San Francisco -- February 3, 2010 -- A recent survey of more than 1,200 business professionals in the United States, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong revealed that video chat/conferencing is rapidly being adopted worldwide, for business and personal use.

The survey, conducted by Research Now and sponsored by Global IP Solutions, indicates that business professionals across multiple industries are adopting video in an effort to communicate and collaborate more clearly and effectively. The survey is available at http://www.gipscorp.com/survey

"The results of this survey underscore the increasing value of video in business communication," said Joyce Kim, Chief Marketing Officer at GIPS. "With demand for Unified Communications and desktop video conferencing on the rise, video quality issues such as delay and freezing must be addressed in order for users to effectively connect and collaborate."

79 percent of those who use video rely on consumer applications such as Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL and Skype, while 21 percent used video conferencing systems such as those offered by Cisco and Polycom.

· 61 percent indicated video delay and video freezing as the largest concerns of video chat/conference use

· In the US, 40 percent of business professionals surveyed indicated that their company will be deploying a video communication solution within the next 6-24 months.

"We are delighted to offer insights regarding industry professional's utilization of video as part of their daily lives in the U.S, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong," said Philip Beary at Research Now. "Our deep experience in panel management and fieldwork provides reliable data upon which major corporate decisions can be based."

Research Now programmed the online survey on behalf of Global IP Solutions to 1,200 senior business professionals in a variety of industries and employment positions across the United States, China, Japan and South Korea. The survey was conducted in late 2009 and all respondents were working in office environments that required them to operate a computer frequently during the workday. To see the full results of the Video Chat/Conferencing survey visit http://www.gipscorp.com/survey

About Global IP Solutions
Global IP Solutions (Oslo Børs: GIPS) provides best-in-class voice and video processing in IP communications. GIPS enables its customers to deliver unmatched quality, with a faster time-to-market and with less risk than alternative solutions. GIPS serves application developers, wired and wireless service providers and network and telecommunications equipment vendors. Its customer list includes CommuniGate, Nimbuzz, Nortel, Oracle, PCCW, Samsung, WebEx, Yahoo!, AOL and other key players in the voice and video over IP markets. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Stockholm, Boston and Hong Kong. For more information, visit www.gipscorp.com

January 29th, New York, NY Started the day after Apple announced their iPad, a new site:
Every Day Till iPad Ships was launched. The idea of ipTVe managing editor, Gilbert B. Hammer, the site will be a daily does of topics around specific mobile platforms the iPad has in its gun sights.

"It seemed to me after a discussion with some colleagues about the iPad there was a lot not being discussed in the media about how people interact with mobile devices such as Netbooks, E-Readers and Slates and that simply talking about the technology advanced, for example of how well you can see a device off-axis is more about marketing"

The site has a limited run - slated to publish until the iPad ships, it will then let the market take over and generate metrics on the acceptance and how people will ultimately will use such a platform and if it can become a category killer.

Site: EveryDayTilliPadShips

New York, NY, January 07, 2010 -- Allied Fiber, a carrier-neutral provider of dark fiber, wireless towers and colocation facilities across America, announces today that its CEO, Hunter Newby, will be speaking at the Kaufman Brothers Technology Trends 2010 Conference to be held on January 12, 2010. Hunter Newby will address the topic of "Bandwidth: The Increasing Value of Fiber" as part of a panel of industry thought leaders. The conference will showcase ten different panels highlighting the latest trends in the Technology, Media, Telecom, and Green Technology Sectors. The event will be held at InterContinental the Barclay in New York City.

Mr. Newby is a twelve year veteran of the telecommunications industry. Prior to founding Allied Fiber, he was Chief Strategy Officer at Telx., one of the leading carrier neutral interconnection facility operators in the U.S. Mr. Newby is well known throughout the network Interconnection and carrier hotel sector and is also a recognized authority on Ethernet Transport and Voice Peering.

Allied Fiber is employing the most advanced fiber optic cables in its ducts to meet the ever increasing bandwidth demands for wireless, Video over IP and other advanced technologies. In its first phase, the Allied Fiber Network will include new routes covering New York, NY to Chicago, IL; New York, NY to Ashburn, VA; and Chicago, IL to Ashburn, VA. Upon completion of the first phase, Allied Fiber will continue building a nationwide multi-duct, long-haul and short-haul dark fiber network with intermediate access for wireless towers and rural networks throughout the United States.

Paris, France - January 5, 2010 - Dailymotion, one of the largest Web video sites in the world, announced interactive advertising formats for Dailymotion's broadband TV and IPTV channels. The announcement follows the launch of Dailymotion's iPhone app and expands Dailymotion's successful ad-supported content strategy to all three screens.

The newly-launched Dailymotion ad formats bring the rich, interactive experience of Web advertising to Internet connected TVs. Based on success of Web-based formats, the TV advertisements, delivered via a Web ad server, provide an easy transition for advertising looking to transition to multi-screen advertising campaigns with made-for-TV interactive capabilities.

The advertising formats include the following:
- Home page skinning and branded loading page
- Clickable IAB-compliant banner ads
- Clickable toaster-into-video ads
- In-stream video advertising including pre-roll, post-roll, mid-roll on 'continuous play' of lists
- Clickable ads can link to a branded, TV-friendly landing page with information and videos

In the last several years, Dailymotion has announced several IPTV and Internet-connected TV deals including Dailymotion channels on Verizon FiOS and Sony BRAVIA Internet Link products in North America and an IPTV channel in France through the SFR-neufbox network. This year at CES, Dailymotion will be announcing a series of new broadband TV-platform partnerships designed to greatly increase Dailymotion's penetration into the connected-TV digital living room.

"Multi-screen advertising will unlock enormous opportunities for our advertisers. Our approach is to make the transition to connected TV and mobile advertising simple and effective, allowing marketers to speak to our audience with one voice across multiple platforms," said Joy Marcus, General Manager of Dailymotion US. "This approach also allows us to continue to provide quality ad supported content to our users wherever they want it."

Dailymotion Site

MILPITAS, CA--(Marketwire - January 5, 2010) - CopperGate, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM), a leading provider of system-on-chip (SoC) solutions used to deliver entertainment and control throughout the home and the first semiconductor company to support multiple home networking standards (HomePNA for coax and phoneline, and HomePlug AV for powerline), announced it will demonstrate its HomePNA and HomePlug AV solutions at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), January 7 - 10, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Members of the press and analyst community are invited to visit the Sigma Designs meeting room 36153 South Hall 4, where CopperGate will demonstrate for the first time its ultra-green HomePlug AV CG2110 Chipset, announced last October. The chipset offers service providers and CPE equipment manufacturers a cost-effective, reliable, and easy way to distribute demanding video, audio, data, and voice, such as triple-play services and IPTV, over powerlines throughout a home. At CES, CopperGate will be demonstrating the HomePlug AV CG2110 Chipset's superior features versus existing solutions.

The company will also showcase its market-leading HomePNA chipsets, which enable service providers to deliver IPTV and broadband access to MDU more affordably.

San Diego, CA - January 5, 2009, (BUSINESS WIRE) - VMIX (www.vmix.com) a leading provider of online video and media-management solutions today announced it has added four new senior members to its Business Development team. The hiring is the result of the San Diego-based company's growth over the past year and its plans for continued expansion in 2010.

Dan Charleston, Senior Vice President of Business Development at VMIX, said the four new senior Business Development Managers will play an instrumental role in the company's revenue growth plans for the coming year.

"The new members of our BD team are seasoned veterans, each with significant experience in online video, as well as in a variety of client verticals. They will help us expand in key areas, and they bring significant customer relationships that will help both in the US and abroad."

Dan added, "With VMIX's more than 500 client sites across the media, entertainment, non-profit, education and enterprise markets, I am thrilled to welcome Kate, Charlie, Scott and Alan on board to help us continue the momentum."

Kate Dixon, based in New York, NY brings 20 years' business-development, sales and management expertise, with direct experience selling video-platform and media-management solutions at Nine Systems and Origin Digital. Kate comes most recently from Origin Digital, where she was Senior Director of Business Development.

Charles White, based in Boston, MA brings nearly 20 years' business-development experience, including almost four years as VP of Business Development and Alliances with PermissionTV (now VisibleGains).

Scott O'Donnell, also based in Boston, MA brings 12 years' experience in sales and business development, and a sharp focus on selling enterprise web-content delivery, streaming media, video-on-demand and SaaS services. He comes to VMIX from Mirror Image Internet, a leading CDN, where he was Senior Director of Sales.

Alan De Leon, based at VMIX's headquarters in San Diego, brings more than a decade of national digital media and brand partnership experience, developing entertainment brands while at NBC Universal and Warner Bros. Entertainment. Alan most recently held the position of Senior Vice President of Interactive at media-platform and content-syndication provider Gen2Media.

Plans for further expansion at VMIX were announced in October, 2009, when the company received $2 million in additional funding to accelerate growth and expand into new markets.

President and CEO of VMIX Mike Glickenhaus said VMIX is fast becoming one of a handful of online-video solution providers separating themselves from other providers in the market. The company was one of just six platforms included in a recent Forrester study on online-video platform providers in the US.

"Among other commendations in the report, we were recognized as one of the strongest performers in our industry," said Glickenhaus. "Adding seasoned experts to our Sales team further solidifies VMIX's standing and readies the company as a whole to take a large step towards meeting the emerging needs of our clients."

VMIX is headquartered in San Diego, with offices in New York, Boston and Atlanta. The company plans to add a San Francisco/Bay Area office early in the new year.

BMW has selected China for a world-first in advertising - personalized video messages delivered directly to cell phones. The targeted messages, distributed Dec 21-24 in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, address individual customers with a holiday greeting that is uniquely tailored to a specific individual.

For BMW, being first in advertising innovation is second nature. The company that brought the world BMW Films and the eight part branded entertainment series "The Hire", is now partnering with mobile technology provider Clip in Touch to engage their audience in a new way. The technology for this type of precise targeting and personalization technology is provided by Clip in Touch. Initial response to the campaign has been very positive, generating more test drives in a three day period than at any time this year.

BMW is growing quickly in China. Sales are up this year more than 40% to 90,000 units. For the launch of its new X1 series, the German luxury automaker recognized it needed to reach a younger demographic in the most relevant medium- mobile. Unlike Europe or North America, in China the mobile device is the primary internet access tool. There are roughly 165 million high-speed, 3G mobile broadband subscribers in China and these are extremely active mobile internet users. In fact, 58% of Chinese mobile web users post Web 2.0 content via their handsets, compared with 41% of those in the US (Phone Valley Media Scene, 2009). According to Yi Han, BMW China Ltd.'s Head of eCRM "BMW empowers people to express their individuality and personality. We wanted our X1 marketing message to do the same. Clip in Touch has enabled a targeted campaign with sight, sound and motion that our audience can personalize and make their very own".
Technology for the campaign was provided by Clip in Touch. The company provides a platform for sending advertising campaigns via MMS. The uniqueness comes in allowing users to personalize, edit and add their own voice, video and text to any advertising campaign. CEO Rami Reshef emphasizes the importance of engagement in advertising, rather than impressions. "I tip my hat to BMW for taking this risk. Chinese mobile owners have told us loud and clear--advertising that is personalized and engaging is not only welcome but something they will pass along to their friends".
Adds Johannes Vizethum, General Manager of Clip in Touch China, "Innovative brands recognize what we all know from the internet- consumers like video and they want a message that has been tailored for them. The success of this campaign makes a strong case for brands to create one-to-one campaigns using mobile video.

About Clip in Touch Ltd. 
Clip in Touch, Ltd. develops and markets personalized content solutions for web and mobile messaging. With a unique mix of technological, business and creative expertise, Clip in Touch stands apart among personalized content solutions providers in giving partners and users worldwide innovative, and easy to use messaging solutions. Clip in Touch Ltd. was officially launched in 2006 by a team of entrepreneurs recognized for their international experience in multimedia content production, as well as in web and cell phone technology. For more information, please visit our website: www.clipintouch.com

NEW YORK, NY -- HD Cloud, a leading on-demand transcoding provider, today announced the most aggressive pricing for the growing cloud transcoding market, offering discounts for high-volume customers, highlighting the company's industry-leading scalability for large content distributors. HD Cloud's pricing offers customers a rate of less than one dollar per gigabyte for customers that transcode at least $99 of video per month. The company will also offer free transcoding for customers that use less than 2 GB per month.

""Reliability, quality, and cost are key differentiators for us in what we see is a growing business, and we are using our proprietary technology to help drive the cloud encoding market," said Nicholas Butterworth, CEO of HD Cloud. "The insatiable demand for online video distribution requires high volumes of transcoding power that can satisfy enormous volumes of content, and we can now make cloud-based transcoding an even more attractive proposition for customers, with our new pricing. Making our service even more accessible will enable exponential growth."

Since its launch, HD Cloud has increased its technology profile to address feature-film distributors' needs for in-the-cloud transcoding on on-demand feeds. The company's model of offering lower-cost, high-definition video encoding for large-scale media firms is gaining acceptance with known brands, including the likes of WeatherChannel.com, New York magazine and Zappos.com (through a partnership with Magnify), among others. The company's sophisticated workflow and its superior video quality output are now complemented by the most aggressive volume pricing in the industry.

HD Cloud recently unveiled a new technology, HD Accelerate that was specifically created for large-scale video libraries and rightsholders that need high-capacity session control. The concept was married with another HD Cloud innovation, a security strategy in which proxy files are wiped from the server cloud once files are encoded, adding another layer of protection for customers.

HD Accelerate has performed 4,500 video encodes at 100 megabits per second (mb/s) each in a 20-minute period using 900 processors, which is believed to be an industry record. HD Cloud handles large video files and high bit-rate content (up to 1080p and 100 mb/s), offering customers a premium-quality video encoding experience with a superior return on investment.

HD Accelerate is a series of proprietary video scaling algorithms that HD Cloud has engineered for enhanced video transcoding throughput, particularly for on-demand video services. The company has typically performed 900 simultaneous encodes, and its recent enhancements to HD Accelerate enable far greater scalability and capacity for its cloud computing-based service. HD Cloud currently performs terabytes of transcoding sessions for customers, applying metadata to completed files and automatically distributing files to destinations ranging from syndication web sites, content delivery networks (CDNs), local archives, content management systems (CMSs), and local drives.

HD Cloud, which uses Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) service, supports a wide range of video formats - from H.264 to Real Video and Windows Media - and supports up to 1080i/p resolution and 100 megabits per second (mb/s) throughput. The company employs an innovative security strategy in which proxy files are wiped from the server cloud once files are encoded, adding another layer of protection for customers. HD Cloud offers various video input formats, including H.261, H.263, H.264, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MJPEG, On2 VP6, Real Video, Windows Media (AVI/WMV), and 3GPP. Output formats include H.261, H.263, H.264, MPEG-2, and 3GPP.

HD Cloud also provides a RESTful API for integration with other systems, including VMS providers, file transfer accelerators, CDNs, security vendors, and legacy transcoding systems.

About HD Cloud

HD Cloud, developed by Diversion Media, is a video technology service provider that enables automated video encoding and transcoding for publishers. The company provides next-generation web video services based on proprietary technology to customers. Based in New York City, the company is privately held.

Company Site

Netanya, Israel & Medellín - Colombia - 7th of December, 2009-BitBand and Grupo Union announce a successful deployment of IPTV Catch-Up services to UNE Telecommunications' subscribers in Colombia based on BitBand video CDN solution. The deployment is led by Grupo Unión as the system integrator, utilizing BitBand's advanced Content Delivery Network solutions.

UNE Telecommunications is currently the largest IPTV Company in Latin America, serving more than 60.000 IPTV subscribers. Its offering to subscribers includes TV and video entertainment packages, data and telephony services.

"Implementing BitBand's Catch-Up TV allows us to improve our viewers' quality of experience and an immediate access to content of their choice," explained UNE Telecommunications. "An additional important advantage we gained is the ability to easily control distributed networks from a single location, using the Maestro management system, which we implemented in a very short time in Bogota and Medellín"

"Our successful collaboration with BitBand allows us to offer IPTV operators a comprehensive solution for managing and delivering content to their subscribers in the reliable manner," said Valentina Villegas, IPTV Projects Manager, Grupo Union.

"Relying on our experience gained through worldwide deployments with leading IPTV players, we continue to provide advanced Content Delivery Network (CDN) solutions which are user-centric in terms of application offering." "Our cooperation with Grupo Union offers scalable IPTV solutions, which are a perfect fit for operators in emerging IPTV markets, allowing quick introduction of new services", said Michael Katznelson, VP Sales, BitBand.

BitBand CDN is composed of BitBand MaestroTM, an automated cross-platform content distribution and management suite, BitBand VisionTM, highly scalable recording, streaming and storage video servers and BitBand QualiCTVTM, a boosted broadcast TV QoE solution. BitBand CDN enables high quality efficient delivery of video content to all three types of screen across all relevant networks - IPTV, Cable, Internet and Mobile. For additional information on BitBand CDN, QualiCTV and other BitBand products and solutions, please e-mail sales@bitband.com or visit www.bitband.com.

About UNE-EPM Telecomunicaciones

UNE-EPM Telecomunicaciones is a public company, fully owned by Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM) S.A. UNE-EPM provides information and communications technologies to its customers throughout Colombia, including fixed and public telephony, long distance calls, prepaid cards for Colombia and international calls, data transmission, Internet, content services and TV subscriptions. Its asset and sales positions it as one of the largest companies in Colombia and its longstanding experience and support provide a competitive advantage for delivery of high quality services and the most advanced technology. For more information about UNE, visit www.une.com.co

Over the next weeks and month, the Net Neutrality debate will be heating up in Washington. It will also be heating up in NYC.

Next week, Jason Schwartz organized an impressive Oxford-style debate between the leading sides of the Net Neutrality debate. Anyone working in the Internet, Media, political or other industry should attend.

Here's the info:

When: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 from 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM (ET)

Where: IAC Building, 555 W 18th St, btw 10th ave and the Westside Highway

RSVP: Here

Also, next month, come to the December NY Tech Meetup, where -- on top of our tech demos -- Josh Silver will be speaking about the Net Neutrality debate.