--Companies Include Accedo Broadband, httv, Punchcut, Visiware, Zappware
--Also Announces VOD Partnership with Anevia
SoftAtHome , a company created by France Telecom-subsidiary, Orange, with the stated goal of helping service providers deliver convergent applications for the digital home, announced Thursday that a number of companies--including such European interactive TV stalwarts as httv, Accedo Broadband, Visiware and Zappware--are "investing resources" in its SoftAtHome Operating Platform, and/or using the platform's free software development kit to build applications for it. SoftAtHome bills its platform as containing "all the features and API's necessary...