ROO Group announces the launch of its new brand identity to better reflect the company's updated strategic direction and corporate initiatives. The new brand, KIT digital, represents the company's operational platform and focus on "Knowledge, Imagination and Technology" to provide its clients with the strategies and tools necessary to harness the significant potential of Internet video.

KIT digital works closely with consumer brands and content owners including Verizon, News Corp., Google, Sensis, RCS and Telstra to develop and implement comprehensive, customized solutions for maximizing and monetizing their online assets.

As vendors and service providers worldwide look to maximise revenues, the lack of common remote management capability across all access technologies is a major stumbling block as they look to lower management complexities, minimise truck rolls and introduce new revenue generating services.

The DSL Forum has taken steps to resolve this problem with the approval of Technical Report 142 “Framework for TR-069 enabled PON and fibre related devices”. Developed by the Forum’s DSLHome Technical Working Group, TR-142 defines how Auto-Configuration Servers in the network can remotely configure, troubleshoot and manage a Passive Optical Network optical network termination with layer 3 capabilities using the Forum’s existing CPE LAN management protocol, TR-06

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Velocix has unified its company name, products and services under the Velocix brand. Velocix provides a Digital Asset Delivery Network, a new generation Content Delivery Network and related services, designed to meet the rich media needs of the 21st century Internet.

Velocix is relied upon globally by owners of large digital assets - including video, software and games - to provide unparalleled quality of service and on-line delivery performance, with a disruptive economics model. Velocix does all this whilst also providing new levels of control over the global digital distribution chain to content owners.

We receive a number of requests for ways one can add IPTV services to their offering. There's no easier way then looking at the SES-AMERICOM solution for offering IPTV. Forget about procuring your own hardware, as they've already done the work of negotiating contracts with content providers and creating the end-to-end hardware solution. Simply contact SES-AMERICOM about the contact SES-AMERICOM about their IP-PRIME solution to discuss the possibilities and start offering IPTV to your customers.

Also in the news today, SES AMERICOM unveiled its satellitewiki.com. The website lets visitors explore the history of man-made satellites, definitions of satellite terms and learn about how satellites impact a wide range of industries from oil and gas to television.

By James Carlini, an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University and President of Carlini & Associates

Depending on your current definition of broadband network connectivity, you might want to update your frame of reference.

Did you know at the beginning of 2008 that Japan announced its objective for broadband connectivity is 10 gigabits by 2010? In some recent discussions I have had, some industry pundits think 1 gigabit is too high to achieve.

A couple megabits or even 30 Mbps to 40 Mbps to the premise as a design goal is an obsolete objective unless you are aiming us into a third-rate infrastructure for the future.

ESPN and The Nielsen Company announce a collaboration to measure how consumers use media across a variety of platforms including television, the Internet and digital mobile devices. ESPN will work with Nielsen to develop a new model for cross-media measurement. This will enable buyers and sellers of television advertising to understand more completely the interaction of new digital platforms with traditional television viewing.

FierceIPTV announces its first-ever list of "IPTV Innovators" recognizing telcos leading the field in the advancement and deployment of IPTV. This year's winners are mostly small telcos, the majority with 30,000 lines or fewer, that have deployed IPTV via fiber-to-the-home or hybrid copper/fiber systems.

In previous years, the Fierce 15 recognized progressive startup vendors in the IPTV space, but the publication shifted its focus this year to IPTV providers -- companies actually deploying IPTV technologies and making IPTV a consumer reality.

FierceIPTV evaluated numerous telcos based on how early they deployed, the technology they used and what features they offered, such as video-on-demand, HDTV and wireless routing.

J.K. Rowling and 2 live events on Bloomsbury's website

J.K. ROWLING AND THE MIDNIGHT READING
Bloomsbury Publishing announced that Harry Potter fans will be able to watch J.K. Rowling read from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in a live webstream from the Natural History Museum in London at the precise moment it is published - 12.01am British Standard Time on Saturday, July 21st, 2007.

ATEMET announces that Sylvain Riviere has joined the management team as Executive Vice President of Marketing - a new position for the company. Mr. Riviere joins ATEME's operational leadership as the company also welcomes the founder of the billion-dollar Iliad Group, Mr. Xavier Niel, to its Board of Directors.

An industry veteran with years of hands-on experience in marketing, management and video compression technology, Mr. Riviere joins ATEME with the mandate to apply all of these areas of expertise to his position within the company. He is specifically in charge of ATEME's worldwide corporate and product marketing, as well as helping to implement a new solutions focus for ATEME technologies and products in Broadcast and Broadband market segments.

Annelise Berendt has a commentary on Ovum on what Internet TV means to IPTV and whether Internet TV services could actually compete with and impact future IPTV services. Annelise's viewpoint is that the two will end up complementing each other and we will see IPTV providers opening up their walled gardens to accommodate Internet TV products and services. Other viewpoints are that neither one really steps on the others territory due to different audiences and other factors such as quality.

What's your viewpoint? Will these two face off in the future or will IPTV providers embrace Internet TV in one form or another?

By James Carlini, an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University and President of Carlini & Associates

The divestiture in 1984 was not such a good idea.

We are almost back to square one as another regional Bell operating company merges back into AT&T. The executives and lobbyists from AT&T and BellSouth must be on a mission from God because they are putting the band back together. It seems no one can stop them.

They waited until the last week of 2006 to pull off the largest telecom merger in U.S. history. I always thought the old Bell system was better as one big company. They are another step closer to proving I was right by continuing the "revestiture" of AT&T, which I coined in a column in May 2005. I stated...

Happy 2007 to all our readers. As you probably noticed, there has been a brief hiatus in the news here at TVover.net due to the holidays. We are now back in action after a festive holiday and ready for the year ahead. There is no doubt that it will prove to be an exciting one for IPTV, but what will be the major movements? Will M&A mania continue? Will HomePNA, MoCA, BPL, or Wi-Fi rule the home? Will FTTH penetration continue to explode? Who will shake up the market leader reports?

News will be slow today as many are not yet back from the holidays, while others are probably still waiting for their hangovers to subside. For those who did venture into the office, we recommend jumping over to Light Reading and checking out their 2006 Top Ten Heavy Findings. Notably, number 6 is "Cable companies are fearing -- for the first time in their history -- telco TV."

Leading broadband, analysis and video blogging site IPTV Evangelist revealed the results of the IPTV Top 50 of 2006, its list of the key players who are changing the face of IPTV and online video.

The full list of winners may be viewed at www.iptvevangelist.com/top50.

By Alexander Cameron, Managing Director, Digital TX Ltd.

Even 10 seconds of the ridiculously over-valued X-Factor and American Idol make me want to vomit. They are so frighteningly mediocre, vacuous and repetitive that I invariably find myself staring into a worrying abyss of creative bankruptcy that's pumped into millions of people's homes every night through their TV screen. On the side of the road gossip magazines are flourishing, all with the same look, formula and material.

Recently when I was mid-rant, complaining about how Simon Cowell, the man who gave us the TeleTubbies single, was able to accurately judge talent at a karaoke popularity contest on its artistic merit, I screamed out that what I wanted was another Jimi Hendrix. That guy blew everyone away and was a revolution. People's hair stood on end when they saw him play on their black and white TVs. Nobody had seen anything like it, even having seen Elvis. The Sex Pistols followed.

I have a confession to make. BT Vision doesn't excite me. Neither do any of the fancy new IPTV services that are rolling out all over the world. I'm thoroughly underwhelmed, and I'm sure I'm not supposed to be feeling that way, working in the IPTV industry. But honesty is usually more important than diplomacy from an advocate. I hope more than anything that they take off as it will be a springboard to more interesting ideas.