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A move that marked a new era saw ANT Plc's Galio HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) Platform work with Kathrein, as the ANT was granted with license.

This deal will aid in releasing HbbTV services on a completely new platform of set-top boxes for a global portfolio. Thus, making ANT Galio HbbTV Platform a pioneer in HbbTV solution distribution. It helps both service providers and device makers to develop and deploy HbbTV related applications for hybrid broadcast TV services to the home.

At a point of time when Swiss Re came close to become a partner, it is believed that the entry of a larger financial base named Ergo will dim its chances to partner with Reliance Life.

Clearly, there is no end to the companies that want to partner with this R-ADAG backed company but Ergo - part of Munich Re which is Swiss Re's rival has been seeking an entry into the Indian market for a long time after it broke its ties with the Hero Honda Group, the largest player in the Indian two-wheeler industry.

An accident led to the deletion of vital customer details disconnecting hundreds of broadband users with Virgin Media off their network.

It appears that during the course of database clean up some mishap happened that made hundreds of modems out of date and disconnected them from the network.

This mishap took ten days back since then the users have been without internet access, on the contrary the company claims that the problem has been rendered to, and there is nothing to worry about.

The annual results posted by the Virgin Media state that in the first quarter of the year, the figures posted were a record breaking high for VoD.

A steady but continuous rise has been noticed in 'On demand video' as stated by cable TV, broadband and phone service provider Virgin Media.

It was observed that the firm had posted a growth in services to 2.1 million i. e., a sixty per cent of the firm's customers. And this data was for the first three months of 2010.

The second largest domestic player in the passenger cars segment and largest exporter in the Indian market, Hyundai Motors India is now planning to tap new export markets to drive its future growth as the withdrawal of the cash-for-clunkers schemes (scrappage incentive scheme) has left the company to look for new options rather than its overdependence on the European economies.

Though, the company expects flat growth in exports in this year but it has to look at new markets to match the he export figure of 270,000 units that it achieved in the calendar year of 2009.

A name common to cable TV, broadband and phone service provider-Virgin Media, is revamping its marketing exercises with an estimated annual budget of around £75 million.

In this development that seeks the upping of services with present marketing contract holders, agencies Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe Y&R, Rapier and Spike are on the mercy of Virgin Media who tries to reorganises things.