Verimatrix and Envivio announce a collaborative solution that enables pay-TV operators to use Apple's HTTP adaptive bitrate streaming technology for the iPhone to deliver IPTV and over the top content that scales effectively across mobile devices, PCs and other client types. The solution pairs Envivio's 4Caster C4 three screens encoder/transcoder with the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System to create a unified headend that delivers protected SD and HD content over unmanaged networks to any Internet-connected consumer playback device.

SPB Software announces the release of SPB TV for Android phones. SPB TV is a subscription-free mobile IPTV viewer, designed for tuning in to publicly available digital TV channels from all over the world. SPB TV features exclusive and patent-pending usability innovations like picture-in-picture mode and gives the mobile subscribers easy access to over a hundred of international TV channels, directly from their phones.

Proven track record of high quality customization projects made SPB Software a stratigic partner for many carriers, who manage a wide range of mobile devices. With this release SPB TV becomes available for Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android platforms providing diverse mobile carrier customers with the next generation mobile TV experience.

Blockbuster plans to feature the BLOCKBUSTER OnDemand movie download service in select Motorola phones, giving Motorola access to the BLOCKBUSTER OnDemand service and furthering Blockbuster's digital strategy by providing its library of premium digital entertainment to mobile devices for the first time.

Through the agreement select Motorola phones will feature an exclusive BLOCKBUSTER OnDemand application, providing on-the-go download access to Blockbuster's digital library of thousands of current BLOCKBUSTER OnDemand movies.

Envivio announces iLiveTV – the complete mobile video encoding and distribution solution for evaluating, developing and deploying Live and On Demand TV video services for the iPhone. Taking full advantage of the new iPhone OS 3.0 mobile video format announced today by Apple at its Worldwide Developer Conference, iLiveTV delivers everything mobile operators and content owners need to deliver TV to iPhone users. iLiveTV includes the Envivio 4Caster C4 world-class video encoding platform, content delivery server software, a web-based Cover Flow iPhone navigation portal, as well as integration and support from the world’s most experienced team of mobile TV deployment experts

MOBISION will be participating in the 11th Arab International Telecom Development Summit for Arab States which is being held in Beirut – Lebanon on May 28 and 29 in order to demonstrate its ground breaking innovative business model dedicated to the multicasting of live video over connected and unconnected handheld devices.

Envivio introduces Elite Compression a powerful enhancement for its award-winning 4Caster C4 and M2 mobile TV encoders. This new compression tier is tuned to optimize the media playback experience on today's most popular mobile devices. Elite Compression will debut at CTIA Wireless 2009 in Las Vegas from April 1 – 3, 2009. It will be available to participants in Envivio’s Mobile Streaming trade up program, which offers discounts up to 35 percent to operators who replace their existing software encoders with the Envivio 4Caster C4 before May 31, 2009.

Envivio launched a new Mobile Streaming Trade-Up Program aimed at helping companies who pioneered mobile video streaming deliver more successful mobile TV services. From now through May 31, 2009, Envivio is offering discounts of up to 35 percent to mobile operators, content aggregators and others who replace their existing software video encoders, such as Helix Mobile Producer and pvAuthor, with the award-winning Envivio 4Caster C4 hardware encoding platform.

Orb Networks announced the 4th generation of OrbLive 2.0, the leading iPhone and iPod touch application for watching TV and any other video formats on these popular handsets. The latest release of OrbLive, first launched in Apple's App Store in November 2008, is in response to feedback from thousands of passionate OrbLive users who have been enjoying TV on their iPhones since May 2008.

MySpace announces that MySpace Mobile users across the globe will now be able to enjoy MySpace video content from their video enabled mobile devices. The first social portal to launch video streaming for mobile, MySpace’s beta mobile video initiative is committed to ensuring the best user experience by providing the highest quality video for mobile viewing. Users will now be able to view videos they’ve uploaded or have marked as a favorite.

The MySpace Mobile site receives approximately three billion worldwide page views per month from more than 10 million monthly unique users. Combining the popularity of the MySpace mobile site with its vast online video library creates a compelling and dynamic mobile environment.

FOXSports.com on MSN announced Verizon Wireless customers can watch full-length programming from FOXSports.com on their Verizon Wireless V CAST Video phones.

The following FOXSports.com on MSN shows are now available on V CAST Video from Verizon Wireless:

• "The Online OT" -- A Sunday, post-game look at the week's pro football action.
• "Coaches' Corner" -- Interviews and analysis featuring some of the nation's top college football coaches.
• "Pro Football Preview Show" -- An in-depth look at the upcoming pro football season, including analysis from FOXSports.com experts and interviews with players, coaches and team execs.

USTelematics announces an agreement with American Wireless to provide WiMax service in automobiles equipped with USTelematics’ Voyager Mobile IPTV. Howard Leventhal, CEO of USTelematics said “Today and much more in the future, WiMax service will transform reception of video and live TV on the move. As new WiMax services proliferate, such as those to become widely available in the recently announced Sprint, Clearwire, Google, and Intel joint venture, USTelematics expects to become a key player in getting WiMax deployed en masse. Empowering live real broadband TV in the car is a unique capability of WiMax. We expect that our agreement with American Wireless to provide Clearwire service within Voyager will accelerate deployment of WiMax nationwide”.

Packet Vision and Udcast launch solution for targeted television advertising over mobile TV. The two companies have developed a technology showcase to demonstrate how targeted advertising will be delivered across mobile TV. The first public presentation of their technology will take place at this year's IBC in Amsterdam.

The technology showcase, will include an example of a geographically targeted advertising campaign, showing how content can be delivered to mobile TV users over standard DVB-H networks. The showcase also aims to highlight the symbiotic relationship between mobile TV and targeted advertising: the latter brings revenue to mobile TV, which in turn, provides the targetable platform and customer base which will help to accelerate the growth of addressable television advertising. According to MultiMedia Intelligence mobile video revenue will exceed $3.5 billion in 2008, and grow to $15 billion by 2012.

USTelematics announced an engineering breakthrough that will enable the Company’s Voyager Mobile IPTV product to display live TV on the pre-existing DVD and VCP video screens in place on approximately 40 million vehicles on the road presently in North America.

“We have always been aware the consumers generally would prefer to add live digital TV to the DVD systems already installed in their vehicles,” said Howard Leventhal, USTelematics CEO. “We now have a satisfactory technical solution to this need and our current plan is to make it available in the third generation version of Voyager, presently slated for introduction in January 2009.”

Sistema has selected the NDS Unified Headend to manage and protect TV content delivery to subscribers across both IP and mobile networks. The NDS Unified Headend integrates conditional access , Digital Rights Management and third party applications, allowing operators to deliver secure broadcast and VOD services to a variety of devices – STBs, mobile phones, PCs, Portable Media Players and DVRs. SMM will use the NDS Unified Headend to deliver content to STBs, PCs and mobile devices with optimum operational efficiency, using a single system to control content distribution.

USTelematics released a revenue-producing affiliate agreement today with Netflix. Users of USTelematics’ Voyager Automotive Mobile IPTV, while using Voyager connected to the Internet, will become able to order DVDs for play on Voyager in areas of limited wireless coverage. The Netflix library consists of over 100,000 movie and video titles for physical delivery, either to home or a vacation destination.