Opera Software, a global leader in Web browser technology, announced its partnership with Orca Interactive, a world-leading developer of middleware and applications for IPTV. Orca Interactive will now support Opera 8.5 for Devices with its RiGHTv open middleware platform for delivering and managing interactive TV services. Operators and service providers choosing Orca's RiGHTv solution can now include the full-featured and fast Opera Web browser and its advanced support for Web technologies on their devices.

Credited with developing the world's first in-home "smart Wi-Fi" system, Ruckus Wireless announced that it has been selected by Magnet Entertainment (Magnet) to provide its products and technology for Europe's first commercial deployment of wireless digital TV in the home.

Leading IPTV software solutions and devices provider Zignal today announced the first mass-market deployment of its groundbreaking Zignal service delivery platform, following its launch by Dublin-based digital services home entertainment provider, Magnet Networks.

The platform will be used to deliver IPTV services to Magnet Networks' customers in several of Ireland's major population centres, among them Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford, using a super-fast browser from Norwegian-based Opera Software running on Amino Amitel 110 set-top boxes, and broadcast via the latest in fibre-to-the-home ADSL2+ broadband technology.

Streaming21, Inc. announced the success of a joint residential VoD service with NEO Index, Japan's largest VoD content provider for VIC TOKAI CORPORATION. VIC TOKAI CORPORATION will be the first cable operator in Japan to commercially launch residential VoD services utilizing IP network through CATV, with assured bandwidth to guarantee high quality pictures. Various interactive TV applications such as on-line games, karaoke on demand and learning on demand will be the next focus for future service expansions.

ANT plc, the market leading provider of software and solutions for IPTV, hybrid TV and digital home products, announces that Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices GmbH & Co KG (Siemens SHC) has licensed the ANT GalioT Client to enable existing and new TV services across a range of Siemens SHC devices in worldwide DVB/IPTV hybrid and pure IPTV markets.

ANT plc, the market leading provider of software and solutions for IPTV, hybrid TV and digital home products, announced today that UK-based set-top box developer Complete Media Systems Ltd (CMS) has licensed ANT GalioT and ANT Fresco for use in IPTV set-top systems targeted to operators from Europe to the Far East.

Kasenna announced that reseller and technology integrator Thunderworx is deploying the company's solution to support the IPTV platform it is building for Primetel, a leading Cypriot telecommunications company. One of the key components of the IPTV platform is Kasenna's reliable, high-performance video delivery software MediaBase, which will provide streaming VOD (Video on Demand) content as well as network-based Personal Video Recording (NPVR) function for live TV recording, pause and playback.

mPhase Technologies, a pioneer provider of technology for the delivery of television over telecommunications networks, and Best Data Broadbanda, a leading developer and manufacturer of broadband communications devices, announced an agreement to collaborate in the marketing ad sales of their respective products to providers of Internet-based television (IPTV) services.

Alloptic, Inc., a global leader in the design and development of Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (GEPONs), the most widely deployed next generation access network solution, announced that they have signed a distribution agreement with value-added distributor DF Countryman as part of its continuing expansion in sales channels worldwide. DF Countryman is an industry leader in serving multiple service operators (MSOs) with broadband solutions.

London's Olympia exhibition centre will provide the setting in March for the first public appearance of a radical departure in IPTV middleware, with the launch at this year's IPTV World Forum of a new service delivery platform from Zignal, a leading provider of IPTV software solutions and devices.

UTStarcom, Inc., a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, today announced contracts with China Telecom to deploy its RollingStream end-to-end IPTV solution in two cities in the Fujian Province in southern China.

Opera Software, a global leader in Web browser technologies, today announced its extended partnership with Amino, leading IPTV software and customer premises equipment provider. Amino now offers the Opera Browser as an option for shipments of its AmiNET110 set-top boxes, and will also work with Opera to integrate browser technology into next generation products.

Orca Interactive, a global market leader in developing middleware and applications for IPTV, announced the release of Orca RiGHTv 4.5 with an evolution of the middleware's architecture into a Service Delivery Platform (SDP), a service creation and delivery system for accelerating time to market of interactive TV applications and services.

Continental Vista Broadcasting Group Inc. announced the launch of its newest property, WhiteBlox, at the NATPE show in Las Vegas on Jan. 23 - 26, 2006. WhiteBlox delivers dynamic, powerful simple building blocks to help companies launch their own private-label broadband networks and will be unveiling its new brand and technology at the show to the television and entertainment community.

Streaming21, Inc., a leader in broadcast-quality media streaming solutions, today announced the new appointment of Henry Chen as the vice president of professional services. In his new role, Chen will be in charge of Streaming21's professional services (PS) and project management (PM) teams in all regions. His primary focus is to drive Streaming21's strategic direction of global professional services, lead a team of highly skillful professionals to deliver unique IPTV offerings for Telco and broadband service providers, and further strengthen Streaming21's leadership position in worldwide IPTV service deployment.