Archive for the ‘Service’ Category
Un Truc de Oufs inutile, donc forcément indispensable, digne d'un 1er avril. Pour pouvoir embrasser votre partenaire à travers Internet et lui faire profiter de votre inimitable tourné de langue, il vous faut absolument cet appareil, encore en mode prototype. L'inventeur, même s'il parle en japonnais parait lui-même sourire de son invention.
L'appareil dans sa version actuelle reproduit votre tourné de langue sur une sorte de paille à distance, les évolutions futures prévoit éga...
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Via TVGenius
Facebook wants to be the primary gateway to social TV. The problem is, so does Twitter.
While Facebook dominates some industry conversation, they are only starting to make inroads into social TV.
So how is Facebook is poised to enter the social TV space?
Facebook users tend to have highly detailed profiles, which already list their favourite TV shows and movies. At the same time they also connect their personal profile to their favourite brands and celebrities. This gives...
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Via HeraldSun
FOOTY fans may soon be able to follow their favourite players in interactive TV broadcasts.
Telstra promises the innovations - if it wins the right to broadcast a handful of live AFL games - that will include being able to call up replays of the last three goals, statistics of individual stars and pop-up alerts on developments at other games.
The telco, restricted to a 12-hour delay before streaming games on its internet TV service, is believed to be close to winning rig...
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Via BroadBandNews,
Extended connected TV functionality is at the heart of the new D-Book 7, which has just been published by the Digital Television Group (DTG).
The new edition is the result of 18 months collaboration between manufacturers, service providers and technology companies. It includes a baseline specification specification for Connected TV products and services that Sky, Virgin Media, YouView and others can build on for trademark requirements to support their services. The...
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Via BroadBandNews
Non-linear advertising specialist justAd TV has announced the launch of a multi-device TV advertising platform. The new software development kit (SDK) is compatible with a number of devices including connected TVs and set-top boxes.
The system takes advantage of the justAd TV technology that enables advertisements to be displayed as the viewer presses triggers such as pause, fast forward and stop. The new version is already compatible with Samsung TVs and the App...
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Via sfgate
A Sunnyvale startup has launched a new - and possibly controversial - way to watch top just-released DVDs like "The Social Network" and "The Fighter" over the Internet for as little as $1 each.
The company, Zediva Inc., buys DVDs when they are first released to the home movie market, pops them into a bank of rack-mounted, Web-connected DVD players in Santa Clara and streams the video on demand online.
And unlike other streaming services from Netflix Inc. and others, Ze...
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Via Guardian
Social app hopes to emulate GetGlue, IntoNow and Miso with Foursquare-style check-ins used for TV viewing.
The latest company looking to bring Foursquare-style check-ins to TV viewing is Orange, with an app called TV Check. It was shown off at the MIPTV show in Cannes by the telco's VP of digital innovation and communities Patrice Slupowski.
The app, which was demonstrated on an iPhone, enables TV viewers to check in to the shows that they are watching, earning poin...
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Via SFGate
Bianor has added the first news on demand channel to its content streaming and TV playback platform iMediaShare for the US and Canada. France 24 offers a European perspective on world events, and provides a key to understanding ever more complex events through in-depth analysis.
iMediaShare transforms the smartphone into a remote control, allowing seamless playback of online content on connected TV's. Users can play online videos on any connected TV at any time, whether ...
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Via CNN
Steve Jobs may have found a way to get TV makers to put Apple's technology in their sets
Apple is talking to television makers about building a new generation of HDTV sets with Apple TV technology built in.
That's the thrust of the report Bloomberg posted Wednesday that cites "two people familiar with the project" and quotes a Pioneer vice president on the record as saying "Apple connectivity in AirPlay is a blessing for an industry trying to move the needle forward o...
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Via Les Echos - Gregoire Poussielgue
TF1 et M6 ont fortement décroché en Bourse vendredi dernier, après l'annonce par Canal+ du lancement de sa chaîne bonus en gratuit. Pour autant, la chaîne n'est pas encore une réalité, les écueils restant nombreux.
Canal + n‘est pas encore certain de pouvoir lancer sa chaîne de télévision généraliste gratuite sur la TNT. Annoncé en fin de semaine dernière, ce projet suscite à la fois l'hostilité de ses concurrents et de vive...
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