UTStarcom announces its participation in the upcoming 4th international conference, IPTV India 2009, to be held at Hotel Le Meridien in the capital on May 15. The event is being organized by Bharat Exhibitions in association with IPTV India Forum, and is supported by several leading industry bodies including AUSPI, GSA, ICA, ISPAI and TUG.

Anticipating an unprecedented interest in this year's eighth annual TelcoTV conference and exhibition, show management is making an early call for papers and speakers. As the challenges faced by traditional print and broadcast media put increasing pressure on broadband television to point the way forward to an exploding population of wired homes, schools, workplaces, and public buildings, TelcoTV has established itself as the No. 1 meeting place for the many stakeholders embracing this revolution -- most notably service providers. TelcoTV 2009 provides a holistic view of entertainment convergence, encompassing MobileTV, NetVideo, IPTV, and hybrid solutions. Anyone offering meaningful insight and analysis into this evolving world of entertainment convergence is now invited to submit their proposal to address this year's conference, which takes place November 10-12, 2009, in Orlando, Fla.

On2 Technologies will show its latest video compression and transcoding products at the Streaming Media East 2009 conference and exhibition, to be held on May 12 and 13 at the New York Hilton in New York City. On2 will demonstrate its On2 VP8 video codec as well as its new On2 Flix Cloud on-demand video transcoding service--developed in partnership with Zencoder in Booth #113.

Arabcom, will spotlight issues that are key to the development of the telecom sector and discuss the latest technologies, business models, network deployment and case studies. mobivention is exhibiting at the Arabcom 2009. The high-profile event will attract telecom ministers, regulators, investors, operators and service providers from across the globe. Developing high-quality services and personalization products for the mobile industry, mobivention will show products and services to increase revenues and concepts to keep end consumers attached to their network operator. The highlights of the mobivention exhibition are the following topics.

Parks Associates has announced the speakers for two key sessions, The Marriage of Online Video to CE and Connected TV Strategies, at CONNECTIONS, June 2-4, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. These sessions address the impact of bringing Web video content to connected TVs and the new business models emerging from manufacturers and content providers as more CE gain enhanced Internet capabilities.

Ericsson Communications will be participating at the 11th annual Arab International Telecom Development Summit, one of the largest telecommunication summit in the Arab World, which will take place on 28-29 May in Habtoor Grand Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon.

Focusing on Ericsson’s participation at the event, Tarek Saadi, Head of NME, said “Arabcom represents a fantastic opportunity to share ideas and experiences with our colleagues in the industry.

SIDSA will be participating in ARABCOM International Telecom Summit 2009 in Lebanon, on 28-29 of May sharing its view and experiences with Decision makers, seeking further expansion. SIDSA has become a key technology partner in Eastern Europe, Russia, Iran, to name just a few, promoting the DVB technologies and preparing for a massive growth of the digital TV market.

Digital Rapids is providing transcoding capabilities to enable the availability of video highlights from this year's NAB Show on the Web and mobile devices.

Throughout this year's NAB Show in Las Vegas, production teams will be capturing and editing video of the event, including daily highlights; studio segments; and attendee and exhibitor interviews. The Digital Rapids Transcode Manager automated, scalable transcoding system is being used to encode finished video segments into the formats required for Web and mobile viewing. The resulting high-quality media files are then delivered to Web content distribution provider Highwinds and mobile distribution provider HipCricket for on-demand delivery to viewers.

With U.S. households reluctant to cancel home services despite the down economy, growth in cable and IPTV VoD services will remain strong, with revenues exceeding $11 billion by 2013, according to Parks Associates. The international research firm is hosting the pre-show workshop Monetizing Connectivity in the Home on June 2, 2009, at CONNECTIONS, to analyze the opportunities and successful business strategies for advanced products and services.

The MPEG Industry Forum announces that 16 member companies will be exhibiting at NAB2009, taking place in Las Vegas, NV between Monday, 20 April and Thursday 23 April 2009. MPEGIF will present the MPEGIF Master Class titled “The New World of Digital Television” on Sunday, 19 April 2009. Organized in conjunction with the National Association of Broadcasters, this special event will explore how new technologies are changing the way digital multimedia is created, compressed, delivered and monetized.

Pixelmetrix will showcase its Electronic Couch Potato (ECP) and Consolidator Engine to illustrate Remote Viewer Quality Monitoring at booth SU6007. The Electronic Couch Potato is an after the network probe that measures and reports the end-users’ experience for delivered video services. Collecting telemetry from multiple ECPs distributed across a wide network and presenting it effectively is essential to the value proposition of the product. A population of the ECPs deployed throughout the network are configured, managed and controlled by the Consolidator Engine, which also provides intelligent presentation of information reported by the ECPs.

Verimatrix enhances the value and security of pay-TV networks with advanced technologies designed to address the content protection challenges of today, and those of tomorrow. The Verimatrix 3-Dimensional Content Security approach provides a framework to enhance operator competitiveness and the consumer experience in the new world of pay-TV. CEO Tom Munro and other key executives will be available for press and analyst interviews.

Kyiv, Ukraine. March 31, 2009 under the official support of Trade and Investment Promotion Department of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Kyiv, the International Conference “Digital broadcasting technologies of TV content: on the way to 2012. Ukraine and Poland: results, plans, and reality” took place. This conference is the first event within the comprehensive program “Ukraine on Air” this year.

Parks Associates announce telecom consulting firm Pivot Media will host a pre-show event Telecom Executive Summit@CONNECTIONS: Digital DNA for Service Providers on the first day of CONNECTIONS: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase.

CONNECTIONS will take place June 2-4, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. This executive conference and showcase attracts senior executives from all industries associated with the digital home, new media and content distribution, and mobile applications and services.

Dreampark will exhibit at the 2009 IPTV World Forum, March 25-27 in London, and demonstrate how the new Scalable Vector Graphics technology in its Dreamgallery middleware is able to bring the IPTV user experience to a new level.