HanseNet Telekommunikation GmbH, a subsidiary of Telecom Italia and one of Germany's leading service providers, has selected Alcatel as its exclusive technology partner for the delivery of triple play services, including telephone, Internet access and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) for the new product Alice homeTV.

DisplaySearch, a part of The NPD Group, announced the agenda for its 4th Annual HDTV Conference. This year's event, entitled "The Future of Television", will take place on August 15-16 and return to The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.

Worldwide total telecom and datacom equipment revenue totaled $107.9 billion in 2005 and will grow 33% to $143.5 billion in 2009, according to a new market share and forecast report by Infonetics Research, Telecom/Datacom Equipment.

Broadband Network Systems Ltd (BNS) will showcase the delivery and management of diverse content across multiple platforms with partners Envivio Inc. and Highdeal at the Broadband World Forum Asia in Hong Kong next week.

Private Media Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in premium-quality adult entertainment products, services and mobile and Internet content, and Erotic Media AG announced the signing of a Pay-TV license and a VOD (Video-on-Demand) agreement for the use of the Company's content in the territory of German-speaking Europe.

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JOB DESCRIPTION:

Pre-sale support and project management on IPTV, Mobile TV, DRM and WebStreaming :

• Understand application requirements and propose a technical solution with flow chart, system configuration and in-depth tech description;
• Assist sales team for RFIs, RFPs and RFQs;
• Support the sales team for demonstration and evaluation porpuses;
• Train and provide technical support to the Channel Partner network and/or the final Customer;
• Participate in all sales and marketing activities, i.e. trade shows, seminars and internal training events;
• Project management including Customer relationship and internal team coordination.

Residents across northern Pinellas County can expect the local phone company to dig up their front yards soon - all in the name of new cable TV choices.

After months of private meetings, Verizon Communications Inc. has won tentative approval from Pinellas officials to begin a massive digging project to string hundreds of miles of underground cable across the county.

The new Winning IP TV Content Strategies Report 2006 from MRG, Inc. analyzes the step-by-step process of creating differentiated local IPTV (IP TV) services in widely varied global markets. "The markets in Europe and Asia differ considerably from those in the US," states Bob Larribeau, IPTV Program Director for MRG, "because US cable has already built up on-demand and interactive services and 2-way capabilities in most of their networks. This is not true in China, Europe and much of the Rest of the World."

The town of Oyster Bay brought its residents a major step closer to choice for their cable television services, thanks to the Town Board’s vote on May 9 to award a video franchise to Verizon for its FiOS TV service.

The Pasco County Commission today voted for consumer choice and competition in the cable-TV market by awarding a far-reaching franchise to Verizon for its FiOS TV product, to be delivered via the company’s new, all-fiber network.

TiVo Inc., the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR), and Brightcove, an Internet TV pioneer, announced an agreement that will enable broadband video published through Brightcove to be distributed directly to TiVo subscriber set top boxes.

AT&T Inc., the nation's leading provider of high speed DSL Internet service; and MobiTV, Inc., the global leader in television and digital radio services for cellular, Wi-Fi and broadband enabled devices, today announced an agreement to deliver mobile television content across AT&T's nationwide Wi-Fi network. The service will enable AT&T customers to view live television while connected to one of AT&T's Wi-Fi hot spots.

DAVE.TV, a global IPTV digital entertainment network, today announced that it has joined forces with Digital Blue, a leading innovator in interactive entertainment consumer electronics devices, to launch a suite of themed user-generated video communities on DAVE.TV's Social Broadcast Network (SBN) at www.dave.tv.

mPhase Technologies, a pioneer developer of technology for delivering television over telephone networks, will give a tutorial on Internet-based TV (IPTV) at a customer seminar in Moscow on Friday, May 12.

KyLinTV announced its latest spotlight, May Blockbusters. The arrangement of hit movies from all over Asia will offer KyLinTV subscribers even more of the most popular titles that are hard to find in North America.