When it comes to web-connected TVs there’s no such thing as slow build-up - we’re on the cusp of mass adoption and brands that are too slow to embrace the opportunities that have arisen will lose out. Fresh research out…
Yap.tv, a social TV guide app for iOS was updated to version 3.0 on Wednesday, adding enhanced navigation, instant live chat and access to better social discovery tools. What sets yap.TV apart from other mobile TV guide apps? It is…
Today’s consumers want TV content not just in the web browser, but on smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles — you name it. However, for “TV Everywhere” TVE to succeed, the industry cannot simply offer content on a multitude of devices —…
Consumers dislike Google TV so much that they are now giving the product back. Gadgets that use the company's Google TV software to connect televisions to the Internet are selling so poorly that one of Google's key partners disclosed Thursday…
Shazam, a popular mobile app that identifies music, is now investing in “Shazamable” television shows and ads. The company announced Wednesday that it had raised $32 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Institutional Venture Partners and DN Capital to…
Since the second-generation Apple TV was released back in September of last year, people have wondered if and when apps would arrive on the device. After all, it runs on iOS software, so the underpinnings of app support are already…
The IP Vision Fetch TV service received the award for Outstanding Achievement in Connected TV at the Connected TV Summit in London. Based on existing standards, Fetch TV already delivers much of what prospective platforms such as YouView aspire to…
IDG News Service — A software platform developed for TVs by the Meego open-source community, expected next month, will allow service providers to combine pay TV, app stores and consumer home content in one set-top box. The platform, called MeeGo…
While mobile has dominated the headlines over the past few years (thanks to rise of the smartphone and the success of apps), another movement is under way in the living room — Internet-connected TV. Just as DVRs and on-demand programming…
ANGA CABLE 2011 – COLOGNE. Connected TV is the way forward, we learned at the second round of the so-called “elephants session”, where cable’s heavyweights exchanged their views on the marriage between web and TV. It is also omnipresent at…