Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
–Launches Solution Suite for Targeted and Interactive Advertising
–Forms Global Partnership with Audience-Measurement Specialist, TNS
–Teams with Tata Sky on India’s First Hindi-Language EPG
–Teams with Cinea and Harmonic on VOD Solution
Interactive TV and conditional access technology provider, NDS, has generated a fair amount of news over the past few weeks:
The company has launched a suite of [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
–Releases New Versions of its VOD, EPG, PVR, and nPVR Platforms
At the IBC show in Amsterdam earlier this month, Belgian interactive TV technology provider, Zappware, unveiled a new interactive TV server platform. Dubbed the iView Interaction Manager, the new server is billed by the company as a modular and scalable platform that operators and/or broadcasters [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
–Integrates Adobe’s Flash Lite Software into its Middleware
–Teams with eventIS on End-to-End Cable VOD System
–Unveils “Next-Generation” Interface, OpenTV Core nX
Interactive TV middleware and advanced advertising technology provider, OpenTV, generated a fair amount of news at the IBC show in Amsterdam earlier this month:
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The company announced a deal with Adobe Systems, under which it [...]
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Posted on October 6, 2008 by itvtwp
–Comcast Announces Plans to Integrate Widget Channel with its EPG
Intel and Yahoo! last month announced plans to launch the “Widget Channel,” an application framework for TV and related consumer electronics devices that are based on the Intel Architecture. According to the companies, the Widget Channel will allow viewers to access Internet applications that have been [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2008 by itvtwp
An Ottawa-based start-up called Overlay.TV has commercially launched an eponymous interactive media platform which it says enables video creators and viewers to add a layer of custom-designed, clickable content over any embeddable online video. According to the company, the platform, which has been in a limited-feature public beta since February, now includes a new monetization [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2008 by itvtwp
At the DEMOfall08 conference in San Diego earlier this month, a start- up called ffwd beta-launched its broadband video service, which originally launched in private beta last November. The company bills the service as offering a “radically simple way to navigate the video Web, an expansive digital television experience, and a media service that reflects [...]
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Posted on September 15, 2008 by itvtwp
Ben Bennett was named CEO of OpenTV in March, after serving as the company’s COO and acting CEO since August, 2007 (he has been at OpenTV since March, 2000). He recently spoke to [itvt]’s Tracy Swedlow about the three-phase strategy he is implementing, which, among other things, has seen OpenTV jettisoning a number of peripheral [...]
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Posted on August 8, 2008 by itvtwp
Macrovision, the company that recently acquired the US’s dominant
EPG developer, Gemstar-TV Guide, has signed a deal with Yahoo!
Japan Corporation, Japan’s largest Web portal, that will see the latter
deploying a syndicated version of Macrovision’s G-GUIDE EPG in
Japan, through Yahoo! TV. “We are very pleased that Yahoo! Japan
has selected Macrovision’s G-GUIDE for Yahoo! TV, enabling
customers to experience [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Patrick Koppula, founder and
CEO of ffwd–a company that has just beta-launched a service that uses
social networking to facilitate Internet programming discovery and to
enhance the online viewing experience–discusses the service (which is
scheduled to launch commercially in September), the thinking behind
it, [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2008 by itvtwp
–Rebrands Sky Anytime on PC as “Sky Player”
UK satellite TV provider, BSkyB, has announced plans to launch what
it describes as a “new EPG for the HD era.” The HD Sky Guide, which
builds on the company’s existing Sky Guide EPG, is scheduled to
launch on all Sky HD boxes this fall. According to BSkyB, the new
guide is [...]
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