It was as early as February 2007 that we published the headline, ‘Kasenna and Bitband rounding up potential buyers,’ and now Kasenna, disappointingly has found its buyer in tiny Canadian set top applications company, Espial. The IPTV market has been slow for traditional suppliers since Microsoft entered the market in 2004, and has really only just opened up again in the last 12 months. As a result some of the smaller IPTV specialists have shrunk out of all recognition to their reputation and technology and we’re afraid that is true of both these two companies. Espial began life offering a browser to run on set top boxes and made good progress bundled into the Myrio system which was acquired by…