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Project Shield is Android-based and marries a 5in (12.7cm) touch-screen with joysticks, buttons and other controls, in a clam-shell design. It is also designed to link to PCs offer... More

Dish entered the second-screen game this week at CES, offering its subscribers an iOS app that combines the traditional programming grid with social discovery and remote control ca... More

Those of you with long memories may recall that 2012 was also eagerly heralded as being the year of the Smart TV, but there are far more voices in the heraldic choir this year - an... More

Rovi Corp.’s DivX streaming format has been approved by the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) for streaming use with UltraViolet. DECE is the industry-wide consortiu... More

he holidays are over. Time to go on that diet and hit the gym. Or you could destroy all those New Year’s resolutions in a flash by attending the annual Consumer Electronics Show ... More

Last year, when Roku first announced plans for its Streaming Stick — which compresses the features of a Roku Web TV box into a thumb-drive-sized, wireless dongle — it came with... More

It’s not a name you hear too often anymore when it comes to tech products, but today, RCA introduced a new Android tablet that lets you watch live TV on the go for free. The RCA ... More

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, 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

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 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

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

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 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

Digital content service M-Go, a joint venture of DreamWorks Animation and Technicolor, has struck a content licensing deal with Starz Digital and launched in beta mode. The beta la... More

Android device users now have access to Walmart’s Vudu subscription-free VOD movie and TV video service, another boost for UltraViolet, the cloud-based entertainment ecosystem av... More

In an important development for stations trying to build new ad revenues from mobile DTV broadcasts, the Mobile Content Venture has announced that Rentrak will provide audience mea... More

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is expected to widen its lead over Apple Inc in global smartphone sales this year with 35 percent growth, helped by a broad product lineup, market resear... More

Amazon has inked another content licensing deal to beef up its Prime Instant Video streaming and download service for members of its pay monthly Prime service. The deal is with A+E... More