D-Link announces it has expanded the capabilities of digital media adapters by adding more than 200 channels of Internet TV to its best-selling MediaLounge Wireless HD Media Player (DSM-520), a wireless device that allows users to enjoy videos, music, photos and more from a PC on a TV using a simple remote control.

More than 200 online channels serving millions of Internet videos are brought to the TV by the D-Link HD MediaLounge Player using active-TV technology, a new service that allows easy access to Internet video and entertainment sites with a remote control.

Microsoft joines initial launch partners in revealing highly anticipated details about new Extenders for Microsoft Windows Media Center. These devices, which are expected to be available for purchase this holiday season, will allow easy access to premium cable, high-definition TV, popular video formats including DivX, music, paid movies, photos and more from any TV in the house, with a wired or wireless network connection. People can even pause a recorded show in one room, and then resume it from the same moment in another room.

Pixelmetrix bagged the TV Technology STAR Award for its Electronic Couch Potato and Consolidator. The Electronic Couch Potato is designed to monitor the true customer viewing experience by providing measurements from the end point of the content delivery chain. The ECP connects after the Set Top Box and provides feedback on various service quality parameters to a central site, including but not limited to, network transmission quality, overall service quality and availability.

Anevia announces the deployment of their solutions in BBC head offices in United Kingdom. Siemens chose Anevia's innovative technology for the introduction of an IPTV service for the BBC. The service offers BBC staff contact with BBC and other channels output at their desktop and through IP set-top boxes. Uses include the distribution of Arabic TV channels for the new World Service Arabic News channel launching later this year. The service offers more than 100 Radio and TV channels including Worldwide and English TV channels.

Sling Media announces the retail launch of the new Slingbox SOLO, a freshly designed new Slingbox that can connect to a standard definition or high definition set top box and features increased streaming performance for less than $200. Slingbox SOLO transforms PCs, laptops, Macs and a variety of smartphones into personal, portable TVs and builds upon the goals of the original Slingbox -- giving consumers the freedom to view their home cable, satellite or DVR programming on a wide range of devices anywhere they can access the Internet. Slingbox SOLO is available in retail stores and at www.slingmedia.com for a suggested retail price of $179.99.

Hundreds of nonprofits currently leverage YouTube to raise awareness of their causes. Today at the Clinton Global Initiative, YouTube announced the YouTube Nonprofit Program, a way to make it even easier for people to find, watch and engage with nonprofit video content on the site.

YouTube's 2007/2008 Clinton Global Initiative commitment enables nonprofit organizations (in the U.S. those with 501c3 tax filing status) that register for the program to receive a free nonprofit specific YouTube channel where they can upload footage of their work, public service announcements, calls to action and more. The channel will also allow them to collect donations with no processing costs using the newly launched Google Checkout for Non-Profits. YouTube's global platform enables nonprofits to deliver their message, showcase their impact and needs, and encourage supporters to take action.

DivX and Yahoo announce a global agreement to offer consumers who download DivX video software tools a co-branded version of the Yahoo! Toolbar and Internet Explorer 7 optimized for Yahoo!. The Yahoo! offering is expected to launch early November 2007 and will replace third party software previously distributed by DivX.

DivX video software tools are used by consumers around the world to create, play and share high-quality video files across the PC, living room and mobile environments. With over 240 million downloads of the DivX codec since 2003, DivX technology has become a popular standard for digital media online. In addition to the agreement, Yahoo! and DivX will cooperate to create links on the Yahoo! Toolbar to www.DivX.com and www.Stage6.com, a popular online video community that utilizes DivX technology.

The number of paying users of online video sites has grown significantly between 2006 and 2007, new research from Parks Associates indicates. Broadband Video: A Market Update finds that the number of broadband households paying for online video content now stands at nearly 12 million, up from a little more than three million in 2005-2006.

Team Lightbulb has provided details for its upcoming one-day course on IPTV. Called Telecom Crash Course: Exploring the IPTV Universe, the conference is designed to provide financial and technical professionals an overview of the issues involved in investing and deploying IPTV services. The conference will be held in New York City on October 25, 2007.

Maven Networks announces that one of the most innovative leaders in television, Fox News, has selected Maven to power all of its online video channels for its global news network. The latest version of Maven’s sophisticated Internet TV platform streamlines the delivery and monetization of thousands of hours of ad-supported news videos across Fox’s online network and affiliate websites. Enabling this scale of media distribution is Maven’s next-generation video content management system, an integral part of the Maven Internet TV Platform™, which supports millions of media assets and simultaneous video player transactions.

Tilgin announces a global cooperation agreement with Ericsson to provide pre-integrated IPTV set-top boxes. The agreement will see Tilgin IPTV set-top boxes being pre-integrated into Ericsson’s IPTV end-to-end solutions. Tilgin will supply IPTV set-top box solutions from the Mood 300 and Mood 400 series that include complete support for the latest generation of video compression MPEG-4 AVC and advanced functionality such as Personal Video Recording and high definition TV. The Tilgin Mood Boot Server, for remote configuration and software updating, is included as an integral part of the Tilgin set-top box solution. The agreement provides no guarantees for future joint business, nor any guaranteed minimum volume orders.

Pulvermedia Inc. today announced that it will host the eleventh annual Spring VON Europe event, 2-5 June 2008 in Amsterdam. The long-running pan-European conference and expo, which has enjoyed a successful ten-year run with several years in Stockholm, now moves on to the European continent by establishing a new home in Amsterdam's RAI Convention Center.

Spring VON Europe 2008 will feature three comprehensive tracks covering Wireless, IPTV and IP Voice technologies. It will showcase speakers from all over Europe, including leading telecom sector company executives as keynoters. Hundreds of additional speakers are participating, including European telecommunications providers, carriers, and cable providers – who will educate the audience on the current and future state of IP communications in Europe, and around the globe.

Wireless communication in the home, whether for computer data, audio, or telephony, is becoming an established fact in much of the industrialized world. The next logical step is to stream video. But the exponentially greater amount of data involved – particularly for high-definition TV – introduces a higher order of difficulty, and questions remain about whether wireless video will ever become more than a niche market.

EchoStar announces that it has agreed to acquire Sling Media a privately-held digital lifestyle products company. EchoStar, through its DISH Network, is the third largest pay-TV provider in the United States. The transaction values Sling Media at approximately $380 million and is payable in cash and EchoStar options. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2007.

The Middle East and Africa's first ever major IPTV event, the IPTV World Forum Middle East and Africa, is attracting record levels of interest due to the continued broadband expansion in the Middle East and Africa - subscriber figures are up by nine per cent in the last quarter alone to over seven million.