Posted on October 30, 2008 by itvtwp
Earlier this week, Plano, Texas-based interactive TV technology provider, BIAP, announced that it has signed a five-year license agreement with Time Warner Cable that will see the latter using BIAP’s ETV User Agent in its advanced advertising platform. According to the companies, the BIAP software will enable Time Warner Cable digital set-top boxes to [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2008 by itvtwp
San Francisco-based start-up, iWidgets, recently unveiled its flagship iWidgets Social Syndication Platform and announced that CBS Interactive had signed up as the platform’s first customer. The platform allows end-users to watch clips of CBS television shows directly within popular social networks and to interact with other viewers through such features as content-sharing, polls, ratings and [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Dean Denhart, president and CEO of BlackArrow, a company that specializes in targeted advertising management technologies for on-demand platforms (note: among other things, the company recently announced that it had raised $20 million in new funding and that [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Perry Wu, co-founder and CEO of BitGravity, and Angelo Fernando, communications and outreach manager at Arizona State University, discuss the new Decision Theater at ASU, which incorporates video, interactivity, graphics, and dynamic data, all enabled by BitGravity’s [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2008 by itvtwp
InteractiveTV Today [itvt], the first, best and most widely read news source on interactive and multiplatform television, is pleased to present the third annual TV of Tomorrow Show, March 10th-11th (Tuesday-Wednesday), 2009 in San Francisco, California at the famous Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
The first two TV of Tomorrow Shows were praised by [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Perry Wu, founder and CEO of BitGravity, and Angelo Fernando, communications and outreach manager at Arizona State University, discuss the new Decision Theater at ASU, which incorporates video, interactivity, graphics, and dynamic data, all enabled by BitGravity’s [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2008 by itvtwp
–CEO Verklin Says First Product to Launch within 120 Days
–Company Names Arthur Orduna CTO
–Has Quietly Launched National VOD Service, “Elections ‘08″
There have been a number of developments over the past few weeks with Canoe Ventures, the US cable industry-backed company that is attempting to build a national unified platform for interactive, addressable and measurable advertising [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2008 by itvtwp
–Launches Reference Kit, Secures Deal with Kodak
Rockville, Maryland-based Hillcrest Labs (note: earlier this year, the company announced that it had secured $25 million in a fourth round of funding–see [itvt] Issue 7.58 Part 1; it has raised a total of around $50 million to date) says that it has filed a complaint for patent infringement [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2008 by itvtwp
–Cablevision Plans to Launch Service Early Next Year
A US appeals court last month overturned a lower-court decision that Cablevision’s Remote Storage DVR (RS-DVR) service would violate the copyrights of the broadcasters and studios whose content would be stored on it. The ruling also removed an injunction that had prevented the operator from launching the service. [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2008 by itvtwp
The American Film Institute (AFI) Digital Content Lab–an organization that, for the past decade, has fostered interactive TV in the US by bringing together content providers and technologists to collaborate on prototype interactive multiplatform services for television and other media–has issued a call for entries for the AFI DigiFest 2008, which will take place in [...]
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