Smart Screen News Headlines
App Makers Highlight TV’s Utter Failure to Help You Find Anything Good to Watch (The Verge)
"I have a fundamental belief that the 10-feet UI as a concept sucks and is broken," says Jeremy Toeman, Dijit CEO and creator of NextGuide, a modern TV guide app for iPad. "It does... More
Broadcasters and Publishers to Benefit from DG and Civolution’s Synchronized Ad Platform Availability (PR Newswire)
DG® (NASDAQ: DGIT), the world’s leading ad management and distribution platform, and Civolution, the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and m... More
Mobovivo Offers Ultimate Interactive Sport Experience Using Civolution’s SyncNow Automatic Content Recognition for Its Suite of 2nd Screen Applications (Business Wire)
Civolution, the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetizing content, today announces its partnership with Mobovivo, the 2nd screen softwar... More
Dish Introduces Second-Screen iPad App, Offline DVR Content on iPad (Tech Radar)
Dish Network CEO Joseph Clayton took the stage at a CES press conference on Monday to introduce some new features for the Dish Hopper DVR, plus a new Hopper box with Sling built in... More
Second-Screen TV App Zeebox Tops One Million US Downloads in Three Months (The Next Web)
Social television app Zeebox has been downloaded more than one million times in the United States over the last three months, adding some weight to its claim of being the market le... More
Second Screen by the Numbers Q4 and 2012 Infographic
As we head into CES Monday, I thought I would post a teaser of some of the data we will present at the 2nd Screen Summit (held at the Wynn, 1-6pm, cocktails to follow). 2012 was ... More
CES: Tablets Cannibalize Screens (Variety)
Forget the so-called second screen, tablet computers may be on their way to becoming the true primary screen. The devices appear to be cannibalizing the market for both notebook co... More
Sony’s SideView App for Android Delivers a ‘Second Screen’ Experience (Digital Trends)
There doesn’t seem to be a business Sony isn’t in: TVs, phones, Blu-ray players, audio equipment are just a few. One of the surprises to come from the technology giant’s CES ... More
Digital Video By the Numbers: Q4 and 2012 Infographic
It's getting harder and harder to pull apart "Second Screen as a Companion Experience" and "Second Screen as the First Screen Viewing Experience". The living room and the tablet ... More
Sling Media Unveils Expanded Slingbox Platform at CES (PR Newswire)
Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), introduces new Slingbox platform developments designed to enhance the TV-viewing experience for... More
ConnecTV is Bringing Ads to TV Viewers’ Mobile Devices (Los Angeles Times)
A technology company whose iPad and computer application seeks to make television viewing more "social" is working to make TV commercials more interactive too. ConnecTV is launchin... More
Magic Ruby to Unveil Live Sync Capabilities for the Second Screen at CES 2013 (MarketWatch)
Magic Ruby, the leader in delivering monetizable content and applications for the second screen, today announced it will showcase its Second Screen Production Platform that will po... More
Zeebox Picks Gracenote Entourage for its Second Screen TV Chat Platform (Engadget)
It was around this time last year that Gracenote's embryonic automatic content recognition system for TV emerged under the name "Entourage." Now, it's been picked up by the increas... More
CBS Bows Second-Screen iPad App (Home Media Magazine)
CBS Jan. 3 launched an app enabling Apple’s iPad users to interact with others during network broadcasts, recorded or on-demand viewing of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” �... More
Top 20 Thinkers in Social TV and Second Screen – 2012 (Appmarket.tv)
Over the past few years of writing some 1500 articles and publishing 2000 at Appmarket.tv, I have been fortunate to meet many of the leading thinkers and pioneers in the Future TV ... More
BII REPORT: How Mobile Is Waging Battle For The Multi-Screen Living Room (Business Insider)
For over a decade, big tech companies, including IBM, Apple, and Microsoft, have been promising to take over the living room. But home entertainment has proved a hard business to c... More
Current, the First ‘Social TV Network,’ Sells to Al Jazeera (Lost Remote)
Current TV, which launched with a user-generated social strategy that was way ahead of its time, has been sold to Al Jazeera. The network, co-founded by former Vice President Al Go... More
Zeebox App Comes To BlackBerry Devices (World TV PC)
If you still own a BlackBerry device and have been wanting to see what all the craze about second-screen experiences is all about, well now you have the opportunity to do so. Zeebo... More
Facebook Friends Fan Interest in TV Shows, Study Finds (Los Angeles Times)
A new study reveals that social-network conversations about a television show can increase viewership. "How Chatter Matters in TV Viewing," Nielsen research conducted for the cable... More
TV Broadcasters Amp Up The ‘Second Screen’ Experience (NPR)
Once upon a time, there was one screen that TV broadcasters needed to fill. These days, it's all about the two-screen experience. People have been watching television with their la... More