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Microsoft Signs OpenCable Agreement

Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:29:12 GMT

Microsoft announced that they've signed the OCAP agreement with Cable Labs. Here's what they say about it:

"Microsoft has agreed to contribute pertinent intellectual property rights to the OpenCable™ project, including the OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP™) software project. In addition, Microsoft and CableLabs have agreed to work together to explore the potential of adding .NET common language infrastructure (CLI) to a future version of OCAP "

Microsoft At NCTA

Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:10:46 GMT

Yesterday at NCTA, Microsoft introduce Microsoft^® TV Foundation Edition what they descirbe as "a new digital TV software platform designed to help cable operators get more value from on-demand and other digital TV services"

They simultaneously announced support (http://www.microsoft.com/tv/mstvIndustrySupportPR.mspx) for the platform from cable industry vendors Motorola, Inc., SeaChange, Concurrent Computer Corp., MetaTV Inc., Two Way TV Ltd. and Advanced Digital Broadcast Ltd.

They also announced a customer win (http://www.microsoft.com/tv/cablevisionselectsmspr.mspx) for the software platform with Televisa's Cablevision (CVC) subsidiary, one of Mexico City's largest cable MSO with ~450k subscribers announcing that they will adopt it.

Media2Go From Microsoft

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:34:20 GMT

CNet reporting on Microsoft's launch of Media2Go software at CeBit.

Liberty Alliance vs Microsoft Passport

Wed, 05 Mar 2003 20:19:13 GMT

Sun's Liberty bid gets fed support. The General Services Administration and the Department of Defense announce that they will join the Liberty Alliance Project, which aims to standardize Web authentication. [CNET News.com]

Sony Wants To Buy Palm O/S or Symbian

Wed, 05 Mar 2003 14:35:34 GMT

Tony Perkins (of Red Herring fame) intervied Sony's Idei at Davos and reported on that in a website called "Always On" which The Register picked up on and is now reporting in this story:

Sony keen to buy PalmSource. Or Symbian if Palm won't sell [The Register]