NEWS

7.5.2006 Infocast at Mobile Application Summit

Infocast will showcase its mobile TV -highlights application ReplayXpress at the Nokia Mobile Application Summit & S60 Summit 06, which will take place 23.-24. May in Nice, France, the Nice Acropolis Convention Centre.

The event will bring together developers, mobile operators, application buyers and distribution-channel representatives to promote applications, services, and solutions. It will also promote new technology and update customers on services and applications.

For more information about ReplayXpress, please visit www.replayxpress.com.

For more information about the Nokia events, visit http://www.nokia.com/A402544.

9.3.2006 Infocast at MILIA 2006

Infocast is present at MIPTV Featuring MILIA 2006, the world's audiovisual and digital content market. Meet us at MILIA, Cannes, April 3-7 2006 on stand B1.23 with our partner Icareus Entertainment Solutions.

At MILIA 2006 Infocast Systems will announce and showcase it's new product ReplayXpress.

14.11.2005 Infocast Systems joins industry leaders in Forum Nokia PRO

Infocast Systems Ltd, a leading provider of advanced TV interactivity solutions, announced that it has become a member of Forum Nokia PRO, a program that provides advanced technical, business development and marketing support to selected mobile software companies. As a member of Forum Nokia PRO, Infocast Systems has the opportunity to further strengthen its relationship with Nokia, gain early access to Nokia technology and take advantage of specialized service and support provided by Nokia to help Infocast Systems stand out in the marketplace.

Forum Nokia PRO provides specialized support for advanced developer companies creating the next generation of software based on the Series 40, Series 60 and Series 80 Platforms from Nokia. A select number of companies worldwide who demonstrate industry leadership are chosen as Forum Nokia PRO members. By becoming a Forum Nokia PRO member, Infocast Systems ensures the close integration of its software with Nokia’s devices and benefits from Nokia’s extensive worldwide software distribution channels.

Member companies are also invited to participate in valuable co-marketing activities with Nokia. These can include opportunities to demonstrate applications in Nokia’s booth at industry events and inclusion in Nokia-published software catalogs, distributed to mobile network operators and content aggregators worldwide.

“We are extremely pleased to be accepted as a Nokia Forum PRO member which enables us to provide even more exciting services and produts for our customers” says Lari Aho, CEO of Infocast Systems Ltd.

Infocast Systems Ltd targets the interactive and mobile TV markets with solutions and products enabling rich interactivity and top quality user experience. Among the leading solutions from Infocast Systmes Ltd that run on Nokia devices are Live2Mobile mobile content highlight service and iTV Capture, innovative scene capture application.

About Forum Nokia

Nokia's global developer community, Forum Nokia, connects developers to tools, technical information, support, and distribution channels they can use to build and market applications around the globe. From offices in the U.S., Europe, Japan, China, and Singapore, Forum Nokia provides technical and business development support to developers and operators to assist them in achieving their goal of successfully launching applications and services to consumers and enterprises.

6.9.2005 IBC2005 - Infocast iTV Capture 2.0 released with Big Brother in Finland

Infocast Systems today released a new version of its innovative interactive TV-scene capturing application iTV Capture. ITV Capture 2.0 will be launched later this month in a Finnish version of the world famous reality-TV series Big Brother. Infocast will showcase the Big Brother branded iTV Capture service alongside its other mobile solutions at the IBC Conference, Amsterdam, on September 9–13. Infocast will be present at IBC2005 with its international partner, Alticast GmbH, on stand 1.341.

The Finnish version of Big Brother started at the end of August and will run until December 2005. iTV Capture is a great complement to world-class TV formats, offering unique interactive experiences to Finnish viewers of the SubTV channel. Viewer-selected content personalization and still images are key features of the iTV Capture application. Consumers will receive selected TV scenes on their mobile devices with the opportunity to personalize the delivered content with talk bubbles and personal comments.

iTV Capture is a value-added consumer service for MHP-based interactive TV that enables personal capturing of TV content. Selected highlights can be ordered via premium-SMS messages and are delivered to the consumer’s mobile devices as MMS still images or short video clips. Version 2.0 has come up with new consumer features such as zooming, personal effects for TV pictures with frames and add-on graphics, video support and enhanced service configuration and management features. iTV Capture 2.0 is an ideal interactive TV consumer service for broadcasters and content owners due to its compatibility with various TV-format types.

Lari Aho, CEO of Infocast Systems says, “I’m very pleased to see that the new version of Infocast iTV Capture meets the highest quality expectations for a world-class content format for interactive TV services. Infocast continues to focus its activities on the mobile and interactive TV sector with new mobile TV consumer services coming up later this year.”

About Big Brother and SubTV:

Big Brother is a major, world-famous reality TV show broadcast in over 40 different countries. The format is owned by Endemol International B.V. and represented in Finland by Metronome Film & Television.
The Finnish version of the Big Brother show is produced by Metronome Film & Television and broadcast on the nationwide TV channel SubTV. SubTV is part of the MTV Group which is the leading nationwide commercial TV company in Finland.

About Infocast:

Infocast Systems is a software and professional services company serving TV and media companies. Infocast develops products and services for media companies for real-time content delivery in multiple channels. The company provides solutions for the entertainment, sports and gaming segments. Infocast’s main product iTV Capture, is an innovative digital TV service that enables TV content highlights to be captured personally for the consumer’s mobile phone.

Infocast Systems will be present at IBC2005 with its international partner, Alticast GmbH, on stand 1.341.

For more information, contact us.

8.8.2005 Infocast at IBC2005 Infocast is present at IBC2005 in Amsterdam with its international partner Alticast GmbH on stand 1.341.

At IBC 2005 Infocast Systems will announce and showcase iTV Capture 2.0, new version of its innovative TV-scene capture MHP application, with examples of commercial deployments. Showcase includes enhanced digital TV user interfaces and new product functionality like content personalization, zooming and video feeds. In addition to MHP solutions Infocast will demonstrate its new mobile TV application.

The IBC Exhibition will take place at the Amsterdam RAI from 9 - 13 September 2005 featuring over 1,000 companies in the fields content creation, management and delivery. It will showcase the latest technology and foremost business ideas in broadcasting and media.

The exhibition is internationally renowned for being run by the industry for the industry. It offers unparalleled expertise and opportunities in the fields of content creation, management and delivery.

You are welcomed to meet us and Alticast people at the stand to discuss how you can take advantage of iTV Capture in your company.

See you in IBC2005!!

For more information, visit www.ibc.org

23.6.2005 User generated content and business generated revenues – A Heaven? Case Infocast in INCCOM seminar

Infocast Systems CEO Lari Aho presented his views on sports related cross-media content services to media industry leaders in INCCOM seminar organized by Finpro in Finland. The seminar was organized by Finpro to promote collaboration between Finnish and international media organizations (e.g. Telefonica, Deutsche Welle, Siemens, TeliaSonera).

Mr. Aho discussed about his views on business opportunities lying in cross-media content services, industry challenges and opportunities and industry future trends. In addition to his presentation Finpro made a case study called “User generated content and business generated revenues – A Heaven? Case Infocast”.

Full case study can be found from the following address :
http://www.inccom.org/index.php?option= com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=72

About INCCOM:

INCCOM, Integrated Cross-Media Customer Oriented Models, is a EU funded research and development project focusing to cross-media content services and business. The project is led by Finpro, a Finnish expert and service organization, and its partners include several international media industry actors like Satama Interactive, TeliaSonera, Deutsche Welle, Siemens, VTT, Telefonica, University of Surrey, Finpro, Interactive Institute, bmt.

Project aims:
- To stimulate the commercial exploitation of R&D results and accelerate the take-up of advanced, platform independent content
- To promote collaboration between different actors in the value chain
- To promote development of new services and offers for multi-channel content
- To develop cross-media business models to be implemented at the Soccer World Cup in Germany 2006

For more information, visit www.inccom.org

15.2.2005 Infocast to become a development partner in Finnish digital TV cluster program ArviD

Ministry of Transport and Communications Finland has selected Infocast to be one of the development partners in Finnish digital TV cluster program ArviD. Part of the cluster program focuses to new service innovation development for digital TV. Infocast will develop new version of its innovative iTV Capture scene capturing solution during this project.

Main objectives for the project are the development of easy to use and experiential digital TV service product, development of business and commercial models and packaging of the concept for international digital TV markets.

Project started 15.12.2004 and will be completed during summer 2005. New version of the product will be first utilized in MTV3 channel as a generic value added digital TV consumer service during 2005.

About ArviD:

Ministry of Transport and Communications Finland has launched ArviD, the Digital-TV cluster programme to support the smooth transition to the era of digital tv. The ArviD programme promotes the use of the digital-TV by:
- sponsoring development of service innovations ranging from entertainment to business applications
- initiating cluster-wide measures to enhance the basic conditions of service production
- creating a network for cluster-wide collaboration

The 2-year ArviD programme started on February 24th 2004. ArviD is open for all organisations in digital-TV content context. Joining the programme is free of charge.

16.8.2004 Infocast at IBC2004! Infocast is present at IBC2004 in Amsterdam with it's international partner Alticast GmbH at stand 1520.

Infocast Systems will demonstrate it's innovative iTV Capture product portfolio with examples of commercial deployments. You are welcomed to meet us and Alticast people at the stand to discuss how you could take advantage of iTV Capture in your company.

The IBC Exhibition will take place at the Amsterdam RAI from 10 - 14 September 2004. Featuring over 1,000 companies, it will showcase the latest technology and foremost business ideas in broadcasting and media.

The exhibition is internationally renowned for being run by the industry for the industry. It offers unparalleled expertise and opportunities in the fields of content creation, management and delivery.

The IBC Exhibition will take place at the Amsterdam RAI from 10 - 14 September 2004 featuring over 1,000 companies in the fields content creation, management and delivery. It will showcase the latest technology and foremost business ideas in broadcasting and media.

See you at IBC2004!!

For more information, visit www.ibc.org.

12.12.2003 iTV Capture premier on MTV3 Idols TV show
MTV3 extends use of iTV Capture product to pop music contest series Idols. Idols is a Finnish version of the original UK format Pop Idol. iTV Capture is already used in weekly ice hockey program Hockey Night.

17.10.2003 Infocast iTV Capture in MindTrek Awards
Infocast iTV Capture was chosen as one of the finalists from 117 candidates for MindTrek Awards 2003. MindTrek is one of the leading annual Information Society and Digital Media events in Europe.


More information: www.mindtrek.org.

29.8.2003 Infocast iTV Capture - deliver TV content to mobile devices
Infocast iTV Capture enables an innovative new way for TV viewers to capture exciting moments during a TV broadcast and order them personally to enrich their communication.

More information: www.infocast.fi/Press/030829_iTVCapture_eng.pdf
More information in Finnish: www.infocast.fi/Press/030829_iTVCapture_fi.pdf

18.8.2003 Infocast Systems at IFA-Berlin
Infocast Systems presents exciting new products at the IFA consumer electronics fair at Berlin 29.8.2003. You can find Infocast Systems' products and representatives at the Nokia stand in MTV3's demonstration set. See you at IFA!

More information: www.ifa-berlin.com

17.1.2003 Application for signing digital TV applications
Broadcast Signing Engine (BSE) has been released by Infocast Systems. BSE is a tool for digital TV broadcasters and application developers to digitally sign MHP applications. BSE is open source code and is freely available to anyone.

More information: bse.sourceforge.net