Dalet Digital Media Systems, a publicly traded company on Euronext which designs, develops, and sells media asset management and digital media solutions to broadcasters and content providers, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gruppo TNT S.R.L., a privately held Italian company that specialises in advanced broadcast solutions. The acquired business further expands the Dalet product offerings built around an open, IT-centric framework, and provides additional functionalities that can be easily incorporated into its flagship product, Dalet Enterprise Edition.

Vinten, a Vitec Group brand, was presented with The Queen's Award for Enterprise 2010 during a ceremony on Tuesday 13 July. Her Majesty's representative, The Lord Tollemache, Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, presented the Award and read the citation.

Vinten has been recognised in the innovation category for its continuous development of Perfect Balance, a unique engineering solution for professional television camera support that enables camera operators to focus on the perfect shot for longer.

Utah Scientific is expanding its worldwide market presence and its management team with the appointment of Reto Brader to a new position, general manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Brader, who has worked in high technology, broadcast, and
information systems markets for 18 years, will be tasked with developing Utah Scientific's EMEA presence, growing its market, serving customers, and promoting Utah's products in the regions.

Omneon, Inc. Has appointed Carlos Ferreira to the role of Southern European manager. Ferreira, who joins Omneon with more than 16 years of experience in the broadcast industry, will be responsible for reinforcing the company's position and furthering penetration of Omneon products into major broadcast installations across Southern Europe.

Grass Valley has staged its annual awards ceremony to celebrate key resellers throughout the world that have supported the company's extensive worldwide sales network. As part of the celebration, 11 companies within the Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions were recognised with a Reseller Award from Grass Valley, representing a wide variety of Grass Valley sales, service, and support partners.

In March 2010, Fujifilm Corporation announced that it had decided to absorb its wholly-owned direct subsidiary Fujinon Corporation, Saitama, Japan, as of 1 July 2010. With that Fujifilm Corporation became the legal successor of Fujinon Corporation.

IT Europa will be staging the fourth annual European ISV Convention on 10 February 2011 in London. The event will bring together leading independent software vendors (ISVs) with hardware, software and service organisations to explore and address the issues affecting the development of the IT industry in Europe and to develop and strengthen partnerships aimed at supporting solution-based sales.

IPV has announced that newly formed Soft4TV, an international IT technology company, will represent its business in the French market. Founded by French industry expert Dominique Bizard, Soft4TV will continue to develop the business opportunities for IPV across France and to capitalise on the growth potential in this ever-significant market.

Emap has announced the acquisition of Broadcast Video Expo and The Production Show from its joint venture partner, VCM events. Emap had previously owned a 55% share of the business in a joint venture with VCM.

Isilon Systems has announced that STN, a leading teleport service provider delivering broadcasts over satellite for Central and Eastern Europe, has successfully implemented an Isilon scale-out storage platform for its existing environment and to help migrate clients onto its new playout system and meet strong demand for its innovative services.