IneoQuest has been cleared by a California state court jury of all claims, including alleged trade secret claims, brought by Ixia. On October 15, 2009, a California jury soundly rejected all claims brought by Ixia against IneoQuest. Because IneoQuest prevailed at trial on all claims, IneoQuest will ask the Court to order Ixia to pay certain litigation costs incurred by IneoQuest.

The winners of this year’s TV Innovation Awards were announced during the TV 3.0 Summit at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills on October 6th. Asked about the background to the awards, IMS Vice President Ian Weightman stated, “As the TV industry evolves to a true on-demand experience, with users able to access extensive libraries of content to be viewed at a time and place and on the device of their choosing, many new challenges and opportunities are presented. The goal of the TV Innovation Awards is to recognize the most forward-thinking companies creating products and services that are driving this new TV paradigm, which is often referred to as TV 3.0. We received well over 100 entries for this year’s awards, which were judged by an independent panel of 14 industry experts. We were especially pleased to have received a large number of entries from Asia and Europe as well as from the US.”

KIT digital has made several additions to its executive management team to coincide with the consolidation of administrative functions and the move of its global headquarters from Dubai, UAE to its current European head office and technical operations hub in Prague, Czech Republic.

Digital Utilities Ventures has selected Amino Communications as best set top box manufacturer for its breakthrough IPTV delivery system. The New Last Mile uses an Internet based platform to deliver its TV programming. This means that Digital Utilities Ventures can deliver live programming of broadcast quality from anywhere in the world over the Internet directly.

KIT digital and Akamai have joined forces to deliver IP video across multiple mediums, including online, mobile networks and IPTV-enabled set-top boxes. The companies have signed a new strategic agreement that calls for them to build upon a long-standing vendor relationship and engage in collaborative sales and marketing efforts on a global basis. This is a unique initiative for both companies and reflects their shared vision for the future of the IP-video market.

TiVo and Quantcast announce they have partnered to provide advertisers and media companies with the most comprehensive cross platform audience analysis solution available for evaluating the correlation between television viewership and online activity. The announcement was made during the Advertising Research Foundation's Audience Measurement 4.0 conference in New York, which runs from June 23-24.

Broadband has become a necessity for people around the planet –despite the economic downturn. That’s the message delivered in Singapore today by Broadband Forum Chief Operating Officer Robin Mersh.

Mr Mersh was giving a keynote address at the giant CommunicAsia conference and exhibition in Singapore, where more than 2,000 exhibitors were gathered to discuss and debate the latest issues surrounding telecommunications and broadcast technology.

Harmonic led the industry in encoder shipments in 2008, with 28 percent market share, according to research from industry analyst In-Stat. In 2008, Harmonic shipped more than 12,000 encoding channels to broadcast, cable, satellite and telecom video service providers. The analyst’s findings, published in a new report entitled “Worldwide Real-Time Broadcast MPEG Encoder Market,” confirms Harmonic’s global leadership in providing encoding solutions for all video markets.

Exterity launches the new Exterity IPTV Encoder. The new MPEG-2 encoding module is blade-based, and unlike the previous AV Encoder, is able to support widescreen encoding (16:9 aspect ratio). It allows content from devices such as a digital camera, satellite set-top box or DVD player to be streamed as a channel on the building’s IP network, and is ideal for use as part of any IPTV deployment.

COMEDY CENTRAL's on-air half-hour late-night series featuring all original broadband programming from Atom.com is returning to the television screen to continue its second season with four new episodes. New episodes of "Atom TV" return to COMEDY CENTRAL on Monday night, June 15 at 2:30 a.m. on COMEDY CENTRAL.

With the NBA and NHL playoffs in full swing, and baseball season well underway, today's home media center experience is all about getting the most out of a man's home oasis for sports (or movies, or even reality TV) on their glorious HD TVs.

Digeo understands, and last week kicked off two "ManCave" sweepstakes to give away a total of five Moxi HD DVRs to help trick out a man's (or woman's) home entertainment refuge.

Top telecommunications operators BT, Orange and Verizon have already welcomed yesterday’s announcement of the union between the Broadband Forum and the IP/MPLS Forum.

The news, which will see a “new” Broadband Forum emerge, was announced in Valencia, Spain, yesterday, where the two organisations came together for the first time. This consolidation in the standards and specifications community creates a Broadband Forum with more than 200 members, comprising service providers, vendors, chip manufacturers and regulatory bodies from across the world.

Qtv demonstrated its media player for the television, mobile phone and computer at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Qtv is an all-in-one integrated media player that enables people to access online content and their personal music, videos and digital pictures.

Adobe announces the extension of the Adobe Flash Platform to connected digital home devices with an optimized implementation of Flash technology that delivers HD video and rich applications to Internet-connected televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other devices in the digital living room. Major System on Chips vendors, OEMs, cable operators and content providers including Atlantic Records, Broadcom, Comcast, Disney Interactive Media Group, Intel, Netflix, STMicroelectronics, The New York Times Company, NXP Semiconductors, Sigma Designs, and others announced support for the optimized Flash technology today. The Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home is available immediately to OEMs and the first devices and SoC platforms with support for the optimized Flash technology are expected to ship in the second half of 2009.

Alcatel-Lucent has been chosen by SK broadband to supply and maintain its IP service routing solution to support the operator’s real time IPTVservice. Alcatel-Lucent’s cutting-edge IP/MPLS technology will enable SKbroadband to deliver advanced broadband services including real time IPTV services, high-definition television, video-on-demand, voice over IP and high-speed Internet access, all with superior service quality.