Yahoo has bought IntoNow, a start-up that enables users to identify and share television programmes with their online friends. IntoNow, which is led by Adam Cahan, a former executive with Google and MTV, works with an app on a user’s phone which scans the audio waves from TV sets and identifies the programmes being aired. […]
Verizon has unveiled the next generation of its all-fibre-optic FiOS TV The company used customer feedback gained from its product development labs, field trials and social media forums to create many of the more than 25 upgrades to FiOS TV’s advanced Interactive Media Guide. The enhancements include 3D content software, which automatically detects when a […]
The global consulting firm is producing a turnkey solution: OTT TV, aimed at letting service providers, content companies or retailers deliver both linear and on-demand content to TV sets and a range of other platforms including PCs, mobile, gaming consoles and broadband-connected TVs. Unveiled at NAB, the Accenture Over-The-Top TV solution is “based on a […]
Motorola Solutions and Huawei Technologies have entered into an agreement to settle all pending litigation between them on breach of trade secrets. Motorola Solutions has agreed to withdraw its claims and dismiss, with prejudice, Huawei as a defendant in the Motorola v. Lemko litigation pending in the Chicago court. For its part, Huawei has agreed […]
Media Excel, a provider of live and file based encoding and n-Screen adaptive bitrate transcoding, and Verimatrix, have formed a partnership that enables digital TV service operators to securely deploy high quality video over any IP network to multiple screens – TVs, PCs, mobile devices and beyond. A combination of the Verimatrix VCAS for Internet […]
Lyfe Communications, a technology expert in the development of next generation media services, has completed software development of a virtual Set Top Box (vSTB), and are creating a program to deploy that technology in trials with partner operators. Greg Smith, CEO of Lyfe Communications commented: “We have blended industry accepted conditional access security with standard […]
Breeze Technologies, the MPEG and IPTV solutions developer, represented exclusively by Imago in Europe, has formed a new partnership with French IPTV middleware provider Vianeos, which will allow the two companies to deliver an ‘IPTV in a box’ solution. The agreement was finalised at last month’s IP&TV World Forum and brings together Breeze Technologies’ TVIUM […]
Envivio, provider of live and on-demand multi-screen IP video processing and delivery solutions, has announced that its 4Caster C4 multi-profile video encoders are delivering the content driving the new “DIGITAL+ a la carta” and “DIGITAL+ Videoclub” OTT VOD and linear TV service from Prisa TV, the leading pay-TV operator in Spain. DIGITAL+ a la carta […]
Azuki Systems, a specialist in the delivery of video to any device over any network at Internet scale, has announced the availability of Azuki Media Everywhere, a solution that enables service providers to deliver on the promise of TV Everywhere. Azuki Media Everywhere allows cable operators to expand their reach and stream premium video across […]
The next iteration of Android, ‘Ice Cream’, will bring Google TV and smartphones and tablets onto one Android platform, according to reports. The addition of Android’s host of apps to the TV platform will be a huge boost, and something that no other television service can yet offer.