Posted on May 8, 2008 by itvtwp
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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Posted on May 8, 2008 by itvtwp
–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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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–Company is a VOD Joint Venture between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4
Ashley Highfield has quit his post as the BBC’s director of future media and technology to become the CEO of Kangaroo, a VOD service that is a commercial joint venture between the BBC, ITV (i.e. the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster, the Independent Television Network) [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–Deal Nets Company £1.4 Million
–Company in Deal with Gaming Ventures
UK-based interactive and participation TV specialist, Cellcast, says that
it has agreed to an exchange of its two channels on the Sky satellite
platform (one of which it says is “surplus to its requirements,” the other
of which serves as an outlet for user-generated programming from its
UGC/video-sharing service, SUMO.tv) [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
Shortly after unveiling a new “featured services” strategy at CES 2008,
and announcing alliances with four companies–Flickr, Finetune,
Accedo Broadband and CloverLeaf Digital–that it said would be
providing content services for its flagship Moxi platform, Paul Allen-
owned Digeo announced a major restructuring that saw CEO, Mike
Fiedler, leave the company, along with half of its staff, and president
and COO, [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–OpenTV to Retain 19% Stake in the Company
–Static 2358 Unveils Plans for PlayJam-Branded Freeview Set-Top Boxes
Founder, Jasper Smith, has reacquired Static 2358, the company which
operates the PlayJam interactive TV games service and which was
acquired by OpenTV in 2001. Static 2358 is now 81% owned by
Smith’s newly established holding company, General Entertainment &
Technology Corporation (GET Corp.), [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
Israeli IPTV middleware and applications provider, Orca Interactive, is
to be acquired by France Telecom-subsidiary, Viaccess, in a deal that
values it at approximately $21.4 million (note: for more info on recent
product announcements by Orca). The deal is subject to various
conditions, including approval by an extraordinary general meeting of
Orca Interactive. Viaccess is a provider of content-protection
technology, [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
Toronto-based two-screen interactive TV technology provider,
Desktopbox, has been acquired by international communications and
information technology company, Harris Corporation. Harris says it
will integrate Desktopbox’s technology into its H-Class software
product line and market it worldwide. The Desktopbox platform
enables a two-screen enhanced TV and radio model in which content
providers can send URL’s synchronized with a live or pre-recorded
program to [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
AFDESI, which was launched in 2000 as a professional body for the
French interactive TV industry, is expanding its scope to additionally
represent the ITV industries of the UK, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and
Germany. While the organization will continue to be called AFDESI
(which originally stood for the Association of French Developers and
Editors of Interactive Services), that acronym will [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–Company Launches VOD Measurement Service
Audience measurement company, Nielsen, recently announced that its
research shows that DVR playback is actually increasing the amount of
time people spend watching TV: by comparing total TV usage (live
viewing plus DVR playback) for 18 to 49-year-olds in November, 2007
to total TV usage in November, 2005 (before Nielsen measured DVR
households and when, the [...]
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