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Microsoft Mediaroom: First IPTV platform to offer virtualization

Categories: IPTV, Microsoft
Microsoft Mediaroom: First IPTV platform to offer virtualization

Microsoft Corporation today launched Microsoft Mediaroom with virtualization, making Mediaroom the first Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) platform to offer virtualization support. Mediaroom with virtualization can deliver up to a sixfold reduction in the number of physical servers required to support a full-featured IPTV service, significantly reducing hardware and management costs and speeding time to market for Mediaroom customers by up to three weeks. Mediaroom with virtualization is designed to provide a cost-effective yet full-featured IPTV platform for smaller operators, for operators launching new services as they scale their subscriber base, and for operators who want to extend an existing service into new markets to serve lower-density communities. Microsoft Mediaroom amplifies TV experience and subscribed customers get Mediaroom-powered TV service, favorite shows, channels, movies, and sports – all in digital and High-Definition (HD) picture quality. Combine that with an easy on-screen guide and advanced features like a Digital Video Recorder (DVR), Video On Demand (VOD), lightning-fast channel change, the ability to watch up to six channels at one time, and you'll see why Microsoft Mediaroom is the best TV experience – letting you control not just what you watch, but when and where you watch it. Plus, cool media-sharing capabilities let you share photos, videos, ...

Bolt browser for mobiles: Smart Browser for non-smart phones

Categories: Mobile 2.0 India, Mobile Applications, Mobile Startup
Bolt browser for mobiles: Smart Browser for non-smart phones

BOLT is a free downloadable browser that offers an uncompromised browsing experience on even lower-end mobile phones, noticeably for phones that are NOT smart phones, PDAs or Phones. Apparently the BOLT browser give as much high-end experience for lower-end phones as a Blackberry browser. Bitstream India Pvt Ltd, headquartered in Delhi, contributed substantially to BOLT’s engineering Two months after its public debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Bitstream Inc today announced that BOLT, the company’s web browser for mobile phones of all types. Bolt has more active users in India than in any other country outside North America. Today one in six of BOLT’s active users reside in India where users have visited more than 4 million web pages and consumed more than 1,000 gigabytes (1 terabyte) of bandwidth using the mobile browser since it debuted in February of this year. Optimized to conserve data transmission, BOLT features unrivalled speed – routinely at least 25 to 50 % faster than competitors. The WebKit-based BOLT browser offers ultra-fast viewing of streaming and flash video, high standards compliance, rich media and graphics that enable people to view websites just as they do on a PC. BOLT’s feature set includes: Fast, secure, desktop-style web browsing on ...

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