TVBEurope presents news examining the business of broadcast and post in Europe, including the changing business models that drive it, the people that shape it, and the products that will mould its future.

The shortlist of finalists for the 2010 IABM Awards for Excellence in Design and Innovation have been announced.

Technicolor is separating its transmission and headend divisions from Grass Valley, which will now operate as stand-alone entities and are being renamed Thomson Broadcast and Thomson Video Networks.

Cardiff-based TV post production company Mwnci has invested in a Baselight HD colour-grading system and Baselight Kompressor from FilmLight to complement its existing Avid editing workflow.

In the week that Project Canvas becomes a fully independent joint venture project director, Richard Halton, suggests that responsibility for driving the success of the platform has passed from manufacturers to content producers, writes Adrian Pennington.

Civolution has upgraded its Teletrax global broadcast monitoring service to v4.0, and now includes tracking of SD and HD video material as well as capabilities for combined watermarking and fingerprinting broadcast monitoring applications.

The Guild of Television Cameramen will shortly be celebrating this year's best TV camera-work as nominated by those who really know good camera-work when they see it - television cameramen - at an awards ceremony to be held on Tuesday September 28 at London's BFI.

Apple has launched a tiny new Apple TV set-top box targeting TV show rentals, costing just 99c. It will launch with support from ABC, ABC Family, Fox, Disney Channel and BBC America, writes David Fox.

Discovery Communications has taken a strong stance against 2D to 3D conversion for programming intended for its 3D channel launching in the US next January, writes Adrian Pennington.

The Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) are presenting a joint session on Interoperable Media Services at IBC.

You might not have time to make it to IBC... but please pencil in October 28 for TVBEurope’s Sports Broadcast Europe 2010 conference at BAFTA in London.

IPV will be showcasing new tools for its Teragator and Curator systems for live event workflow at IBC2010. Capabilities making a debut at the show include business analytic tools for the Teragator data aggregation engine and improvements to the Curator system.

From TVBE's Acquisition Newsletter: Canon, Sony and Nikon have all announced new HD DSLR cameras that record 1920x1080 video, each with interesting new features.

VidiGo will officially launch VidiGo Live 3D during IBC2010, at roughly the same time as the first user of the system, SBS Broadcasting, starts broadcasting a pilot 3D Channel in the Netherlands.

UK specialist digital film consultancy Light Illusion has added new probe interface and features to its LightSpace Colour Management System (CMS).

SAN Solutions has launched operations in Europe, establishing a wholly owned subsidiary in a new base in The Hague.