Free Webinar Looks at Android for IPTV

By Stefania Viscusi, Assignment Desk Editor

The Android (News - Alert) smartphone platform continues to grow in popularity today – surpassing the competition and putting it in line to become the leading U.S. mobile operating system by the end of 2010, Gartner (News - Alert) has forecasted.

Market research firm Quantcast (News - Alert) also released findings from its latest market study on mobile operating systems that shows Google’s (News - Alert) Android continues to perform well with 18.6 percent year-over-year growth.

This adoption of Android-powered devices and the growth of IP connectivity in today’s households is also creating a whole new world of opportunities for IPTV manufacturers who can make use of Android to develop delivery platforms and device agnostic IPTV solutions.

To delve deeper into this topic, Aricent (News - Alert) is sponsoring a free TMC Webinar,

“Leveraging Android to Deliver Innovative IPTV Solutions,” on Tuesday, Oct. 26 at 11PM ET.

The webinar will highlight the ways in which Android can be leveraged to develop innovative IPTV solutions and the key considerations shaping it -with a specific focus on equipment manufacturers and platform vendors.

Key components of hardware and software design as well as best practices and innovative IPTV applications will also be discussed.

Guest presenters include Sunil Bhatia, Technology Architect, Mobile Device Solutions at Arcient and Nelson Lee, Vice President, Corporate Sales Marketing Division, Silicon Integrated Systems.

Don’t wait, Register Now!

(source: http://iptv.tmcnet.com/topics/iptv/articles/109687-free-webinar-looks-android-iptv.htm)