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[colinhy] 24/1/2006 10:17

Orca Releases RiGHTv 4.5, Introducing an IPTV Service Delivery Platform to Enable True Open Platform Capabilities
RA'ANANA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2006

Orca SDP Accelerates Service and Application Provisioning to Stimulate ARPU, Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty in the Fast Growing IPTV World.

Orca Interactive (LSE:ORCA), a global market leader in developing middleware and applications for IPTV, announced today the release of Orca RiGHTv(TM) 4.5 with an evolution of the middleware's architecture into a Service Delivery Platform (SDP), a service creation and delivery system for accelerating time to market of interactive TV applications and services.

In the fast growing IPTV industry, operators need to respond to changes in the market and in consumer needs and behavior. Orca's RiGHTv SDP environment answers this need by providing the service control and flexibility for operators to quickly and easily introduce an unlimited number of revenue generating and targeted services and applications from various vendors, thus reducing operation cost, cost of ownership and business risk. The integrated TV experience of multiple applications increases customer satisfaction and loyalty and allows service bundling for pricing and promotion.

Orca's SDP serves as an integration hub for the 3rd party application developers with the OSS / BSS (operational and business support systems), the IPTV value chain components such as video servers, CA/DRM and encoders, and the set-top boxes (STBs) in use in the households. By allowing operators to rapidly evolve their IPTV service, with minimum service integration overhead, the SDP reduces the cost of building and managing services on the IPTV network.

[jonwig] 20/1/2006 09:27

Just announced. I haven't seen a full list of holdings over 3% (it's not in the annual report) so don't know whether this is an addition, reduction or new.

The Company received notification on 16 January 2006 that Scottish Widows
Investment Partnership, a subsidiary of Lloyds TSB Group plc, has an interest
in 2,606,372 ordinary shares of ILS 0.01 each in Orca, representing
approximately 7.35 per cent. of the Company's current issued share capital.

[hotfinance14] 11/1/2006 15:11

Forbidden is up 22%.

[robow] 11/1/2006 10:49

Altium Capital reiterate their buy recommendation with a price target of 75p

[hotfinance14] 11/1/2006 07:17

LOOK AT THE BELOW :





Forbidden Technologies PLC
11 January 2006

Forbidden Technologies and Simply Stream TV partner with Tiscali

Consumer video editing tool is launched through ISP

Video streaming and editing specialists, Forbidden Technologies plc today
announces a strategic partnership with Tiscali, the internet and broadband
company, through its distribution partner Simply Stream TV for the launch of
Forbidden's new Clesh (Clip Load Edit Share) consumer editing package through
the ISP's portal.

One of the first Web 2.0 applications providing a truly interactive user
experience through the Internet, Clesh is a scaled down consumer version of
Forbidden's award winning FORscene package that is being used in the post
production industry by broadcasters. It allows consumers to experience the
functionality and features of FORscene to edit and share their own video and
mobile phone footage on the Internet, through a home PC. In December 2005,
FORscene won the Royal Television Society award for technology in the post
production process.

Stephen Streater, Chief Executive of Forbidden Technologies, commented:

'Clesh is a new and exciting Web 2.0 application. The concept of web based
applications has been popularised with web-based email access. Clesh pushes this
idea much further: using Clesh, consumers can create their own videos and
publish them for viewing on the web or on mobile phones from almost any
computer. Clesh is a fully integrated system allowing creation and sharing of
video as never before. Forbidden is using its technology for internet video in
new and radical ways, and the launch partnership with Tiscali is a true
testament to the capabilities and promise of Clesh.'

Richard Ayres, Portal Director and Editor at Tiscali.co.uk, said:

'The launch of the Clesh package will allow consumers that next level of
functionality when it comes to editing their footage and sharing videos with
family and friends. You only need to look at the success of Forbidden's
professional product to see that Clesh has enormous potential, and we are
delighted to be the first to offer it to our users on its launch.'

The package will be launched on the Tiscali portal,
www.tiscali.co.uk,

[hotfinance14] 11/1/2006 07:04

I see no mention of Orca...can somebody paste the narrative.

[istanbully] 10/1/2006 12:16

I am with tiscali as are a few of my friends. Price is as you say around 15 quid. I've not had any problems with them.A few times I needed technical assistance, they were quite efficent.

[jonwig] 10/1/2006 10:57

Tiscali are one of the best-known broadband internet providers in the UK; during 2004-2005 their adverts and free CDs were everywhere.
I think they are at the cheaper end, subscriptions starting around £15pm.
They had some bad publicity during 2004 owing to poor customer service backup, I believe.
I know nothing of their current reputation, as I'm with another provider.

[slapdash] 10/1/2006 10:46

found it...

Tiscali appear pretty small though... so not too exciting




Slap

[jonwig] 10/1/2006 10:34

Google tiscali +orca and go to news.
It's there, but unfortunately a subscription page:

Tiscali Italia to launch IPTV tests in March
Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - 2 hours ago
... Tiscali will use two types of middleware, Sea Change and Orca Interactive, while for set-top boxes they are collaborating with a wide variety of producers.

[slapdash] 10/1/2006 10:05

ur how do you know that?????????????? I thought they were with Microsoft???

Slapper

[wizzkid211] 10/1/2006 10:03

Tiscali Italia to launch IPTV tests in March with orca.

[colinhy] 09/1/2006 11:07

Evolving the TV User Experience 1/9/2006

by Yosi Glick, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development for Orca Interactive.

[colinhy] 05/1/2006 09:24

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2006--ANT plc (AIM: ANTP), the market leading provider of software and solutions for the IPTV, hybrid TV and consumer electronics industries, announced today that the company will demonstrate its Galio TV Application Manager and client software at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show.

More than 70 percent of the world's IPTV deployments depend on ANT.


Along with partners Amino Communications, BitBand, Kreatel and Orca Interactive.

The company will show elements of IPTV, including fast channel change, next generation electronic program guide (EPG) and various interactive services that form the basis of the majority of the world's IPTV deployments.

"IPTV is an exciting, fast-growing opportunity that delivers significant value for Telcos and digital TV operators worldwide. 2006 promises to be a strong year for IP and hybrid TV deployments," said Stephen Reeder, executive director of sales and marketing for ANT. "ANT is working closely with the other global leaders to define and roll out new and compelling services."

ANT solutions and expertise are widely adopted by the world's leading IPTV services, including Telecom Italia, Chunghwa Telecom, France Telecom, Sasktel and SureWest. ANT's award-nominated Galio platform has redefined the benchmark for IPTV client technology and is rapidly gaining an extensive worldwide content creation following.

[jonwig] 01/1/2006 19:29

Except for about 15 words, it's all excellent news - just that those words did the damage, of course.

[colinhy] 01/1/2006 18:40

Orca wins $3m contract but issues revenue warning

Emblaze's Orca will be the sole provider of a full video-on-demand service to a leading media company, but this revenue will be recorded only in 2006.

Middleware and Internet protocol television (IPTV )applications developer Orca Interactive (AIM: ORCA) announced at the end of last week that it had secured a significant contract win. Orca is part of the Emblaze group (LSE: BLZ).
Orca signed a strategic contract with a franchise of one of the world's leading media companies -- which was not named -- to become the sole provider of a full video-on-demand service.

The contract will initially result in $3 million of committed revenue to Orca. Orca stated that given its status as the sole provider to the franchise, it also believes that this deal has the potential to generate substantial further revenues over the coming years.

Orca noted, however, that the timing and terms of the contract will mean that revenues for 2005 will fall significantly short of market expectations. Orca expects to recognize only a small part of the initial revenues from the contract in 2005.

Orca now expects that revenues for the second half of the current year will be broadly similar to those reported for the first half and, therefore, that reported revenues for the full year ending 31 December 2005 will fall significantly short of current market expectations. Net cash at the year-end is expected to stand at approximately $21 million.

In addition, Orca agreed to acquire a minority stake in the franchise for an investment of $2.5 million. This investment is intended to provide Orca with an opportunity to benefit from the expected significant growth and future profitability of the franchise. The compnay also believes that having a strategic relationship with a global media company has the potential to enable Orca to introduce an important value added partner, in the form of content, to future bids, which will strengthen Orca's position in the market.

A significant proportion of Orca's overall revenues from the contract will be generated from the provision of licenses for the use of Orca's RiGHTv IPTV middleware. In addition, as Orca is the prime contractor, revenues will also be generated from professional services and complementary third party IPTV solution systems.

Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on Sunday, January 01, 2006

[tone] 30/12/2005 11:52

Expect a Buy back such as with VDI then a cancalation of shares and watch BLZ share of Orca grow with no purchase nessasary, if that is the correct spelling;

[twigden] 30/12/2005 09:48

Below Cash, worth buying here

[jonwig] 30/12/2005 09:38

Slap, Wally

- yes, my view was that it's been crashing since float.
BLZ can't be happy sitting on a fair wedge of these, as they are.

[wizzkid211] 30/12/2005 09:36

should be back to 50p later on as there are NO shares to buy....

[wally anchor] 30/12/2005 09:34

Bad day at black rock :-(( I did expect a profit warnining and thought that this had already being factored into the price. Sitting on some serious paper losses at the mo. I still think that this is an area of exponential growth over the coming years, that is of course Orca can grab their share of the market. Alternatively they become a takeover target. At this price Lucent could buy them out of petty cash. Lets hope 2006 is a good one for Orca.

[slapdash] 30/12/2005 09:21

interesting how all emblaze spin offs seem to have crashed shortly after floating...

the curse of Eli?????????????

This isn't a basket case in my view but we will have to see what happens..

Slap

[tone] 30/12/2005 09:13

I am sorry for your optimisum;

[integer] 30/12/2005 09:06

Cash at 30th June 2005 was USD 21m
Cash at 31st Dec 2005 was USD 21m

....suggesting that despite the revenue timing slipping into 2006, we must have been near to breakeven for H2 2005.

With the committed $3m revenue scheduled for H1 2006 plus possible follow up news from the Tier 1 trial (see 8th June) which, if successful, will be deployed shortly means I'm holding ready for the contract announcements early Feb with the results.

[tone] 30/12/2005 08:22

They gave the contract away in exchange for part of the business smells like an old BLZ deal when they brought Alpha Cell