San Francisco-based video search company, blinkx, has launched a
broadband TV service, dubbed blinkx BBTV, which it says leverages
the company’s patented speech and visual recognition technology to
link programming to relevant information on the Web. The service,
which launched April 2nd and which is available free of charge (it
requires end-users to download a 1.8MB file), currently offers a [...]
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–NBC Universal’s PictureBox Service to Launch on BT Vision
BT Media & Broadcast, which is part of the UK incumbent telco’s
Global Services division, says that it has developed a digital content
store, based on its BT Mosaic service, for the UK’s largest commercial
broadcaster, the Independent Television Network (generally referred to
in the UK by the acronym, “ITV”). The [...]
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–Launches ITV Services in More Markets
–Launches Free Olympics VOD Service
–Signs VOD Deal with Rotten Tomatoes
US incumbent telco, AT&T, has generated a fair amount of interactive
TV- and VOD-related news over the past few weeks:
The company has teamed with Yahoo!-owned photo-sharing site,
Flickr, to launch an interactive TV application on its U-verse IPTV
[...]
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