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To: hoffy who wrote (4422)	3/17/1999 8:53:00 PM
From: whitephosphorus	Respond to of 52051

IATV- The march forward contines Check the news. Sky Connect and ACTV inked a deal last December to imbed ACTV's individualized TV in their ad insertion product...... March 17, 1999: nCUBE to Buy SkyConnect Foster City, Calif. -- Video-server supplier nCUBE said Wednesday that it agreed to buy SkyConnect Inc., adding digital ad insertion to nCUBE's service line. Oracle Corp. chairman Larry Ellison, who is also chairman, CEO and principal owner of nCUBE, said the combined firm will pitch "mission-critical solutions for a variety of broadcast-quality digital applications," including video-on-demand, enhanced pay-per-view and digital ad insertion. Deal terms were not disclosed. Louisville, Colo.-based SkyConnect and nCUBE have been working on VOD-delivery solutions since mid-1998, the companies said. The latter's "MediaCube" video servers, using Oracle software, rank among the leading servers used in VOD and near-VOD trials and applications by cable and telecommunications companies. Ameritech New Media, for example, uses nCUBE servers to provide server-based enhanced-PPV services in its Midwest cable systems. SkyConnect -- in second place in the ad-insertion market -- is well behind market-leader SeaChange International Inc. SkyConnect was slated to merge with Internet-service provider Online System Services Inc. last year, but that deal fell apart in November, after OSS' stock price fell sharply due to investor dissatisfaction with the deal. - 3/17/99