs: Washington Responds To Public-Safety Pressure
A month ago, the “Today” show and Washington, D.C., Police Chief Cathy Lanier took the wireless industry to task regarding its reticence to turn off stolen smartphones, making them useless for resale and, thus, curbing the rising rate of street crimes involving the devices. The nation’s capital is a hot spot for such thefts, but […]
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04/10/2012
Windmill Powers New Video Cloud Offerings
Brightcove is integrating Alticast’s Windmill ecosystem into its Video Cloud online video platform, thus giving operators the ability to “add advanced interactivity to their existing systems while providing new revenue models and future-friendly expandability.” Based on a set of modular technologies, Alticast says Windmill enables operators to bring their content to any device in the […]
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04/10/2012
Hearst TV Taps Yospace For Mobile Content Delivery
Hearst-owned U.S. stations now are delivering short-form content, including news stories, to all mobile devices using a cloud service from Yospace. According to Yospace, its technology links into the broadcaster’s advertising response server to help ensure pre-roll advertising is targeted to the user, thus “strengthening the?revenue-earning opportunities.” The system has been live in 25 Hearst […]
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04/10/2012
Global M2M Subscriber Base Tops 100M
Sweden’s Berg Insight says the global number of mobile network connections used for wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) communication increased by 37 percent in 2011 to reach 108 million, with Asia-Pacific leading the way. That region recorded a year-on-year growth rate of 64 percent, reaching 34.5 million connections by year-end 2011. Europe and North America grew by […]