BlackBerry fans, prepare your peepers, because the first OS 6.0 screenshots have appeared on the Internet.

BoyGeniusReport (BGR) has the scoop with the screens, along with the details of RIM’s next operating system.

While the look hasn’t changed all that much, the screens certainly look slick, and some of the new features are big ones.

There’s a new browser that has been rebuilt from scratch, which features tabbed browsing, and support for multi-touch.

Apparently multi-touch is in place across the whole system, not just the browser, with a pinch-to-zoom feature, too.

BlackBerry OS 6.0 also makes the home screen fully customisable, and introduces kinetic scrolling. In other words, the faster you swipe down a list, the quicker it will scroll, to lend a real weight to the touchscreen experience.

BGR also says that the media player has been reworked, with a rather cool looking illustrative screen (featuring Jimi Hendrix – “Hey Joe… where you goin’ with that BlackBerry in your hand?”).

It all sounds “berry” juicy indeed (sorry), and perhaps the best news of all is that OS 6.0 will be arriving on BlackBerry devices fairly soon, if BGR’s sources are correct.

Expect it to be going live as soon as June. Whether or not some current handsets will be able to receive the OS as an upgrade is, as yet, unknown.

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Spain’s main cable operator Ono can celebrate its recent positive economic results in the middle of the current deep crisis.

The company ended last year with a net profit of €50 million compared with losses of €26 million in 2008.

Ono also surpassed its expectations for EBITDA, ending the period with €730 million compared with €701 million for the previous year, a growth of 4.2%.

The forecasts of the company at the beginning of that period were an EBITDA between €680 and €720 million.

However the operator’s revenues went down to €1,510 million, 5.6% less compared with the previous year due to the economic crisis, and an accompanying decrease in telephony and pay-TV consumption.

Ono had 1,902,000 residential subscribers at the end of last year, a decrease of 17,000 clients in relation to the same month the previous year.

But the company’s management are continuing the policy to push the market of triple play clients or combined services of telephony, pay-TV and the internet.

So 36% of its client base asked for these services in Q4 last year, compared with 34% in the same period the previous year.

But the operator registered a strong growth in the number of clients in broadband internet with a total of 1,326,000 at the end of last year, growth of 3.4%, compared with 1,283,000 at the end of the previous year.

So 72.6% of the company’s client base have this type of service.

As for Ono’s pay-TV service, the company had 6.2% fewer clients last year meaning a total of 975,000 subscribers.

This downturn corresponds to the operator’s basic TV services while the premium TV services registered better results in the number of clients.

So the downturn in the number of TV subscribers made the operator bet more on getting new clients to its telephony and broadband services.

As for the operator’s fibre optics network, at the end of last year it had more than 7 million homes connected, an increase of 41,000 homes.

According to Jonathan Cumming, Ono’s financial director the 2009 results “show that in spite of the difficult economic situation last year the company overtook its forecasts in terms of EBITDA, operative cash flow and free cash flow.”

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The commercial television operator ITV has returned to producing a profit for 2009.

It may small at £25 million but anything is preferable when compared with the £2.7 billion loss the company reported for 2008.

These results come as the advertising revenues are still down by nine per cent, but during the first quarter of the year the broadcaster is expecting a seven per cent rise in advertising.

All of this must be great news for the new chief executive Adam Crozier who started work at ITV on the day the figures were released.

The profits are mainly the result of cost saving moves made by the broadcaster, which are set to continue as ITV gets back onto its feet and moves on into 2010.

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ITV back in the black

Symmetricom, Inc have announced details on their brand new analyzing tool, the Q-1200 digital/IP video headend analyzer, a multichannel video monitoring device, which should be released in September.
The benefit will be to the telco and cable operators, as well as quality of service for the customer.
The product will analyze and identify video impairments efficiently, offering [...]

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Symmetricom announce Q-1200 monitoring device

BTI systems has released a new range to its BTI 7000 Series platform, the packetVX Integrated Ethernet Service Module.
The new range distributes density and converges Ethernet service connectivity with WDM networking, which therefore provides increased delivery methods for IPTV, triple play Ethernet business and wholesale services, and 4G wireless backhaul.
With Ethernet traffic on [...]

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BTI release new range for BTI 7000 Series