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IPTV - SPB Software
SPB Software, a leading mobile software developer, is proud to inform that SPB TV, its mobile IPTV software, has received one of three winner's awards in Media category of Google's prestigious ADC2 contest. SPB Software has won this award in competition with 199 other nominees of Round II, 19 of them in the same category.
The competition was especially tough due to Google's innovative and inventive approach to the voting system. Users could participate in the evaluation process only by downloading ADC2 software from Android Market. During the second stage of the competition users were randomly offered two hundred applications, one by one. After they evaluated an application and gave it a respective rating, it disappeared from their smartphones. We believe such conditions make our achievement even more exciting.
"The Android Developer Challenge is something really special for us, - says SPB Software CEO Sebastian-Justus Schmidt, - This victory is important for two reasons. First, SPB Software regards Android as one of the most prospective platforms with growing deployment base. Second, SPB TV is one of our strategically most important products, and the award will earn it a wider acceptance."
SPB Software thanks all the users who voted for our product. We regard such an honor as an obligation to broaden our line-up of Android software along with improving the quality of existing applications.
SPB TV is a subscription-free mobile IPTV viewer, designed for tuning in to publicly available digital TV channels from all over the world. SPB TV features exclusive and patent-pending usability innovations, and gives the mobile subscribers easy access to over a hundred of international TV channels in more than 20 languages, directly from their phones. SPB TV gives viewers an unprecedented degree of control over the entire live mobile TV experience.
The application supports such must-have TV features as on-screen controls for volume and brightness, instantly accessible TV guide, picture-in-picture previews for all offered channels, quick channels switching, and more. It is currently available for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry®, Android and Symbian platforms, with the iPhone version scheduled for release in the next few months. For more information on SPB TV’s capabilities, pricing and compatibility please visit www.spbsoftware.com.
Android Developer Challenge is a yearly contest for Android software developers held by Google and organized to support their efforts to surprize and delight mobile users by providing awards for great mobile apps built on the Android platform. The contest consists of two stages and has 10 different categories: Education/Reference; Games: Casual/Puzzle; Games: Arcade/Action; Social Networking; Lifestyle; Productivity/Tools; Media Entertainment; Travel and Miscellaneous. • Dec ‘09
SPB Software, a leading maker of mobile applications, announces the release of SPB Weather 2.0 for Symbian, an important addition to its quickly expanding line-up of software for the world's most popular smartphone platform – Symbian. SPB Weather is the most powerful Symbian weather forecast program. It combines the detailed everyday forecasts for more than 10,000 cities worldwide with the beauty and friendliness of up-to-date satellite images on a 3D Globe. With all these and many other attractive features, the Windows Mobile version of SPB Weather currently holds the status of WM's best-selling weather app.
SPB Weather 2.0 has been mainly designed with the latest touchscreen-enabled S60 smartphones in mind as those are rapidly gaining customer attention. However, it is compatible with any non-touchscreen Symbian smartphone based on S60 3rd edition FP1 and later. To support the touchscreen trend, SPB Weather for Symbian offers users a striking finger-friendly interface, as well as a home screen widgets for Nokia Symbian-based smartphones. • Dec ‘09
SPB Software, a leading maker of mobile applications, announces the release of SPB Flash Cards, a learning software created to quickly and effectively expand one's word stock in a language under study. The software provides over 1000 cards in Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese and Swedish, all dubbed by native speakers of respective languages.
SPB Flash Cards provides great assistance in learning a new language, although it has no claim to be the sole mean of doing that. When mastering a new language, it is crucial to skip the stage of translating a word into mother tongue first, memorizing a direct match of a subject and a foreign word instead. SPB Flash Cards software is aimed at just that - the process of learning begins with a new flash card appearing, showing an image of an item along with the matching word and the right pronunciation from a native speaker.
But this is just the beginning - several other memorizing techniques are also included. Besides, SPB Flash Cards contains a smart algorythm to track the user's progress and adapt further learning process accordingly. • Dec ‘09
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IPTV in Bosnia – November 2009
Bosnian Triple Play Provider BH Telecom Selects Envivio solution • Envivio IPTV Headend and Smart Com Interactivity Power 60-Channels of Live and On Demand TV
BH Telecom, the leading telecommunications operator in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has begun the rollout of its new “Moja TV” IPTV service using a complete IPTV headend from Envivio. Built by systems integrator and middleware vendor Smart Com, the deployment enables BH Telecom to offer a full suite of live and on-demand channels complete with electronic program guide, PVR and other interactive features to its more than 2 million subscribers.
The Envivio IPTV headend includes the 4Caster C4 high quality, three screens encoder/transcoder paired with 4Stream IP Gateways and comprehensive monitoring and redundancy protection from the 4Manager management system. It provides an efficient, all-digital, IP-based signal flow that can directly ingest channels from any source and deliver the highest quality video at low bit rates that enable the service to optimize its reach and channel count.
Smart Com provided complete integration services for the BH Telecom installation, including BeeSmart middleware to enable converged multimedia services such as electronic program guides, video on demand, web browsing and mail.
Nedim Dzaferovic, Deputy Director ID BH Line, said, “We identified two primary factors that we believe will contribute to subscriber interest in Moja TV, variety of content and quality of experience. The well-managed, redundant headend from Envivio provides the reliability and video quality subscribers expect from us, at bit rates that ensure we can extend our reach to the most subscribers possible. Smart Com’s expertise enabled the entire project to be completed efficiently while delivering a world-class feature set to provide subscribers with control over their viewing.”
4Caster C4 from Envivio combines the performance of the latest generation Intel multi-core processors with advanced video compression codecs developed by Envivio. A flexible software architecture allows Envivio to make continual quality enhancements and feature additions.
The high availability IPTV platform delivers 99.999% uptime and unshakeable performance with fully redundant signal routing and power management. Fault tolerance throughout the headend is increased by redundant components administered via the Envivio 4Manager headend management system which provides automatic 1+1 or N+1 redundancy protection and high level service supervision. The 4Caster C4 encoder/transcoder can be extended to support distribution to mobile and broadband devices. • 10-11-09
Smart Com is an acknowledged solution provider for TV service operators and hospitality market. Starting as a system integrator in 1990, Smart Com was involved in several projects as a strategic partner in planning and implementation of telecommunication solutions. Reliable partnerships, proven solutions and professional services placed Smart Com among key players in the region. • Envivio Inc. is a leading technology provider of IP video convergence solutions for operators and broadcasters. Envivio is the only company to offer convergence solutions supporting the “Three Screens” of consumer video – TVs, PCs and mobile phones – making IP video a reality over any type of network and to any multimedia device from mobile to HD.
With immediate effect cellity cooperates with the current Webby Award winner Skyfire, the only mobile browser to play any web videos on mobile phones. The collaboration enables the users of both applications to easily access the service of the respective other: cellity offers a direct downloading link and Skyfire provides a link to the cellity Adressbook 2.0 in its browser bookmarks.
Skyfire is the only mobile browser to support popular web standards and plug-ins such as Flash 10, Silverlight 2, Ajax, Javascript and more, so the rich media on websites work on phones just like the PC. Known for its speed, Skyfire launches quickly and loads web pages quicker than other mobile browsers. So after downloading the browser free of charge, cellity users can integrate their Facebook and Twitter accounts to import status updates and tweets and easily publish their status to these networks.
“We appreciate having found an innovative partner in Skyfire, who amends our service in social media with high quality“, said Sarik Weber, member of the Executive Board and co-founder of cellity AG. “With this collaboration service and functionality come together: Skyfire as mobile browser is the origin of access to the mobile Internet and cellity Adressbook 2.0 is the source of any communication.”
Nitin Bhandari, CEO of Skyfire, adds: “Skyfire enables interactive social browsing which means that our users can stay connected with their friends in real-time, both sharing and receiving. This cooperation with cellity furthers the social browsing experience on Skyfire. Now, users can administer their social network contacts with the cellity Adressbook 2.0 and easily connect with their friends in real time.”
Skyfire runs on Windows Mobile 5, 6 und 6.1 (smartphones and PPC) and Symbian S60 (3rd Edition) phones. • 16-6-09
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