Ooyala announces the release of its first-ever VideoIndex report in conjunction with the launch of VideoMind, a new website dedicated to sharing insights, articles, videos and research related to online video. The VideoMind Video Index is based on Ooyala’s analysis of more than 1 billion daily analytics pings, which reflect the anonymized viewing behavior of over 100 million unique monthly users in more than 100 countries. The VideoMind Video Index will be issued quarterly and will be available on VideoMind.

Findings from the VideoMind Video Index report suggest that tablets and mobile devices are changing the way people engage with video online and device types strongly influence viewer behavior. The report found that, on average, tablet viewers watched videos nearly 30 percent longer than when watching on their desktop — and were more than twice as likely to complete an entire video.

Exterity announces a new version of its market leading AvediaPlayer receiver range. The upgrade offers an enhanced core browser that improves visual functionality for organisations who want to provide live or on-demand access to TV, video and AV content over an IP Network. The receivers will be demonstrated for the first time at xSolutions in Excel London on Exterity’s stand - C9.

This latest version of the AvediaPlayer receiver harnesses the power of the Ant Galio 3.1 browser, improving visual performance and supporting dynamic graphics, including screen fades and transitions, ideal for digital signage and for creating innovative and bespoke interfaces. The updated receiver also provides an enhanced platform for third party and bespoke development using Exterity’s Receiver Development Kit. The receivers support both SD and HD up to 1080p.

Verimatrix will be featuring Chief Technology Officer Petr Peterka as a speaker at Digital Hollywood Fall 2011, Oct.17-20 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Marina del Rey, CA. At the conference, he will share recent trends in digital rights management and revenue security for dramatically expanding multi-network, multi-screen services.

Peterka's panel, "Protecting the Product: Content Rights and Technology Solutions in Media and Entertainment: Implementation of Technology Strategies" will be held on Wed., Oct.19 from 3:50 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. During the session, he will address the entertainment and media industries ability to manage its content and control its distribution, while simultaneously making it available to an ever larger customer and device base. Specifically, he and his co-panelists will explore, from the point of view of the technology companies, the possibilities and potential of DRM in the evolving content landscape.

EXFO announces the launch of its EXpert IPTV Test Tools, the latest addition to EXFO's FTB-platform-based EXpert testing software series. Combined with the EXpert IP and EXpert VoIP applications, as well as EXFO's FTB-1 Ethernet and OTDR test modules, EXpert IPTV brings to the industry the most comprehensive and powerful triple-play solution in a portable device designed for growing FTTH deployments worldwide.

Eyepartner has released the newest version of their high definition software broadcast encoder, The HD Wave, version 2.1.0. The version incorporates RTMP broadcasting, which opens the broadcaster for use with other sites and allows users to broadcast to many platforms, including Livestream, Ustream, Justin.tv, and many more.

Built on patent-pending technology, the HD Wave v2.1.0 Broadcaster is a real-time H.264 live broadcast encoder, which delivers high definition broadcasts at the lowest bitrates possible. This flexibility enables the HD Wave to be used by all content producers, including IPTV providers, sports networks, entertainment channels, healthcare networks, and faith-based broadcasting organizations.

KIT digital announces a broad ranging partnership with LG Electronics to provide IP video platform technology, content and professional services to the company's Home Entertainment Division for its Smart TV platform.

Under the terms of the agreement, KIT digital and LG will work together to develop and deploy a joint multiscreen over-the-top video solution to provide viewers with anytime access to live and on-demand premium 2D and 3D content on LG Smart TVs globally.

ACCESS and Ocean Blue Software announce that they will work together to provide cutting edge middleware solutions supporting IP Connected Home and Connected TV.

ACCESS has extensive experience offering innovative and market leading products for the Connected TV and IP Connected Home, including its NetFront Living Connect market-leading Digital Living Network Alliance Technology Component solution and its NetFront Browser DTV Profile HbbTV Edition, which supports all major Internet-browsing standards for digital television.

CreNova Technology has implemented an Opera-based HbbTV retail strategy across Europe. CreNova is offering set-top boxes that provide TV-watchers additional advanced services, such as video on demand and catch-up TV.

"It is clear that the future of the set-top box relies on delivering services such as catch-up TV and VOD in a user-friendly manner," said Metin Atalan, CEO, CreNova. "HbbTV offers an excellent opportunity to deliver new services in a hybrid environment. We selected Opera, as we found they deliver the best product and highest performance in the market."

Exterity announces the launch of its Continued Professional Development certified training programme for Information Technology, Audio Visual, Building Services and Mechanical & Electrical Consultants. The move follows the company’s accreditation to full CPD membership; a positive step forward for the IPTV industry and a great opportunity for consultants to receive expert training about the power of AV over IP distribution.

IMS offers an efficient tool for the production, control, recording and publishing of live webcasts with MultiSource-WebCast. The software makes it possible to mix any external or internal media sources such as the video of a speaker and a PowerPoint presentation. In addition, texts, images, logos, banners and much more can be merged at any point. ONE single synchronous media stream is output, which can be encoded in any format, such as Flash, Windows Media, or Real, saved and then published as a live stream on the internet.

ActiveVideo was awarded damages totaling $115 million in the jury trial of the company's patent infringement suit against Verizon Communications. The decision upholds ActiveVideo's rights as the inventor of industry-leading technology in the delivery of advanced television applications such as video-on-demand and interactive TV.

Following three weeks of proceedings, a jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found that Verizon had infringed on all asserted claims of the intellectual property owned by ActiveVideo during the deployment of Verizon's FiOS television service.

TiVUS has completed deployment of its new television ad-insertion technology at the Company's inaugural HD IPTV in-room entertainment installation in a 1408 room Host Hotels & Resorts property in downtown Philadelphia.

TiVUS' agreement with Host Hotels to deploy its new HD IPTV systems in Host properties was previously announced in March of this year. Host Hotels & Resorts is the largest lodging real estate investment trust and one of the largest owners of luxury and upper-upscale hotels.

Amino announces its unaudited consolidated results for the period ended 31 May 2011, including news of a third order from Telecom Italia.

Financial overview

• 36.2% increase in revenue to £24.7m (H1 2010: £18.1m) - Third consecutive H1 revenue growth
• 33.5% increase in gross profit to £6.0m (H1 2010: £4.5m)
• Adjusted* gross margin increased by 6.0 percentage points to 35.7% (H1 2010: 29.7%)
• Net cash balance has improved substantially to £11.6m (30 Nov 2010: £3.6m)
• Operating loss reduced to £0.4m, down by £0.6m (H1 2010: loss of £1.0m)

Verismo Networks and Verimatrix have announce a global partnership that secures and protects all content delivered via Verismo's broadband television platform.

"We are enhancing our widely deployed broadband TV platform offering by integrating it with the industry's leading content protection solution from Verimatrix for secure delivery of content over the internet," said Prakash Bhalerao, Chairman and CEO of Verismo Networks. "This new collaborative relationship and integration with Verimatrix, in addition to our existing DRM solutions illustrates Verismo's strong commitment to protecting content and delivering it securely via our broadband platform across the globe."

iStreamPlanet has chosen Interxion’s City of London data centre to host its European Broadcast Operations Centre. This will enable iStreamPlanet to deliver live streaming of premium sporting events, including major European Soccer and tennis tournaments this summer, to a global audience on behalf of online rights holders and distributors.

As part of the project, iStreamPlanet has also installed a satellite downlink facility, enabling it to not only distribute live content over a wide range of CDNs, but also to acquire broadcast content via both fibre and satellite. iStreamPlanet is also looking to facilitate live, in-game commentary from inside its studios in multiple languages.