Sofia, April 03, 2012 - Bianor announces partnership with Bulgarian telecommunications leader MTel in launching iMediaShare, an application which transforms the smartphone into a personal all-in-one media manager streaming digital media from various sources to any connected TV. M-Tel customers can now download iMediaShare for free from Apple App Store and Google Play, and stream online video to any internet-enabled TV without additional hardware, cables or TV apps.

During the last few years MTel, a Telekom Austria Group subsidiary in Bulgaria, has firmly established itself as a leader in telecommunication services and has recently embarked on a mission of partnering with various local businesses in order to promote and enable growth. M-Tel’s partner program is an instrument allowing joint product and services inception and marketing, creating additional value for consumers.

“[iMediaShare is] one of the most innovative products that I’ve used recently. The simple idea of bringing your personal multimedia content from your mobile and a lot more from the Internet to your TV is simple and useful.” shares Krasen Hinkov, Director Products & Services at M-Tel. “On the other hand the execution is brilliant.”

Bianor has recently announced several strategic partnerships and is currently in negotiations with top local media agencies about the launch of exciting new video content. Teaming up with M-Tel is a major milestone in the development of the product.

“A strong brand like M-Tel embracing this advanced new technology will assist in introducing it to a great number of users,” says Stefan Lilov, VP Product Development in Bianor. “The partnership will enable M-Tel and Bianor to reach fresh audiences and offer exciting new ways of engagement.”

iMediaShare turns the phone into a remote control, allowing users to view photos, videos and music from various sources on different media devices – TVs, home audio systems, game consoles etc. Content is aggregated from channels such as YouTube and Vimeo, personal cloud services like Facebook or Picasa, online news agencies such as Deutsche Welle, personal storage like the phone itself or home networks and made available anytime, on any screen. Advanced media solutions have so far been mostly about ‘time-shifting’ – allowing viewers to be independent of show and program schedules; now iMediaShare lifts the game to a new level, introducing ‘place-shifting’ – the added freedom of taking your content with you wherever you go.

iMediaShare presents a beautiful and functional interface with heads-up playback control by using natural on-screen gestures. Launched early 2011 iMediaShare already has 11 media partners and is internationally recognized with 3 mobile media innovation awards. It recently reached 1.5 million downloads, with 300,000 monthly active users and millions of media files served monthly.

About MTel
MTel, a Telekom Austria Group subsidiary, is the first and largest GSM mobile phone operator in Bulgaria. M-Tel was the first Bulgarian operator to offer EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA and HSPA+ services to its clients. M-Tel owns Loop – the largest virtual mobile operator in Bulgaria, specially designed for the youth market. During the last few years M-Tel launched a partnership program working together with strategic businesses and adding value for customers. Despite the difficult economic environment аffecting the entire IT and Telco industry, M-Tel remains a stable presence in the country.

Uniondale, NY, March 16, 2012 – Bianor today announced a partnership with PR Newswire, the global leader of marketing and communications solutions, bringing PR Newswire’s customers’ multimedia news content directly to their connected devices, including internet TV and gaming consoles via Bianor’s iMediaShare application.

Bianor’s iMediaShare, the complete end-to-end push-to-TV platform, represents a great opportunity for users of PR Newswire’s broadcast and multimedia services, offering the interactive consumer the invaluable ability to access On-Demand News content on a TV, and engage their target audiences in a more dynamic way.

With multimedia broadcasting a growing and influential part of public relations, this partnership will assist in the transformation of standard press releases to rich content that comes alive with video, photos, and more.

“Our partnership with Bianor represents our ongoing commitment to broaden the reach of our customers’ content across a range of platforms and environments,” said Josh Cohen, Vice President, Content Licensing and Distribution, PR Newswire. “For the first time, PR Newswire video content is available on Internet TV, via gaming consoles and across a variety of mobile devices, all through one application.”

In addition, iMediaShare combines simplified content discovery, seamless media streaming and intuitive media remote control thus presenting a timely addition to PR Newswire’s MultiVu offering.

“We are very excited to partner with PR Newswire in bringing on-demand rich-media press releases to the TV screen for the first time in the industry.“ shares Stefan Lilov, Vice President, Product Development, Bianor. “This is exactly what iMediaShare is designed for – to make high-quality online video content available on-demand at any time on any screen.”

About PR Newswire
PR Newswire is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry 57 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimize and target content — from rich media to online video to multimedia — and then distribute content and measure results across traditional, digital, mobile and social channels. Combining the world’s largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world’s enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a UBM plc company.

Find out more about iMediaShare at www.imediashare.tv

Uniondale, NY, February 21, 2012 – Bianor launched today a game-changing release of iMediaShare, the complete end-to-end push-to-TV platform with real-time content adaptation. The new release offers smooth user experience, intuitive navigation and premium subscription capabilities.

“We teamed up with some of the world’s best mobile UX experts to create a simple, beautiful and functional interface,” shares Kostadin Jordanov of Bianor. iMediaShare’s unique design enables playback control without the need to look at the screen, exactly the way you would expect to operate a TV remote.

Natural gesture control allows fast adoption of features such as tapping the screen to pause playback, tapping again to resume it, sliding left and right to load previous or next video, up and down to control the volume, etc. The new release also brings subscription capabilities in preparation for the launch of premium content channels.

The proliferation of the Internet and the ready availability of video content have conditioned consumers to expect the freedom to choose what to watch and when to watch it. iMediaShare responds to this new trend in consumer behavior transforming the smartphone into a personal portable media box to play online video to any connected TV – just like Apple TV but without the box. iMediaShare enables users to access their channel subscriptions at any time, and play favorite shows on-demand on any connected screen. iMediaShare efficiently bridges the gap between the Internet and the home entertainment environment without any additional hardware, cables or remote control.

iMediaShare with its unique mutliscreen offering provides viewers with a seamless way of consuming content across multiple devices. Current usage statistics show 75% of playbacks happening on TV screens and 25% on mobile handsets. iMediaShare has reached a significant achievement of 1.5M downloads, and with the current exponential growth and millions of video files served per month is well positioned to become the preferred platform for device-independent content delivery.

About iMediaShare

iMediaShare offers entertainment the easy way, allowing viewers to choose what to watch and when to watch it. With thousands of On Demand options ranging from breaking news to popular shows, available instantly to viewers on any connected TV, iMediaShare is a unique addition to the modern connected home. The ability to stream media from multiple online sources and aggregate content from home media servers allows iMediaShare to transform the mobile handset into a new generation portable set-top-box.

Uniondale, NY, December 07, 2011 – Bianor today announced it has joined the Brightcove Alliance global partner program to introduce an advanced new delivery channel to joint Bianor and Brightcove customers. Bianor’s iMediaShare technology will be made available to customers serving video to millions of Internet-connected TV’s, helping to meet the increasingly complex online video needs of these organizations.

“Bianor’s core competences make it an ideal partner for Brightcove, whose solutions enable customers to do more with video than ever before.” shares Maria Williamson of Bianor. “The Brightcove Video Cloud online video platform allows mobile audiences to be reached with SDKs, mobile-ready encoding, intelligent device detection and player templates, and delivers video to devices like the iPhone and iPad with comprehensive HTML5 support.”

The solutions Bianor develops through this partnership will aim to support customers’ unique video project needs and enable quick deployment of iMediaShare utilizing Brightcove Video Cloud online video platform. Deep integration with Brightcove’s industry-leading products will enable Bianor’s iMediaShare to become an integral player in the growth of online multimedia and video.

“We are pleased to add Bianor to our global partner ecosystem,” said Chris Johnston, director of technology partnerships at Brightcove. “Innovative partners like Bianor enable us to extend the capabilities of our online video platform and provide everything customers need to operate successful online video initiatives.”

About iMediaShare
iMediaShare offers entertainment the easy way, allowing viewers to choose what to watch and when to watch it. With thousands of On Demand options ranging from breaking news to popular shows, available instantly to viewers on any connected TV, iMediaShare is a unique addition to the modern connected home. The ability to stream media from multiple online sources and aggregate content from home media servers allows iMediaShare to transform the mobile handset into a new generation portable set-top box.

About Brightcove
Brightcove Inc., a leading global provider of cloud content services, provides a family of products used to publish and distribute the world’s professional digital media. The company’s products include Brightcove Video Cloud, the market-leading online video platform, and Brightcove App Cloud, the pioneering content app platform. Together, more than 3,600 customers in 50 countries rely on Brightcove’s cloud content services to build and operate exceptional media experiences across PCs, smartphones, tablets and connected TVs.

Uniondale, NY, June 15, 2011 – Last week was a very busy one for Bianor and for iMediaShare’s team in particular. Bianor’s participation in the 2011 Chicago Cable Show was only part of the reason. On June 15 amidst heavy competition iMediaShare snatched another award! This time the New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC) Mobile Application Forum recognized Bianor’s mobile application for innovation in the Mobile Media category. The event was sponsored by Research In Motion and aimed to highlight the most innovative and successful mobile applications developed in the U.S. mid-Atlantic region and Canada.

“We are extremely proud that iMediaShare is once again recognized as a harbinger of innovation in mobile media” said Metodi Filipov. “To be selected amongst all other companies from the Tri-State Region, known as the cradle of the media industry, and to be awarded such an achievement in media technologies is a great success”, continues Metodi.

NJTC Mobile Application Forum award is the second notable recognition for iMediaShare. In 2010 it received the LISA Award from the Long Island Technology Network (LISTnet).

About iMediaShare

iMediaShare provides easy access to video and audio content from various sources, allowing people to enjoy their favorite content on-demand on any connected TV. With iMediaShare the mobile handset can easily enable and seamlessly control the streaming of digital media to any TV screen.

Find out more about iMediaShare at www.imediashare.tv

Award-winning breakthrough content and advanced interactive networks, coupled with ultra-fast broadband, large-scale interactive media and IP video on any screen makes cable a harbinger of charge for a new era of advanced communications.

The NCTA’s annual exhibition Cable Show 2011 is the event that covers all that. The Cable Show will take place in Chicago, IL next week. This is the place to hear leading executives discuss their vision of next-generation networks and TV platforms. It is also the place to share our view of the future of personal TV and how to leverage the potential of existing home and mobile infrastructure.

Come along to our booth and join Bianor’s team for the unveiling of a great new edition of iMediaShare. Discover the amazing integration of Apple and Google media worlds!

Find us at booth 2039, McCormick Palace, Chicago, IL – Jun 14th – 16th!

About iMediaShare

iMediaShare provides easy access to video and audio content from various sources, allowing people to enjoy their favorite content on-demand on any connected TV. With iMediaShare the mobile handset can easily enable and seamlessly control the streaming of digital media to any TV screen.

About The Cable Show

The Cable Show is hosted by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), the principal trade association of the cable television industry in the United States. It is a three-day immersion into everything cable can do. People, platforms and potential for new business abound. Idea-inspiring panel sessions on the latest thinking in content delivery, consumer behavior and technology breakthroughs are presented, along with first-hand demonstrations of new concepts for programming, technology and business support.

Some of the speakers at this year’s events include executives from Comcast, Goldman Sachs, NBC Universal, Samsung, Citigroup, Time Warner, Cablevision, Best Buy, ESPN, Comcast, Cox, Viacom, News Corp, Turner, Motorola and many others.

Uniondale, NY, May 30, 2011 – Bianor and Deutsche Welle join forces to bring the German broadcaster’s on-demand videos to connected TV screens around the globe. Deutsche Welle produces news, background information and cultural highlights worldwide, creating a platform for intercultural dialogue. Its on-demand video library is now part of iMediaShare’s video channel lineup – available both in English and German.

Bianor’s iMediaShare is a mobile solution that enables users to personalize their TV experience. It provides easy access to video and audio content from various sources to let people enjoy their favorite content on any connected TV. iMediaShare transforms the mobile handset into a personal all-in-one media manager that combines content portability with seamless media streaming and TV remote control functionality.

“The content quality is key to great TV experience. We are very excited to partner with Deutsche Welle and to deliver content from this leading broadcaster to the international audience”, says Metodi Filipov, Bianor’s Managing Director. “On-demand video consumption gains popularity as more people want to be in full control of what and when they watch. Unlike traditional TV broadcasting solutions iMediaShare is specifically designed to address these needs”, adds Metodi Filipov.

“Working with a company, as innovative as Bianor, provides us with a great opportunity to expand into new areas of business”, says Petra Schneider, Deutsche Welle Director of Distribution. ”We really do have something for every iMediaShare user in our selection of on-demand content which ranges from business and politics to sports, music, lifestyle and art – all produced in the heart of Europe”.

iMediaShare serves over a million media items monthly, and over 2,500 new users join the community every day to enjoy the convenience of on-demand media. iMediaShare is available for free for iPhone and Android platforms.

About Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle is Germany’s international broadcaster. With DW-TV, DW-RADIO and DW-WORLD.DE, the company produces news, background information and cultural highlights worldwide, while creating a platform for intercultural dialogue. Deutsche Welle is a respected and credible source of information that reaches more than 86 million listeners and viewers worldwide every week and distributes programming and services via a global satellite network, partner stations (rebroadcasting) and on the Internet, as well as utilizing modern forms of media like podcasting, live-streaming, newsletters, mobile offers and RSS services.

Uniondale, NY, April 5, 2011 – Bianor has added the first news on demand channel to its content streaming and TV playback platform iMediaShare for the US and Canada. France 24 is a 24/7 international news channel, covering international current events from a French perspective through diversity of opinions, debate & confrontation of viewpoints. The channel offers a European perspective on world events, and provides a key to understanding ever more complex events through in-depth analysis.

Bianor’s iMediaShare transforms the smartphone into a remote control, allowing seamless playback of online content on connected TV’s. Users can play online videos on any connected TV at any time, whether at home, or visiting friends. iMediaShare turns the smartphone into a personal media device combining TV guide, TV remote control and set-top box functionality in one unit.

Arnaud Verlhac – France 24’s Head of Distribution Americas ads: “We are very happy to announce the addition of France 24 breaking news, events and highlights. In addition to our satellite broadcast iMediaShare on demand distribution will allows us to reach more TV customers in North America. France 24 provides in depth coverage of the recent events in the Middle East.”

Uniondale, NY, January 4th, 2011 — Why watch online videos on the small screen of your laptop or phone when you could be using the latest version of the iMediaShare app to watch them on your large-screen TV? This week, Bianor introduces iMediaShare 3.0, a free mobile app that transforms your Android smartphone into a remote control, allowing you to seamlessly stream and watch online media on the big screen.

Unlike the many set-top box solutions available in the marketplace, iMediaShare 3.0 requires no additional hardware and no cables. The mobile solution ensures that your favorite content is portable, so you can play it at any time on any connected TV. iMediaShare 3.0 also supports connected audio systems and blu-ray players, as well as PS3 and Xbox360 game consoles.

Says Bianor’s Managing Director, Metodi Filipov, “The latest Android version of iMediaShare comes with a complete redesign, which provides a much improved user-experience, and a new scalable back-end infrastructure to support on-demand video streaming from the cloud.”

“The online TV channels featured on iMediaShare 3.0 include TEDTalks and NASA TV. Users can expect to see many more channels in the near future,” Filipov added.

Every 60 seconds, three people in the States launch the iMediaShare app, which is currently experiencing over 40% growth in downloads on a monthly basis. As with previous versions iMediaShare 3.0 also supports playback of all user-generated content from personal video and music collections to social places like Facebook and Picasa.

You can download the free mobile app iMediaShare from ims.bianor.com/dl or from the Android Market.