Tut Systems has integrated its Astria content processor (CP) and Astria video services processor (VSP) headend solutions with Minerva's iTVManager middleware and Latens FCAS content and revenue protection solutions at a deployment with Smart City Television, an affiliate of Smart City Telecom of Lake Buena Vista, FL.

Inuk Networks announced the launch of Freewire TV – a new service that uses multicast to deliver broadcast quality television over closed IP networks. Aiming to provide all consumers in the UK with added choice in who supplies them with multichannel television, this new service will deliver a solution for the "digitally disenfranchised" – the 6 million+ households unable to receive high quality digital television by other means.

Yahoo! Inc. launched Yahoo! Food, a comprehensive new lifestyle Web site that will enable consumers to discover food information and content online. The new site combines content and videos from celebrity chefs, a searchable recipe database and personalization features, as well as a built-in user community around the topic of food. Yahoo! Food is the company's latest example of developing a unique user experience through the combination of social media tools and high-quality licensed, original and video content that, in turn, creates additional marketing opportunities for advertisers.

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Research and Markets has announced the addition of 2006-2007 Europe - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Scandinavia to their offering.

This report covers Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden all early adopters of emerging technologies. Trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, Internet, broadband, digital TV and converging media including VoIP, VoD and IPTV developments. Subjects include:

• Market and industry analyses, trends and developments
• Facts, figures and statistics
• Industry and regulatory issues
• Research, Marketing, Benchmarking
• Major Players, Revenues, Subscribers, Prepaid
• VoIP, IPTV, VoD, digital TV and DTTV

Aggregator Limited and MercuryMedia have entered into a co-venture agreement to develop and launch a new Internet TV service which will enable easy access to an extensive library of documentaries and factual films. The service, called 'joiningthedots.tv', is due to launch in February 2007 with over 200 titles to create an online resource where the viewing public can increase their awareness of the world. With a motto of 'independent films for independent people' joiningthedots.tv will address a global audience which is increasingly underserved by traditional broadcast television. It will offer a wide range of factual programming, including current affairs, history, observational, polemic, arts, nature and science, as well as providing non-partisan forums and a portal for user generated factual content.

There are many challenges to overcome before IPTV goes mainstream, says a new report from market research firm Infonetics Research, but many of those challenges are expected to be overcome soon enough for the number of worldwide IPTV subscribers to more than double just about every year from 2005 to 2009, when it will reach 68.9 million subscribers.

NeuLion Incorporated, the company driving convergence between television and the internet, announced today that Africast TV has chosen NeuLion's iPTV Service as the platform for the first global African Consumer Broadcast Network. The service is scheduled to be launched in December and will roll out more than 30 TV channels in the next few months.

Modulus Video, Inc., unveiled its new VODxchange system, providing a complete, real-time MPEG-4 AVC encoding solution for both SD and HD designed to meet the growing demand for video on demand (VOD) movies and local content delivered over IPTV networks. The new system is already in use by leading content providers who are beginning to encode the first MPEG-4 AVC content for VOD. VODxchange is an easy to use real-time system that is designed to convert content from virtually any video format and encode it into MPEG-4 AVC while ensuring the highest video quality.

SES AMERICOM and International Datacasting Corporation have integrated IDC's next-generation DVB-S2 satellite receivers aboard the IP-PRIME IPTV service. As part of a newly-signed agreement, IDC is the exclusive provider of satellite receivers over the initial year of IP-PRIME service rollouts.