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You control the services on your television

yngvi — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:09:48 +0000

The Zignal Software Development Kit brings the power to change

AMSTERDAM, September 10, 2008 - Industria today announced the Zignal Software Development Kit (SDK) intended to help customers and third-party developers create new applications for the Zignal IPTV user interface, integrate with external support systems or simply enhance the Zignal framework infrastructure.

The Zignal SDK consists of the following four main components:

Branding and Themes Toolkit, which allows service providers to change colour themes or rearrange the layout of their current user interface, based on the current functionality.
Application Development Kit, which allows new applications and Widgets to be created, or existing applications to be extended.
Platform SDK, which allows for changes in the server infrastructure.
Integration SDK, which provides descriptions of integration methods for all of the Zignal’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Building business value

The Zignal SDK helps service providers to extend the services they offer in any way that mostly suits their specific needs and addresses their end-users’ requirements, by means of developing new applications in a fast manner. This naturally increases their value proposition towards their end-customers and applies especially to those who want to offer new, sticky and innovative services like for example, providing status updates information for friends, similar to those that social networks are offering. The Zignal SDK means literally the ability to tailor-make information to suit each user and, true to the promise of Zignal, greatly enhance the end-user experience.

Quickly and easily add new functionality

“This is a major step in enabling service providers to enhance their service portfolio. They can quickly add new applications like live match updates, airport departures and arrivals, news feeds or anything else that may be of particular interest to their end-users.” Says Stefan Baxter, Chief Technical Officer, Industria. He goes on to say: “It is time to take the next step in the evolution of TV services. People already are used to having all information at their fingertips using their computer. The same must apply to the TV screen in the living room. Zignal want’s to be on the forefront of leading that innovation.”You can find Zignal running on Motorola set-top boxes at the Motorola stand (1.D31), at the IBC exhibition in Amsterdam.

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About Industria

Industria’s mission is to make TV viewing experience better for people. Zignal™ is Industria’s flagship product for realizing this mission. Zignal is an innovative software solution, which brings the full array of broadband TV services to the consumer.
Industria was named by global monthly CNBC European Business as one of Europe’s Top 50 innovators in 2007 and is a 2006 Red Herring 100 Europe award winner. Industria, along with its UK customer FreeWire., received in 2007 the “best project by a newcomer” award by Global Telecoms Business, a Euromoney publication.
For further information about Industria, please visit our website at www.industria.com.

Media contact

Corporate Communications
media@industria.com
+354 559 2000

Industria opens new Stockholm office

yngvi — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:00:13 +0000

Industria today announced the opening of a new regional head office in Stockholm. The Stockholm office is a natural next step for Industria, which already has facilities in five other countries in Europe and Asia. From Stockholm, the Industria will be able to address the Nordic and Baltic region, which are important, high-growth markets for the company’s flagship product, Zignal.Industria’s Stockholm-based V.P. Business Development, Stefan Gustafsson, sees the Nordic and Baltic markets as an important part of the company expansion strategy. “The Nordic market is mature and sophisticated. Thus, service providers and consumers alike will be quick to see the benefits of the Zignal software in terms of ease of use, speed and flexibility. Zignal is a natural choice for those service providers who want to utilize the best available technology and build on it for the future, without having to make huge investments.”Zignal is an innovative software solution, designed to bridge the gap between the TV user’s expectations and the solutions currently available in the IPTV marketplace. Providing the fastest technology available for set-top boxes, PCs and mobile phones, Zignal brings the full array of broadband TV services to the consumer. Zignal ensures a richer TV experience and improved interactive services over any network. The consumer favours Zignal due to the superior overall user experience, including speed, design and simple interface. Service providers favour Zignal for its flexibility and low cost of ownership, as well as its ability to build new revenue streams using existing infrastructure.

Develop for the tree screens

yngvi — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:18:04 +0000

Developing solutions for the Zignal platform via our SDK simply means the ability to develop applications independent of rendering technology and devices.
What that means is that you will not have to re-write the application for your set-top box to enable it to run on a mobile phone or a PC. In essence, it also means that wether you choose to use Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Flash, HTML or Silverlight is all the same to your application. The presentation layer of the solution is now so razor thin that implementing a new rendering technology requires no re-work of the application itself.

Focus on building business value

yngvi — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:39:26 +0000

With Zignal 2.0, easy customization of user interface functionality and appearance allows service providers to enhance their brand building. Furthermore, Zignal supports Virtual Operators, where service providers can operate more than one type of service on the same network. This means that Virtual Operators can re-purpose content and services to deliver different user experience and content over different networks to any user device, all from the same robust server.Zignal comes well tied into the eco-space, with applications from many ofthe leading solution providers pre-integrated with the system.

Zignal’s fully extendable framework

yngvi — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:32:59 +0000

Based on a modular design, Zignal 2.0 consists of a new application framework allowing dynamic extension and module loading. It also supports widgets, enabling users to easily select new features and services. The new frameworkalso offers connection to home automation services and content discovery through the DLNA/UPnP interoperability technology. Zignal 2.0 also allows operators to provide their services to a range of user-devices from a single server.

Third party developers are now able to develop extensions to the system,using the Zignal SDK. These can than be deployed to a single user, specificnetwork zones or the whole customer base.

Industria Launches Groundbreaking Zignal 2.0 - a Faster, Friendlier and More Cost Efficient IPTV Platform

yngvi — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:30:52 +0000

With a great new UI design, the Zignal 2.0 Digital Entertainment Delivery Platform ensures a great user experience

Industria, a leading IPTV solutions provider, today announced the launch of Zignal 2.0, a groundbreaking and unprecedented IPTV middleware platform, designed to bridge the gap between the TV user’s expectations and the solutions currently available in the IPTV marketplace.

“With our new technology we wanted the user experience to include an intuitive userinterface and instant system feedback,” says Yngvi Gudmundsson, VP Product Development at Industria. “This has been the guiding light during the design and development phase of Zignal 2.0.”The Zignal 2.0 user interface uses device agnostic technology, providing the fastest technology available for set-top boxes, PCs and mobile phones. Already deployed on all three screens, Zignal makes the best use of its small memory-footprint, while maintaining a user interface which meets user expectations.“We want to lead a transformation in the IPTV industry,” says Stefan Baxter CTO, Industria. “Before, the technology just wouldn’t allow for such a feature-rich user interface to be built, while maintaining a reasonable user experience. Today, with the advent of better rendering technologies and through the use of open standards, we are able to offer Zignal 2.0 as the user interface of choice for any display driven device using rendering technologies like SVG, Flash, Silverlight and HTML.”

Delivering the “True TV Experience”

yngvi — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:56:29 +0000

Intuitive user interface
Fast user interactions
Device independent
Fully and easily customisable

Customisable User Interface

Zignal has a feature-rich User Interface (UI) application that allows subscribers to easily navigate, select and search TV content. It also provides a platform for a range of information services and third-party interactive applications. In any digital entertainment environment the ease of use and the flexibility to quickly modify the UI are of major importance. The more intuitive the UI, the easier it is for subscribers to use it.The easier the UI is to customise, the more effectively an operator can convey its brand and connect with its customers.The Zignal Client UI can be fully customised and personalised according to operator defined rules. This capability opens the possibility of offering skins to subscribers much in the same way as wallpaper is sold to mobile users.The main features and advantages of the Zignal Client come from its effective use of high-performance browser technology, specifically developed for lightweight devices such as set-top boxes, smart phones and pocket PCs. This approach enables the Zignal client to be fast, robust and flexible.

Functionality Available to End Users

Multiple user profiles
Show-specific access control
Flexible permission system (interoperability)
Profile based allowance
Advanced program/channel filtering
Smart reminders (nPVR/PVR enabled)
Channel genre (channel grouping)
Customisable show labeling
Personalisation
Language selection
Skin selection
Font size and “accessibility mode”
Bookmarks
Voting
Rating
Device independent
Fully customisable
Really really fast, no seriously!

Zignal can be enjoyed on the three screens; Mobile handsets, PCs and TVs.