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[News] Another Delay, Another Lockin ('Microsoftification' of European TV)

Swiss TV-Over-Broadband Service Launched

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| The launch of the service was delayed a year because of
| technical difficulties, including problems with the development
| of software designed by Microsoft Corp. for the set-top box.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061101/techbits_swiss_tv_online.html?.v=2

To elaborate:

Verizon takes over Microsoft TV code

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| Unhappy over the memory footprint of applications and delays in rolling 
| them out, Verizon has ditched some of Microsoft's television software and 
| has chosen instead to write its own.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060914-7742.html


Microsoft partners with major players on IPTV Edition-powered SoC STBs

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| With Zune and Vista hogging all the headlines these days, you may
| have forgotten that Microsoft is also hard at work pushing its IPTV
| Edition software platform into living rooms around the world, so the
| software giant decided to take the Broadband World Forum Europe in Paris
| as occasion to remind us just how committed it is to TV over the
| internet.
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http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/microsoft-partners-with-major-players-on-iptv-edition-powered-so/


Nortel not the only winner at Telus IPTV deal

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| But now it is back as the main contractor in an IPTV deal at Telus - a move 
| that sees the Alcatel system thrown out or sidelined, the Microsoft Alcatel 
| partnership that is dominating tier one telcos, snubbed, and a number of 
| the small fry of the IPTV market getting access to the tasty 5.5m Telus 
| customers this system is aimed at.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Faultline gave a heads up about this contract in May, when we heard that 
| Microsoft's solution was internally rejected.
| 
| [...]
| 
| "To facilitate the rapid adoption of additional third party applications
| as they emerge, it is imperative that the environment be open and 
| standards-based."
| 
| The significance of this contract is that all the big guns from
| Microsoft, Alcatel, Lucent and Siemens were in the bidding and fell by
| the wayside and that Nortel was able to leverage its strength as an
| IP player.
| 
| [...]
| 
| If that results in any new business for Cisco then acquisition of
| Minerva can't be too improbable, and then it would own an end to end
| IPTV system, with or without Microsoft middleware.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/24/nortel_telus_iptv_deal/


Electronics firms plan Internet televisions

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| The new televisions will use Linux operating systems instead of
| Microsoft Windows, it added. That feature is aimed at cutting the time
| needed to boot up and reducing the risk of virus infection. 
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http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Parody_of_Al_Gore_Film_tied_0803.html#comments


Intel Wants Its Cake Both Ways

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| I'm a big fan of open standards myself, and would be happy to see
| Apple's closed platform opened up so I could buy songs through iTunes
| and play them on my Creative (Nasdaq: CREAF) Zen media player. Intel
| is in a position to push Apple into licensing its FairPlay digital 
| rights management scheme to Viiv devices. Giving Apple a free pass
| while everyone else is supposed to get in line makes Intel look like
| a wishy-washy turncoat that doesn't really believe in its own product.
| 
| [...]
| 
| ...Which will it be, Intel: open or closed? Standardized or
| proprietary? Chocolate or strawberry?
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http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2006/mft06101016.htm?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y
http://tinyurl.com/pb2yo


TV Makers to Collaborate on Internet TV Standards

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| The new sets reportedly will be based on the Linux operating system.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/52614.html


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| The Japanese consumer electronics companies aim to develop
| broadband-enabled televisions that can download and display videos from
| the internet wihtout the need for a separate set-top box or computer.
| 
| They plan to establish a common standard for aspects of internet TV,
| based on a Linux operating system.
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http://informitv.com/articles/2006/08/05/internettvplans/

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