Mirror Image Internet announces its partnership with Wowza Media Systems to deliver high-performance streaming via Wowza Media Server Pro Advanced. Wowza Media Server Pro Advanced is a high-performance, extensible and a fully interactive multi-protocol media server for live and on-demand streaming, chat, and recording. The product enables companies to use streaming protocols that work with Microsoft Corporation’s Silverlight, Apple Incorporated’s iPhone, RTMP for Flash, RTSP/RTP for QuickTime, and MPEG-TS for IPTV set-top boxes.

Move Networks has expanded its international presence through a partnership with SevenOne Intermedia, the multimedia company of ProSiebenSat.1. As a result of this agreement, Germany’s largest broadcaster will adopt the Move Networks Internet television platform for online video content management and publishing across its popular Web portal www.prosieben.de.

Arabcom, will spotlight issues that are key to the development of the telecom sector and discuss the latest technologies, business models, network deployment and case studies. mobivention is exhibiting at the Arabcom 2009. The high-profile event will attract telecom ministers, regulators, investors, operators and service providers from across the globe. Developing high-quality services and personalization products for the mobile industry, mobivention will show products and services to increase revenues and concepts to keep end consumers attached to their network operator. The highlights of the mobivention exhibition are the following topics.

EveryZing has closed an $8.25MM round of funding from its existing investors, which include Fairhaven Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Accel Partners and BBN Technologies, and added GE/NBCU’s Peacock Equity Fund as an investor.

Adding to its growing roster of broadcast media companies, EveryZing today also announced the company has been selected by NBC Universal to deploy its universal search and publishing solutions across a range of NBCU’s Internet properties. The agreement marks EveryZing’s largest deal to date and continues the company’s strong growth from 2008.

The IMS Research study The World Market for Hybrid Set-Top Boxes reveals that continued growth in hybrid STB deployments is being driven by operators initiatives to increase ARPUs through additional services including push-VOD services, progressive download services and access to web portal content.

Parks Associates has announced the speakers for two key sessions, The Marriage of Online Video to CE and Connected TV Strategies, at CONNECTIONS, June 2-4, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. These sessions address the impact of bringing Web video content to connected TVs and the new business models emerging from manufacturers and content providers as more CE gain enhanced Internet capabilities.

Brightcove announces a partnership with sevenload to enable Brightcove customers to distribute online video content to sevenload's social media platform. This partnership will also introduce new monetization opportunities for Brightcove customers that are expanding their advertising inventory through distribution into the sevenload network. Brightcove customers already taking advantage of this new distribution opportunity include SPOX.com, a popular sports Web portal in Germany.

Verismo Networks releases VuNow 3.0, the latest software release for its Internet TV Platform that lets people watch millions of free Internet videos directly on their TV.

The new release responds to market needs and community requests, and enriches the user experience for accessing and enjoying a broad range of online video content on the television. Read on to discover the VuNow 3.0 enhancements.

CBS is looking to offer a live online video stream of next year's Super Bowl XLIV and the NFL is taking it into consideration. CBS the official broadcaster for Super Bowl XLIV, wants to stream the event comes from CBS Interactive President Quincy Smith, according to Business Week. In the same report, Brian Rolapp, the NFL's senior vice-president for media strategy, says the NFL "would be open" to CBS' proposal. Now this certainly isn't any guarantee, but the two named sources from CBS and the NFL are openly discussing the idea. Even if we don't see live online video streaming of Super Bowl XLIV could mean that it's going to happen in the near future.

Discovery Networks Germany has chosen the Brightcove platform to publish and distribute advertising-supported long and short-form video content across its DMAX.de Web property. Building on its long standing relationship with Discovery Communications in the U.S., Brightcove will enable Discovery Germany to showcase promotional clips as well as full-length programming. Brightcove's long-form capabilities will enable Discovery Germany to deliver archived episodes of past seasons of shows, new episodes of recently aired shows for catch-up TV purposes, as well as exclusive online premieres of selected new episodes prior to their television debut.

Residents of the Suffolk County Village of Asharoken are a major step closer to having a real choice for their cable television service, thanks to a newly approved agreement authorizing Verizon to offer its FiOS TV service, delivered over the most advanced fiber-optic network straight to customers' homes.

NBC Universal Global Networks launches one of its most successful channel brands for the first time in Greece with Universal Channel debuting exclusively on Conn-x TV, the IPTV platform of OTE, one of the leading telecom groups in South-eastern Europe. The move is part of NBCU Global Network’s ongoing global channels expansion and central to the company’s objective, led by Roma Khanna, President, Global Networks & Digital Initiatives, to grow to almost 100 channels internationally in 2010.

LG Powercom announces the commercial deployment of BigBand’s video IP solution, vIP PASS, to deliver cost effective IPTV services to personal computers and IP set-top boxes over DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems. LG Powercom is a telecommunications service provider and has the largest HFC Networks infrastructure in Korea with over 2.3 million subscribers, and offers IPTV and high-speed Internet data services via optical cable and HFC infrastructure. They have built more than 60,000 kilometers of HFC networks nationwide in Korea.

Entone announces the integration of VUDU’s industry leading Internet entertainment platform with Entone’s next generation media hubs. This breakthrough offering, available to telco service operators this summer, will allow Entone’s telco customers to supplement their live broadcast television and DVR services with VUDU’s library of more than 14,000 movie and TV titles, including the largest HD library in existence today. Instead of having to choose between an operator managed service or an “over the top” Internet video service, for the first time consumers will be able to enjoy the best of both from a single user interface resulting in a dramatic increase in their choice of content.

Verismo Networks has licensed its On2 VP6 video codec for use in the Verismo VuNow Internet TV platform. The VP6 license and software integration enable Verismo VuNow devices to play VP6 video in resolutions up to and including 720p (HD model only). Both the standard-definition and HD versions of the VuNow PoD device have passed On2 Certification for playback of VP6.