SAN DIEGO, Calif. -October 30, 2007 - Imagine Communications, developer of the industry's most powerful and scalable digital video platform, today announced the completion of a $15 million Series B round of expansion financing, bringing total venture capital investment in Imagine Communications to more than $24 million. The round was led by Court Square Ventures, a top venture capital firm, with participation by all existing investors including Columbia Capital and Carmel Ventures. The new financing will be used to accelerate Imagine's growth and commercial deployments in digital video markets with its breakthrough VBR/Statmux (Variable Bit Rate and Statistical Multiplexing) technology, which offers 50 percent more bandwidth and improved video quality of digital video signals.

"The timing of this funding is critical as service providers launch and scale HDTV, VOD, SDV (Switched Digital Video), IPTV and other advanced PersonalizedTV™ services and applications. These services will become key for operators to compete in an environment that includes Cable, DBS, Telco and Wireless service providers," said Imagine's President and CEO, Jamie Howard. "As the demand grows for these new services, Imagine's solutions will allow operators to rapidly deploy and scale while delivering optimal video quality with bandwidth efficiency."

The company also announced that James B. Murray, Jr., the managing general partner at Court Square Ventures, has been appointed to its board of directors.

Imagine is scheduled to commercially launch its first product in the fourth quarter of 2007. The company's innovative solutions will enable system operators to dramatically improve bandwidth efficiency without sacrificing video quality, allowing them to rapidly deploy advanced digital video services such as HDTV, VOD and SDV. Imagine's software architecture runs on carrier-grade, off-the-shelf hardware and plugs seamlessly into existing infrastructure.

About Imagine Communications
Imagine Communications has launched the industry's most powerful and scalable digital video platform enabling system operators to cost-effectively increase bandwidth efficiency and video quality. The Imagine ICE Video Platform™ incorporates breakthrough next-generation video processing and multiplexing technology, enabling up to 50 percent more streams versus today's approaches. Imagine's revolutionary ICE-Q™ video quality measurement algorithms enable better video quality at any given bit rate. Imagine is based in San Diego with R&D and engineering in Israel. Its strong management team includes industry leaders with decades of experience delivering innovations in video communications. Founded in 2005, Imagine Communications is privately held and funded by Carmel Ventures, Columbia Capital and Court Square Ventures. www.imaginecommunications.com.

About Court Square Ventures
Court Square Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage communications, information technology, and media companies, with a particular interest in points of convergence between these industries. The firm's deep understanding of its three target sectors stems from the partners' 60 years of operating and investing experience in these areas. Court Square uses this base of experience to support young companies executing the critical transitions from pre-revenue to first sales and accelerating growth. Court Square seeks to establish close partnership with passionate, committed entrepreneurs and like-minded co-investors. The principals bring a broad national network of target sector contacts to bear in helping portfolio companies source customers, find strategic partners, and recruit key personnel. For more information, visit www.courtsquareventures.com.

About Carmel Ventures
Founded in 2000 by pioneers and leaders of the Israeli high tech industry, Carmel Ventures is one of Israel's leading venture capital funds focused on information technology with $372 million under management. Led by former entrepreneurs and executives of the software, communications and investment industries, Carmel provides active, hands-on support to its Israeli, European and U.S. portfolio of companies. Carmel, headquartered in Herzliya, Israel enjoys a worldwide network of industry, strategic and investment resources. Carmel provides significant capital and support through the growth cycle of its portfolio companies and is recognized as a true company building fund in Israel. For more information, visit www.carmelventures.com.

About Columbia Capital
Columbia Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in the communications and information technology industries. With its latest $560 million fund, it now has $2 billion under management. Based in Alexandria, VA and Waltham, MA, Columbia Capital has an experienced investment team with diverse industry backgrounds in entrepreneurial ventures, management, finance, regulation and engineering. Its team has managed investments in approximately 100 companies in the communications and information technology sectors, ranging from small, early-stage investments to multibillion-dollar public companies. For more information, visit www.colcap.com.

Salt Lake City, UT, October 23, 2007 – As the latest HD video standard, H.264, emerges on the market, replacing the current MPEG 2 standard, billions of dollars in video infrastructure will be rendered obsolete. The adoption of the new standard is critical to the fulfillment of a federal mandate requiring that all video broadcasts be delivered in digital format by 2009. This FCC mandate, along with unprecedented user demand for HD video, are the driving factors in the most significant video infrastructure replacement cycle in over 10 years. More than 90% of the existing video infrastructure is still based on the MPEG 2 standard which will not support the quantity or quality of video demanded by the market and the new regulations.

But according to Rod Tiede, CEO of Broadcast International, a leading video technology innovator, buyers must be mindful to make replacement purchases with upgradeability foremost in mind in order to avoid costly infrastructure obsolescence, especially since the new standards are likely to change frequently for the foreseeable future.

The ability to adapt to change is a particularly important buying criterion with video compression technology – one of the most critical and rapidly changing components of the video infrastructure, according to Tiede. “Perhaps the most important factor in the purchase of a video compression solution is whether or not the product is ‘future proof’” said Tiede. “H.264 is not a single standard, but a rolling standard with important iterations every year or so. As the standard evolves and new codecs come out, video content producers and delivery providers could be faced with enormous replacement costs in as little as a year if they don’t choose wisely.”

The video compression market is one of the few technology areas in which the hardware and software in most products has remained tightly coupled in embedded systems. “That’s just a bad model,” said Tiede, “and one that has been rejected in nearly every other segment of the technology industry. You don’t have to throw your computers out every time Microsoft launches a new version of software, but that’s exactly what video compression vendors have asked their customers to do.”

Broadcast International’s CodecSys video compression software is based on an entirely different model –an open software architecture that can accommodate new standards, such as H.264, as well as new specialized codecs as they come onto the market. With CodecSys, codecs can be upgraded and added through simple, cost-effective software downloads; other solutions require costly, full replacement.

BI has a joint development effort with IBM to integrate its CodecSys software with IBM’s BladeCenter QS20 “Cell Blade” multi-core processor. The new hardware platform is also highly scalable, allowing customers to easily add additional processing power by simply adding extra processors or “blades.” At IBC in Amsterdam in September of this year, Broadcast International and IBM demonstrated the jointly developed product publicly for the first time.

Not only is CodecSys the only “future-proof” video compression solution, it also offers unrivaled levels of video compression, reducing bandwidth needs by more than 80%, from the current MPEG 2 standard of 19.8 Mbps to 3 Mbps for HD-quality video over satellite, cable, IP and wireless networks. CodecSys achieves its breakthrough level of performance through a patented multi-codec approach, using artificial intelligence to analyze a video stream and select the codec best-suited to a particular video frame or sequence from an entire library of codecs. By selecting the best codec for the job, CodecSys is able to offer performance several times higher than competitive products, which rely on a single codec for every type of video stream.

The looming bandwidth crisis

According to Tiede, explosive user demand for video -- and particularly for HD quality -- in markets such as cable, IPTV, Internet video and wireless is precipitating a bandwidth crisis. According to comScore, for example, there were more than half as many video views as searches conducted last year on the Internet, and video is much more bandwidth-intensive. The bandwidth crisis is particularly troublesome in the U.S., which has dropped from fourth to 15th place on the broadband ranking kept by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

“Video compression technology like ours will go a long way toward alleviating the bandwidth crisis,” said Tiede. “But just as important as compression efficiency in a buying decision is the ability to adapt to change. Infrastructure providers need to make sure that they aren’t simply choosing an expedient solution for the near term, but one that is scalable and upgradeable as standards change and video volumes continue to skyrocket.”
About Broadcast International

Broadcast International is a leading provider of video-powered broadcast solutions, including IP, and digital satellite, Internet streaming and other types of wired/wireless network distribution. BI’s patented CodecSys software is a breakthrough, artificial intelligence-based video compression technology that cuts video bandwidth requirements more than 80% over satellite, cable, IP and wireless networks. By slashing bandwidth needs, CodecSys enables a new generation of applications such as streaming video to cell phones, and offers unprecedented price/ performance benefits for existing applications such as HD video.

Broadcast International is a public company (OTC BB: BCST) headquartered in Salt Lake City UT. For more information go to www.brin.com and www.codecsys.com.

PRINCETON, N.J. – October 23, 2007 – SES AMERICOM (www.ses-americom.com), an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges: SESG), today announced that it has teamed with advertising technology specialist Packet Vision, to enable telecommunications carriers using SES AMERICOM's IP-PRIME® Internet protocol television (IPTV) service to generate advertising revenue through the insertion of targeted local ads.

Using Packet Vision's advanced IP-based advertising solution, operators offering IP-PRIME service will be able to maximize the use of their local ad avails by inserting ads for local and nationwide companies that are specifically directed to selected groups of consumers based on geographic locations or demographic profiles. The Packet Vision solution, the leading MPEG-4, IPTV technology for local ad insertion, will utilize the inherent advantages of IP-PRIME to allow IPTV service providers to generate local ad revenue, as the cable industry has successfully done for years. Carrying local ads is a proven money maker, earning U.S. cable television operators nearly $4.3 billion in 2006 according to Kagan Research.

"We engineered IP-PRIME to be an open and turnkey solution, giving telcos and other service providers everything required to deliver TV service and to maximize the other revenue generating opportunities of TV, including local advertising," said Bill Squadron, President of SES AMERICOM's IP-PRIME division. "Leveraging the open, standards-based nature of IP-PRIME, we can integrate Packet Vision's innovative targeted advertising solution to provide IP-PRIME customers with a tested solution for tapping the lucrative local ad opportunity."

"Packet Vision's advertising service perfectly complements SES AMERICOM's IP-PRIME service, as it is specifically designed to minimize capital and operational costs to IPTV service providers," said Richard George, general manager for Packet Vision US. "Securing a relationship with IP-PRIME represents a significant step in the expansion of Packet Vision's reach to IPTV service providers and is a logical next move as the company opens up further distribution channels in the USA and Canada."

The Packet Vision solution is designed for easy deployment in the headends of IP-PRIME customers, requiring no changes to the set-top boxes in viewers' homes. The system integrates the key technical elements needed for local ad insertion, targeted advertising and interactive campaigns, combining a media server, ad splicer, playout router and management system, all housed in a single rack-mounted "pizza box" style enclosure. IP-PRIME and Packet Vision will be conducting extensive testing at the IP-PRIME broadcast center in Vernon Valley, New Jersey to validate integration and interoperability with set-top boxes and the other components of the IP-PRIME ecosystem.

Packet Vision is continuing to develop its solution and intends to regularly add new functionality that leverages the flexibility of IP, the two-way nature of IPTV networks and the power of set-top boxes. Future applications will provide viewers with more personalized commercial breaks and a greater degree of interactivity.

The companies plan to make the Packet Vision IPTV advertising solution available to IP-PRIME customers in the first half of 2008. The SES-Packet Vision agreement is subject to Packet Vision shareholder approval.

About Packet Vision Inc
Packet Vision (www.packetvision.com) provides a targeted, addressable advertising service within IPTV, creating new revenue streams for service providers, broadcasters and advertisers.

Packet Vision's proposition consists of an innovative delivery platform, based on IP technology, together with a low-risk, low-capital investment business model. The Packet Vision service supports local ad insertion, and interactive and targeted advertising that can be tailored to match the demographics of individual households and even altered in real-time to reflect viewers' reactions, enabling personalized TV advertising to reach its full potential

Since its launch in 2004, Packet Vision has announced commercial trials in the United States and Europe and has partnered with market leading IPTV network operators, middleware and application providers, advertising agencies and aggregators, as well as advertisers. The company has offices in the United States, mainland Europe and the United Kingdom.

Readers Validate the Eight-Month-Old Streaming Media Server Software’s
Exploding Market Popularity

San Jose, CA, October 23, 2007—Wowza Media Systems announced today that
Wowza Media Server Pro, its increasingly popular Flash® streaming media
server software, has been named Second Runner-Up in the Server/Hardware
Software category, in the 2007 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards.

Launched just eight months ago, this win places Wowza in the Top 3
position in the streaming server software space, just behind the
well-established Adobe Flash Media Server 2 (FMS2) and Microsoft Windows
Media Server, who captured the number 1 and number 2 positions,
respectively. What’s more, readers placed Wowza Media Server Pro ahead of
streaming servers from long-time market players Apple and Real Networks.

In the article accompanying the list of winners on the Streaming Media
website, Streaming Media magazine editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen
strongly acknowledged Wowza’s incredible market impact in such a short
amount of time:

“The Flash Media Server faced fierce competition this year, particularly
in Europe, from the software-only Wowza Media Server, which not only beat
Flash Media Server on cost but matched or beat it on performance,” he
wrote.

Upon hearing the news of Wowza’s strong showing, David Stubenvoll, CEO and
Co-Founder, Wowza Media Systems, was quick to share the credit. “To place
so highly in such a distinguished competitive field, especially for a
product that has been on a market less than a year is a win not only for
the Wowza Team, but also for our customers who believed in us from the
beginning.” He added: “It is truly an honor to be singled out by the
industry influencers who comprise Streaming Media Magazine’s readership.”

Wowza, along with the other winners, will be celebrated in a special
awards ceremony which will be held as part of Streaming Media West,
November 6-8, San Jose, CA. For the complete list of winners, along with
details about the show and the awards ceremony, visit
www.streamingmedia.com.

For more information on Wowza Media Server Pro, including case studies and
customer testimonials, visit: www.wowzamedia.com.

About Wowza Media Systems
Wowza Media Systems, a software company headquartered in San Jose, CA, is
a developer of interactive streaming media server software. Its flagship
product, Wowza Media Server Pro, features an innovative server
architecture that delivers unmatched performance, functionality, and
scalability at a total cost of ownership up to 80% less than the leading
alternative, Adobe Flash Media Server. Wowza Media Server Pro proudly
counts over 2,800 companies around the world as customers, including such
well known brands as Macy’s, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Interoute, and
Julius Blum GmbH who use Wowza to deliver live and on-demand Flash video,
video recording, and interactive chat. Wowza Media Server Pro is being
deployed in a broad range of industries, including entertainment, social
media, advertising, enterprise, education, government, and Internet
commerce. For more information, visit Wowza Media Systems at
www.wowzamedia.com.

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TELCO TV 2007 – ATLANTA and Milpitas, CA., October 22, 2007 - BitBand, a leading provider of video delivery solutions for broadband IP networks, will demonstrate its IPTV solutions that power enhanced quality of experience for viewers at TelcoTV 2007 October 23-25 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Visitors to the BitBand stand, (#127) can explore the innovative applications allowing service providers to quickly introduce new services or expand on existing offerings, and improve the viewing experience for their TV subscribers.

Visitors to the BitBand stand can talk to the company about their innovative video services that are behind today's next generation IPTV deployments. Demonstrations at the BitBand Stand include:

· BitBand technology enabling Video On Demand, TV On Demand integrated with leading IPTV vendors of STBs and iTV Applications (end to end solutions), including enhanced applications such as Start-Over and Pause-Live TV.
· BitBand's QualiCTV™ solution for improving the quality of experience of broadcast channels, including packet loss recovery for eliminating sporadic artifacts on the TV screen and scalable fast channel zapping technology with near zero delay channel switching.
· BitBand's solution for delivering on demand content to TV sets over non Quality-of-Service networks
BitBand's highly scalable, integrated solutions offer Telcos, IOCs, and Satellite service providers a competitive and proven solution, enabling quick time-to-market and low-risk introduction of complete IPTV services with significantly lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

For more information on BitBand's products and solutions, please send an e-mail to info@bitband.com or visit www.bitband.com.

About BitBand

BitBand's (www.bitband.com) advanced video delivery solutions over IP broadband networks help Next Generation Service Providers and Telcos realize the Triple Play offering, enabling quick entry into new markets, faster ROI and a safe track to profitable large scale service. The company's solutions are targeted at large scale deployments of TV-centric residential subscribers and feature high-scale streaming and robust performance optimized for hybrid and distributed network architectures. BitBand's On Demand IPTV solutions form the most scalable and cost-effective solution existing today for the IPTV environment, including BitBand ISIS™ automated Video Delivery Network, BitBand Maestro™ Content Distribution and Video Network Management Suite and BitBand Vision™ appliance servers. BitBand's technology is field proven and widely deployed, serving more than 750,000 commercial subscribers worldwide Additionally, BitBand partners with system integrators and suppliers of other components of the IPTV value chain to provide the operator with a complete end-to-end solution.

New York, NY Oct. 16, 2007 – For Your Imagination, a New York-based production company that produces and markets original Internet TV shows, announced today that it has selected blip.tv, the video sharing network focused on shows, as the primary host for its popular Web-based programming. Blip.tv will now host For Your Imagination's shows, including “The Patrice Oneal Show – Coming Soon!,” “Break a Leg,” “The Shirtless Apprentice” and “bschooltalk.”

For Your Imagination worked with blip.tv to secure a sponsor for the second season of “Break a Leg,” a scripted sitcom about an aspiring Hollywood television director and his sitcom. >From October 1st through November 30th, “Break a Leg” will run overlays and postroll ads for “The Smart Show,” an HBO/AOL-produced Web underwritten by Holiday Inn Express.

“At blip.tv we’re focused on helping to turn Web shows into sustainable businesses, and matching advertisers with shows is a key piece of that,” said Dina Kaplan, COO of blip.tv. “Shows like ‘The Patrice Oneal Show – Coming Soon!’ and ‘Break a Leg’ are excellent additions to the blip.tv roster because they’re entertaining, produced on a consistent basis and do a terrific job reaching a loyal audience that’s attractive to advertisers.”

This is the latest in a string of Internet shows moving to blip.tv, including “Rocketboom.” Blip.tv also hosts “Alive in Baghdad,” “Unleashed,” “Wallstrip,” “Goodnight Burbank,” “Weird America” and a number of other Web-based TV shows.

As part of the agreement, the For Your Imagination shows are available at blip.tv and on branded Web sites created for each show. All future and past episodes will be supported by the blip.tv ad network and sponsorship program.

“In our business, you keep the attention of the viewer not only by producing a great show, but also by delivering a quality video experience,” said Paul Kontonis, CEO of For Your Imagination. “We feel blip.tv offers a superior user experience, which helps us to build our content brands. Furthermore, the company's ad network - and the customer support they provide content producers - is industry leading.”

Blip.tv works to bring in sponsors for its top programs and shares all advertising revenues with content creators 50/50.

About For Your Imagination

For Your Imagination produces and markets high-quality original online video programming, turning concept into reality for content creators and talent. The company works with creative individuals to develop web shows, offering them the opportunity to reach an audience quickly while retaining creative control. Based on original content or existing brands, For Your Imagination's talented team writes, produces and markets entertaining and insightful video for online distribution. Based on a revenue-share model, each brand is launched with its own website and each webisode is available as a video podcast download via iTunes. NYC-based For Your Imagination is built upon the experience of industry veterans whose combined expertise includes web development, major television and movie production, national marketing campaigns and technology. Shows available now include bschooltalk, Design2Share, The Patrice Oneal Show -- Coming Soon! and The Shirtless Apprentice -- see for yourself, visit http://www.foryourimagination.com/.

Salt Lake City, October 9, 2007 – The latest trend in video is called “placeshifting” – the ability to watch video content anywhere from any device including cell phones and PDAs -- and it’s a driving factor in the market for wireless video. But according to Rod Tiede, CEO of Broadcast International (OTC BB: BCST), a leading video technology innovator, the market will be stifled, despite strong user demand, by an inadequate infrastructure. This is especially true in the U.S. where much of the wireless infrastructure is still analog.

“Applications such as placeshifting, and mobile social networking are very much in demand by users. The problem is too little available bandwidth. It simply won’t support the pricing models, the image quality nor the raw quantity of video required without a major change in video compression technology or a multi-billion dollar infrastructure overhaul,” said Tiede.

In the executive overview of an April 2007 report by Multimedia Research Group titled “Mobile TV: Global Standards Review & Forecast for Infrastructure and Handsets” it was reported that 60-85% of participants in a study were keen to purchase a video-enabled handset when they were shown the high-quality video service possible on the devices. A press release on the same report predicted that over 240 million TV-enabled hand-sets would be sold by 2011. Cell phone makers and operators are anxious to tap into this enormous market; but the infrastructure needs to be able to deliver the quantity and quality required.

“The market for video-enabled cell phones is poised to explode, but the infrastructure for delivering high-quality video to those small screens needs to change,” said Tiede. “Video is extremely bandwidth-intensive; right now, the chokepoint in the infrastructure is video compression technology. Currently, video viewing over wireless devices requires at least 300K in bandwidth. That number needs to come down by close to 80% in order to make video delivery to cell phones practical and cost-effective for large numbers of viewers.”

Broadcast International’s CodecSys video compression technology can reduce bandwidth needs for video from 300 to as low as 60 Kbps over the current wireless infrastructure in the U.S. “That will go a long way toward alleviating the near-term bandwidth crisis in the wireless video market. It will also make the pricing models work much better for consumers and providers,” said Tiede.

Solving the long-term bandwidth crisis

According to Tiede, the bandwidth crunch in the wireless infrastructure is just another example of a looming bandwidth crisis in other markets such as cable, IPTV and even Internet video, brought about by the explosive user demand for high-quality video. The bandwidth crisis is particularly troublesome in the U.S., which has dropped from fourth to 15th place on the broadband ranking kept by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In an Oct. 1st editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle titled “Our Fraying Internet Infrastucture, Michael Kleeman, a senior fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication at USC, cited video compression as a technology critical to the resolution of the bandwidth crisis.

But Teide cautions providers against choosing expedient solutions that won’t adapt to change. “Infrastructure providers need to make sure that they are choosing the right strategy for the long haul, not just one that meets short-term demand. Long term, they need an open, scalable solution that is easily upgradeable as standards change, and one that is capable of handling rapid increases in volume.”

BI’s patented video compression software, CodecSys, reduces bandwidth needs by more than 80% for HD-quality video over satellite, cable, IP and wireless networks.

CodecSys achieves its breakthrough performance through an open, patented architecture that uses artificial intelligence to analyze a video stream and select the codec best-suited to a particular video frame or sequence from an entire library of codecs. By selecting the best codec for the job, CodecSys is able to offer performance several times higher than competitive products, which rely on a single codec for every type of video stream.

Its open software architecture enables new codecs or video compression standards to be easily accommodated when they emerge, virtually “future-proofing” the technology.

International video travel guide gains global reach with premiere online video solutions provider
New York, NY - October 8, 2007- ROO Group (OTCBB: RGRP), a global leader in online video solutions for content providers, advertisers, and Web sites, today announced a content partnership with GeoBeats, Inc., the premier video travel guide for international destinations. With a third of consumers researching and planning travel online this year, the partnership significantly strengthens ROO’s position in the fast-growing, $79 billion online travel industry by expanding its travel channel with compelling international programming.

“GeoBeats’ video content for the travel industry is some of the freshest and most valuable available today,” said Robert Petty, CEO, ROO Group. “GeoBeats journalists are locals who provide the on-the-ground tips and insights that can’t be found in any traditional travel book or Web site. By expanding our travel library with this kind of unique, compelling video content ROO can greatly enhance users’ travel experiences, add value for customers seeking to serve this growing market and continue to fulfill our commitment to offering the best in content distribution across the board.”

GeoBeats works with local filmmakers from around the globe to develop short films on a broad array of popular and off-the-beaten-track international destinations. The films provide the expert insight that only locals can offer travelers along with beneath-the-surface glimpses of hundreds of fascinating destinations. The GeoBeats model is a unique combination of professionally generated content and citizen journalism that enriches the travel experience for prospective and veteran travelers alike. With a library of over 500 guides produced for more than 30 destinations, GeoBeats continually provides additions and updates to videos as destinations are revisited.

“We are a company that specializes in being ‘in-the-know’ about both popular and emerging destinations, and we needed a video provider who could bring our content to the widest possible global audience,” said GeoBeats’ CEO Ashish Khurana. “ROO Group’s peerless distribution capabilities to both domestic and international premium news outlets will help us reach new audiences worldwide and provide them with a dynamic means of navigating and enjoying new destinations.”

About GeoBeats
GeoBeats, Inc. produces and distributes high quality video travel guides for popular destinations around the world. Due to its alliance with local filmmakers in over 30 countries, GeoBeats provides travelers an in-depth view of their next destination, resulting in cost savings and a more enjoyable vacation. For more information about GeoBeats, visit www.geobeats.com.

HERZLIYA, Israel, October 2, 2007 – Optibase Ltd. (NASDAQ:OBAS), a leading provider of advanced digital video solutions, announced today that Airtel Broadband & Telephone Services (B&TS), India's largest private broadband and telephone service provider, chose Optibase H.264 Media Gateway (MGW) 5100 IPTV encoding platforms for its planned IPTV service offerings.

Airtel Broadband & Telephone Services (B&TS) provides broadband & telephone services in 94 cities in India. Bharti Airtel is currently undertaking IPTV trials in a thousand households and is planning to launch its IPTV services in the last quarter of the current calendar year. Optibase's carrier grade TV streaming platforms, incorporated in UTStarcom IP-based end-to-end networking solution, will be utilized by Bharti Airtel to supply high-quality H.264 video.

The first introduction of IPTV services in India took place two years ago. Having installed video over IP solutions in three out of the four major IPTV Indian service providers; Aksh Optifibre Limited, Time Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd (TBSL) and Bharti Airtel Limited, Optibase is becoming pivotal in driving the growth of IPTV deployment in India. With Optibase's advanced H.264 streaming platforms, Indian service providers have the ideal IPTV offering to attract new customers and preserve current ones, by using a cost effective combination of top quality picture resolution at low bit rates.

"Being the leading service provider, we at Airtel are constantly taking initiatives to offer the best in class services to our customers, backed by a sound infrastructure to support these exciting services," said Atul Bindal, President, Broadband & Telephone Services, Bharti Airtel. "utilizing Optibase's advanced encoding platform is a strategic step in the creation of world-class infrastructure for our IPTV services. The platform will enable us to offer superior video quality that redefines television entertainment for our customers."

Amir Phillips, Chief Financial Officer at Optibase commented, "given that India is an emerging and significant market in the growing IPTV world. The deployment of Optibase advanced IPTV encoding platforms by a tier one Telco operator, such as Bharti Airtel, represents an important business relationship for our company."

About Optibase
Optibase provides professional encoding, decoding, video server upload and streaming solutions for telecom operators, service providers, broadcasters and content creators. The company's platforms enable the creation, broadband streaming and playback of high quality digital video. Optibase's breadth of product offerings are used in applications, such as: video over DSL/Fiber networks, post production for the broadcast and cables industries, archiving; high-end surveillance, distance learning; and business television. Headquartered in Israel, Optibase operates through its fully owned subsidiary in Mountain View, California and offices in, Japan, China, India and Singapore. Optibase products are marketed in over 40 countries through a combination of direct sales, independent distributors, system integrators and OEM partners.
For further information, please visit www.optibase.com

New York, NY - October 9, 2007 - Raketu Communications Inc., the global Internet communications, information and entertainment company, today introduced LaunchPad Version2.0, the upgrade to its LaunchPad desktop application. LaunchPad interface is the first to integrate voice-over IP (VoIP) calling, ipTV streamed television content, Video On Demand (VOD), and IM/SMS service in a single, easy-to-navigate desktop application. New features include enhanced Social Networking capabilities and a detached TV-like remote control, which offers one-click ipTV streamed channel changing and easy access to Raketu services like VoIP calling.

"Our new interface offers Raketu users a more flexible, easy-to-use application from which they can access not only the cost-effective communications services they rely on and use every day, but new entertainment services like live concerts, on demand movies, and even karaoke," said Greg Parker, President of Raketu.

LaunchPad Version2.0 Features
Raketu runs over any Internet connection. Anyone with an Internet connection and a PC can start using Raketu immediately. Through Raketu new LaunchPad Version2.0 interface, users have access to Raketu communications services and entertainment services including streamed ipTV and VOD content from around the world from a single integrated application. Along with a new user-friendly interface which allows users more control of the information they receive and the way in which they display it, Raketu LaunchPad Version2.0 features:

- Enhanced Social Networking Features, which make it easier to post and find/navigate user profiles, share pictures, and participate in discussion threads.

- More Communications Options, Version2.0 adds the ability to make Rakweb calls (phone-to-phone calls) along with RakRak calls (Raketu user to Raketu user) and Rakout calls (Raketu to landline or mobile phone calls).

- Streamlined Entertainment, Version2.0 features an updated built-in media player and new p2pTV interface and listings

- New Detached TV Like Remote Control, allows users to control the Raketu embedded player, which streams p2pTV directly into the Raketu client application. Users can use the remote to change ipTV streamed television channels, and make Rakweb and Rakout VoIP calls.

Available for download immediately from Raketu.com, Raketu's LaunchPad Version2.0 is compatible with Windows and Vista. Mac, Linux, and Mobile Windows versions will be released later this fall.

About Raketu Communications Inc.
Raketu Communications Inc. is developing leading edge peer-to-peer Internet protocol applications that provide communications, information and media services for consumers and for business. The company currently has users in over 150 countries around the world. For more information visit the company's website at www.Raketu.com.

Sargent will travel the world to introduce his viewers to the off the wall geniuses who have created some of the wildest and weirdest sites on the Internet. He’ll go behind the scenes to extract truth, wisdom and hysterics from some of the Internet's strangest creative forces - from UFO cult leaders to time travelers to delusional lifecasters and everything in between (think Mike Rowe’s “Dirty Jobs” but crazier and for the Internet).

New York, N.Y. – October 2, 2007 – ROO Group (OTCBB: RGRP), a global leader in digital media and advertising solutions, today announced new content partnerships with FOX Television Stations (FTS), Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Chat the Planet, a provider of Web video covering global issues. With these deals, ROO moves significantly closer to its goal of creating the largest collection of news content available for syndication on the Web.

“These partnerships constitute another milestone in ROO’s mission to provide more of the unique, compelling, daily refreshed content that drives viewers to sites, keeps them there longer and generates new revenue streams,” said Robert Petty, Chairman and CEO of ROO. “Our work with FOX, AFP and Chat the Planet means our customers will have unparalleled choice in original video news content, including local and regional U.S. news as well as new International programming.”

Through the partnership with FTS, ROO will receive daily local and regional news videos from 24 of the FOX owned-and-operated affiliates in major markets around the country, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, DC. Capitalizing on ROO’s proprietary content management system, Web publishers throughout the ROO network will be able to mix and match the selections to ensure the content offerings resonate with their site visitors.

For AFP, ROO will launch a new International channel that includes both English and German news video. AFP is a globally recognized news agency with a network of 40 video reporters working with the support of the most far reaching global network of journalists in 165 countries. AFP videos include in-depth coverage of news related stories, exclusive interviews with world leaders and original storytelling features with human and social interest. Its unique production will bring a truly global perspective on news events.

ROO will be featuring the original Chat the Planet series, “Hometown Baghdad,” which will tell the stories of three young Iraqis struggling to survive the war. Chat the Planet is a global dialogue company that creates unique, user-generated Web programming by encouraging online discussion of issues of concern to young people around the globe, including politics, foreign affairs, music, lifestyles and more

“Our work with FOX, AFP and Chat the Planet means our customers will have an unparalleled choice in the Web’s strongest vertical, news,” continued Petty. “Citizen journalism, local U.S. news and now a major global news perspective put ROO at the forefront of providing our customers the broadest package of syndicated news content available on the Web.”

About AFP
AFP maintains a network of journalists and photographers in 165 countries covering events 24/7. The AFP brand guarantees editorial quality and reliability built since the agency was founded in 1835. It offers text, pictures, graphics, animated graphics and video as well as multimedia content in seven languages. AFP covers all the news worldwide, from politics and diplomacy to economy and finance, sports and culture to science, technology, health and people. Its clients include the world's major media organizations as well as corporations, governments and international agencies. Its services are edited at regional centers in Paris, Nicosia, Washington DC, Montevideo and Hong Kong. For more information about AFP, please go to www.afp.com.

About Chat the Planet
Chat the Planet is a global youth dialogue company. We connect young people from around the world to talk about everything from politics, prejudices and war to sex, music and life in general. Chat the Planet produces television and Web video that is authentic, unscripted and unlike anything else in the mainstream media. In 2008, we are launching an innovative internet platform that will transform the way people engage globally. It will transcend both cultural differences and long distances. Founded by celebrated media executives Laurie Meadoff and Kate Hillis in 2001, Chat the Planet has produced award-winning video, Internet, and radio programming that continues to reach millions of people around the world.

San Jose, CA, October, 2, 2007—Wowza Media Systems announced today that
Yonden Media Works Co. Inc. (YMS), a leading provider of video and media
services in Japan, has selected Wowza Media Server Pro as the official
Flash streaming software server platform for its entire range of Flash
media services, including live and on-demand video streaming.

The launch of Yonden Media Works’ Wowza Flash Streaming Service marks a
new era in large-scale Flash streaming in Japan. Wowza Media Server Pro,
the most advanced Flash streaming server software currently available
replaces the outmoded Adobe Flash Communication Servers (FCS) which YMW
had deployed previously.

“We are pleased to be the first to offer Wowza-powered Flash streaming in
Japan,” said Kazuyoshi Nakaoka, President, Yonden Media Works. “Wowza
Media Server Pro performance is exceptional and lets us easily scale up to
meet the growing demand for Flash media services.”

“Wowza has exceeded our expectations on every level,” added Isono Tomoaki,
Director Technology and Development, Yonden Media Works. “The product has
proven itself to work well in demanding stress tests, and its economics,
along with the dedicated level of support offered by the Wowza team, has
shown us that we have selected a Flash streaming solution that stands
above its competitors.”

“Being selected by Yonden Media Works, one of the most experienced
streaming service providers in Japan, is a big honor,” said David
Stubenvoll, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Wowza Media Systems.
“For us, it is an incredibly strong validation of the value Wowza is able
to deliver to service providers worldwide.”

Among the highlights of the YMW deployment:

• Yonden Media Works’ on-demand Flash video service now brings its
customers an enhanced viewing experience made possible by Wowza Pro’s
unique fast-forward/rewind functionality.
• Wowza’s SecureToken anti-ripping methodology gives the YMW customers the
strongest available protection from content piracy in on-demand and live
streaming.
• Using the Wowza edition of YMW’s FLV Manager, customers can organize
their videos into playlists, record live events, and validate their
recorded content prior to posting.
The YMW Flash Streaming Service is available for corporate and product
promotion, social networking, media sites, e-learning and many other uses.
For more information on YMW’s Wowza-powered suite of services, visit
www.ymw.co.jp/wowzamedia/service.htm.

About Wowza Media Systems

Wowza Media Systems, a software company headquartered in San Jose, CA, is
a developer of interactive streaming media server software. Its flagship
product, Wowza Media Server Pro, features an innovative server
architecture that delivers unmatched performance, functionality, and
scalability at a total cost of ownership up to 80% less than the leading
alternative, Adobe Flash Media Server. Wowza Media Server Pro enables
customers like Macy’s, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Thomson Learning,
Interoute, and Julius Blum GmbH to deliver interactive and entertaining
Flash applications and content, including video on demand, live video
distribution, video recording, and chat, and is finding application in a
broad range of industries, including entertainment, social media,
advertising, enterprise, education, government, and Internet commerce. For
more information, visit Wowza Media Systems at www.wowzamedia.com.

About Yonden Media Works

Younden Media Works Co. Inc. is one of Japan’s most established turnkey
streaming services providers. Founded in 2001, Yonden Media Works is an
affiliated company of Shikoku Electric Power Co, Inc, one of the 10
electric utilities in Japan and a major provider of diversified services,
including a full range of energy, telecommunications, business and
lifestyle support services. Yonden Media Works delivers video production,
webcasting, web conferencing, live and on-demand streaming video
distribution, and e-learning services to a broad range of customers in
Japan. For more information, visit www.ymw.co.jp.

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