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Smart Planet: Interactive TV builds literacy skills among low-income kids

Carlin Llorente, a researcher at SRI International discusses recent findings that shows low-income pre-school kids benefiting from a curriculum that includes public media content inside the classroom. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Interactive TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-11-13

Intel, Yahoo team up on interactive TV platform

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Eric Kim and Yahoo's Patrick Barry demo a new TV platform designed to bring rich Internet applications featuring sports, weather, and financial information to the living room. Consumer electronics that use Intel's architecture will offer the Yahoo Widget Engine, an applications...

Tags: Interactive TV, Team, Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Financial Accounting, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, Widget, Intel, Yahoo

Videos 2008-08-20

HSPA to dominate mobile broadband?

HSPA to dominate mobile broadband?Not in USAThe infrastructure, all the towers, the laws and regulations, for the most part everything, is already in place for WiMax from sea to shining sea in the USA. I was informed yesterday that the less than < 1 Ghz spectrum will remain the public...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, interactive TV, election year, spectrum, broadband, mobile

Discussion threads 2007-08-09

FCC opts for open access -- not just that open

FCC opts for open access -- not just that openTraitors ; The War of Multinational Corporations against the USAThis sale is on its surface unconstitutional. The constitution requires the federal government to keep this spectrum public. It was set aside 4 decades ago for consumers and voters so that we...

Tags: Web 2.0, Government, Federal government, TVs, TV & Home Theater, interactive TV, constitution, democracy, FCC

Discussion threads 2007-08-01

Google Interactive TV: not just a paper

Google Interactive TV: not just a paperGoogleThe thing that concerns me the most is. PRIVACY.Google knows "WHAT YOU SEARCH" "WHAT YOU BUY GBUY" "WHAT YOU WATCH ON TV"???????Having so much information in one place would become incredibly dangerous.Neal SafersteinRe: GoogleEven though I agree that this amount of personal information can...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Google Inc., Google Interactive TV, TV, interactive TV

Discussion threads 2006-06-17

Google Interactive TV: not just a paper

Just last week a paperpdf written by some Googlers was published that contains quite a few interesting ideas. Sometimes it's one thing to be interesting and another to be realistic, but I remember writing an article a few months ago that should be brought back to light. Google...

Tags: paper, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-06-14

Google targets Interactive TV for ad auction model

Google targets Interactive TV for ad auction modelI used to be the biggest Google fan everI was using Google before it was a household name. Remember lycos, yes it was awhile ago. Now the bigger Google gets the dumber it seems to get. They have about a zillion projects going,...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Google Inc., Google Targets Interactive TV, interactive TV, TV, advertisement

Discussion threads 2006-06-09

Google vs. Microsoft in Interactive TV advertising race

Google vs. Microsoft in Interactive TV advertising raceLooks like Microsoft chasing a lot of markets just to control Google.As with Germany in WW2, Microsoft will find themselves fighting on too many fronts.Important move for MicrosoftThis is is very important manuver for Microsoft. TV is a area where Microsoft has no...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, TV, interactive TV, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Red Sox

Discussion threads 2006-06-09

Google vs. Microsoft in Interactive TV advertising race

Microsoft was granted a patent in May for a “System and method of inserting advertisements into an information retrieval system display.” Description of the patent is below and a graphic illustration is to the right.As I indicate in my “Google Targets Interactive TV for Ad Auction Model” and my “Google...

Tags: advertisement, television programming

Blog posts 2006-06-08

Google targets Interactive TV for ad auction model

As I outline in my “Google developing social and interactive televison applications for ‘mass personalization'” post, Google Research has tested four applications for personalizing broadcast content and making it more interactive and social:Personalized content layersAd hoc social peer communitiesReal-time popularity ratingsVirtual media library services, or TV-based bookmarksAt the same time,...

Tags: TV

Blog posts 2006-06-08

61.3% of US home Internet connections are broadband in August 2005

61.3% of US home Internet connections are broadband in August 2005Just so long as we don't have a crash and the middle class can still AFFORDto live in their homes with their broadband, TV so they can watch american idol which means more to them than reality, and so on?Universal...

Tags: Web 2.0, Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TVs, TV & Home Theater, interactive TV, broadband, home internet connection, TV

Discussion threads 2005-09-29

27% of US households interested in interactive TV

Consumers interested in interactive services such as voting on game shows, targeted advertising, and gaming, who total 27% of all US households, represent a lucrative early market for IPTV services and applications, according to Parks Associates. Service providers, particularly telecom operators, could boost current revenues on their quad-play service packages,...

Tags: game

Blog posts 2005-09-05

CCaption 3.4 (Windows)

CCaption enables video non linear editing systems to generate closed captions and Interactive TV Links without the need for special purpose encoding hardware.

Tags: Interactive TV, Leapfrog Productions, CCaption, Microsoft Windows, TVs, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing

Software downloads 2000-06-16

World's Largest News Source Enters Interactive TV Market With Media Center

Reuters, the world's largest multimedia news company, is known for its speed, accuracy, and freedom from bias. In 2004, Reuters filed over 2.5 million news items, published in 18 languages, from 209 countries. Although historically a wholesaler of news content, Reuters wanted to explore new ways of distributing news directly...

Tags: Interactive TV, Thomson Reuters Corp., Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center, Microsoft Corp., TV, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

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LG 60PS80

Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80

Product reviews 2009-11-02

LG 50PS80

Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80

Product reviews 2009-11-02

Interactive media is about to hit the gym: Great, just great

Not all that bad. I went to a gym where each treadmill had its own mini tv in the front of it, you could flip through cable channels, look at a virtual running track with hills and the such, or connect your ipod. Now for the social media...

Tags: gym, Interactive Media

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Vizio VF551XVT

Photo gallery: Vizio VF551XVTWe're willing to bet that when Vizio announced the VF551XVT back in January, plenty of savvy HDTV bargain hunters marked down "June" as the time they'd buy this 55-inch LED-based LCD. Then the company pushed its release back to September. Then it announced that the...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Cable, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Vizio VF551XVT, Vizio

Product reviews 2009-10-23

Sharp LC-52LE700UN

Photo gallery: Sharp LC-LE700UN seriesLCD TV makers have always charged a premium for LED backlighting. In fact, the first LED-based LCD TV Sharp released, the inch-thick XS series, debuted last year at a cool $11,000 MSRP for the 52-inch model. LED has become a lot more mainstream since...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Engineering, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sharp Corp., Sharp LC-LE700UN series, Sharp LC-LE700UN, LCD, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-10-16

Sharp LC-40LE700UN

Photo gallery: Sharp LC-LE700UN seriesLCD TV makers have always charged a premium for LED backlighting. In fact, the first LED-based LCD TV Sharp released, the inch-thick XS series, debuted last year at a cool $11,000 MSRP for the 52-inch model. LED has become a lot more mainstream since...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Engineering, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sharp Corp., Sharp LC-LE700UN series, Sharp LC-LE700UN, LCD, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-10-16