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Ziggo makes zapper boxes interactive

Julian Clover — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:18:11 +0000

Holland’s largest cable operator Ziggo has started to make some of its set top boxes interactive. Read the story »

US TV stations go social

Robert Briel — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:14:39 +0000

Ten television broadcast groups with stations in markets covering 76 million US households have announced a long-term commercial partnership with Silicon Valley-based start-up ConnecTV. Read the story »

Eutelsat launches KabelKiosk Choice

Robert Briel — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:26:05 +0000

Eutelsat will start marketing KabelKiosk Choice, its new VOD service using the HbbTV hybrid standard, in January 2012. Read the story »

De Telegraaf launches interactive TV app

Robert Briel — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:50:39 +0000

Holland’s largest newspaper De Telegraaf has launched an interactive TV app on the Glashart Media FTTH networks. The app provides a mix of news, background articles, pictures and videos. Read the story »

Magyar Telekom plans hybrid platform

Chris Dziadul — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:21:45 +0000

IP&TV Forum EurAsiaEastEurope 2011 – ISTANBUL. Magyar Telekom has room to grow with interactivity and “needs technology to expand its reach.” Read the story »

S&T and FourthWall Media to partner

Robert Briel — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:28:31 +0000

Strategy & Technology (S&T) has announced its partnership with FourthWall Media to integrate key features of each company’s EBIF tools. Read the story »

HD+ goes hybrid and interactive with HbbTV

Julian Clover — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:09:44 +0000

New receivers for the German HD+ platform on Astra will be equipped with the HD InterActive feature from NetRange MMH using the HbbTV standard. The first internet-enabled receivers should already be introduced to the market by manufacturers in 2011. Read the story »

Amazon buys Pushbutton

Julian Clover — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:50:01 +0000

Push Button Holdings Ltd, which develops interactive applications for connected TV, has been acquired by Amazon. Read the story »

Spanish broadcasters press for HBBtv

Julian Clover — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:41:41 +0000

Representatives of public broadcaster RTVE and the commercial Antena 3 Group, along with Nagravision, Havas Media and Vodafone, have told the second annual conference of the Spanish interactive television association AEDETI of the imperative of adopting a single interactive TV standard. Read the story »

A tale of two VOD services

Robert Briel — Wed, 04 May 2011 12:29:31 +0000

ANGA CABLE 2011 – COLOGNE. Maxdome, Germany’s largest VOD portal, is asking questions about the creation of a commercial run on demand service by public broadcasters. Read the story »