KIT digital has formed an operating joint venture agreement with Buenos Aires and São Paulo-based, Latinstock Digital, to jointly market products and services to clients in Latin America and throughout the KIT digital global network.

Latinstock Digital is a subsidiary of Latinstock, a commonly-owned consortium of companies based in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Spain and other Latin markets. Latinstock, founded in 1986, is the largest and most diversified content distributor for the advertising and editorial industries in Latin America. It maintains local subsidiaries in nearly every national market in the Spanish-speaking world, as well as Brazil, and has long-term alliances with key producers in the digital content industry globally, such as Corbis Corporation, Magnum Pictures, and Image Source.

In front of a packed house at their Boxee Beta Unveiling event in Brooklyn this evening, Boxee revealed that D-Link has been named first choice as the hardware partner to release a Boxee branded device for the living room.

Boxee is the best way to enjoy content from the Internet or a computer on a TV screen. With the Boxee Box by D-Link, the two companies have created the easiest way to bring this experience into the living room, allowing people to watch tens of thousands of movies & TV Shows, organize and play their favorite home movies and photos, and play great music from their home network or from Internet sources like Pandora.

3view makes available to the UK market the world's first Internet connected HD set-top box with free-to-air capabilities. This means retail partners now have access to the first commercially available set-top box which combines the ability to receive high definition free-to air programming with a raft of Internet capabilities. This turns people's television into a connected device, allowing them to use a range of new TV over IP services. In addition, people will also be able to browse the web and keep up with Facebook and Twitter friends, all at the same time as watching both Standard and High Definition free-to-air television channels in the UK.

AT&T announced at the UBS 37th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference that it will reach its 2 millionth AT&T U-verse TV customer today. In the last year, AT&T has added one million customers to the award-winning TV service available to millions of homes across 22 states.

AT&T also announced the launch of AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet Max Turbo, which offers broadband speeds of up to 24 Mbps downstream and up to 3 Mbps upstream. Available today for AT&T U-verse residential and small business customers in the Austin, San Antonio and St. Louis markets, Max Turbo is the fastest Internet package available from the nation’s leading provider of broadband services. AT&T plans to roll out the service to additional U-verse markets in the future.

Sungale announces the latest of its 2010 product line up, the new Kula IPTV. The Kula is an ultra portable Wi-Fi enabled IPTV device that allows users to access a large number of live streaming television programs from all over the world, selectable by country, language and topic like News, Sports and Finance all without the high rates.

Dell’Oro Group reports that the worldwide Set-top Box market fell 10 percent sequentially during the third quarter of this year to $2.6 billion. During the third quarter, vendors like Motorola and Cisco, who both have a high degree of exposure to the North American market, saw large contractions in IP STB unit shipments due to the decline in net subscriber additions. In China, Huawei continued its strong growth putting more pressure on ZTE and UTStarcom. ZTE however, retained its grip on being the third largest vendor in the worldwide IP STB market.

Online video is emerging as a vital part of the discussion when it comes to the way marketers are communicating with prospects, customers and partners via the web. Nearly half of the organizations represented in the 4th quarter 2009 survey conducted by Interactive Media Strategies say they will increase the amount of video content featured on their public web sites in 2010 compared to 2009.

Join Research Director of Interactive Media Strategies, Steve Vonder Haar to learn how companies are using online video in marketing today and how the momentum of the use of online video is going to grow in 2010.

All registrants will receive a complimentary copy of the latest IMS Strategies report "Growing Momentum in Video Use on Corporate Web Sites: 2010".

MRG announces the November 2009 edition of the IPTV Global Forecast - 2009 to 2013, which is the latest update to its May 2009 edition. The new report uses the most recent information on over 800 IPTV deployments around the world, and includes a forecast for IPTV subscribers, service revenue, and system revenue from 2009 to 2013. Additionally, it forecasts over 28 discrete market sectors in 4 geographic regions.

Upcoming Web seminar being presented by Light Reading: How to Build the Winning IPTV Network.

IPTV services put new requirements on broadband networks -- certainly when it comes to all the quality of service, capacity, and reliability aspects, but also when it comes to cost and business aspects. Also the investment should be future proof. It should be ready for service differentiation and TV convergence for the three screens, including the connected home.

Upcoming Web seminar being presented by Light Reading: Taming Internet Video.

Internet video viewing is growing rapidly. An increasing percentage of consumers is spending an increasing amount of time viewing Internet video, and it's having an impact on service providers' access networks. Video is a high-bandwidth application, and as higher-resolution, professionally produced content gets online, the bandwidth impact will only become greater. At the same time, managing Internet traffic is a contentious issue deeply mired in the net neutrality debate. What solutions exist for service providers? How can they manage the steadily growing volume of video traffic on their last-mile networks?

KIT digital and vivocom will join forces in a formal partnership to deliver IP-video management technology and solutions in Spain. The agreement builds upon a previous relationship that existed between vivocom and Narrowstep, a company that's assets were acquired by KIT digital earlier in 2009. Under the agreement, vivocom will market and service KIT digital's proprietary technology platform, "VX," jointly delivering IP-video solutions to customers in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries.

Dreampark announces support for Over The Top Services. The company continues to expand its offering to service providers by allowing for diverse next generation User Interface for TV and content platforms. Over The Top is considered the latest solution in streaming media and telecommunications networks and allows for a broader scope of television, video content and social media offerings to subscribers. The Dreamgallery platform facilitates multi-platform TV offering even for service providers who do not have access to the appropriate network infrastructure to guarantee bandwidth but aim to provide continuous content directly to existing and prospective customers and OTT is an important part of this offering.

Espial announces the newest release of the Evo TV Service Platform. Espial IPTV middleware is designed to serve millions of subscribers with a minimal capex investment, to provide a highly responsive user experience and to offer a powerful service creation environment. Field proven, highly scalable, based on open standards and supporting the interactive IP applications demanded by consumers - it is an ideal choice for IPTV and IP Cable operators.

SKY.it has selected the Brightcove platform for online video content management and publishing advertising-supported, customized video players across its online properties and throughout the Web. SKY.it, which is wholly owned by News Corporation, is Italy’s most popular pay-TV company with nearly five million subscribers. With Brightcove, SKY.it will extend distribution of sports, news and lifestyle-related video programming to the Web, reaching a larger audience and expanding monetization opportunities through enhanced advertising opportunities.

Syabas announces that Revision3 is porting their application to the Syabas DAVID platform. Revision3 creates and produces original programming for passionate, committed fans who want to watch shows about technology, movies, video games and music that entertain, educate and help to expand their life experiences. The popular content provider, which currently accommodates more than 6 million downloads a month, has been available to current Popcorn Hour users for more than a year.