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Grapewire is proud to announce the release of version 1.7 of its entertainment delivery platform. Improvements have been made to both the end user and administration experience. All features of the platform’s client is now supported for all browser, touch enabled browsers, iOS, Android 2.1 onwards, a series of IPTV set-top-boxes and testing has begun on clients [...]

Siminn, the Icelandic Telecom has concluded the first phase of music service integration to the third screen – IPTV. 12 channels featured on Bestu Lögin, Siminn’s music service powered by the Grapewire entertainment platform are now also available through Siminn’s IPTV service. Subscribers can now enjoy 80 handcrafted quality music channels featuring entertainment fit for [...]

Siminn, the Icelandic Telecom, is upgrading their music service powered by the Grapewire entertainment platform. Five of the current lineup of 80 music channels will be free of charge and open for all users regardless of their ISP or mobile operator. This is a significant change and helps portrait the value of the music service [...]

The research vessel Dardanella did on August 4th set sail for Greenland and Newfoundland from Reykjavik as she embarked on a 3-4 year journey circumventing the Americas. On board, a large group of researchers will complete a series of projects involving underwater recordings of sea mammals, workshops on various topics and the documentation of issues [...]

As part of Siminn’s commitment to event sponsorship, Grapewire is programming and launching channels specifically dedicated to acts headlining this years “Besta hátíðin” festival. The channels are available through the Ringtonar music service powered by Grapewire’s Streamcloud infrastructure and users can embed the channel player to each other’s Facebook wall.

Grapewire is launching a NetTV service on two channels featuring all events of the 8 day Icelandic Horse Festival taking advantage of the Grapewire entertainment delivery platform. Re-streaming was enabled by technology provider Kukl via servers provided by Simafelagid. Subscription are processed through the Grapewire payment gateway. www.landsmot.tv

A highly custom ticket sales, processing and delivery solution tailored to the needs of the Icelandic Horse Festival has now been integrated with the POS system of fuel merchants N1 for fast and distributed delivery of festival passes and trailer permits. The integration will be used for the future sales activity of The Icelandic Equestrian [...]

Following some interesting dialog with the good people at Infinite Loop One which did include finding, connecting and using a fax machine, the shiny new iPhone/iPad application is at your disposal in the the Apple appstore. Just follow the link and start enjoying your entertainment services powered by Grapewire’s Streamcloud. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bestu-login/id439865038?mt=8

We’ve had some excellent feedback from users in the last few days which has helped us identify ways to further improve the user experience on the web, on devices and the basic IPTV integration framework. We make those improvements available in version 1.02 of the Streamcloud client. Enjoy.

Following the successful deployment of “Bestu login” streaming music service for customers of the Siminn brand the Icelandic Telcom launches another custom product for youth oriented brand Ring. Ringtonar is a selection of 15 channels two of them which reflect current promotions and directly link to ongoing event sponsorship. The results are a targeted value [...]