Announcements

15 December 2007	TVBLOB at EIBA Conference, Catania
TVBLOB technology will be used to broadcast the 33rd annual international EIBA Conference at the University of Catania, Italy, over the public Internet. Organized by the Faculty of Political Science, the event focuses on “International Business, Local Development and Science-Technology Relationships”. For more information, visit http://www.fscpo.unict.it/eiba2007/index.htm.

13 December 2007	TVBLOB at visioni Digitali: le nuove Sofa-TV e non solo
TVBLOB will participate in [Digital Television: the new couch TV and not only] at the Politenico di Milano School of Management on Thursday, 13 December 2007, on the Bovisa Campus. The conference will consist of a series of round tables on new digital platforms for DTT, IPTV, Mobile TV, Satellite, TV and Web TV. There will be participants from all of the major Italian broadcasting, telecommunications and IT companies. For more information, visit http://www.osservatori.net (in Italian).

10 December 2007	TVBLOB at TOPIX, La frammentazione della rete: target di nicchia per mercati globali
TVBLOB will participate in the annual Torino Piemonte Internet Exchange (TOPIX) conference [Network fragmentation: Niche targets for global markets] in Torino, Italy, on Monday, 12 December 2007. TOPIX is a consortium geared towards creating and managing a Neutral Access Point (NAP) for Internet traffic exchange. The conference is a forum for the most innovative projects, business models, and strategies for the Web. For more information, visit http://conferenza.top-ix.org/. (in Italian)

28 November 2007	TVBLOB technology used to facilitate US Embassy Economic seminar between Cisco locations
TVBLOB technology was used to facilitate a live video conference between Cisco locations in Milan, Italy and San Jose, CA, USA. Organized by the US Embassy in Rome, Italy as part of the “Partnership in Growth” initiative, the event focused on venture capital, angel investment, and hi-tech start-ups in Italy. The event lasted more than two hours and TVBLOB technology facilitated a live connection over the public IP without a glitch. For more information about the program, visit http://italy.usembassy.gov/p4g/italiano/. (in Italian)

10 November 2007	TVBLOB at Broadband Cities, Amsterdam
TVBLOB participated in the 5th annual Broadband Cities, an annual event organized by the International Network of eCommunities (INEC). The event focused on, among other things, the impact of broadband on business and society and new developments in video, and gathered participants from around the world. For more information about Broadband Cities Amsterdam and INEC, visit http://www.bbc2007.com/.

19 October 2007	TVBLOB at Euro Venture Contest, Torino
TVBLOB participated in the 2007 European Venture Contest. Organized by the European Venture Institute, the event was a part of a multi-city European tour where start-up companies had the opportunity to pitch their ideas, receive feedback from investor experts, and interact with other start-ups and investors. For more information about the event, visit http://www.europeanventureinstitute.eu/.

6 October 2007	TVBLOB at Venture Camp, Rome
TVBLOB attended at the first Venture Camp in Italy. Organized in collaboration with the US Embassy in Rome as a part of the “Partnership for Growth” initiative, the event focused on exchanging information and ideas between hi-tech start-ups, Angel Investors and Venture Capital firms. For more information about the event, visit http://barcamp.org/VentureCamp.

7 August 2007

TVBLOB at IBC - Amsterdam, Stand 331

TVBLOB will be presenting its new generation of products for TV video communication, video streaming and content distribution at the upcoming IBC 2007, Europe's largest annual broadcast industry trade event, which takes place in Amsterdam, 7-11 September. We will be exhibiting in Hall 12 in the IPTV zone at Stand IP331.

This will be the first time that we publicly preview our consumer product, the TVBLOB Box, a new consumer electronics appliance which brings TV 3.0 - next generation Internet TV to the common television. Plus for the professional market, we will show the latest developments in our technology platform, a comprehensive video-over-IP solution which enables the rapid development of vertical applications using an AJAX model in conjunction with our media centers.
If you happen to be attending the show, please do visit us and if you'd like to make an appointment, please send us a request via our Information Request form.

12 July 2007

Video communication at Festival in Milan

TVBLOB and Impresaetnica.it today announced their partnership. Impresaetnica.it is the portal of entrepreneurs in Italy's Latin America community. This alliance is designed to give their community the opportunity to video communicate using televisions. It will be possible to see the technology at the stand, (Extra: Voices, Faces, Visions of Ethnic Entrepreneurship"), at the Festival Latino Americano - held at the Datch Forum in Assago (Milan) from June 21 to August 26, 2007. TVBLOB will organize calls with the US, Guatemala, and other locations in Italy.

12 June 2007	TVBLOB justifies Broadband
TVBLOB issued a press release, "TVBLOB offers the consumer market an application that justifies a broadband connection - TV video communication for the masses" where CEO Fabrzio Caffarelli throws down the gauntlet to BB providers over the lack of applications and services that would justify the purchase of a BB Internet connection.

5 June 2007	TVBLOB presents at Cisco CGI-Amsterstam
CEO Fabrizio Caffarelli made a brief presentation at Cisco's "sustainable living" conference in support of the Clinton Global Initiative. Caffarelli explained how TVBLOB technology promotes environmentally-friendly "best practices" by enabling information and services to be delivered in high quality and real-time to the living room...via the common TV.

31 May 2007

Article published in MilleCanali

"TVBLOB's proposals for broadcasters-Big communications resources" was published in MilleCanali, Italy's premier magazine for TV broadcasters. The article highlights the recent explosion of "viral video" on the Internet and the evident desire for users to participate. It also explains how TVBLOB has transformed the TV into a means of bi-directional video communication. It further goes into depth as to how broadcasters can leverage TVBLOB professional products to deliver over-the-top TV content.

18 Apr 2007	TVBLOB presents to INEC
TVBLOB presents its technology and real world applications during the bi-annual directors meeting of INEC, the International Network of eCommunities. The presentation takes place between Milan and Salt Lake City, Utah using TVBLOB technology.

17 Apr 2007	Article published in Digital Life
"TVBLOB Do-it-yourself TV" was published in Digital Life, an Italian publication focused on technology and lifestyle. The article explains how the diffusion of broadband is creating new possibilities, not only to watch, but also to make TV, then highlights how vMAX enables professionals to transmit TV to households over the IP internet.

12 Apr 2007	TVBLOB Press Conference in Rome
TSF will host the first TVBLOB press conference in Rome, which addresses corporate television over the IP network and highlights TSF's use of TVBLOB professional products, vMAX and vLINK.

3 Apr 2007	TVBLOB partners with MilanIN
TVBLOB is partnering with MilanIN, a professional networking association, to provide technology and technical direction in the creation of a video library and television-related pursuits.

15 Mar 2007	TVBLOB listed as Top 30 in Int'l BB Properties
Business Properties magazine (US) named TVBLOB one of the top 30 International businesses that shave deployment costs and create new business cases for FTTH.