With all the competition from streaming video and sexy competitors, Tivo may seem like an outdated relic. However, the company's new partnership with smart TV app startup Flingo may change that.
Drool now or drool later, but LG just announced more details about its 2013 TV lineup, which will be unveiled at CES in a week.
Aereo is rolling out new support for its satellite broadcast TV service on web browsers, the company announced today.
MoveEye is a smart piece of eyewear that works with software to let you control computers with gestures.
You’ve likely played Angry Birds across several different platforms by now, but you haven’t played it like this: Samsung today announced that it will be bringing the uber popular game to its Smart TVs with motion controls.
On Samsung’s Smart …
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Big Data is dramatically improving the way smart organizations operate across a variety of sectors.
Police departments are using data-driven predictive analysis to combat crime before it occurs. After Memphis police began analyzing crime-related data, violent crime went down 26%. …
The Swedes are the first to get their hands on the new HDTVs from Swedish furniture store Ikea. The Uppleva TV, an all-in-one TV/cabinet/audio system is now on sale at the company’s Stockholm store for roughly $1,000, and will trickle …
After months of rumblings, new details have emerged about Intel’s new plans to launch a smart TV platform — and it actually sounds pretty cool.
Back in March, Intel was rumored to be working on producing its own set-top box …
Electronics manufacturer LG may create a Google-branded television set that would run an unreleased, future version of the Android-based Google TV software.
The Google TV software — which currently runs on a variety of set-top boxes from Logitech, Sony and …
Samsung has announced its new line of Smart TVs will let DirecTV customers access their TV service without the use of a set-top box. The company announced the feature addition at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
At Samsung’s …
LG Electronics and Gaikai are teaming up to bring an integrated cloud gaming service to LG Cinema 3D TVs in 2012.
Gaikai says it has spent three years building the fastest interactive cloud network in the world, instantly capable of …
Samsung announced today that the Angry Birds franchise will come to the company’s Smart TVs in the near future. In addition, Rovio, the maker of the Angry Birds games, will provide animated Angry Birds shorts to Samsung’s Angry Birds channel …
Samsung is quickly beginning to generating Apple-levels of hype at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Last year’s Samsung’s CES press conference was a complete madhouse, and this year was no different. Today at the Las Vegas tradeshow, Samsung showed off a …
Not content to sit around and let Apple beat it to the TV market, Lenovo introduced its first television today at the Consumer Electronics Show, which is also notable for being the first TV to run the Android 4.0 operating …
Set-top boxes are so 2011. Roku, a company that helped popularize cheap streaming video boxes, is out to changing the game with its new Streaming Stick.
The Stick, which is about the size of a USB flash drive, plugs into …
Zynga is finally bringing its mega-popular Texas HoldEm poker game to the living room TV set, but it’s not going through a major video game console manufacturers to get there.
In addition to its social media and mobile gaming apps, …
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[Peter Yared is the vice president of apps at Webtrends, which acquired Transpond, a social-apps developer he founded. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.]
Ever since Yahoo Connected TV launched at CES in 2009, there has been a steady stream …
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Ty Braswell, founder of Creative Digital Strategies, is a consultant specializing in growing mobile TV revenues for companies including the NHL and Major League Soccer and was Virgin Records VP of New Media during the early Napster years.
Working for …
This post is sponsored by Samsung Electronics America. See samsung.com/apps for information about which apps are available on specific models. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Samsung Electronics …
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Peter Yared is founder and CEO of social and mobile app infrastructure company Transpond. [Disclosure: Transpond is announcing support for Android-based televisions.]
Everyone’s buzzing about Google’s new TV platform. But the real battle in your living room is Apple …
