blinkx, the advanced video search engine, has announced a partnership with Dailymotion, the online video portal. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will embed Dailymotion’s player alongside its own content to give users seamless access to Dailymotion’s video library on blinkx. Dailymotion will place advertising against these videos and share resulting revenue with blinkx. […]
Conax, a global provider of solutions for securing multi-device and digital TV services, has revealed that customer Digicable, Asia’s first 500 channel digital services provider, is upgrading to the Conax Contego Plus content security solution. Not only has the pan-Indian MSO already achieved one million digitised subscribers, but has also recently contracted an additional 600.000 […]
Announcing a raft of licensing agreements, taste-and-mood based entertainment discovery engine specialist is now claiming to be the biggest discovery provider for Tier-1 providers worldwide, and that its semantic approach will be at the forefront of next-generation entertainment experience. Jinni says the deals represent aggressive worldwide growth and the beginning of market transformation from the […]
PacketVideo has announced that its Twonky solution was selected by Hisense, a leading Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer, for use in their Google TV products and select Linux powered connected TVs shipped globally. Smart TVs with Twonky software offer a multi-screen experience, allowing users to play content from any device in their local network, or use […]
Video content discovery solutions provider Jinni, has announced the signing of seven new licensing agreements for the implementation of their unique semantic discovery for video guides. The deals represent aggressive worldwide growth and the beginning of market transformation from the old grid-style video guides to a new era of intuitive, personalized user experience. Jinni customers […]
At CES, Video content discovery solutions provider Jinni has unveiled a new NLU (natural language understanding) discovery engine to power voice-activated video guides that understand natural human language. The Jinni NLU engine leverages the company’s Entertainment Genome to interpret natural human speech and derive the underlying meaning to enable intuitive interaction between users and their […]
Red Bee Media, a media management companies providing multi-platform technology and solutions, has announced a multi-year deal with Samsung Electronics to provide rich metadata services for Samsung’s new range of Smart TVs across 13 European countries. The deal, which was secured following a competitive pitch process, will see Red Bee Media provide rich EPG content, […]
Movea, provider of data-fusion and motion-processing technologies for consumer electronics, has announced a collaboration with French telco Orange on a large scale commercial deployment of a gesture-control set-top boxes. The new Orange Livebox Play TV set-top box will run Movea’s SmartMotion Server, the motion processing engine for digital home entertainment, and will ship with a […]
ThinkAnalytics, an expert in multiplatform TV search and recommendations, has been selected by interactive TV software outfit Alticast as a recommendations engine partner. Alticast will integrate ThinkAnalytics’ recommendation engine into its Windmill ecosystem to bring personalised, multiplatform recommendations and Intelligent Navigation to Alticast’s customers in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. Designed with a […]
Cox Communications has announced enhancements to its premium TV product, Cox Advanced TV Plus, with an upgrade to the Trio Programme Guide. The enhanced Trio Guide will allow users to receive personal recommendations for up to eight users in a household, based on the movies and shows they already enjoy watching “We are making significant […]