Optibase Ltd, provider of advanced digital video solutions, has announced that Airtel Broadband & Telephone Services (B&TS), India`s largest private broadband and telephone service provider, chose Optibase H.264 Media Gateway (MGW) 5100 IPTV encoding platforms for its planned IPTV service offerings.

Miranda Technologies has announced that ViVe TV, Venezuela`s public service television network, has placed an order for a large volume of Densité Series signal processing cards for five new OB trucks.

The new trucks are all designed for operation with 12 cameras, and are to be assembled in Madrid by Miranda`s Spanish distributor, Eurocom Broadcast. The OB trucks will be primarily used for satellite uplinking and live production of events.

OmniBus Systems, provider of comprehensive broadcast automation and content management solutions, is expanding its operations in the Asia-Pacific region. Responding to strong regional interest in the company`s technologies and recent major broadcast installations, OmniBus has established sales and support staff in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, with a network of VARs throughout Indo-China, Australia, New Zealand and India.

Latens Systems, provider of software security solutions for Pay-TV & VOD, has announced that Arkwest Communications, an Arkansas based telecommunications provider, has deployed the Latens Foundation CA solution (FCAS) to secure the its Pay-TV and VOD content.

Zoran Corporation was honored at the Frost & Sullivan 2007 Growth Excellence Awards Banquet in Monterey, California recently with the 2007 Global ‘Best Bang for the Buck' in Multimedia Processors Award for offering high quality multimedia features in a cost-effective multimedia processor package. This award is granted after interviewing all market participants and conducting intensive secondary research.

Results from a survey of 2000 European consumers by industry analyst firm Canalys indicate that half have no interest in watching any kind of TV on a mobile phone, even if the service was free.

IT Europa has announced that it is staging the European ISV Convention 2008 from 6 - 8 February 2008 in Frankfurt. The event will bring together leading independent software vendors with hardware, software and service organisations to explore and address the issues impacting the development of the IT industry in Europe and to develop and strengthen partnerships aimed at supporting solution-based sales.

Latens Systems, pioneer and supplier of dynamic, software-based conditional access, has announced that Com Net Inc., an Ohio-based company offering advanced telecommunication services to 16 Independent Local Exchange Companies (ILECs), is successfully managing and distributing encrypted content to its affiliates using one centralised Latens FCAS system. Content is encrypted at Com Net's central headend before being decrypted at each set-top box in the network.

Harris Corporation has been awarded a $15 million contract to deploy two turnkey, medium-wave radio transmission stations for the Algerian Government`s Telediffusion D`Algerie (TDA), the Algerian public broadcasting corporation. The stations, at F`kirina and Sidi Bel Abbes, are part of the government`s programme to modernise the country`s television and radio infrastructure.

Enabling it to maximise revenue streams from sports broadcasting contracts,
including exclusive rights to English Premier League football in Hong Kong, PCCW
is set to become the first company in Hong Kong to implement MSA Focus’ ForeTV,
the broadcast business management system.

A long-standing customer of MSA Focus’ legacy broadcast management system,
Perspective, PCCW’s decision to upgrade to ForeTV was driven by the solution’s
ability to deliver highly efficient live events scheduling. Equally critical was