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.

The newest release of Evo TV Service Platform extends these capabilities with several
major new features for telco and cable operators including:

• 3-screen support for new video-on-demand and subscription management services from
  PCs and mobile phones.
• Personalized UI advertising allows operators to build targeted advertising campaigns
  including static, clickable and video advertisements to drive new revenues and increase
  utilization of their value-added services.
• Time-Shift-TV services (TSTV) allow subscribers to take advantage of network-based
  Start-Over TV (Replay TV), Catch-up TV (Delayed or Look-back TV) and Pause Live TV.
• Arabic language and right-to-left character support.
• Professional-grade developer tools for rapid, easy and standards-based service creation
  using a PC-based integrated development and preview environment.
• Operational enhancements to significantly reduce operational costs. Includes seamless
  upgrades, new CPE Management features, set-top box self registration and security
  enhancements reflecting an independent security audit.

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Emery
Telcom has launched IPTV services in Utah powered by Latens ECO
middleware and pre-integrated conditional access system. Emery Telcom is one of Utah’s
leading providers of telecommunication services. Based in Orangeville, Utah, Emery
Telcom was formed as a cooperative in 1950 and has since earned industry-wide recognition
for its excellence. Adding IPTV to its high quality service line up, Emery’s ‘ETV
Interactive’ service provides almost 200 channels of SD and HD programming and DVR
services.

Latens ECO is an industry leading middleware platform, featuring pre-integrated conditional
access software, that brings true multimedia networking to the home. Enabling telcos
to deliver dynamic video control features that help them increase subscribers and
reduce churn, ECO broadens the scope for operators enabling a truly interactive IPTV
service capable of supporting a variety of capabilities like DVR, Remote DVR and OTT
TV.

At Emery Telcom, Latens ECO has been integrated and deployed with ADB set-top boxes
and Avail TVN headend for a truly state-of-the-art IPTV service.

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Quincy Smith, the leader of CBS’ Interactive
division, will join other high-profile industry leaders at this year’s NewTeeVee
Live 09 on Nov. 12 in San Francisco. Quincy will share his perspective on the
state of the online video industry and what impacts some of the changes coming up
will create.

This is the year of “TV Everywhere” for the online television industry, and the conference
will investigate the opportunities it creates. Aligned to the TV Everywhere topic
will be discussions on new platforms in the home and the promise they hold for content
companies and entrepreneurs.

NewTeeVee Live, now in its third successful year, is designed to answer the biggest
questions about the future of television. The conference has assembled the most important
industry leaders to share their views and visions.

Speakers at NewTeeVee Live include:

• Amy Banse, president, Comcast Interactive Media
• Quincy Smith, CEO, CBS Interactive.
• Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO, Netflix
• Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe Systems
• Marc Whitten, general manager of Xbox LIVE, Microsoft
• Andy Mitchell, VP of Digital and Development Marketing, CNN
• Erik Flannigan, executive vice president of Digital Media, MTVN Entertainment Group
• Randi Zuckerberg, director of Market Development, Facebook
• Avner Ronen, CEO and co-founder, boxee
• Anthony Wood, CEO, Roku
• Matthew McRae, VP and GM, Advanced Technology Products, VIZIO
• Sam Blackman, CEO, Elemental Technologies
• Bill Gurley, general partner, Benchmark Capital

The Next Big Idea

In addition, the show will feature 10 of the most exciting technology and content
startups selected by Liz Gannes and Chris Albrecht, editors of the leading online
video blog NewTeeVee.com.

A conference of this magnitude cannot successfully be delivered without the support
of the conference sponsors. This year’s sponsoring companies are led by primetime
sponsor Comcast. The generosity and support of Comcast and other sponsors enable the
GigaOM Network to deliver the show to the worldwide audience of media professionals.

Five hundred industry executives will explore the future of the planet’s favorite
media: television. If you wish to join them Nov. 12 in San Francisco, register
for your ticket now.

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Amino
Communications will showcase a broad range of products, partnerships and powerful
next generation solutions at TelcoTV 2009. Visitors to booth #545 will experience
demonstrations that encompass Amino’s US market offering – with a particular emphasis
on the company’s middleware partners – plus new innovative products including the
company’s new Intel® platform and electronic programme guide.

Highlights include:

• Industry-leading pre-integrated middleware solutions – including a demonstration of
  the Minerva 4.0 Whole Home DVR application and Espial’s Evo TV service platform
• Enterprise solutions – including a demonstration with InfoValue, experts in providing
  innovative, high-performance video streaming platforms and solutions, of the latest
  solutions for the hotel and enterprise market
• Amino’s new Intel platform – the company’s “future vision” hybrid/”Over-the-Top” (OTT)
  set-top box powered by the recently announced Intel Atom Processor CE4100
• Innovative user experiences – including a personalized, user-centric, bi-directional
  electronic program guide for linear, catch-up and OTT content
• AssetHouse – a business-focused, on-demand content management system that demonstrates
  ways to exploit content to maximize revenue across multiple platforms

Amino CEO Andrew Burke will also be presenting at a conference session – “Widget Mania”
- on Wednesday 11 November.

He said: “The US market is hugely important to us and we devote a great deal of time
to understanding our customers and their specific requirements. A broad and deep ecosystem
is of paramount importance to them and we’re showcasing our latest middleware solutions
to highlight our flexible approach to their needs.

“We also have a reputation as industry leaders and innovators – and TelcoTV is the
perfect event to highlight our future direction with a powerful new hybrid/OTT offering
based around our new Intel platform and innovative electronic programme guide.”

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Parks Associates announces new speakers for CONNECTIONS
Europe, featuring executive expertise in IPTV, connected CE, and advanced video
services. The Summit, hosted by Parks Associates on November 4, 2009, at the Movenpick
Hotel in Amsterdam, addresses consumer demand and business strategies for connected
consumer electronics.

CONNECTIONS Europe panelists will address key industry issues:

• The development roadmap for digital lifestyle technologies and applications

• Adoption and revenue forecasts of key connected device and service categories

• An examination of the business models for video and entertainment content and applications,
  online services, and communications

Pierre Francois Dubois, VP Very High Broadband & Digital Home Products, Technocentre,
Orange, will present the opening keynote. Other participating speakers include:

Ronald Brockmann, Managing Director, ActiveVideo Europe

Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Rovi Corporation

Wim Bus, SVP, Product Management & Operations, Civolution

Fabrizio Caffarelli, CEO, TVBLOB

Bill Correll, VP, Marketing & Business Development, Eyecon Technologies

Keith Donovan, Sales & Marketing Director, Intamac Systems

Jon Finegold, Co-Founder & COO, Thinking Screen Media

Matthew Huntington, VP, Product Marketing, OpenTV

Art Lancaster, CTO, Affinegy

Christer Larsson, CEO & Co-founder of Makewave; VP EMEA, OSGi Alliance

Wouter Leibbrandt, Manager Advanced Systems Lab, NXP Semiconductors

Rob Lewis, CEO, Omnifone

Theodore May, VP Content & Value Added Services, Synacor

Trond Neergaard, Founder & Managing Partner, Cloudberry Associates; Member, CTAM Europe
Board

Patrik Nilsson, Director, Adobe

Paolo Pastorino, Business Development & Marketing Manager, Loquendo

Kurt Scherf, VP, Research, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates

Neerav Shah, VP, Business Development, Verimatrix

Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates

Peter Smyth, CEO, RedMere

Bill Stanley, Executive Director, Operations Solutions, Telcordia

Geof Todd, Director, Sales & New Business Initiatives, NDS

Frederic Van Durme, Head, Product Management, Thomson

Ian Walsh, VP, Business Development, ProVision Communications/AXAR Media

Andrew Wajs, CTO, Irdeto Group, Irdeto/Cloakware

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