OpenTV and weComm Collaborate on Mobile TV Services
September 07 2006 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Integrated Solutions Enable Operators to Extend Subscriber Services
to Mobile Phones AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept. 7
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OpenTV Corp. (NASDAQ:OPTV), a leading
provider of enabling technologies for advanced digital television
services, and weComm, a leading mobile technology company, today
announced a strategic partnership to provide integrated mobile
television solutions to OpenTV's worldwide pay TV customer base and
to other broadcasters and programmers interested in providing a
seamless experience across traditional broadcast television and
mobile TV. The solution will be shown at OpenTV's stand 1.381 at
the RAI Centre in Amsterdam, September 8 - 12, 2006. "We are
delighted that we will be able to offer a seamless solution to our
customers that bridges the pay TV experience with the mobile phone
experience in a user-friendly manner," said Ben Bennett, Senior
Vice President and Managing Director of EMEA at OpenTV. "This
integrated solution is intended to make it easy for our customers
to extend their TV experience across multiple platforms and
devices, and to allow those viewers to personalize that experience
in ever more compelling ways. One simple example of this Mobile TV
is to enable OpenTV's PVR users to record programs seamlessly and
remotely from the mobile handset." The integrated solution combines
features and functionalities from OpenTV's advanced digital
television software, in particular its middleware offering, and
weComm's wave technology. The solution extends OpenTV's middleware
features into the mobile environment, allowing direct access on the
mobile phone to electronic programming guides (EPGs) that have been
ported to OpenTV's platform. The solution also enables mobile phone
users to remotely program their PVRs and to view live or on-demand
television programming by navigating through the EPG resident on
their phone. "Integrating weComm's Interactive Mobile TV technology
with OpenTV's industry-leading technologies offers a solution that
will seamlessly extend TV-based interactive services to the mobile
phone," said Oliver Sturrock, Chief Operating Officer of weComm.
"We think that these solutions will help broadcasters and operators
extend their content and services to a younger and more mobile
audience. And we think that by combining OpenTV's and weComm's
expertise and technologies, we can do that in an effective and
seamless way that will eventually lead the market." The weComm
solution is available on Symbian OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile and
Java phones and has been ported to over 100 handsets, including
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, LG and the RIM Blackberry.
The solution is available to OpenTV customers immediately. About
Open TV OpenTV is one of the world's leading providers of
technologies and services enabling the delivery of digital and
interactive television. The company's software has been integrated
in over 70 million digital set-top-boxes in 96 countries. The
software enables enhanced program guides, video-on-demand, personal
video recording, enhanced television, interactive shopping,
interactive and addressable advertising, games and gaming and a
variety of consumer care and communication applications. For more
information, please visit http://www.opentv.com/. About weComm
weComm is a leading mobile technology company whose wave platform
enables customers to maximize the value of their content by
providing sophisticated, personalized services for mobile devices.
weComm's Mobile Transport Protocol technology (MTP), dramatically
improves the performance and resilience of available wireless
networks, allowing textual and multimedia content to be delivered
and vital transactions to be completed reliably under a wide
variety of network conditions. This technology has already been
applied in various sectors such as interactive mobile television
(including for BSkyB), on-device portals, financial services,
betting and gaming and the promotion of consumer brands. weComm
recently launched admo, an efficient, easy to monitor advertising
service which enables weComm's customers to generate additional
revenue from their mobile audience. weComm works closely with
partner organizations including Microsoft, Research In Motion
(RIM), Symbian and Ericsson on a range of activities including
sales, marketing, content, technology development, integration and
deployment. weComm's infrastructure adapts services and content to
any network and supports a broad range of handset types and
platforms including Java J2ME, Symbian Series 60 / UIQ, RIM
BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows Mobile (PocketPC Phone Edition and
Smartphone). For further information please visit
http://www.wecomm.com/. DATASOURCE: OpenTV, Corp. CONTACT: Barbara
Cassidy of OpenTV, +1-415-962-5055, or ; or Justin Hayward, MCIPR
FRSA of Manning, Selvage & Lee, +44-0-20-7878-3291, or mobile,
+44-0-20-7880-794298, or ; or Marylene Guernier of M:Delta,
+44-207-153-1274, or ; or Ray Yeung, , or Matt Hantz, , both of
Brainerd Communicators, Inc., +1-212-986-6667; or Kevin Emamy of
weComm, +44-207-448-7900, or Web site: http://www.wecomm.com/ Web
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