Smart Screen News Headlines
Sky Sports Adds Football Second-Screen Experience to iPad App (Digital Spy)
Sky has introduced a new second-screen experience for Premier League coverage on the Sky Sports for iPad app. Launching for the start of the new Premier League season, the iPad app... More
Infonetics: IPTV Operators Turning Up the Heat (IPTV News)
As the pay-TV industry becomes increasingly competitive, operators of managed IPTV services around the world are leveraging their IP networks to offer more advanced services such a... More
The Evolution of Connected TVs Leading to Second Screen Applications (Daily Tech)
Content identification company Vobile today launched its TVSync Connected TV API platform, designed to enhance connected TVs and second screen applications for consumers. Advertise... More
Sony’s Multi-Screen Push Gaming (WhistleOut)
Sony appears to be taking a leaf out of Microsoft’s book and introducing a multi-screen ‘push’ approach to its gaming. Much like the way that the upcoming line of Windows 8 t... More
Olympics Earns More Social Buzz Than Biggest TV Events (Media Daily)
There were impressive results in the social media arena for NBC's London Olympics. NBC says the London Olympics telecasts were more social than the 2012 Super Bowl, 2012 Grammys, 2... More
18 Million ‘Viggle Live’ Questions Answered During the Olympics (Lost Remote)
Viggle has tremendously emerged as the social TV startup to watch in 2012. The social TV rewards app launched in January and has continued to grow throughout the year. They’ve at... More
Boxfish Debuts its Second Screen, TV Guide-Killing iPad App (Digital Trends)
Perhaps nothing has better demonstrated the disconnect between consumer wants and the current state of network television than this summer’s Olympics. We all watched as Twitter a... More
Second Screen Developments for Sky (Newsline)
Sky has today announced a huge step forward in its second screen activity, with the launch of an update to its Sky+ app which lets Sky customers transform their iPad into a remote ... More
AMC Launches Facebook game for ‘The Walking Dead’ (Lost Remote)
If you watched Breaking Bad‘s newest episode on Sunday night, you saw AMC’s on-air promo for “The Walking Dead Social Game”. The social TV game is “a story-based Facebook... More
S3 Group Licenses Comcast Reference Design Kit, Continues to Broaden Its Portfolio to Meet the Needs of Global Operators (Broadcast Newsroom)
S3 Group, an international digital TV company that enables programmers and operators to accelerate the end-to-end delivery of multi-screen TV, announced today that it has licensed ... More
Olympics 2012: Twitter Users Sent More Than 150 Million Summer Games Tweets (Hollywood Reporter)
Summer Olympics here, dubbed by many the first-ever social media Olympics, drew more than 150 million tweets over its 16 days of competitions, Twitter said in a late Sunday blog po... More
Facebook Tries to Get into TV Game (Los Angeles Times)
World-class athletes aren't the only ones with Olympic hopes. Facebook Inc.has been participating in a different kind of trial in London: whether it can extend its online popularit... More
Social TV: How Shark Week is Combining Online and Offline Content (Business2Community)
The Discovery Channel’s Shark Week turns 25 this year and they are pulling out all the stops in celebration. Over the years, Shark Week has taken on new life. In 2000, they debut... More
NTU Scientists Unveil Multiscreen, Social TV Viewing Experience (CNET)
Scientists from Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU)'s School of Computer Engineering have unveiled "Social Cloud TV", which is essentially a multiscreen mobile TV ex... More
How GetGlue Aims to Reinvent the TV Program Guide (Lost Remote)
GetGlue HD is almost here. The major update to their app, being released for the iPad, will happen sometime this month. Buzz began around HD before the Social TV summit when Iskold... More
The New TV Apps Will Be Social, And a Whole Lot More (Forbes)
Word has gotten out that Apple is dropping its YouTube app from the next version of its mobile operating system, iOS 6. And the next version of the Macintosh OS X, Mountain Lion, i... More
Capablue and Intrasonics Use Second Screen Innovations to Drive Audiences Back to the TV (Broadcast Newsroom)
Capablue, specialists in connected TV solutions, has joined forces with leading audio watermarking technology provider Intrasonics to create intelligent second screen solutions tha... More
Tablets Most Popular Second Screen for Streaming Video at Home, But Lots Use Smart Phones (Consumer Reports)
A perhaps surprising number of people are viewing video on smart phones, even when they're at home, according to the results of our recent survey on viewing habits of CRO subscribe... More
Apple TV is Going to Be Software, Not Hardware (Toad Stool Blog)
Back in January, we predicted that an Apple TV would be sold like an iPhone, via a proprietary deal with a select MVPD, who’d offer their subscribers an iPhone-like discount on t... More
NBC’s ‘Grimm’ Embraces the Second Screen (Mashable)
NBC is getting into the second screen game with a new interaction companion ebook for its hit drama, Grimm. Grimm: The Essential Guide will give fans entrée to exclusive “behind... More