Canal+ Technologies Announces Early Registration for MediaHighway Developers' Kit; Powerful Interactive Television Development Platform Offers Reduced Time to Market.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2001 Canal+ Technologies, an international provider of interactive television software, today announced the beta availability of the MediaHighway Developer Kit 1.0 (MHDK). MHDK is designed to be a robust comprehensive development environment that combines WebGain's industry-leading VisualCafe tools with Canal+ Technologies' MediaHighway(TM) iTV middleware for the easy and affordable creation of rich interactive television applications. Registration for the beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. will begin during the JavaOne Developer's Conference, June 4-7 in booth No. 312 at Moscone Center The Moscone Center is San Francisco, California's largest convention and exhibition complex. The complex consists of two main underground halls underneath Yerba Buena Gardens, Moscone North and Moscone South, as well the three-level Moscone West exhibition hall across 4th Street. in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . The beta version is targeted to ship in August. Applications developed with the PC-hosted MHDK are based on the industry-standard Java protocol and are designed to enable cable and satellite operators to provide subscribers with an extensive range of robust applications. Canal+ Technologies' MHDK offers application developers valuable features, including: -- VisualCafe Expert Edition, a popular integrated development environment, available through partnership with WebGain -- Canal+ Technologies' MediaHighway Plug-in for VisualCafe -- MediaHighway simulator for the PC with runtime libraries -- Access to MediaHighway programmer's APIs MHDK is already being used by iKnowledge, a leading Internet solutions provider for content management, to create sophisticated applications with Universal Music Group. InfoSpace Inc. (Nasdaq:INSP INSP Inspection INSP Inspector INSP Inspect INSP Inspirational Network INSP Institut des Nanosciences de Paris (French) INSP International Nuclear Safety Program INSP International Network on Strategic Philanthropy ), a leading provider of the platform and applications that enable partners to deliver consumer and commerce services across the Internet to any device over current and next-generation networks, has also joined the MHDK beta program. "We are very pleased to be working with Canal+ Technologies and look forward to extending our broadband platform and applications to their iTV middleware solution," said Michael Riccio, InfoSpace executive vice president, broadband. "We see this first step in our relationship with Canal+ Technologies as an important one in delivering complete solutions based on InfoSpace services and applications to network operators, and an open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced path towards rapid application development, such as the MHDK, is a critical element to making such solutions a reality." "We see great potential in the interactive television space," said Johannes Heupel, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. at iKNOWLEDGE. "With the MediaHighway Developers' Kit, we believe we can quickly bring our Internet solution expertise for rich content to the digital cable market. Combining iNEXT with MHDK enables our customers to simultaneously control content delivery and interactive application deployment to both Web and interactive television, increasing value for their investment." The MHDK product is expected to be generally available in the fourth quarter of 2001. About Canal+ Technologies A subsidiary of CANAL+ Group, the TV & Film division of Vivendi Universal, Canal+ Technologies is an international provider of digital and interactive TV software solutions. More than 20 digital operators and broadcasters have deployed the interactive TV middleware MEDIAHIGHWAY and conditional access system A conditional access system (CAS) is a system by which electronic transmission of digital media, especially satellite television signals through cable, is limited to subscribed clients. This is called conditional access. MEDIAGUARD, including CANALSATELLITE in France, ONdigital in the United Kingdom, AT&T Broadband in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Astro Measat and ZeeTV in Asia, and most recently, Orbit in the Middle East. Its software runs on more than 9 million digital set-top boxes The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. in digital cable, satellite and terrestrial environments. Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Sony, Thomson multimedia, and Sogecable also own shares of Canal+ Technologies' capital. Its U.S. subsidiary is located in Cupertino, Calif. For more information, visit www.canalplus-technologies.com. Visit Canal+ Technologies at JavaOne in Booth No. 312 at Moscone Center. |
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