A decision just rendered by France’s Competition Council on carriage of exclusive content could have repercussions on the entire IPTV industry, according to a report just published by Strategy Analytics.
The report, “Orange’s IPTV Challenge: Create a Non-Content Differentiator,” suggests that Orange will need to fundamentally alter its marketing strategy to stay competitive.
“Content exclusivity [...]

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Report suggests Orange should rethink IPTV strategy

Media Excel Inc., the world’s leading provider of next-generation transcoding solutions for MobileTV & WebTV, today announced that it is expanding its longstanding relationship with Texas Instruments (TI) and collaborating on a number of initiatives designed to bring high-density, scalable video over IP compression solution for network-based transcoding to market.
The collaboration will build on [...]

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Texas Instruments and Media Excel deliver new network video transcoding products

Imagine’s ICE™ Video Platform Receives High Honors from Broadband Gear Report’s Annual Diamond Technology Reviews
Entone, Inc. today announced that their award-winning Hydra™ HD IP video gateway and Amulet™ HD IPTV receiver have been selected by Panhandle Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (PTCI) for their high-definition (HD) IPTV service rollout.

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HD IPTV Rollout

• Here Come the Code Wars: How Android Will Take Down iPhone 3
  No phone maker today is poised to take advantage of the software chinks—however small—in the iPhone’s armor. Companies like BlackBerry may have excelled at direct, no-frills interfaces, but with the flood of new iPhone applications due to arrive July 11, it will take a true software giant to mount any sort of defense. A giant like Google.

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• Revolutionary Giant Solar WInd Turbines Filter CO2
  wind turbine to inspire NIMBY sentiment from neighbors and city councils alike. Enter a striking new alternative energy concept by Mexican-born Agustin Otegui, who works with economies of a much smaller scale. He has conceived of a next-gen Nano Vent-Skin that sheathes structures in a shimmering solar weave studded with micro-turbines. The concept

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