November 2009

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Eventually we plan to make our entire archive available to our readers - all the way back to 1998!

Radio: Calit2's New 3D Immersive Visualization System, NexCAVE

Earlier this week (see the article published on itvt.com, November 24th), [itvt] reported on how the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (note: generally known as Calit2,

Radio: Microsoft Xbox Live General Manager, Marc Whitten

This week saw the launch of Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm and "instant-on" HD video from Zune on Microsoft's Xbox Live service, as well as the premiere of the second season of the service's avatar-driven interactive TV game show, "1 vs. 100 Live" (see the articles published on itvt.com, November 10th and 16th).

Radio: Sezmi Co-Founder, Chairman and President, Phil Wiser

Earlier this week, Sezmi, a company that has developed a set-top box-based offering which it bills as "combining traditional TV content, movies and Internet video in a single, easy-to-use product and service," announced that it had secured $25 million in new funding and had launched a three-month public pilot in Los Angeles, in preparation for a nationwide launch next year.

Radio: Ensequence President and CEO, Peter Low

Interactive TV authoring solutions provider, Ensequence, recently announced that it had secured an additional $20 million in funding, and that it had appointed Peter Low, who was formerly president and COO, as president and CEO (see the article published on itvt.com, September 21st).

Radio: Showtime's SVP and GM of Digital Media, Robert Hayes

--Also Featured: Andre Sala on Showtime's YouTube Annotations Games for "Dexter," "Californication"

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s newly renamed talk radio show, "Radio [i]tvt," Robert Hayes, SVP and general manager of digital media at Showtime Networks, and Andre Sala, the company's manager of digital content distribution, discuss Showtime's various interactive digital media initiatives, including new interactive video games it has created for the sh

Radio: ConciseClick CEO, Nick Alt, on the Company's Interactive Video Commerce Work for Mattel

Los Angeles-based ConciseClick recently developed an interactive video commerce service for toymaker Mattel's new http://www.MattelShop.com site. The company's rollover-and-click technology provides viewers of videos on the site with descriptions, pricing information, and the ability to immediately drop featured products into a shopping cart.