Interactive TV news from FierceIPTV

Comcast boss Ralph Roberts used his historic keynote at CES2008 to relaunch the industry's new open development platform, tru2way. Formerly known as the OpenCable platform, it is designed to enable Read more...

The battle for eyeballs is heating up with Verizon and U-verse bumping up their content on their high speed services, offering multi-angle camera shots of the NFL, customized  traffic, sport and Read more...

Losses widened at OpenTV, the San Francisco company specializing in interactive TV middleware. OpenTV closed its second quarter June 30 with a net loss of $4.9 million on revenues of $24.3 million, Read more...

There's a small uprising among enthusiasts of software PVRs built around the free TV listing data provided by Zap2it Labs, a project of Tribune Media Services. Tribune recently posted a notification Read more...

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While this report is still firmly rooted in the "rumor" category, its implications are worth noting: Engadget has it from a "well-connected source" that AT&T has inked a deal with Apple Read more...

Major League Baseball (MLB) says watching out-of-market baseball games is potentially illegal, and that could mean trouble for SlingMedia. The company's SlingPlayer allows users to place-shift their Read more...

Verizon FiOS TV subscribers in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a market Verizon just launched the service in, are the first users to experience the company's new programming guide. The interface, which Verizon Read more...

Command Audio announced that Scientific Atlanta has licensed its patented PVR (personal video recorder, also known as digital video recorder, or DVR) technology. The worldwide agreement lets Read more...

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts explained the cable giant's future plans for its quadruple play offering through Sprint Nextel, and the services sound an awful lot like those being contemplated by IPTV Read more...