Infosys takes on digital TV

Bharti Airtel has entered into a technology partnership with Infosys Technologies, whereby Infosys will deliver interactive services to Airtel's newly launched direct-to-home venture under Digital TV branding, says Television Point.

As part of its digital convergence platform, Infosys will provide a suite of products including devices, application servers and interactive platforms.

"Airtel's Digital TV technology in combination with Infosys' digital convergence platform will bring digital lifestyle applications offering interactivity and personalisation into the living room," says Atul Bindal, president, telemedia services from Bharti Airtel.

Envizions Computer Entertainment says Mirrors Evolution, a commercial open source application that provides next-generation applications such as gaming, VOIP, storage, cloud computing, game development, social network and multimedia applications, will be on sale from next month, reports Market Watch.

Mirrors Evolution was designed on a modified version of Fedora 8 operating system and new features will be available.

Envizions says it will invest and work closely with the open source community to create a diverse all-in-one multimedia system.

Siemens Enterprise Communications has released OpenScape Mobility, a device which brings telephony, video, unified communications, wireless and fixed mobile convergence in a single integrated mobile UC solution, states Yahoo! Finance.

OpenScape Mobility is a new solution which combines Siemens HiPath MobileConnect, HiPath Wireless, and the new OpenScape Enterprise Mobile Client.

Dean Bubley, founder of Disruptive Analysis, says: "This will enable increased productivity, and help drive down overall costs of business mobile communications.”