DALLAS, September 2 /PRNewswire/ --

With the conclusion of the CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe Summit in Berlin, event
host and international research firm Parks Associates announced today the
next Summit will take place in Nice, France, on March 31, 2009.

CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe Summit ended on August 29 following a day of
strategic sessions with speakers, sponsors, and attendees representing over
60 companies, organizations, and media firms. Parks Associates analysts
moderated all sessions, which focused on growth opportunities for new media
and entertainment products, services, and applications.

The next CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe Summit will take place March 31, 2009, at
the Hotel Palais de La Mediterranee in Nice, France. This Spring summit will
feature keynote speaker Roger Pitton, Program Director, TV Business,
Microsoft Corporation, who will discuss "IPTV and the keys to keeping
customers."

Advisory sponsors for both events include Cisco, Enure Networks, F-Secure
Corporation, Macrovision, the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA), NEOTION,
support.com, Toshiba Electronics Europe, WirelessHD, and Zilog.

"The rise in broadband and home networking is a phenomenon across
Europe," said Kurt Scherf, vice president, principal analyst, Parks
Associates. "Service providers are driving this growth and will provide more
than 70 million homes worldwide with a residential gateway solution by 2012.
Now they are looking to deploy advanced services, such as digital and mobile
television, and the regulatory environment can help or hinder these efforts."

In the white paper "No Way to Regulate: Mobile TV in Europe," Parks
Associates argues that recent regulations hurt efforts to deploy mobile TV
services. This paper is available as a free download at
http://www.connectionseurope.com, along with white papers "TV Services in
Europe: Update and Outlook" and "Europe: Home Network Update."

CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe Summit in Berlin also featured a pre-show workshop
from WirelessHD and an exclusive tour of the Fraunhofer Institute's Exhibits
at IFA 2008.

For information on upcoming CONNECTIONS(TM) events and to download "No
Way to Regulate: Mobile TV in Europe," visit
http://www.connectionseurope.com. For information on sponsoring or speaking
at CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe Summit, call +1-972-490-1113 or e-mail
sales@parksassociates.com.

About CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe Summit Series

CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe Summits, produced by Parks Associates, provide
attendees with high-level analysis and consumer research from Parks
Associates, networking opportunities, and information on emerging residential
and mobile technologies and services. http://www.connectionseurope.com

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