Nortel Engages Accenture for Financial Restructuring

Nortel Networks has engaged Accenture to help develop a plan to transform its financial organization's structure, processes and systems. Specifically, Accenture will review the company's global finance organization, including structure, systems and processes. Nortel Networks has already selected SAP as the foundation for the new system globally. http://www.accenture.comhttp://www.nortelnetworks....

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Sonus Relists on NASDAQ

Shares in Sonus Networks will once again be traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "SONS," following a determination from The Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel. http://www.sonusnet....

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NDS and TANDBERG Expand Relationship into IPTV Streaming

NDS and TANDBERG Television are expanding their relationship to provide content protection with IPTV streaming capabilities. Specifically, VideoGuard, part of NDS's IP content protection solution Synamedia, has been integrated into the TANDBERG IP Streamer, which supports the delivery of TV and on demand services over both IP and ATM. NDS said its VideoGuard technology is currently used in over 44 million set-top boxes to protect video content from piracy. "In a competitive market, telcos and fibre operators are adding video services to differentiate...

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CinemaNow and Tiscali Partner for European Broadband VOD

Tiscali S.p.A. is partnering with CinemaNow to offer movies to consumers in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom on a streaming and downloading basis. As part of the agreement, CinemaNow's PatchBay technology will manage certain aspects of Tiscali's on-demand initiatives, including digital and territorial rights protection, user profiling, comprehensive pay-per-view and subscription services, and detailed report generation. PatchBay utilizes Microsoft's Digital Rights Management solution and is fully integrated with Microsoft's Windows Media...

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Pace Micro Introduces Sub-$100 IP set-tops

Pace Micro Technology introduced its first sub-$100 IP-based set-top box targeted at broadband operators and telcos with plans for high-volume interactive TV service deployments. The single-chip product offers MPEG 1/2 MP@ ML decoding with 490+ aggregate MIPS processing power and can support a range of middleware, video server, and content protection solutions, including Alcatel, Kasenna, and Widevine as well as ANT's Fresco Browser for TV. Pace said its product is fully compatible with existing head-ends. It also provides two-dimensional graphics,...

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Anystream Enables Content Encoding for T-Online Premium Services

T- Online is using Anystream's multi-node Agility Enterprise system to encode full- length movies as well as movie clips, trailers, news, sports, entertainment, music and games as part of its premium broadband online service, T-Online Vision. Customers are able to download movies via their DSL connection and specialized hybrid set- top boxes. T-Online is leveraging Agility's workflow automation, providing automated ingest, preprocessing, batch encoding into multiple formats, and automated Web delivery with notification. Anystream said its system...

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