Kasenna CEO to Speak on Global IPTV Rollouts at Spring VON 2007 – March 19, 2007
Kasenna, The IPTV Company(TM), announced today that its executives will share their views and perspectives on IPTV deployments world-wide, storage platform considerations, and how the growing convergence of TV and the Internet will benefit service providers and consumers they serve.
Zodiac Interactive Announces TVLocalSearch and TVCallME[SM] – January 17, 2007
In a first for the Interactive Television industry, Zodiac Interactive today announced the general availability of TVLocalSearch. This application allows consumers to use the TV and search for local businesses without interrupting the viewing experience. Like its online counterpart, TVLocalSearch is free for consumers, easy to use, and gives viewers relevant information when they want it.
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Interactive TV Applications
Aggregator and MercuryMedia Connect to Create Cutting-Edge Documentary IPTV Service – November 2, 2006
Aggregator Limited and MercuryMedia today announced that they have entered into a co-venture agreement to develop and launch a radical new TV-over-Broadband (TVoBB) service which will enable easy access to an extensive library of documentaries and factual films.
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Aggregator Launches Pioneering TV Over Broadband Service – October 4, 2006
Aggregator Limited today announced the launch of its first TV-over-Broadband (TVoBB) service, a ground-breaking Russian language portal that is set to change the TV viewing habits of over half a million Russians living in the UK. MoëTV will go live later this month and will provide a vast collection of on-demand entertainment, drama, current affairs, films, documentaries, music and children’s programming.
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Minerva Networks recently announced significant extensions to its open, standards based application development suite to complement its IPTV services management software platform. Included are a number of new APIs and tools to fully customize and enable next generation IPTV applications, such as personalized recommendations, advertising, and e-commerce. Interactive applications can be built using standard web tools and then seamlessly integrated via an XML interface with Minerva’s iTVmanager software. Minerva’s development tools are believed to give content providers the ability to interact with the viewer in realtime. Unlike traditional interactive TV architectures that require expensive pre-encoding of the video, the Minerva solution can use any VOD or Live TV content, including user submitted videos. While the program or movie is being viewed, the Minerva software on the set-top box connects with the interactive application server. Using standard XML, the application server specifies and controls the position of text, graphics and navigation buttons on the TV. Even video playback and trick play functions can be directly controlled (or disabled) by the application. According to Minverva, the highly flexible system can be used to enable telescopic advertising, distant learning, polling/voting, fantasy sports, basic games, shopping applications and can also tie into cross platform applications on the PC or mobile phones.
itaas, a provider of advanced TV application services, has ported their cross platform MPTV client application to the Minerva Networks’ IPTV framework. The MPTV application allows viewers watching video channels to purchase any associated content such as video clips, ringtones, and wallpaper and download them to their mobile devices
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Minerva Networks Expands IPTV Application Development Suite And Integrates With itaas? MPTV Platform
