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--Radio Interview: ActiveVideo's Jeff Miller Discusses the Deployment

ActiveVideo Networks (formerly ICTV) recently appointed interactive TV pioneer,
John Callahan, as its CTO. Callahan previously spent 15 years at Time Warner
Cable, where he was involved in many of the operator's interactive TV and
VOD initiatives, and where he served most recently as SVP of software
engineering for its Advanced Technology Group. He was a significant
contributor to the creation of the Time Warner Cable Pegasus digital television
system architecture, and to such seminal interactive TV technologies and
standards as the Interactive Services Architecture (ISA), VOD, OCAP and

--Hires Ad-Industry Vet, Nisbet, to Lead New Arm Targeting Advertisers

ActiveVideo Networks (formerly ICTV), a company which offers
technologies that bring interactive Web media to television and which
claims that those technologies are now powering such hybrid services
for over a million cable and IPTV viewers, has announced an enhanced
version of its ActiveVideo Distribution Network. According to the
company, the new version of its platform will simplify and accelerate
the availability of Web-based programming and advertising on the
television and enable consumers to experience such services as
user-generated content, social media, Web-based channels, games and

--Unveils Expanded Portfolio of Programming and Applications

--Says New Study Shows its Interactive Programming Engages Viewers

--Integrates Technologies with Camiant

ICTV, a Silicon Valley-based company that offers solutions for
bringing Web media to television, has renamed itself ActiveVideo
Networks, in order to reflect the branding of its flagship product,
ActiveVideo, which has been the company's primary focus over the
past two years. (Note: the company's ActiveVideo technology mixes
linear and on-demand programming with broadband content from the
Internet, and delivers it to the television set as personalized MPEG

--Deal Targets China and other Asia-Pacific Markets

--Company Appoints New VP's of Programming and Business Development

ICTV, a Silicon Valley-based company that offers solutions for
bringing Web media to television, announced last month that it has
signed a deal with iPanel Technologies, a provider of embedded
software platforms for digital and IPTV services and applications. The
deal is designed to increase the availability of ICTV's flagship
ActiveVideo technology and service in China and other Asia-Pacific
markets. (Note: ActiveVideo technology mixes linear and on-demand
programming with broadband content from the Internet, and delivers it

--Deal Targets China and other Asia-Pacific Markets

--Company Appoints New VP's of Programming and Business Development

ICTV, a Silicon Valley-based company that offers solutions for
bringing Web media to television, announced last month that it has
signed a deal with iPanel Technologies, a provider of embedded
software platforms for digital and IPTV services and applications. The
deal is designed to increase the availability of ICTV's flagship
ActiveVideo technology and service in China and other Asia-Pacific
markets. (Note: ActiveVideo technology mixes linear and on-demand
programming with broadband content from the Internet, and delivers it