TV Worldwide, the first web-based global TV network, announced today that it had teamed with Pearson Learning Solutions, a part of Pearson Education, to create the first in a series of professional development courses for delivery via Internet TV. The initial Internet TV presentation, featuring the Homeland Security education course developed by Homeland Defense experts Kevin Collins and Richard White, was recently launched for distribution via the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Graduate University Course Catalog. The course will also be distributed via TV Worldwide's Homeland Defense Internet TV Channel at www.homelanddefensetv.com.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of eMarketer's new report: IPTV: The Global Picture to their offering.

It all depends on where you look at it. In countries such as France, Spain and Italy, IPTV has the potential to be a genuine revenue-generating service as it fills a gap in the Pay-TV market. For countries like the US and the UK, however, the revenue potential for stand-alone IPTV services will be much more limited.

Telecom Italia and Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) have struck a deal to offer on-demand major blockbuster movies from the US movie studio on "Alice Home TV”, Telecom Italia’s TV via Internet service, and on Rosso Alice, Telecom’s Italia ADSL portal.

Interactive Television Networks, Inc. (ITVN) has selected ViewCast Corporation’s Osprey Video capture cards to stream on-demand Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) content to its subscribers. ITVN’s interactive content networks deploy Osprey cards to ingest, preprocess, and stream programmed content for their subscription-based channels – Setanta, LacrosseTV and MavTV.

WhiteBlox today announced that it has taken a significant equity position in Vistacast, which has resulted in the formation of a strategic partnership that will provide a full range of IPTV training capabilities for corporations. Moving forward, Vistacast, a leading provider of distributed video training solutions, will exclusively use the WhiteBlox interactive media player with all of its clients that deliver both online and offline video training to their employees. The move will expose tens of thousands of new customers to the WhiteBlox IPTV system.

As published reports indicate FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has signaled his intent to approve the $67 billion merger of AT&T and BellSouth without adopting a single protection for consumers or competition, a group of consumer and public interest groups representing the interests of millions of Americans today held a press conference to urge the FCC to put the interests of consumers ahead of AT&T’s corporate interests.

XOS Technologies, Inc., the leading technology provider for maximizing the value of content, commerce and services for sports organizations and fans, today announced that the College Sports Direct Web site has undergone a dramatic change to become the only destination with a comprehensive list of all online college sports programming.

Motorola, Inc. today enhanced its next-generation video network platform with the acquisition of Vertasent, LLC.

Based in Colmar, Pa., Vertasent is a privately-held developer of software applications that enables services such as content-on-demand or IPTV to share resources and be delivered over a common infrastructure. Vertasent's applications manage the elements in a "switched" digital video network -- a key area of interest for cable operators. A switched video architecture can increase available bandwidth in a cable network by dynamically transmitting only those channels currently being watched in a given neighborhood.

ClearSight Networks, has enhanced the newest version of its ClearSight Network Analyzer to provide first-to-market Triple Play support in real time.

Alcatel announced the creation and launch of a multimedia mobile portal for the 7th Edition of the French Cinema Festival, to be held in seven major cities in Portugal. This mobile portal, based on Alcatel's "Mobile Kiosk", will allow Portuguese mobile users to be updated with all the latest news related to the Festival on their mobile phones. Cinema fans will be able to check scheduled events in the different cities, location and time of film showings, cinemas, discover more about artists, read film synopses, and watch trailers of a movie of their choice.

Next Inning Technology Research, a subscription service focused on semiconductor and technology stocks, has published a special report on the rollout of IPTV and digital video that includes updated outlooks on JDS Uniphase, Finisar, Power-One, and PMC-Sierra.

eWan1, Inc., announced today that the Company will change its name to Advanced Technetix to more accurately reflect its recent business model shift. The Company has initiated the paperwork with the CUSIP Bureau for a new CUSIP number and with the NASD for a new trading symbol to coincide with the corporate name change.

Intel Corporation and Omnicom Media Group (OMG), which includes global media agencies OMD Worldwide and PHD Network, today announced a collaboration to develop "10 foot" or large screen advertising templates for Internet-delivered advertising to TVs connected to Intel Viiv technology-based computers. The effort will connect content owners and advertisers to advance how interactive, broadband-delivered advertising is best tailored to specific programming and audiences, and best presented on large screen sizes in TV-like "10 foot" viewing environments.

TANDBERG Television is set to build on its business and technology lead in the Asian IPTV video head-end market with a demonstration of its full suite of live, on-demand and interactive solutions at IPTV World Forum Asia 2006 (stand 83), which runs 27th - 29th September in Shanghai. The event will give delegates the chance to see why the annual IPTV leadership report, published earlier this month by the Multimedia Research Group (MRG), ranked TANDBERG Television as the leading IP video head-end supplier in Asia, as well as in EMEA and rest of world. Worldwide TANDBERG Television has been involved in more than 160 xDSL and FTTH deployments and there are over 2 million subscribers currently viewing IPTV thanks to the company's technology.

Redback Networks Inc., a leading provider of next-generation broadband networking systems, today announced it has completed a successful round of interoperability tests, measuring the SmartEdge® family of multiservice edge routers as a new platform for Ethernet aggregation services as well as IP/MPLS edge routing.