TV COVERAGE

PPTV Builds World's Largest TV Cloud Platform Based on Microsoft Windows Azure

Microsoft held a press conference in Shanghai announcing the official launch of Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud Platform in China. PPTV is the first Chinese new media outlet cooperating with Microsoft o... (more...)

Scholastic Storia Wins Cynopsis Kids !magination Award for Best Educational Tablet-Based App

Cynopsis Kids has awarded Storia, the teacher-recommended ebook and ereading app created by Scholastic, with an !magination Award as best Educational Tablet-Based App. The Cynopsis Kids !magination Aw... (more...)

Rentrak Adds Pursel Advertising To Growing List Of Ad Agency Subscribers

Rentrak (RENT), the leader in multi-screen measurement serving the advertising, television and movie industries, today announced a multi-year StationView Essentials contract with Pursel, a full-servic... (more...)

E3 Report: GameTrailers.com Picks the Hottest Games

Hundreds of games will battle for buzz at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, but which ones will break through the clutter and become the talk of the Internet? Will the PlayStation 4 or the Xbox One w... (more...)

Control4 Offers New 'Anywhere Access' Remote Control System for Home Automation

How often have you found yourself miles from home when that moment of doubt starts to creep in: “Did I lock the door when I left?” Control4, a market leader in home automation systems, today announced... (more...)

HBO GO & WatchESPN Now Available on Apple TV!

Apple today announced that HBO GO and WatchESPN are now available directly on Apple TV joining the great lineup of programming offered to customers. iTunes users have downloaded more than one billion ... (more...)

Shazam Launches New TV Metric 'Shazam Engagement Rate'

Shazam, the media engagement company, today launched the “Shazam Engagement Rate”, a new Shazam for TV advertising metric that enables brands to more accurately gauge the effectiveness of television a... (more...)

C Spire Wireless to Offer HTC One Smartphones this Summer

C Spire Wireless announced plans today to introduce the highly anticipated and 4G LTE enabled, new HTC One touchscreen smartphone this summer with key HTC Sense innovations that reinvent the mobile ex... (more...)

MediaScape / Cignal TV Extends Partnership with SES

SES announced today at CommunicAsia2013 a new multi-year, multi-transponder deal with one of its largest customers in the Philippines, MediaScape Inc, on SES-7 at 108.2 degrees East. (more...)

Report: Connected TV Apps and Services Market to $14 billion by 2017 with Advertising and Subscriptions

The connected TV apps and services market is expected to explode in the next five years as new app frameworks in smart TVs, net-tops (i.e. Apple TV, Roku), Blu-ray devices and game consoles serve as t... (more...)

Need a Flat Panel TV Mount? Suncraft Solutions to Debut New Stanley Model

Suncraft Solutions Inc. is introducing a new lineup of Stanley flat panel TV mounts designed for the do-it-yourself (DIY) and consumer markets. (more...)

Netflix To Launch In The Netherlands In Late 2013

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Kid Inventors Win $20,000 Prize for Creating Device to Help Seniors Pick Up Small Objects

Kid inventors in the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) took top honors today at the 3rd annual Global Innovation Award ceremony for their invention, the “Gramma-Jamma,” an assistive aid for seniors, earning a $... (more...)

Cool News of the Day: AT&T Unveils Street Charge in New York City Parks for Mobile, Solar Charging

As part of an ongoing effort to keep New Yorkers connected, AT&T and Mayor Michael Bloomberg today unveiled AT&T Street Charge. This pilot initiative provides free solar mobile charging stations in lo... (more...)

AT&T Mobilizes Virtual Private Network Offering for Small and Medium-Sized Business Customers

Helping to keep businesses better connected to the workplace regardless of location, AT&T* announced the availability of expanded Virtual Private Network (VPN) bundles** that provide free Mobile Remot... (more...)

DISH vs. SPRINT - DISH Statement on Sprint Complaint

DISH Network Corporation (DISH) today issued the following statement in response to Sprint Nextel Corporation's June 17 allegations against DISH and Clearwire Corporation: (more...)

AT&T Saves $151 Million Through Cutting-Edge Energy Efficiency Efforts Over Three Years

How much money can more than 14,300 energy-reducing projects save a company? In its 2012 Sustainability Report, AT&T reports those projects saved the company more than $151 million in annualized energ... (more...)

App Update: Rounds Adds Co-Browsing to Its Mobile Hangout Network; First to Let Friends Surf the Web Together inside Mobile Video Chats

Rounds (www.rounds.com) launched a new update to its popular Rounds Video Chat Hangout mobile app for iOS and Android today, becoming the first hangout network to let friends securely surf the web tog... (more...)

Crossing the Chasm and onto the Main Street: TV White Spaces Technology Spreads its Wings across Singapore with New Commercial Pilots

The Singapore White Spaces Pilot Group (SWSPG) today announced its next wave of TV White Spaces (TVWS) commercial pilot deployments in Singapore with Gardens by the Bay, Sentosa Development Corporatio... (more...)

Just Formed - Dymanic Spectrum Alliance Includes 23 Companies to Promote Wireless Growth

Today, 23 companies and organizations from across the world: 6Harmonics, Adaptrum, BSkyB, Carlson, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – South Africa, Computer and Communication Research Ce... (more...)

Adorama Hosts Third Annual Sunday Family Funday Street Fair to Benefit the Boomer Esiason Foundation on Sunday June 23

Adorama, one of the world's largest photography, video, imaging and electronics retailers, will be hosting its Third Annual Sunday Family Funday Street Fair to benefit the Boomer Esiason Foundation th... (more...)

Senior Yahoo! International Executive Ahmed Nassef Leaves to Co-Found Palo Alto-based Startup Telfez

Ahmed Nassef, announced today that he has left his role as Yahoo's Vice President and Managing Director for Middle East and Africa to found Telfez, a Palo Alto-based startup that will enable social TV... (more...)

Comcast Launches The X1 Platform From Xfinity In Greater Baltimore Area

Comcast, one of the nation's leading providers of entertainment, information, and communications products and services, today announced the launch of the X1 Platform from Xfinity in the Greater Baltim... (more...)

KidZania Unveils 13th Nation - KidZania Kuwait - With Locations Now In 10 Countries Catering To Over 25 Million Children Worldwide

Today KidZania opens its first kids' city in Kuwait, delivering the brand of interactive kids entertainment that has fueled its global reach across 10 countries and to more than 25 million children. T... (more...)

Howard Schmidt Joins N-Dimension Solutions Inc. Board of Directors

N-Dimension Solutions Inc. today announced that Howard A. Schmidt, former Cyber-Security Coordinator of the Obama Administration, operating in the Executive Office of the President, has been appointed... (more...)