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| Helsinki, April 4th, 2012 – Icareus, the leading TV Applications and Solutions vendor, continues to expand its strong HbbTV product portfolio with new vertical solutions for HbbTV. These solutions include HbbTV Starter Pack, Catch-up TV application, Enhanced EPG application as well as integrated social media applications for Facebook and Twitter . The HbbTV Starter Pack is a... Read more » March 6, 2012 10:31 AM The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), the public broadcasting company and the largest media organisation in Norway, selected Icareus Playout CS100 Carousel for their HbbTV Trials that are carried out during 2012. The trials will utilize Playout CS100 to deliver various HbbTV applications from Catch-up TV to informative services. The trial's purpose is to verify HbbTV as... Read more » November 1, 2011 12:00 AM Helsinki / Singapore, 1.11.2011 : Icareus Technologies has delivered the Icareus Playout CS100 Carousel server to Mediacorp, the national broadcaster of Singapore. Icareus Playout CS100 Carousel enables Mediacorp to enhance their services by distributing wide variety of interactive value added applications to their customers over national terrestrial network. The service portal includes... Read more » November 1, 2011 12:00 AM Helsinki, 1.11.2011, Icareus Studios will launch a Kids Game service on the Philips NetTV connected TV platform in Nordic countries. The Kids Game service includes a variety of fun and entertaining casual games targeted especially for children. The service and the games are localized for all the target countries in the Nordic region. The service is offered through a micropayment based business... Read more » November 1, 2011 12:00 AM Helsinki, 1.11.2011 , Icareus Technologies has delivered its iTV Suite Manager for OTT to Fintoto, the national horse betting organization of Finland, for its TotoTV network. Utilizing the platform Fintoto offers and manages an extensive online video experience to their customers including over 30000 VOD clips and up to 4 daily live broadcasts from horse tracks. The flexibility of iTV... Read more » October 25, 2011 12:00 AM Helsinki/Seoul, 25.10.2011 , Interactive TV software and solutions specialist Alticast and interactive content creation and broadcast playout solutions provider Icareus are further expanding their collaboration after the successful delivery of a variety of DVB-GEM (MHP) applications to the Taiwanese operator KBRO, one of Taiwan’s leading MSOs in 2010. Alticast and Icareus are... Read more » August 4, 2011 12:00 AM Helsinki/Beijing 4.8.2011: Icareus has delivered Digital Interactive TV laboratory solutions to Irdeto ( http://www.irdeto.com/ ). The Digital iTV Lab solutions delivered to Irdeto Asia Pacific include three Icareus Playout PC100 Compact products. After the delivery, Irdeto can simulate real digital head-end environments flexibly and cost effectively and offer high quality demonstrations for... Read more » August 4, 2011 12:00 AM Helsinki/Madrid, 4.8.2011 , Icareus Technologies has delivered multinetwork EPG playout solution upgrade for Spanish network operator Cedetel . The solution delivery consists of Icareus Playout EP110 EPG Server. After the delivery, Cedetel is able to provide the EPG data to services in their public DVB networks. The EP110 system is used to broadcast the TV program information and to... Read more » August 4, 2011 12:00 AM Helsinki/Singapore, 4.8.2011 : Icareus has delivered a set of its off-the-shelf HD applications with customized user interface and its leading content authoring tool Icareus iTV Suite Author for Mediacorp’s trial. The delivered applications include: • Games : Sudoku and Darts in 1080i HD resolution • Advertising Application for a known brand • EyeCode micro payment ... Read more » June 22, 2011 10:58 AM Helsinki / Delhi, 22.6.2011 , Icareus Studios has delivered an Interactive Radio application to Videocon’s D2H platform. The developed Interactive Radio applications offers a custom built interface for end-users to browse, select and listen to radio channels broadcasted over a DVB-S2 network. In addition to normal listening features the application includes e.g. visual description of each... Read more » June 22, 2011 10:50 AM Helsinki / Medellin, 22.6.2011: Following a delivery to SENA ( http://www.sena.edu.co ) in Bogotá in 2010, Icareus has delivered another Interactive Digital TV Laboratory to SENA in Colombia. This time the Lab solution was installed to SENA in Medellín. The Lab solution includes Icareus Playout PC100 Compact™ for DVB-MHP networks, Icareus iTV Suite Author™ MHP content... Read more » June 22, 2011 10:34 AM Helsinki, 22.6.2011, Icareus Technologies has delivered Interactive TV playout environment for HbbTV service testing and piloting for Finnish terrestrial network operator Digita. The solution delivery consists of Icareus Playout PC100 Compact™ and an undisclosed HbbTV application. After the delivery, Digita is able to develop, test and broadcast Interactive HbbTV services in a... Read more » December 15, 2010 5:57 PM Helsinki, December 15th, 2010 – Icareus Technologies’ DVB-H Mobile TV Playout solutions are powering the recently launched LIME TV in Jamaica. LIME Jamaica (part of Cable & Wireless Communications Plc.) is partnering with DC Digital to offer DVB-H mobile-TV services to LIME’s customers. In the beginning the service will consist of ten channels and it will be... Read more » September 1, 2010 5:05 AM Helsinki, September 1st, 2010 – Icareus has developed a new kind of Interactive OTT TV service targeted to Senior citizens in Finland. The first customer of the OTT platform and SeniorTV™ service is a Finnish company called EcoTec that launches it under its own brand SmartCare TV™ (SCTV). The SeniorTV™ enables Ecotec to offer end users a service that helps... Read more » September 1, 2010 5:04 AM Icareus has delivered an Interactive TV laboratory environment to BPPT ( http://www.bppt.go.id/ ) in Indonesia. The Lab solution includes Icareus Playout PC100 Compact™ , Icareus iTV Suite Author™ content authoring tool and Icareus iTV Suite Component Pack™ . The widely deployed and integrated solution enables BPPT to research, develop and pilot Interactive TV services... Read more » August 31, 2010 5:03 AM Helsinki/Taipei, August 31st, 2010 – Alticast Taiwan has launched Icareus’ Interactive TV games in Taiwanese operator KBro’s cable network. The games are developed by Icareus Studios, part of Icareus Group, an interactive TV content production company. KBro is Taiwan’s largest MSO with 12 cable systems and 1.1 million subscribers from which 120,000 currently have... Read more » August 26, 2010 5:03 AM Icareus Technologies, part of Icareus Group, an interactive TV solution company located in Helsinki, Finland, has released two new HbbTV compliant products. Icareus Playout CS100 for HbbTV is a professional DSM-CC object carousel for managing and delivering interactive applications in commercial broadcast networks. Icareus Playout PC100 for HbbTV is a complete end-to-end laboratory... Read more » April 28, 2010 5:02 AM Icareus has delivered EPG server to Dansk Bredbaand (www.dbnet.dk) in Denmark. Dansk Bredbaand will use Icareus Playout EP100 EPG Server for broadcasting and generating TV program and service information. Dansk Bredbaand operates several cable networks in Denmark, and it is one of the leading providers of broadband solutions based on optic fiber technology in Denmark. The EPG Server... Read more » January 15, 2010 7:01 AM Helsinki , January 15 th , 2010 – Icareus, an interactive digital TV company, has delivered Interactive TV Solutions to Radio Television Brunei (RTB). The delivery includes the latest versions Icareus Playout CS100 Carousel Server™ , Icareus Playout EP100 EPG Server™ , Icareus Playout PC100 Compact™ for MHP , Icareus iTV Suite Author™ MHP content... Read more » January 11, 2010 7:01 AM Icareus has delivered Interactive TV laboratory environment to SENA (http://www.sena.edu.co) in Colombia. The Lab solution includes Icareus Playout PC100 Compact™ for DVB-MHP networks, Icareus iTV Suite Author™ MHP content authoring tools, Icareus iTV Suite Integrator™ MHP for automatic iTV service creation from XML data, Icareus iTV Suite Component Pack™, Interactive... Read more » January 11, 2010 7:00 AM Icareus has received an order regarding its product Icareus Playout ES100 ESG Server for DVB-H to Aido ( http://www.aido.es ), Spain. Aido is the Technological Institute of Optics, Colour and Imaging (AIDO). It is a private non-profit company created in 1988 by the Valencian Parliament through the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Institute of Valencia (IMPIVA) with the aim of supplying... Read more » January 11, 2010 6:59 AM Icareus has delivered its product EP100 EPG Server to Cedetel ( http://www.cedetel.es ), Spain. Cedetel will use the Icareus EPG server in production use in order to provide SI/PSI generation and transmission service to the regional TV channel TV Castilla y Leon . Icareus EP100 Playout EPG Server is used in broadcasting TV program information and generating necessary service information.... Read more » January 11, 2010 6:58 AM Icareus Studios has delivered Interactive TV Games service to D2H in India. D2H is a satellite operator providing a DTH service in Indian market. D2H is a part of the Videocon group, which is an industrial conglomerate with interests all over the world and based in India. The group has 17 manufacturing sites in India and plants in China, Poland, Italy and Mexico and has an annual turnover... Read more » January 11, 2010 6:58 AM Icareus Studios has received an order regarding Interactive TV Games service delivery to Radio Television Brunei. The game service will include 10 Interactive TV games and gaming portal in both SD (Standard Definition) and Full HD (High Definition) versions. Radio Television Brunei ( www.rtb.gov.bn ) is the national broadcaster of Brunei and it broadcasts four TV channels, RTB 1, RTB 2, RTB... Read more » September 30, 2009 4:57 AM Helsinki/Shanghai, 30 September, 2009 – Icareus, an interactive digital TV group, has signed a cooperation agreement together with Shanghai Telecom. Shanghai Telecom is a subsidiary of China Telecom, the largest fixed network telecommunications operator and the second largest operator in China. Shanghai Telecom launched a commercial trial of IPTV already in 2005. Currently,... Read more » May 13, 2009 4:56 AM Helsinki, May 13th, 2009 – Icareus, an interactive digital TV group, has acquired Innosonic Information Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of a Finnish mobile company Innosonic Ltd. Innosonic Ltd is based in Jyväskylä, Finland, and is specialized in developing mobile content and distribution technologies. Innosonic China has its offices in Shanghai. Through the business... Read more » March 18, 2009 6:55 AM Helsinki, March 18th, 2009 – Icareus Studios, part of Icareus Group, an interactive TV content production company located in Helsinki, Finland, has released a new portfolio for IPTV operators. Icareus Studios is one of the leading companies in the world providing Interactive TV Games. Icareus’ portfolio has included e.g. Participation TV games for SMS text message interaction... Read more » February 23, 2009 6:54 AM Horley, UK, February 23rd, 2009 – SysMedia, leading specialist in subtitling solutions and content management and production systems for interactive TV and teletext, has formed a multi-level strategic alliance with Icareus, specialist in TV-centric interactive services and technologies. Icareus, based in Helsinki, Finland, will become SysMedia’s technical partner in interactive... Read more » February 6, 2009 6:53 AM Helsinki, February 16th, 2009 – Icareus, an interactive digital TV company located in Helsinki, Finland, has released new product updates for mobile TV. Icareus Playout™ ES100 ESG Server and Icareus Playout™ PC200 Compact for DVB-H have seen several updates, including support for OMA-BCAST and interactivity. Icareus iTV Suite 4 Mobile has been integrated with Icareus... Read more » September 3, 2008 4:53 AM Helsinki, September 3rd, 2008 – Icareus, an interactive digital TV company located in Helsinki, Finland, has taken over Cardinal Information Systems, also a Helsinki-based Mobile TV company. With the business acquisition all the Cardinal products and IPR’s move to Icareus. Included in the Cardinal’s product range is e.g. Cardinal Playout Compact for DVB-H... Read more » April 1, 2008 4:50 AM Washington, D.C., April 1st, 2008 – The time for INTERACTIVE or PARTICIPATION TELEVISION has arrived in America, via Finland. INTERNATIONAL INVESTOR, a weekly, business program produced out of Washington, D.C., announced that it will now become truly “interactive” with its audience, enabling viewers to respond to survey questions and comment on interviews instantaneously,... Read more » February 13, 2008 6:49 AM Icareus together with several international stakeholders is working on an R&D project outlining the standard based mobile TV interactivity. Project’s goal is to find lucrative ways of doing business utilizing the three of the four forecasted business models of broadcast mobile TV: interactive TV, transactions and advertising business models. In addition, the project includes... Read more » February 11, 2008 6:48 AM Icareus releases it’s new product Icareus ESG Generator for DVB-H based mobile broadcasting. The product is targeted to network operators and broadcasters interested in fast and easy DVB-H service deployment with a solid future roadmap. Read more » February 5, 2007 6:47 AM Helsinki, February 5th, 2007 – Under the INCCOM project, Icareus Entertainment Solutions Ltd has developed a Mobile Fantasy Betting Game for the world famous football club FC Barcelona. The new, entertaining game concept is targeted to football enthusiast, especially FC Barcelona fans, who want to add excitement to the football season. The FC Barcelona Fantasy Betting Game is based on... Read more » December 5, 2006 6:46 AM Helsinki, December 5th, 2006 – Icareus together with its partners piloted local mobile TV at the opening of the Ideapark shopping center in Lempäälä, Finland 29.11 – 1.12.2006. During the event, mobile TV and other mobile services were offered to the DVB-H receivers in the area. The purpose of the pilot was to develop, implement and test different kinds of services, including... Read more » September 29, 2006 4:45 AM The second pilot of Icareus’ mobile TV project took place at the i2010 conference held in Espoo, Finland on 28th September. The purpose of the pilot was to develop, implement and test different kinds of services targeted to international conference guests. The piloted package contained services linked to both the conference and the Otaniemi area. Read more » September 13, 2006 4:44 AM Helsinki, 13 September, 2006 – Icareus participated in the IBC2006 exhibition held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands 8.-12.9.2006 together with its partner Axel Technologies. This year's IBC welcomed more people than ever before with the number of visitors reaching over 44,800. At the show Icareus showcased its new, innovative interactive mobile TV platform especially targeted for events... Read more » September 5, 2006 4:43 AM Helsinki / Barcelona, September 5th, 2006 – Leading iTV MHP game provider, Icareus Entertainment Solutions (IES Games), delivers an MHP Game portal to Televisió de Catalunya, S.A. (TVC), one of the forerunners of the Digital TV arena in Spain. IES Games has provided MHP games in its content portfolio since the beginning of the year 2005 and at the moment IES Games' MHP game portfolio... Read more » August 31, 2006 4:42 AM Helsinki, August 31st, 2006 – Icareus Entertainment Solutions Ltd, the leading MHP interactive game provider, has signed a contract with the Finnish cable operator Suomen 3KTV Oy. Starting from today the two companies will offer in cooperation a selection of games in dnaTV’s Aktiivi TV service. For the first time in Finland consumers will be offered interactive TV services for a... Read more » July 13, 2006 4:41 AM Helsinki, 13th of July 2006 – Icareus together with the University of Turku, partnering companies and local content producers are about to launch a completely new MobileTV project that takes live event experience to another level. The purpose of the project is to investigate, how DVB-H and mobile networks can be used in an efficient and user friendly manner to offer broadcast mobile TV... Read more » May 29, 2006 4:40 AM Helsinki / Dubai, May 29th, 2006 – Media Gateway, the leading international digital rights content aggregator for premium content, today announced a deal with Helsinki-based Icareus Entertainment Solutions to distribute games on the Internet, mobile phones, and IPTV in multiple regions throughout the world. Under the deal, IES Games will provide several iTV games, either as... Read more » April 8, 2006 4:39 AM Helsinki, April 8th, 2006 – During the first week of April Icareus Entertainment Solutions Ltd took part in the MipTV 2006 exhibition in Cannes, France. The MipTV exhibition is the world's biggest market and trade event for professionals from the audiovisual industry, held every April in the Palais des Festivals, Cannes. At the Icareus Entertainment Solutions stand two... Read more » March 9, 2006 6:38 AM Helsinki, March 9th, 2006 – Icareus Entertainment Solutions has started cooperation with Ilta-Sanomat, the biggest afternoon paper and second biggest newspaper in Finland. Both companies have a long history in providing Fantasy Betting services, but the two joined forces for the first time for the IS Formulapörssi service launched in March 2006. The IS Formulapörssi is a formula... Read more » March 5, 2006 6:36 AM Helsinki, March 5th, 2006 – The Olympic Winter Games 2006 were arranged in Torino, Italy 10.-26.2.2006. During the Olympics, Icareus Entertainment Solutions Ltd together with the Finland's national public service broadcasting company YLE arranged a fantasy betting game called YLE Olympiatietäjä (eng. YLE Olympic Soothsayer) based on the IES Champion game platform. YLE... Read more » February 20, 2006 6:35 AM Helsinki, February 20, 2006 – Icareus has continued its success in January and has signed a significant customer for its iTV Suite MHP Authoring platfom, Laziomatica S.p.A, a major player in the Italian DTT scene. According to the co-operation Laziomatica is going to use Icareus’ MHP development platform, Icareus iTV Suite MHP Authoring Tool, for their MHP service development... Read more » January 19, 2006 6:34 AM During the year 2005 Icareus has signed important deals and started important partnerships with European broadcasters, application developers, research institutes and universities. The results are highly satisfying in terms of market-share, customer-base growth, and partnerships. Read more » January 10, 2006 6:31 AM Helsinki / Wien, January 10th, 2006 – Icareus Entertainment Solutions Ltd, also known as IES Games, a leading MHP games provider delivers a MHP game portal to ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk), Austria’s national public broadcasting company. MHP games have been in IES Games’ content portfolio since the beginning of 2005 and at the moment IES Games can offer one of the... Read more » December 12, 2005 6:30 AM Helsinki / Wien, December 12, 2005 – Icareus Entertainment Solutions Ltd, also known as IES Games, the leading interactive television MHP games provider delivers a MHP game portal to the ATV+, the main commercial TV broadcaster in Austria. IES Games has provided MHP games in its content portfolio since the beginning of the year 2005 and at the moment IES Games’ MHP game... Read more » September 28, 2005 4:28 AM Vicenza, September 28, 2005 – “ In the clearest indication yet of the future growth of the DVB MHP standard in Europe, there has been a striking increase in the level of interest in MHP from third party players who are neither a broadcaster or network operator. Two years ago we were explaining to broadcasters what MHP was, today however, this new interest is coming from... Read more » August 21, 2005 4:28 AM Helsinki, August 21st, 2005 – The 10th World Championships in Athletics were held in Helsinki, Finland 6.-14.8.2005. The Finland's national public service broadcasting company YLE together with Icareus Entertainment Solutions Ltd launched a fantasy betting game called YLE Yleisurheilutietäjä (eng. YLE Athletics Soothsayer) on YLE Sports web pages during the Championships. The game was... Read more » July 27, 2005 4:26 AM Helsinki, July 27th, 2005 – The new Icareus game for participation TV, Fintoto Derby Horse Race, was launched in the beginning of Ju ly on the Finnish sports channel Urheilukanava - The Finnish Sport Television Company Ltd. The game was realized in cooperation with Fintoto, a Finnish horse betting organization which provides both traditional betting services and online betting through... Read more » July 7, 2005 4:25 AM Helsinki, July 7, 2005 – Etnoteam Group, the leading Italian Business Solution Aggregator, and the Finnish software company Icareus have signed a Cooperation Agreement aimed to strengthen their position in the DTT market. The cooperation will see Icareus and Etnoteam join forces to target important Customers both in Italy and Finland, as well as in other European Countries. Both... Read more » May 4, 2005 4:24 AM Helsinki / Florence, 4 May, 2005 – Italian regional broadcaster RTV38 has chosen to use Icareus iTV Suite for MHP application development. RTV38 was the first of over six hundred Italian regional broadcasters to deploy interactive DVB-T MHP applications. After experimenting with different rapid application tools they chose Icareus iTV Suite as the tool to produce and manage their MHP... Read more » April 25, 2005 4:23 AM Helsinki, April 25, 2005 – Finland’s leading commercial television broadcaster MTV and Icareus have signed a three-year contract extension on the use of Icareus’ iTV Suite MHP-platform in MTV’s interactive digital TV services. MTV has used iTV Suite in MHP production since 2002. The contract between MTV and Icareus includes iTV Suite licenses, updates, and support and... Read more » February 14, 2005 6:22 AM Helsinki / Cork, 14 February, 2005 – Ireland-based DigiSoft has chosen to use Icareus iTV Suite for MHP application development. " We choose Icareus iTV Suite because of the future support for the DigiHost API which is under development in Finland, Italy and Ireland. Icareus iTV Suite is easy to use, generates very small binary images for good bandwidth use and uses a highly... Read more » January 14, 2005 6:20 AM Helsinki / Vaasa, 14 January, 2005 – Helsinki-based Icareus Ltd, specializing in digital TV solutions, and Vaasa-based MediaCity, a subsidiary of Åbo Akademi, have begun cooperation in the development of digital TV interactive value-added services. The goal of the cooperation is to offer Finnish TV production companies a better foundation for the production of interactive TV programs. ... Read more » | |
