Oregan Networks, a provider of embedded software for Internet media services and communications, has developed UI mechanisms that empower CPE equipment providers and service operators to deliver a true high definition experience on a variety of set top box platforms. With Oregan TV Browser 3.0, high definition IPTV and Video on Demand portals can be created using AJAX technologies, utilising the latest web server-to-client communication methods.

Minerva Networks, a leader of next generation open-platform, carrier-class IPTV solutions, and Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), a supplier of digital TV Set-Top Boxes, announced that the two companies have integrated Minerva's iTVManager middleware on to ADB's latest generation of advanced, IPTV set-top boxes. The two companies will collectively market solutions to telecommunications operators worldwide.

Company - Company confidential

Job - Sales Engineer

Key Skills and Responsibilities:

• Provide expert pre- and post-sale applications consulting for IPTV and Mobile customers of our client's technology. Primary role is to provide pre sales support, and some architectural and implementation guidance, not hands on project engineering.
• Assist business development executives to technically qualify new opportunities and to identify areas of value and risk.
• Serve as go-to front line technical expert on properties, characteristics, use and benefits of our client's technologies generally.
• Provide feedback to applications engineering to enable the development of customer specific sample applications.
• Provide critical customer feedback to engineering and product management regarding product improvements.
• Develop documentation and training materials that illustrate important solution techniques for common requirements.
• Work closely with prospect customers, existing customers and partners.

Company - Modulus Video

Job - Network Administrator

The Network Administrator will be responsible for the Modulus Video Network to insure a robust, redundant, and highly available network. Initially you will be focusing on switch and router administration and traffic shaping, i.e. VLANS, QOS.

Company - MobiTV, Inc.

Job - Sr. Software Engineer Encoding Team (Emeryville)

MobiTV, Inc. is the first global television and digital radio service provider for the more than 2 billion mobile phone users worldwide. The MobiTV service is available in the US through Sprint, Cingular, Alltel and several regional carriers; in the United Kingdom through 3 and Orange UK; and is also available to Canadian customers through Bell Canada, Rogers and TELUS Mobility. The Emmy Award winning service now reaches more than half a million subscribers and offers many popular TV channels from content providers such as MSNBC, ABC News Now, CNN, Fox News, Fox Sports, ESPN 3GTV, NBC Mobile, CNBC, CSPAN, The Discovery Channel, TLC, The Weather Channel and others that deliver cartoons, music videos and comedy. MobiTV also has a full line up of geographically specific channels. Founded in 1999, MobiTV is a privately-held company headquartered in Emeryville, CA. For more information on the company, its products or technology, please visit www.mobitv.com.

SF Station is pleased to be able to now offer their users a selection of local dining video content from TasteTV in our popular Restaurant section, including videos from their Wine, Chocolate and Recipes categories.

Verimatrix, setting the standard in content security technologies that enhance the value of pay-TV networks, welcomed the new MRG IPTV Market Leader Report 2006 listing Verimatrix in first place in its global ranking of IPTV content protection vendors. Verimatrix is ranked number one among content security providers based on its global operator deployments and total number of supported subscribers in Asia, Europe, North America, and Rest of World.

Full Season of Live NFL Games Now Available for the First Time via the Web in Europe, Asia, South America, Australia and Africa

Yep, you heard us right: You can watch NFL games online if you are almost anywhere in the world, except the U.S., with the new NFL Game Pass service.

The National Football League and Yahoo!, Inc announced an agreement that will enable football fans around the world to watch live NFL games on the Internet. NFL Game Pass, powered by Yahoo! Sports, will allow football fans outside of North America to watch nearly every NFL game live and in its entirety online beginning this Sunday.

TANDBERG Television announced that visitors to IBC will be able to see a range of open software solutions for next generation digital video services - Hall 1:461. These advanced software tools address a growing need to support different distribution paths, end points and content formats, and extend TANDBERG Television's ability to enable linear and on-demand, interactive content to be supplied across 'any platform to any device'.

As personal video continues to explode with the likes of YouTube and MySpace, IPTV equipment and software providers are looking at ways to integrate personal video channels into their broadcasting solutions. Alcatel and Microsoft demonstrated such an offering at IBC today, where IPTV and personal video are hot topics.

The timing couldn't be better. Service providers are rolling out IPTV around the world and looking for new features to draw customers into switching from traditional TV. Giving users the ability to create and share personal video between family and friends would be a nice selling point.

Read the full story, "Broadcasting rocked as TV viewers become producers".

Packet Vision, the UK-based IPTV advertising specialist, has revealed details of the commercial launch of its delivery platform at IBC2006. Specifically designed for an IPTV environment, the platform offers network operators the first cost-effective and easy way to implement local ad insertion, targeted advertising and interactive advertising.

Entriq, Inc., a company that provides pay media solutions to manage, protect, and monetize multimedia content worldwide, announced the availability of its new IPTV service. The company has also announced that the new solution has been selected by SevenSenses, ProSiebenSat.1-Group's Digital TV Company and its strategic partner 1&1 Internet, to enable their recently in Germany launched Video on Demand service maxdome.

TANDBERG Television announced an expansion of television interactivity into Canada through a deal with TSN, the leading Canadian sports television channel. In collaboration with TANDBERG Television, TSN will launch a new web-based synchronized interactive television application to engage viewers in the competition on screen and enhance TSN's programming of the Canadian Football League this season. Sponsored by Molson, Inc., Canada's largest brewing company, the new interactive application launches today on TSN.ca.

IntAct, an Amino Technologies plc company, announced that its internet protocol television (IPTV) software stack and MPEG-4 AVC codecs are now being demonstrated on Texas Instruments Incorporated's (TI) DaVinci technology. IBC visitors can see demonstrations of the most popular IPTV solution in the market running MPEG-4 AVC on TI's flagship technology for digital video.

China-based Konka Group Ltd. has developed a new Internet Protocol (IP) set-top-box (STB) solution based on DaVinci technology from Texas Instruments Incorporated. The Konka IPB5310, ideal for home video and audio entertainment, delivers a low cost solution that is easy to implement, boosting the adoption of IPTV services in China and worldwide.