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Summer is here and that means Falling Skies is back on TNT with its marquee Sunday night time slot. The alien invasion show from Executive Producer Steven Spielberg stars Noah Wyli... More

Starting with one for MTV and MTV2, they build on the company's current "second screen" apps and add on-demand video, plus new webisode-style series. But most of it is only for peo... More

If you’re producing games or content on the second screen, and you want more than a handful of people to show up, it’s no use expecting the audience to head to your website or ... More

Commentary: Most television viewers are splitting their attention with another device. The traditional way to frame the issue is by thinking of the television as the first screen ... More

For years cinema goers have had to switch off their mobiles or run the risk of being thrown out if caught using a mobile during the film. People understand the cinema as a space th... More

In the past couple of weeks, a plethora of movie companion apps have been released, both for big screen and DVD releases.  But unlike third party applications, many of these appli... More

With Microsoft and Sony making big pushes toward a second screen experience via smartphones and tablets, yet another space is opening up amongst third-party peripheral manufacturer... More

Second-screen and companion viewing isn’t a new phenomenon per se. Television viewers are quite accustomed to diverting their attention throughout broadcasts. And even before the... More

Content security and second-screen synchronisation specialist Civolution has teamed up with Canadian TV user experience design company LVL Studio to allow the latter to use Civolut... More

Digitalsmiths, which specialises in personalised video discovery technology, has launched Sports Discovery for its user interface platform. The application focuses on giving consum... More

The Cable Show returns to Washington, DC this week. Click here to find the Multichannel News/ Trendrr TV  Mid-Year Second Screen/Social TV Report aka – mcnBuzz, which was dist... More

Never.no announced it will co-exhibit with Vizrt at the 2013 Broadcast Asia Exhibition. The event will take place June 18-21 at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Visitors to Vizrt... More

TiVo is to give cable operators the opportunity to take up its mobile app and accompanying second screen companion experience. Labelled as ‘powered by TiVo’, the offering is de... More

Both Microsoft and EA showed off ways the so-called second screen could be a bigger part of the console gaming experience at their E3 press briefings yesterday. From the looks of i... More

Vidora’s iPad app weaves videos from many of the most popular streaming video services, including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Creepster, Fandor, and FlixFling, as ... More

You’re watching “NCIS” on CBS and on your tablet, you’re cruising through your Facebook page,when a the show stops for a break. An ad for Ford comes on your TV. With Flingo... More

Seven in ten Canadians with a smartphone, tablet or computer surf those devices while watching television, says a new survey from Rogers Communications. It’s further evidence of ... More

Interactive TV and smart TV application publisher Flingo has hired longtime digital advertising executive Jackson Huynh as its new chief operations officer. As COO, Huynh will be r... More

Attacking the problem of rapidly growing metadata, video metadata specialist Digitalsmiths announced its Unified Data Service today, a solution that stores metadata together for fa... More

NBC News Digital has signed up oil company Shell as the sponsor of its “Meet the Press” experience on the Zeebox second screen app. Zeebox, which launched in the U.S. late last... More