March 15, 2010

Professional Teams Headed to Uganda

Whitten-Newman Foundation

• Reggie Whitten - Co-founder of the WNF, Co-founder and Senior Partner of Whitten Burrage Law Firm
• Bill Horn - Executive Director for Pros for Africa, President of Inspire Management Co.
• Staci Horn - Wife of Bill Horn, mother of five
• John Hargrave - President of East Central University, guest of Reggie Whitten
• Robert Hargrave - Son of John Hargrave, recent graduate of OSU
• Mike Hinkle - Retired attorney, guest of Reggie Whitten
• Jay Mitchel - Volunteer with the WNF, attorney with Whitten Burrage Law Firm   
• Jonathon Gofton - Volunteer with the WNF, son of Reggie Whitten      
• Staci Foresee - Volunteer with the WNF, Scheduling Director for Kim Henry
• Derek Watson - Creator of Pros for Africa promo video, award winning filmmaker 

Medical Team

• Dr. Amal Moorad - Medical director for Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center
• Kathy Sandler - GSK pharmaceutical rep., Dr. Moorad's better half
• Dr. Sachidanandan Naidu - Family physician at Mercy Health Edmond Memorial
• Yashna Naidu - Daughter of Dr. Naidu, student at Heritage Hall High School
• Dr. John Carey - Vascular surgeon, Surgical Specialists of Oklahoma
• Meredith Carey - Daughter of Dr. Carey, nurse in Denver, CO. 
• Dr. Robert Tibbs - Neurosurgeon, Neuroscience Specialists
• Michelle Tibbs - Wife of Dr. Tibbs, hairstylist in OKC

GiANT Experiences

• Ray Sanders - Founder and CEO of GiANT experiences
• Stephanie Sanders - Founder of Gourmet Girl Bakery, wife of Ray Sanders
• Brian Hill - Co-founder of Bank on Hold, board member of GiANT experiences
• Marla Hill - Co-founder of Bank on Hold
• Isaiah Powers - Award winning freelance animator and producer

NFL Players and Guests

• Mark Clayton - Baltimore Ravens
• Roy Williams - Cincinnati Bengals
• Tommie Harris - Chicago Bears
• Ashley Firmin - Guest of Tommie Harris 
• Adrian Peterson - Minnesota Vikings
• Ashley Brown - Guest of Adrian Peterson
• Chris Smith - Guest of Adrian Peterson
• Nelson Peterson - Father of Adrian Peterson
• Rosalind Gipson - Guest of Nelson Peterson
• Bonita Jackson - Mother of Adrian Peterson
• Frankie Jackson - Guest of Bonita Jackson

Water4 Foundation

• Dick Greenly - Geologist and founder of Water4
• Kevin Johansen - Willow Creek member
• Steve Stewart - Designer of Access 1.2 water pump
• Karl Storm - Water4 contractor

Feed the Children

• Steve Whetstone - Vice President of International Relations for Feed the Children

Griffin Communications

• Bryan Eckert - Managing editor at NEWS 9
• Amy McRee - Co-anchor for NEWS 9 at 6 and 10 during the week.
• Mark McBride - Photo-journalist for NEWS 9
• LeAnne Taylor - Co-anchor for Six in the Morning
• Tecnical assistance - live reporting possible by Software by iPixCel,

live Video communication - Software by iPixCel, LLC

• ChaserView two-way video conferencing suite
• Inmarsat BGAN terminal

ESPN

• Marisa Katz - Freelance writer for ESPN, graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts

 

 

February 8, 2010

Software by iPixCel today announced the release of ChaserView™ two-way conferencing software supporting HTC Pro and Treo Pocket PC series, if pre configured with Microsoft Mobile 6, 6.1 or 6.5. This new release although only supports two-way audio and video conferencing in gray scale (black & white), it will be supporting full color conferencing in mid May 2010.

For clients needing a Mobile 6, Mobile 6.1 or Mbile 6.5 solution for low latency, low bandwidth consumption conferencing over Inmarsat BGAN and or cellular networks, it is a perfect solution as it is an ultra portable solution and works great over fluctuating wireless networks, Ansari Software by iPixCel developer said. For example using a Sprint Network device such as HTC Pro equipped with EVDO network, the mobile user can make low latency two-way video and audio calls to another similar device or use the video conferencing software with Inmarsat BGAN WiFi - generated by any Inmarsat BGAN terminals. The reported latency for two-way audio and video over Inmarsat BGAN and Cellular networks benchmarking at 1.2 seconds end to end.

ChaserView's multi-layered codec with Sculpture™ video, black and white and full color support has a built-in PipeManager™ - an acronym for wireless bandwidth manager - allowing to use very little bandwidth and still produce great low latency two-way video and audio exchange, a "next generation" feature particularly suitable for Inmarsat BGAN users needing to watch their bandwidth consumption as the BGAN network unlike cellular wirless is very expensive to use. Using the PipeManager software suite, user can build a low bandwidth consumption profile such as 33.6 or 56k so the bandwidth consumption will never exceed the preconfigured amount, therefore resulting in tremendous savings of air time with no noticable degradation of video and audio quality. If used with Cellullar network, this feature can be extremely useful if the available wireless nework does not provide 3G quality as most areas in most metro locations are not yet adequately provisioned with full advertised rate of 300-500K up and downlinks. This new feature is not implemented in other competing products such as solutions offered by SayGus, iVISIT or other emerging products. Inherently, the H.264 or the garden variety (codecs off-shelf codecs) implemented in the offerings are not capable of bonding with low bandwidth ratio such as 14.4, 28.8, 33.6 or 56k as the compression ratio built with the H.264 will not allow exchange of video and audio - in real time- within above bandwidth ranges.

Working with Microsoft development team, ChaserView solution is offering a true next generation - multi-layered - codec capable of offering a low latency expereince over low bandwidth networks while using the solution with low powered Pocket PC CPUs.

 

The software is easy to load and is in familiar Microsoft .CAB format. It is easy to download and install and make call to a similar device. Similar testing on more Microsoft 6, 6 classic and 6.1 devices are underway and will be announced shortly.

To evaluate a copy of ChaserView with your Pocket PC, please contact: support@ipixcel.org

 

January 2010

 

Radio Holland South Africa using VideoMoverPlus for video Streaming over BGAN network

Radio Holland South Africa
Evaluation of iPixCell VideoMover plus video streaming software.
27 January 2010

Radio Holland South Africa was recently requested to demonstrate the VideoMover plus video streaming software for a security service client for services starting with the Soccer World Cup.

We contacted Software by iPixCel and requested a demo copy for one week and within a day we had an email back with a link to download the software, including the one week license. Included with this was the instruction to install the software. The instruction was easy to understand and concise. Within a short period of time we had the Send and Receive software, configuration and license installed.

We did however hit on one snag which was due to our own fault in reading the instructions properly. One call to the support staff at iPixCel sorted this out. The problem was that we typed in the IP address of the send station in abbreviated format but what is required is the full format including the htpp:// and also the 8080 port number at the end.

Once this was corrected we were up and running.

We had obtained a Fixed IP from out Service Provider and set up the Thrane Explorer BGan 700 into Modem mode
Then firstly we set up the Thrane Explorer 700 in the Background IP mode which is and tested the system without using the costly 256k streaming. This worked very well and we were pleased to be able to connect at 193kbps with a good picture quality. This would be because we ran the test in Johannesburg and probably had the use of the channel in the spot beam all to ourselves (low contention).

We then set up the Thrane Explorer 700 in 256k streaming mode. It is very easy to change over using the Thrane Web Interface on the Explorer 700 terminal and on the VideoMover plus just one drop down arrow click to change over. This worked very well with a noticeable improvement in picture quality and movement response.

Our client was impressed with the picture quality and has requested that we should do further demonstrations with the other BGAN equipment that they have access to.

Peter Bruce
Market Manager (Land Mobile)
Radio Holland South Africa

Edward R. Murrow Award for KWTV:

" Gary England, the NEWS 9 storm coverage team and supporting staff have been honored as best in the nation in the category of Breaking News-Weather Coverage. The Radio-Television News Directors Association has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971.

Director of Meteorology Gary England says, “This is as good as it gets in television. A national Edward R. Murrow Award is the ultimate in our business. This was a team effort that involved personnel from several NEWS 9 departments. I'm so proud to be a part of an organization that does such a terrific, professional job keeping Oklahomans safe from the storm.”

NEWS 9's entry for Breaking News-Weather Coverage of the tornado outbreak on May 24, 2008, was chosen from competition among all large television markets. The winning entry included extraordinary video of a six hour tornado event that produced multiple large tornadoes just north of the Oklahoma City metro.

Murrow's pursuit of excellence in journalism embodies the spirit of the awards that carry his name. Murrow Award recipients demonstrate the spirit of excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the broadcast news profession. " Content from KWTV website.

Note from Software by iPixCel:

News9.com uses VideoMover streaming technology over CDMA and BGAN. VideoMover is a custom software developed for news9.com

News9.com streams live video using VideoMoverPlus™ software

December 24,25,26, 2009

KWTV (news9.com) now streams live video from inside moving vehicles directly to www.news9.com, a simultaneous on air via digital signal and on the web at www.news9.com. Currently multiple reporters equipped with VideoMoverPlus streaming software reporting live video over Sprint CDMA or Inmarsat BGAN back to the station for delivery on stream in real time online.

GRIFFIN COMMUNICATIONS using VideoMoverPlus™ solution for real time vehicular streaming of NEWS via wireless.

January 2010, Oklahoma City

GRIFFIN COMMUNICATIONS, the parent company of News9.com, KWTV,Ch9 of Oklahoma City, OK and newson6.com, KOTV,Ch6 of Tulsa, Oklahoma deployed VideoMoverPlus streaming solution for on the move and mobile project where news gathering is now totally wireless from fixed or mobile platforms with direct connection to the studio.

GRIFFIN COMMUNICATIONS is a major news gathering and media organization using the software solution to enhance news coverage using notebooks equipped with on dash camera, Sprint EVDO connection and VideoMoverPlus software from Software by iPixCel. Based on successful deployment of VideoMover for real time severe weather reporting (see a sample video clip here) , now news crews at both TV stations are using a similar solution to cover real time news reporting.

VideoMovePlus™ streaming software technology is a custom software developed for fixed and vehicular - on-the-move- video streaming and multimedia file transfer using wireless networks. You can learn about the technology overview and see some sample video clips of this custom software in action here

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Pros for Africa team from Oklahma are in Tulu, Uganda transmitting live video using ChaserView video conferencing.

Amy McRee and LeAnne Taylor- Griffin Communications

A group of professionals including medical doctors, humanitarian workers, former and current football stars from State of Oklahoma are in Uganda, Africa for humanitarian projects such as to feed 2000 people, build water facilities and provide medical care for the residents. KWTV and KOTV, the Griffin Communications is covering the entire story using Software by iPixCel technology. ChaserView software using Inmarsat BGAN is used for live video conferencing and VideoMover is used to stream and transfer files.

Video clips and complete case story will be published next week.