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The biggest Swedish TV production in 35-year history of the Volvo Ocean Race has been signed with TV4
Sweden’s TV4 has committed to providing the most extensive coverage by any broadcaster in the history of the race. They will present ‘live’ their regular breakfast programme News Morning from three stopover ports: Alicante, Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. Their TV studio will be part of the Volvo Pavilion which is set up in each port.
The international weekly highlights programme will be customised for the Swedish audience and scheduled at 11pm on Mondays as well as at 6pm on the TV4 Sports channel. TV4 will also send correspondents to all the other stopover ports providing news stories and features for regular news programmes.
“We are extremely pleased to welcome TV4 and we are looking forward to working closely with them during the course of the race to ensure that this unique opportunity is exploited to the full, ” said Harold Anderson, Executive Editor for the Volvo Ocean Race.
“We´ve got a strong belief in the race as being one of the most dramatic events in the world of sports. The global character of the race also gives us new and exciting possibilities to cover politics, people and culture around the world, “ said Andreas Haglind, Executive Director for the Morning News show at TV4.
International distribution of programming for this year’s race is at an advanced stage. All indications are that audience numbers will exceed those achieved in the 2005-6 Volvo Ocean Race. Thirty-nine half hour weekly programmes, nine monthly one hour programme and a comprehensive news coverage package promise to make this race the most watched ever.
Countries broadcasting the event include terrestrial channels such as TVE2 in Spain, Channel 4 (UK), 7TV and NTV (Russia), TV3 and TG4 (Ireland), NDR (Germany), LA 7 (Italy), TV2 (Norway), Canal Plus in France and many others. Satellite and Cable viewers will be able to tune in Europe, Eastern Europe, Canada, Latin America, Middle East and Asia.
The Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 will be the 10th running of this ocean marathon. Starting from Alicante in Spain, on 4 October 2008 with in-port racing, it will, for the first time, take in Cochin, India, Singapore and Qingdao, China before finishing in St Petersburg, Russia for the first time in the history of the race. Spanning some 37,000 nautical miles, stopping at 11 ports and taking nine months to complete, the Volvo Ocean Race is the world’s premier yacht race for professional racing crews. •
4-10-08 • Contents about Volvo Ocean Race •
Video over mobile and broadband networks
Partnership will allow service providers to deliver next generation video services over mobile and broadband networks
MobiTV, Inc., (advanced mobile and broadband IP Video distribution technology), and Media Excel, (advanced real-time video encoding and transcoding solutions), today announced a strategic partnership agreement to jointly offer advanced video delivery capabilities to service providers. The combined solutions will enable service providers to leverage proven best-of-breed technologies and expertise for the development of next-generation high availability, high capacity video services over mobile and broadband networks.
MobiTV’s Optimized Delivery Server (ODS) for scalable high capacity video delivery, combined with Media Excel’s industry-leading video encoding and transcoding appliances, will provide an efficient, reliable and high quality IP video solution. This will enable service providers to offer premium video services to their subscribers over 3G, 4G, and broadband networks.
MobiTV recently announced that the number of mobile subscribers’ worldwide that access television using its award winning MobiTV® service has surpassed the four million mark. The service is currently deployed over more than fifteen carrier networks, including Sprint, AT&T Wireless, Alltel, Telus, Rogers and Bell Mobility.
“Many of our customers are looking to us to provide broadcast quality, high availability IP video systems for new mobile and broadband video networks and we want to shorten the time to market for these services by integrating industry leading transcoding technologies, that will enable the rapid delivery of a complete IP Video solution,” said Bruce Gilpin, COO, MobiTV. “Our work with Media Excel enables us to offer a turn-key system for world-class video delivery over IP networks.”
Media Excel provides next-generation hardware transcoding appliances that are used by large-scale video service providers such as MobiTV, as well as broadcasters and service operators.
“The explosion of mobile video over cellular and broadband networks is a tremendous opportunity for operators. Through our integrated platform with MobiTV’s ODS server we can provide a highly scalable and tested solution for operators that can significantly reduce time to market and integration costs,” said Thanasis Iatrou, CEO of Media Excel.
According to Strategy Analytics, the global mobile media market will double between 2008 and 2011, from $32 billion to more than $64 billion, largely due to the increase in global service provider video offerings.
“We are seeing consumer spending on mobile data services ramping to more than $200 billion by 2011, and video is a major part of this growth,” said David Kerr, vice president, global wireless practice, Strategy Analytics. “The growing functionality and usability of handsets and networks is also feeding into major growth in the use of Web browsing from mobile phones, and the outlook for Web 2.0 services is positive."
MobiTV and Media Excel will exhibit their mobile video services at IBC 2008, at the RAI Convention Center in Amsterdam, September 12-16. MobiTV is exhibiting in the Mobile Zone at Stand M294. Media Excel will be exhibiting in Hall 2 at Stand 2.C24. •
Media Excel is the Next-Generation Transcoding Company for MobileTV, WebTV, IPTV & Digital Media and the recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s 2008 Award for Product Innovation in encoders / transcoders worldwide. Its home grown technology enables video and audio content to be displayed on any device through its affordable, high-performance next-generation transcoding technologies targeted at Telecom, Web and Media Broadcasters. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Media Excel is a privately held company founded in 2000.
MobiTV is the market leader in broadband and mobile IP video delivery technology and managed services. MobiTV technology powers an end-to-end managed service for content ingestion, encoding, transcoding and optimized delivery over mobile and broadband networks. MobiTV’s platform technology delivers live television, premium and primetime programming, video-on-demand, satellite and digital music services from top broadcast and cable television networks and major music labels through service provider partners to more than four million subscribers worldwide. MobiTV’s Optimized Delivery Server has defined the state of the area for high capacity, high quality video distribution solutions. Founded in 1999, MobiTV is a privately held company with worldwide headquarters in Emeryville (California) and European headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.
Mobile World Congress – Innovation Zone
CellSpin Soft, Inc. is demonstrating its free, secure, intelligent, one-click graphical user interface for capturing images, audio, video and text and publishing them to one or many of a user’s favorite blogging, social networking, photo sharing, and auction sites. The mobile application was introduced to rave reviews in last month at the DEMO Conference, a leading venue for launching exciting new technologies.
CellSpin lets users create content (video, audio, photos and text) on their mobile phone or via the CellSpin Web site, and then post it to their favorite social networks and content-sharing Web sites using an intuitive, single-click interface. CellSpin currently supports sharing media with Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Live Journal, Live Spaces and eBay, with more to come. CellSpin is the first and only application that enables smartphone users to create and post audio and videos to their eBay auctions.
On their smartphone, users select which of the four media types they wish to create from a simple on-screen interface with four intuitive media icons. Then with one click, users upload their content to their favorite social networks and content-sharing Web sites, and share their candid life moments with friends and family instantly, anywhere in the world. Users who do not belong to an online community can post and share media through a CellSpin online profile.
CellSpin provides even those new to the smartphone, or “Mobile 2.0,” revolution the opportunity to share their mobile-created media instantly. One no longer has to be a technophile to know how to use a mobile phone to post video, audio, photos and text to the Web.
According to Bobby Gurvinder Singh, CEO and co-founder of CellSpin, “The handset is personal, powerful and ubiquitous, and CellSpin is the first to intelligently and elegantly harness the full potential of the Mobile 2.0 phenomenon. Our intuitive interface and powerful underlying technology liberate mobile-created content from the handset, and we provide this solution free to users by leveraging a unique, unobtrusive mobile advertising platform.”
Unlike any other offering, CellSpin elegantly and seamlessly integrates the creation and secure sharing of voice, video, picture and text between the mobile handset and the Internet without the user having to know any HTML, embedding technologies, widgets, or navigate complex and intrusive middle steps. This ease of use will allow more people to perform more functions more efficiently on their phones, which in turn benefits advertisers, operators, and OEMs.
CellSpin uses the secure Web services API framework of Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Live Journal, Live Spaces and eBay to authenticate the user for each publisher, and never sees or stores the user’s third party username and password. This is critical for financial transaction sites like eBay, to ensure the privacy of each user’s authentication details, and enables a secure bi-directional transfer of data so the user can upload photos, video and audio in real-time to better promote the auction item and further assure authenticity.
CellSpin seamlessly and intelligently synchronizes users’ newly added sites and all their eBay Auctions with the mobile handset and provides the ability to post any media for free on any sites or auctions simultaneously.
In contrast to the microscopic ad units available on the mobile Web, CellSpin's full screen ad inventory, enhanced targeting, direct response capabilities, and unobtrusive placements will allow ad networks and advertisers to creatively expand their campaigns. CellSpin users see a small unobtrusive banner ad on the main screen of the application as they decide which type of media they want to create, and a full screen ad after they post their media. Advertisers can target users by age, gender and location, and implement direct response campaigns through click-to-call functionality as well as provide a coupon and map to their nearest location.
As OEMs continue to build in more functionality (cameras, camcorders, voice recorders), subscribers must learn how to use each of these powerful but disconnected features, and re-learn them with every new handset they purchase. Unfortunately, because of this steep learning curve, these feature-rich capabilities can intimidate users, resulting in frustration and product returns. For those that do manage to master these new features, media created through this new functionality is typically trapped on the handset.
Because CellSpin integrates all the media available on mobile phones into a seamless application that anyone can intuitively use, it will revolutionize how users interact with their phones and thus drive data usage, ARPU, smartphone demand, and mobile advertising. CellSpin will dramatically change mobile data consumption, by driving the demand for unlimited data packages from users of all ages. Both “digital natives,” as well as “digital immigrants” who have been reluctant to re-learn how to use a phone, can now easily take advantage of the advanced multimedia functionality of their mobile phones and instantly share the content they create. As a direct result, both MNOs and OEMs will benefit from the increased demand for smart phones.
CellSpin Soft, Inc is dedicated to making the Mobile 2.0 experience as simple as possible, even as the technology behind it becomes ever more powerful. CellSpin is free to users, and available immediately at CellSpin website.
Source: CellSping Soft (11-2-08)
Symmetricom, Inc. announced that Dr. Stefan Winkler, principal technologist for Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division, will be a featured panelist and is also speaking at IPTV World Forum 2008, taking place in London on March 12-14. IPTV World Forum is a leading event for the IPTV industry, bringing together the industry's leading telecom and cable providers to discuss IPTV service deployment issues and how they will impact the future of the industry.
Dr. Winkler will be part of a panel entitled "Making Quality of Experience a Service Differentiator", chaired by Gary Schultz, Multimedia Research Group's president and founder. This panel will discuss video QoE (Quality of Experience) and address the importance of QoE as a critical measure of success for IP-based video services. In addition, Dr. Winkler will be speaking about "IPTV QoE Monitoring to Maximize Customer Satisfaction". During this presentation, Dr. Winkler will introduce QoE basics, contrasted against QoS (Quality of Service), and the various classifications of tools and metrics. This includes network metrics for traditional QoS, content metrics for picture quality, and hybrid metrics combining both approaches for meaningful QoE measurements. The specific location, date and time at IPTV World Forum for this speaking session are being finalized.
One of the world's top experts in digital media quality, Dr. Winkler serves as a principal technologist for the Quality of Experience (QoE) Assurance Division at Symmetricom. He was formerly chief scientist and co-founder of Genista Corporation, a provider of quality assurance solutions for IPTV and mobile media. He has also held assistant professor positions at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and has worked for Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, German Aerospace and Andersen Consulting.
Dr. Winkler has published more than 40 papers on perceptual quality measurement and is the author of the book, "Digital Video Quality." He has also been a member and contributor of the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) since its founding in 1997. Dr. Winkler holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria and a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division provides perceptual video quality monitoring and diagnostic solutions for cable operators, telcos and other CSPs to deliver mission- critical QoE solutions for IP-based switched digital video services.
As a worldwide leader in precise time and frequency products and services, Symmetricom provides "Perfect Timing" to customers around the world. Since 1985, the company's solutions have helped define the world's time and frequency standards, delivering precision, reliability and efficiency to wireline and wireless networks, instrumentation and testing applications and network time management. Deployed in more than 90 countries, the company's synchronization solutions include primary reference sources, building integrated timing supplies (BITS), GPS timing receivers, time and frequency distribution systems, network time servers and ruggedized oscillators. Symmetricom also incorporates technologies including Universal Timing Interface (UTI), Network Time Protocol (NTP), Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588), and others supporting the world's migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN). Symmetricom is based in San Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide.
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WHO: Dr. Stefan Winkler, Principal Technologist, Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division
WHAT: Speaking on panel, "Making Quality of Experience a Service Differentiator" at IPTV World Forum 2008
WHEN: Thursday, March 13, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: IPTV World Forum 2008 • Olympia / Hammersmith Road / London, England
End-to-End IPTV solutions and video delivery systems
NEC Corporation announced that it will launch full-scale IPTV business with high-profile NGN (Next Generation Networks) carrier applications. Providing End-to-End IPTV solutions and video delivery systems to communication carriers, NEC will expand this business to the international market. The company will draw on its NGN know-how and extensive experience with broadcasting technology to deliver highly competitive solutions predicted to generate 50 billion yen in sales by 2010.
NEC intends to adopt the following initiatives to accompany full-scale introduction of the new services.
1.Delivery of End-to-End IPTV solutions using NEC products, from network architecture to delivery servers and household terminals, in a "Full Line Full Layer" approach. This will make it possible to guarantee the Quality of Service (QoS), Quality of Experience (QoE) and advanced security demanded by carriers and users alike and achieve high-quality and convenient interactive services.
2.Release of the "NC7500-VD" video delivery server (VoD server) in April as the core system for new IPTV solutions. This server will deliver continuous video-on-demand services with carrier-grade reliability. In addition, in-built contents protection functions will safeguard intellectual property rights and satisfy even the most robust security needs.
3.Adoption of CASCADE's "QualiTVision" (*) middleware which has enabled IPTV deployments in Hong Kong and Thailand to offer such advanced video solutions as time shifting, Network PVR (**) and interactive services.
"IPTV is a video delivery service that uses the IP network. With the addition of NGN we can provide a variety of services, including high-grade video-on-demand (VoD) and value-added information services", says Dr. Botaro Hirosaki, Executive Vice President of NEC. "NEC aims to expand services and meet carrier demands for smooth migration from current services and advanced service architecture incorporating NGN capabilities by providing next-generation IPTV solutions that couple our extensive technical achievements in broadcasting with our core competence in the area of IT/Network integration."
The IPTV solutions announced today will be showcased at the NEC booth at the "IPTV World Forum 2008" in London from March 12 - 14. (Please refer to attachment 3.http://www.nec.co.jp/press/ja/0803/1101-03.html)
NEC Corporation is one of the world's leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its diverse and global base of customers. NEC delivers tailored solutions in the key fields of computer, networking and electron devices, by integrating its technical strengths in IT and Networks, and by providing advanced semiconductor solutions through NEC Electronics Corporation. The NEC Group employs more than 150,000 people worldwide.
Notes * QualiTVision is middleware produced by CASCADE Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of PCCW Limited (SEHK:0008), Hong Kong's leading communications carrier.
** Network PVR (Personal Video Recorder): A service that stores data recorded by users of a video entertainment service on a network for viewing at a later time.
Source: NEC (11-3-08)
Cantabria infinita
Cueva de El Soplao • Año Santo Lebaniego • Turismo y gastronomía
Propuestas en Brasil
Cabo Frío: paraíso a 200 km de Río • Niterói: playas, arquitectura y agenda cultural • El camino de Niemeyer: recorrido arquitectónico
Propuestas en Argentina
Ruta Nacional 40: Recorrido de la parte Norte • Recorrido del Centro (Cuyo) • Recorrido de la parte Sur (Patagonia)
Propuestas de turismo
en la Comunidad Valenciana
Ibi, Onil, Foia de Castalla • Belén de Tirisiti - Patrimonio cultural en Alcoi • Los Baños del Almirante (Valencia del s.XIV) • Mundo Naval en el museo Príncipe Felipe • Arte rupestre valenciano (Museo de la Valltorta)
Transporte aéreo
Air Nostrum • Ryanair • Spanair • Vueling
