Motorola unveils stand-alone Mobile TV player 

By Kevin Fitchard and Sarah Reedy

Motorola today took the wraps off what amounts to a mobile digital video recorder--a stand-alone large-screen handheld that renders live mobile broadcast video but can time-shift, pause and record content according to users’ wishes...

Survey calls for customer experience overhaul 

By Sarah Reedy

When Forrester Research asked nearly 5,000 consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies to gauge the usefulness, usability, and enjoyability of their experiences, wireless carriers kept coming up short...

Blowtorch hopes to catch fire 

Blowtorch Entertainment came on the scene this fall armed with more than $50 million in initial funding and a goal to create a media company for a young-adult audience...

All I want for Christmas is Xbox 360 Live  

By Sarah Reedy

AT CES last year, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told attendees to expect the integration of Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Xbox Live with its Microsoft IPTV platform to come to the market by Christmas 2007. With December right around the corner, eager Xbox fans have yet to see the online social community move into their living rooms...

Targeted advertising could offer new value 

By Sarah Reedy

The traditional model of advertising is slowly beginning to give way to addressable ads that viewers want to see...

HD showdown 

By Sarah Reedy

With the holidays approaching, high-definition television sets will top many consumer wish lists, bringing the total of HDTV-owning households to more than 30 million...

Introducing the world to WooMe 

By Sarah Reedy

San-Francisco startup WooMe publicly launched its U.S. and U.K.-based online introduction service yesterday, with the tagline, “WooMe is introducing the world, one person at a time"...

L.A. firm launches interactive TV channel overseas 

By Sarah Reedy

IPTV Corp. is formally launching an interactive television channel on News Corp.’s British Sky Broadcasting (“Sky”) satellite television service this week in the United Kingdom and Ireland...

Rising above the IPTV noise 

By Sarah Reedy

The message NDS wants to spread is that Microsoft is not the only powerhouse for end-to-end solutions...

VON: Defining differentiation, redefining video 

By Sarah Reedy

BOSTON--Differentiation in the IPTV space is largely a factor of consumer demand in each particular market. This was the consensus of a panel of two industry analysts and the director of international marketing for UTStarcom at Telephony’s IPTV Workshop today in Boston...

TelcoTV: MetaSwitch, Minerva team on IPTV apps 

By Carol Wilson

ATLANTA--Middleware maker Minerva and softswitch/applications vendor MetaSwitch have teamed up to demonstrate rapid delivery of new applications over an IPTV platform, using existing IP tools...

TelcoTV: IP Prime adds three rural telcos 

By Carol Wilson

ATLANTA--In the latest in its series of coming-out parties, IP-Prime announced three new telco customers for its IPTV service here at the TelcoTV show today...

TelcoTV: Telcos need to innovate in packaging 

By Carol Wilson

ATLANTA--Telephone companies getting into the video business need to capitalize on the fact that they don’t have a history in the industry and develop packaging and pricing of video services that is different from cable, the head of Starz advised today...

TelcoTV: Calix, Microsoft team on IPTV  

By Carol Wilson

ATLANTA--Calix announced this morning that it has established a licensing relationship with Microsoft that will enable its technology to interoperate with the Microsoft platform...

TelcoTV: Motorola says goodbye to traditional TV scheduling 

By Sarah Reedy

Forty-two percent of video-on-demand viewers believe that in 10 years time, traditional TV scheduling will no longer exist, said Andy Li, director of engineering for Motorola’s On Demand Solutions, today at TelcoTV. This, in short, is Motorola’s vision...

IPTV takes baby steps to be different 

By Carol Wilson

IPTV today is just beginning to reach U.S. households in major metro areas, but it is already delivering more than entertainment...

Q&A: In-Stat's Michelle Abraham 

Michelle Abraham, analyst for In-Stat, talks with Associate Editor Sarah Reedy about a key trend in Internet TV and what telco service providers are doing about it...

Nsight turns a triple play 

By Sarah Reedy

Nortel rounds out Nsight's offerings with an end-to-end IPTV solution, bringing greater TV programming options to the upper Midwest...

IPTV captivates Europe 

By Carol Wilson

More than 60 IPTV services were available in Europe at the end of the second quarter of 2007, according to Screen Digest Television Intelligence...

U-verse cracks 100,000 mark 

By Carol Wilson

AT&T said today its U-verse IPTV service has now cracked 100,000 subscribers, based on additions of 97,000 this year, as the service expands geographically and is marketed more aggressively. AT&T is installing about 1000 U-verse customers daily, according to a company spokesman...

KT launches nationwide VOD 

By Sarah Reedy

Korea Telecom, Korea’s largest broadband provider, today announced the commercial launch of its video-on-demand service, Mega TV...

Sony brings TV to PlayStation 

By Sarah Reedy

Sony announced its latest device, PlayTV, Wednesday at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany...

Free online television enters IPTV industry 

By Sarah Reedy

FreeTube, a recent IPTV venture, brings Internet users more than 500 television channels – as the name suggests – for free. Slated to be a technological and sociological experiment, this online television site offers viewers with a modem, Web browser and several common plug-ins the ability to watch a variety of channels using IP streaming technology...

AT&T pledges IPTV network overhaul in BellSouth territory  

By Ed Gubbins

AT&T today announced plans to bring its U-verse video broadband service to South Carolina, a state formerly in BellSouth territory...

AT&T adds two U-verse markets 

By Carol Wilson

AT&T announced today that it has added the Ohio cities of Akron and Cleveland to its U-verse roster, bringing the total number of IPTV markets to 23...