Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013 – theverge

“We’ve been told that Google TV isn’t going away — the company can’t give up, because the market and opportunity are too large. But Google’s changing its approach to your living room, beginning with the update this week. Google TV is now based on Android 4.2.2, the latest version of the operating system, and offers developers much more — when Google TV first started three years ago, the team forked Android to build the OS, and a source described this update as ‘bending the fork back in.’”

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WISI delivers HbbTV over IPTV

The blurring of TV and internet together with the emerging HbbTV services is providing a challenge for the futureproofing of TV headends and next-generation networks. WISI Communications will be de…

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Boxfish Releases TV Discovery and Search API

Boxfish, television discovery startup, released an improved TV discovery app this past week. With the new release, Boxfish decided to make its technology available to third parties via an API. Boxfish allows the use of natural language to search for particular topics currently discussed on TV, or users can find out what is currently most popular on tv.

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Brightcove Announces Live Streaming Platform – huffingtonpost

“BOSTON – Brightcove, the big video services company, announced today a full-blown, live streaming platform. The company allows the live file to be uploaded to the cloud and and then encoded into as many as 20 live renditions, says founder and executive chairman Jeremy Allaire in this interview with Beet.TV”

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