Swedish Hockey Champions celebration – Live
Färjestads BK are Swedish Champions in Ice Hockey 2011.
This is celebrated at the main square in Karlstad with thousands of fans who want’s to pay tribute to the players.
You can follow the Peer2View cast Live at MyArena, friday April 15 at 17:00 (CET).
http://www.myarenatv.com
Pressrelease
MPS Broadband announces the launch of Peer2View™ – Enabling infinite live streaming in Windows Azure.
At NAB 2011, MPS Broadband will introduce “IPTV 2.0” providing it´s Internet TV technologies on Windows Azure
LAS VEGAS — April 12, 2011 — This week at the 2011 National Association of Broadcasters Show (NAB), MPS Broadband announced the launch of the live streaming technology Peer2View™.
Based upon cutting edge Swedish research, Peer2View™ optimally solves the network congestion problem. Peer2View™ is built for distribution of live events and linear TV over the internet and corporate networks. The solution scales infinitely with up to 99.9% bandwidth savings.
“After almost five years of development and testing we are finally ready for launch. Peer2View™ is ISP and Network friendly. By keeping traffic local, and with support for Microsoft Silverlight we combine the efficiency of Peer2View™ with Microsoft Internet Information Services (ISS) Smooth Streaming,“ says Anders Nilsson CEO, MPS Broadband.
“Making Peer2View™ available on Windows Azure, together with the functionality of our proprietary MPS Publishing Platform® (MPP) and seamless CDN fallback, we are geared to change the concept of live and linear TV over IP. We call it IPTV 2.0” added Nilsson.
Peer2View™ is a structured P2P technology based upon a cutting edge mathematical algorithm, which optimally solves the peer assignment problem.
• Built for distribution of live events and linear TV over the internet and corporate networks.
• Scales infinitely with up to 99.9% bandwidth savings.
• ISP and Network friendly by keeping traffic local. Includes seamless CDN fallback, and can co-exist with Unicast solutions.
• Support for Silverlight – combining the efficiency of Peer2View™ with the Microsoft Internet Information Services (ISS) Smooth Streaming
The MPS Publishing Platform® (MPP) provides functionality for all stages of the publishing pipeline and is offered as a suite of modules; including a rich set of standards-based Web API’s. Together the modules create the toolbox you need to quickly and costs effectively launch any online video service. The MPP has been accredited by major quality content rights holders e.g. Universal Pictures, Buena Vista, Warner Brothers.
“We understand that media customers need a hybrid, flexible approach that allows them to access a custom set of offerings and tools specific to their needs,” said Jake Winett, director of Media & Entertainment Industry Solutions, Microsoft Communications Sector. “Through the Windows Azure platform, partners such as MPS Broadband are able to balance multiple applications within a cloud environment, making it easy for M&E companies to create, manage, deliver and monetize media on a wide range of platforms and devices.”
MPS Broadband AB is a privately owned technology company headquartered in Stockholm with sales offices in London and New York. The company was founded in 2003 and has 45 employees. MPS Technologies include the proprietary MPS Publishing Platform® (MPP) and the live streaming technology Peer2View™ .
For more information:
• MPS Broadband AB: Anders Nilsson, +46 8 556 935 60, corporate.communications@mpsbroadband.com
• MPS America Inc: Ivan Lopez, +1 303 718 4941, corporate.communications@mpsbroadband.com
• MPS Broadband Ltd: Lance Stevens, +44 797 390 00 01, corporate.communications@mpsbroadband.com
Färjestad BK Live in MyArena
Färjestad BK is in the Swedish national hockey finals 2011.
During this year’s finals series, you can follow the team practice live daily from Löfbergs Lila Arena. March 30 onwards, training starts every day at 10:30 (CET).
Vision Fighting Championchip Live in MyArena
March 19 Vision Fighting Championship arranges an MMA-event at Tingvallahallarna in Karlstad (Sweden).
The event starts at 17:00 (CET) and you can follow the event live at
www.my-arena.tv
Vision Fighting Championship started it off with a few individuals setting the goal to create yet another platform for Swedish mixed martial arts.
This is their second MMA-event in Sweden.
Expression Encoder 4 SP1 released
Microsoft have released service pack 1 for Expression Encoder 4, providing some interesting new functionality. Check out the official announcement here.
Nokia is on fire
Yesterday Engadget published an internal memo from Nokia CEO Stephen Elop where he says; “We too, are standing on a “burning platform,” and we must decide how we are going to change our behavior”. The increasing competition from iOS and Android devices are clearly hurting Nokia. Elop’s conclusion is that the ecosystem around iOS and Android devices is the key factor to their success.
There are several comments on the memo by other sites. The most frequent one is around a rumor that Nokia will announce a new strategy on February 11th and that it will involve Microsoft and Nokia joining forces to meet the competition.
Intel teams with Will.I.am
Well…it might sound odd but will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas Front Man) will join Intel as Director of creative innovation.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- will.i.am joins Intel as “director of creative innovation.”
- Unique collaboration entails the development of new technologies, music and tech advocacy.
- Intel and will.i.am “share a strong interest in innovation around music, art and lifestyle.”
App Store from Microsoft?
PC World today reports that Microsoft has filed an objection to Apple’s application for the “App Store” trademark, calling the term too generic to be fairly registered. Will we be seeing an App Store from Microsoft soon?
Google will push WebM
In a recent announcement Google has said that they will drop the support for H.264 as the format for the video tag in HTML5 in favor of the open (their own) format WebM in Google Chrome. WebM was launched at last year’s Google I/O and is built on Vp8. However this is not entirely unproblematic. Experts claim that Google will end up in the same situation that Microsoft did when they opened up Windows Media as VC-1. Both Windows Media and WebM are built on a number of patents controlled by the MPEG license authority that also controls and licenses H.264. Appleinsider has posted an article detailing the issues at hand.
Microsoft to reveal TV Set-Top Box at CES
Microsoft will reveal new TV set-top boxes based on Windows Embedded and the Windows Media Center interface according to the Seattle Times. The announcement is rumored to take place on Wednesday night’s CES keynote that will be held by Steve Ballmer. A cheap (cheaper than buying a computer running Windows Media Center Edition) set-top box would offer a competing alternative to Apple TV, Google TV and Connected TVs.
Read this article for more information.
