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There are a lot of queries on the Internet about using 3G and 4G networks to provide live streaming coverage from an event all the way to the viewer's laptop or smartphone – without using wires – like the big TV networks do. The big players use electronic news gathering, or ENG, vehicles with radio, microwave, satellite, multiple cameras and on-site switching among these cameras to send you all those multi-angle perspectives from the event. It's called portable live production.

Harmonic, a provider of infrastructure that powers the video economy, asserted that Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI), the official public broadcaster for Dubai, deployed the Omneon MediaGrid active storage system for a new transmission archive.

To deliver interactive, personalized video content to a television through an IP connection, NetUP is the first company that developed an Android-based IPTV solution. The IPTV set-top box is a small device providing two-way communications on an IP network and decoding the video streaming.

Wal-Mart may have steamed Apple a little this week. While the retail giant has announced that it is bringing its VUDU video streaming service to the Apple iPad, it's not doing it the traditional way, via an app from the App Store.

Conexant Systems Inc. announced that Atmel Corporation has selected its soft modem technology for integrating into new devices in its SAM9 ARM926-based family of microcontrollers (MCUs). Conexant is a supplier of semiconductor solutions for imaging, audio, embedded modem, and video surveillance applications.

ROK Americas, the US subsidiary of ROK Global PLC, has achieved AT&T's 'Certified Solution Provider' status. The ROK Homeland Security (RHS) service will now be marketed by AT&T Mobile Applications Consultants (MAC's) to relevant law enforcement and Governmental agencies across America.

Pacnet, one of Asia's leading independent telecommunications service providers, now provides connectivity and co-location services to PPLive, the operator of PPTV, an online video company in China, to extend its reach to users in Singapore and across Southeast Asia.

Movie rental services – like Netflix and Redbox – are having an impact on movie rentals. According to a new study from The Digital Entertainment Group, Americans are spending more money on renting movies than buying them.