Video services are growing in importance every day. I've been actively involved in a variety of video services ideas with my partner Sheryl. We've recently launched the beginnings of our on GeekSpeakTV show online. Neptuny is one of the real leaders in IPTV services and here's an announcement about an award worth winning.

Neptuny nominated for Best Interactive TV Award

Milan – February 25th, 2008 - Neptuny, the technology leader in providing IT data correlation solutions to large-scale data centre operators and IPTV service providers, today announced that it is a finalist in the Best Interactive TV/advanced Advertising category at The IPTV World Series Awards 2008 for its recommendation system, ContentWise.

Fabio Violante, Neptuny’s CEO comments “We are very honoured to be short listed for the IPTV World Series Awards. Our product, ContentWise is the first ever recommendation system for IPTV operators and is being piloted by FastWeb, Italy’s second largest telecommunications provider. ContentWise generates recommendations for media content tailored to individuals’ preferences based on user ratings and content metadata enabling viewers to quickly find suitable content and hence increase customer satisfaction.”

The awards, which are held alongside the IPTV World Forum (www.iptv-forum.com) in March, provide a showcase for the most important technologies and the finest talent in today’s IPTV industry. They will be judged by a panel of independent experts taken from the IPTV sector.

Justin Lebbon, Head of Strategic Development at Junction Ltd, organisers of the IPTV World Fourm, comments “The IPTV World Series Awards 2008 received a record number of entries and we believe they represent some of the most important technological developments and finest talents in today's IPTV industry. IPTV World Forum is the world’s leading television-over-IP conference and exhibition and we expect to attract over 7,000 visitors and nearly 200 exhibitors in our forth annual event.”

The winners will be announced at a ceremony held on 12th March at the IPTV World Forum conference and exhibition (www.iptv-forum.com) held in London at Olympia.

About Neptuny
Neptuny is the technology leader in providing IT data correlation solutions to both large-scale data centre operators and IPTV service providers. For nearly a decade Neptuny solutions have been unique in analyzing four data sources (business, network, operation and configuration). Providing the most accurate, detailed modelling and forecasting available enables customers to make better-informed business decisions.

Neptuny’s customers include Vodafone, Fastweb, Telecom Italia, OnTelecoms, UnicreditGroup, Generali, Zurich, Axa and Accenture.