Thursday, February 9, 2012
September 2009 |
The 2nd Annual TVOT NYC Intensive The second annual TVOT NYC Intensive took place on Monday, December 5th at 730 Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. We would like to thank everybody who participated and attended for making the event a success! Read more about the highlights - video and photos to be posted soon. To find out about future event sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, contact us at swedlow@itvt.com or 415-824-5806 |
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In a posting on a Verizon blog, Wednesday, the company's SVP of media relations, Eric Rabe, announced that it is upgrading its FiOS TV Interactive Media Guide in order to "make on-screen purchasing and navigation faster and easier." According to Rabe, the upgrade was in response to feedback from FiOS TV customers: "FiOS TV customers wanted more detailed program information, interactive video-on-demand, more shortcuts and easier ways to upgrade their FiOS TV, and I'm happy to say the folks in the FiOS lab have come up with some pretty neat responses," he wrote.
OnLive, a cloud-based gaming company that was founded by Steve Perlman (the entrepreneur behind WebTV, Moxi and a range of other technologies) and that officially launched in March after operating in stealth mode for several years, said Wednesday that it has secured an undisclosed amount of funding in a Series C round that saw the participation of new investors, AT&T Media Holdings and Lauder Partners (the primary backer of cloud-based interactive TV technology provider, ActiveVideo Networks), as well as previous investors, Warner Bros., Autodesk and Maverick Capital.
Elgato, the San Francisco- and Munich-based company behind EyeTV, a TV solution for Mac computers, on Tuesday launched a TV placeshifting application for the Apple iPhone/iPod touch. According to the company, the app, which is priced at $4.99, allows users to watch live and recorded TV, browse a program guide, and launch or schedule recordings remotely. It is designed for use with EyeTV 3.2, the latest version of Elgato's flagship TV-on-Mac software, and, according to the company, can automatically find a Mac on a local WiFi network that is running EyeTV 3.2, using Bonjour technology.
UK commercial terrestrial broadcaster, Five, said Wednesday that it has teamed with broadband video specialist, Livestation, to offer live streaming of Europa League soccer on the Apple iPhone. It claims to be the first UK broadcaster to offer live streaming soccer via an iPhone app.
CBS-owned broadband video/community site, TV.com (offers full episodes, clips, entertainment news, show summaries, polls, forums and more), on Wednesday unveiled a tool, called WatchList, which it says is designed to enable viewers to navigate and organize their TV experience and represents "an important step in TV.com's goal to be the navigational interface for television online."
Helsinki-based interactive TV company, Icareus (note: the company's offerings include a range of authoring and delivery solutions for MHP, OCAP/tru2way, MHEG and other platforms, as well as an extensive catalog of off-the-shelf interactive TV games and other applications), said Wednesday that it has signed a cooperation agreement with Shanghai Telecom, a subsidiary of telecommunications giant, China Telecom. 
Jinni, an Israeli company that offers a semantic search-and-recommendation engine that it says is based on "content genetics and user psychographics," on Wednesday officially announced the appointment of Mike Pohl as CEO. According to Jinni, Pohl--who has been serving as its CEO since at least August (
CNN on Tuesday launched what it calls an "interactive news app" for the iPhone/iPod touch. The app, which is available in the Apple App Store for $1.99 (note: it will also be monetized through advertising; it currently features logos and banner ads from "launch advertisers" Chevron and Lexus), offers among other things live breaking news video, push notification, localization and personalization tools, and user-generated content capture and upload functionality, the broadcaster says.
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Neptuny, a Milan-based company that offers a predictive content recommendation engine, called ContentWise, for digital TV, said Monday that ContentWise 3.0, which is slated to be released later this month, will offer several improvements. The most significant improvement, according to the company, will be a "user-friendly Web interface to define and apply business rules to better control the list of content to be recommended to target users according to specific marketing criteria." For example, the company says, the new release will allow business rules to be defined in order to assign higher relevance to specific content--"i.e.