Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of a new video-processing technology that enables a complete wraparound view of a vehicle’s perimeter in real time, to enhance the driver’s field of view.

NEC announced the launch of sales for the NOIF2500, a device capable of long distance transmission of uncompressed high vision video through up to 160 km of optical fiber, suited for broadcasters and telecommunications carriers.

SK Broadband, South Korea’s second-largest broadband provider, has boosted its network capacity with a 40G optical solution from LG-Nortel that will help it meet increasing demand for high-bandwidth services like IPTV and HD videoconferencing.

Fujitsu Microelectronics announced two new LSIs to expand its line-up of H.264 CODEC LSIs, that encode and decode Full HD (1,920 dots x 1,080 lines) video in the H.264 format.

NTT DOCOMO, Renesas, Fujitsu, and Sharp plan to jointly develop the SH-Mobile G4 single-chip LSI device, and a platform incorporating it, to support the HSUPA/HSDPA/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE mobile telephony standards.

EMC has donated products and services to store a copy of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s archive of nearly 52,000 video testimonials from Holocaust survivors and witnesses, and make it accessible through Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem.

TANDBERG and HP announced a global managed service offering designed to provide traditional video conferencing customers with greater quality, reliability and productivity, while decreasing travel costs.

Telefónica and Facebook have reached a global agreement allowing the integrated telecommunications operator to integrate access to Facebook’s mobile service and applications from all of Telefónica’s mobile portals. This agreement will expand the current relationship between the companies in the UK into a worldwide agreement.

Nokia unveiled its new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, a mobile device for music that brings innovative new features to the mass market. It will be among the first devices to support Comes With Music, Nokia’s service which offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalogue.

BT announced the availability of BT Global Video Exchange, a service that enables Cisco Telepresence connections between companies. With this new service, companies can now connect to external business partners that have Cisco TelePresence systems.

ASUS unveiled the AiGuru SV1, the world’s first Skype Certified videophone dedicated to unlimited video calling over the Internet, without the need for a computer.

Alcatel-Lucent and Cable Co., a Bermudian telecommunications company established by KeyTech, North Rock Communications, and Transact, announced the landing of the new Challenger submarine cable network in Bermuda.

Kodak has introduced the first consumer-available wireless picture frame featuring innovative Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) technology that generates greater color depth and saturation than other displays, on panels that are substantially thinner, resulting in a sleek, low-profile design.

Motorola announced enhancements to its on demand portfolio that leverage adaptive media management (AMM), a technology framework that creates a flexible, cost-effective platform for the delivery of on demand services including video on demand (VOD), time-shifted television and on demand advertising.

Fujitsu Microelectronics has developed a digital HDTV system-on-chip (SoC) that integrates a video processing engine for superior picture quality, and a full high-definition (1920 x 1080) multi-decoder that decodes both MPEG-2 and H.264 video compression formats. The new chip, the MB86H70, is aimed for digital TVs receiving high-definition broadcasts that are ramping up in Europe.

The Alcatel-Lucent cable ship ‘Ile de Sein’ landed in Nuuk, the 2,100 km section (or trunk cable) of Tele Greenland’s submarine cable network. After completing the cable loading in Calais (France) in July, the ‘Ile de Sein’ began laying segments 1 and 2 in early August from Landeyjasandur in Iceland to Qaqortoq in Greenland.

Alcatel-Lucent and Penn State University announced an agreement to jointly develop an innovative mobile video social networking application. The announcement was made at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment tradeshow and exhibition.

NVIDIA and Opera Software are collaborating to bring the full desktop Web-browsing experience, including support for JavaScript, accelerated vector graphics, and video content, to smartphones and mobile Internet devices.

The National Football League (NFL) and Adobe announced the NFL has selected Adobe Flash technology to deliver live online video streaming of NBC Sunday Night Football games on NFL.com and NBCSports.com.

NVIDIA in conjunction with Pegasys., makers of TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress multi-format video encoding software, showcased at the NVISION 2008 conference, a technology demonstration to optimize video processing with the massively parallel architecture of the GPU.

Kifah Maswadi, 24, of Oakland, Fla., was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for selling pirated video game systems, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich and U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg of the Eastern District of Virginia announced.

Activision and Vivendi, two of the biggest video games creators, have merged and formed one giant: Activision Blizzard. The new company will take aim at Electronic Arts’ market dominance and tries to become the biggest video game creator, according to The Guardian.

Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of the world’s first technology that makes it possible to ensure that digital video data recorded over long time periods and then stored and managed in segments are actual parts of the original video and that the segments have not been falsely manipulated, while at the same verifying the time that the video data was recorded.

AMD announced new ATI Catalyst drivers with major performance enhancements to ATI FireGL professional graphics cards.

HP and TANDBERG announced an expansion of their alliance to broaden the interoperability between telepresence and standards-based videoconference technologies.