In 2005, Envivio Inc. sold more than 300 channels of encoding systems for IPTV installations in China and is now the leading provider of broadcast quality MPEG-4 video headends in the country. At present, four independent China-based IPTV trials and services are using the 4Caster Broadcast Series encoders to power IP applications for live television.

TDC, Denmark's largest telecom and cable TV operator, announced that it has selected Alcatel for the deployment of its Internet protocol television (IPTV) offering. The solution will include the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software platform and Alcatel's services integration. This will enable TDC to provide viewers in the Nordic region with an enriched user experience: one that is simple, personalized and predictable.

Amino, leading IPTV software and consumer premises equipment provider, today confirmed that it has worked with Canal Digital to bring IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) services to subscribers within the Nordic region. Canal Digital deployed AmiNET110 IPTV set-top boxes to subscriber homes to offer full IPTV services by the end of 2005.

Couch potatoes may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to Softel vdm, Inc.'s release of MyTinyTV 1.0. The program allows anyone to watch real-time television on a Pocket PC - on the road across the Internet and wherever WiFi is available, which gives viewers many more exciting seating options than the living room sofa.

DAVE.TV, a global IPTV digital entertainment distribution network, today announces the launch of its Content Publishing Network enabling content owners and publishers, for the first time, to deliver their content simultaneously to the TV, PC, portable and mobile devices all over the world and across multiple service provider networks. DAVE.TV develops IPTV platforms for service providers such as Telcos, CLECs, MSOs and ISPs. DAVE.TV will be exhibiting at the NATPE Conference in Las Vegas January 24-26, 2006 in Booth #748 in the ITA Alternative Upfronts Digital Village.

Verizon unveiled FiOS TV in New York today to residents of this village of 17,000 on Long Island, making it the first community in the state to feature the new service. Verizon will begin taking customer orders immediately.

Massapequa Park-area customers also can call 1-877-4-FIOS-TV (1-877-434-6788) to see if they're able to order FiOS TV.

Verizon unveiled Verizon FiOS TV in Massachusetts today to residents of this city of 37,000 north of Boston, making it the first community in the state to feature the new service. Verizon will begin taking customer orders immediately.

Woburn-area customers also can call 1-877-4-FIOS-TV (1-877-434-6788) to see if they're able to order FiOS TV.

Telecom Italia and Sky have signed an agreement to make Sky's film channels available on "Alice Home TV", Telecom Italia's TV via the Internet service, starting during the month of February.

Top Italian and international films will be broadcast on Sky Cinema 1, Sky Cinema 2, Sky Cinema 3, Sky Cinema Autore, Sky Cinema Max, Sky Cinema 16:9, Sky Cinema Classics, Studio Universal and Rai Sat Cinema World.

Future Entertainment Works (FEW) is building one of the world's largest and most advanced IP converged networks for the King Abdulaziz Endowment Project (KAEP) in the Holy City of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, based on Nortel technology.

Located adjacent to the Grand Mosque, KAEP is a very large urban development project that consists of six residential and commercial towers and a five-star hotel, built on a multi-story podium. KAEP's state-of-the-art, fully IP-based network will provide its guests and businesses with a host of more than 16 innovative IP services such as IPTV, video-on-demand, retail, consumer information and advertising.

Allied Telesyn announced the availability of VDSL2 service modules for its award-winning iMAP integrated Multiservice Access Platform.

By delivering speeds up to ten times the performance of standard ADSL service, providers, operators, carriers and PTTs looking to provide IP Triple Play services such as IPTV, HDTV, online gaming and interactive TV can now deliver these enhanced services over VDSL2 on short loop copper infrastructure. Previously this was only possible on FTTH networks. The technology is particularly appealing technology in Fiber-to-the-Curb/Node (FTTC/N) and Fiber-to-the-Building/Premise (FTTB/P) deployments where fiber is available closer to the subscriber. Fiber-like speeds are then possible with VDSL2 over shorter copper loops.

Allied Telesyn, a global provider of secure Ethernet/IP access solutions and an industry leader in the deployment of IP Triple Play networks over DSL and Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) access infrastructures, announced the industry's first commercial deployment of a GEPON (Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network) FTTH solution for integrated IP Triple Play services.

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.

M2B World Inc., a U.S.-based subsidiary of Amaru Inc., announced that it has developed a second server site to support its broadband entertainment on-demand channels. The additional server farm, based in San Jose, Calif., will operate in tandem with the hub in Singapore and will primarily support broadband channel offerings for U.S. and international markets, while increasing the company's capacity to add feature-rich content and allow for expanded viewership without sacrificing the quality of the delivery.

Verizon Communications and Yahoo! Inc. announced the availability of their latest fully-integrated, co-branded broadband service, Verizon Yahoo! for FiOS. The new service becomes one of the fastest broadband offerings on the market, providing customers with the benefits of Verizon, one of the world's leading providers of broadband and communications services, and Yahoo!, a leading Internet destination and one of the world's most recognized global Internet brand.

Under the agreement, the patented Widevine Cypher Virtual SmartCard is pre-integrated with Sigma Designs' EM8620L and SMP8630 series. This enables telco, cable, satellite, Internet and wireless service providers to offer secure content delivery to consumer devices powered by Sigma Designs' chipsets. The Widevine Digital Media Processor Partner Program enables consumer electronics manufacturers a faster time to market with content protection for video operators around the world.