CES news from FierceIPTV

Sony brought their stars, so too did NBC. Telco executives were everywhere and a cable guy gave the keynote address. The usual corridors of gadget wizardry were on show but what stood out at CES2008 Read more...

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...

With Congress warming up for a review of Kevin Martin's MO as Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, it is intriguing to see how cable's government lobby wants to approach 2008. Martin used Read more...

If there is one mega trend to emerge--or at least be confirmed--from CES2008, it is that after many years of phony war the battle for Internet TV finally is serious, with device vendors, content Read more...

The battle for control of the lounge room has finally begun with Microsoft releasing at CES2008 its impressive IPTV service embedded in its game console Xbox 360 powered by its Mediaroom software. Read more...

The US market is, of course, the key frontier for vendors and channel deliverers jostling for control of the lounge room, with the dominant cable and satellite companies signaling they are not going Read more...

Also pushing for TV viewer attention is Sling which announced for CES its SlingModem product. The SlingModem acts as both as cable modem and a box to stream TV to any internet enabled device. Sling Read more...

The device space may be white hot, but there is similar feverish collaboration under way among the content players, with numerous media brands announcing distribution and alliance deals for the new Read more...