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  • Beehive Systems wins Nasscom’s IT Innovation award

    Beehive Systems wins Nasscom’s IT Innovation award

    MUMBAI: Indian IT company Beehive Systems, which provides digital media solutions to broadcasters globally, has won Nasscom’s (National Association of Software & Service Companies), IT innovation award for spearheading innovation (in products and solutions) and original IP creation movement.

    The award aims at celebrating the spirit of innovation in the emerging Indian It companies. The selection process comprised of two rounds of shortlisting by a panel of eminent personalities from the corporate and academic world, informs an official release.

    On winning this award, Beehive Systems co-founder Tushar Kothari said, “We are elated to win Nasscom’s IT Innovation award. This is a great forum created by Nasscom to showcase all the innovative work being done by small and medium sized Indian companies. This award will fetch us the due recognition and valuable opportunities to highlight all the pioneering work we’ve been doing and gain more ground as we plan to scale up.”

    In the first round of shortlisting, out of nearly 100 participating companies, Beehive was selected along with 17 others from across India. From the 18 shortlisted companies, six, including Beehive, were finally chosen as the winners based on a series of workshops in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, added the release.

    Beehive along with five other companies will now go on to present at Nasscom’s annual summit in Mumbai on 9 February 2005. Other five companies that will receive the award include, Compulink Software, Pune; Liqwid Krystal, Bangalore; PACE Soft, Pune; Shrishti Software, Bangalore and Whizlabs Software, Delhi.

    Innovation, Nasscom says, “is the ability of an organization to be different, creative, dynamic and take the unbeaten path. The innovators in the ICT sector are companies that have built products that are possibly firsts within their respective categories, which have launched services that break the traditional mould, have taken the non-typical route to new markets, explored and tapped these geographies and have resorted to imaginative strategies to sustain growth and stay ahead of their peers.”

  • Beehive Systems receives first sales order from Middle East

    Beehive Systems receives first sales order from Middle East

    MUMBAI: Beehive Systems, a software and solutions company focusing on the broadcast industry, has set its foot in the Middle East. The multi-national company, which has a development center in India, has received its first sales order from Procast FZ LLC, a Dubai-based broadcasting company.

    The order includes Beehive’s digital newsgathering solutions – vid’link and vid’linkMOBILE; a complete graphics creation and data automation solution called isle’wiz and an interactive SMS-TV custom solution called mobile2TV.

    The customer will be using vid’link for newsgathering from across bureaus. The system will enable the channel to send live as well as store and forward video clips over leased line networks.

    The laptop-based mobile newsgathering equipment, vid’linkMOBILE will be deployed by the client at remote locations for store and forward video transfer over non-conventional mediums like ISDN, dial up internet connections, etc. The advanced code used in the system compresses the video almost 70 per cent more efficiently than other compression standards without compromising on the quality.

    The graphics content creation and automation solution, isle’wiz, will be used to automatically create, manage and play out graphics in Arabic. This tool also enables real-time integration of the graphics with data sources and display across multiple zones on the screen without the need for any programming.

    Mobile2TV, the fourth application, will allow the broadcaster to build in interactivity in television programmes by integrating viewers’ mobile messages with video display. This allows viewers the benefits of on-air chat.

  • Star News goes hi-tech with mobile newsgathering

    Star News goes hi-tech with mobile newsgathering

    MUMBAI: With a slew of news channels entering the domestic television market, each of the new entrants wants to have an edge over the other.

    According to software applications & services provider Beehive Systems, which announced that Star News has acquired its newsgathering solution – vid’linkMOBILE, the News Corp-controlled news channel now has that edge.

    The system, which has been successfully used for news coverage of the US-led invasion of Iraq, has empowered Star News correspondents with a lightning fast newsgathering system, a Beehive release says.

    Star News has bought 14 software licenses of the product. vid’linkMOBILE is the latest technology for cost-effective and rapid newsgathering, the release says, and allows journalists to transmit live video and audio content to broadcasters via a satellite phone or traditional Internet connection.

    Facilitated by a video codec, vid’linkMOBILE is based on video technology that combines mobility with faster transmission of high-quality broadcast video. It is unique in its ability to transmit high quality video over low bandwidth allowing for transmissions 70 per cent faster than other compression standards, the company claims.

    Ajay Pal Singh, V-P, Beehive Systems was quoted in the release as saying that “vid’linkMOBILE would always provide Star with a definitive advantage of being first on the air.”