Connected TVs and over-the-top streaming don’t have to mean lost advertising revenue for content owners and could even create new advertising opportunities, according to a new report by Frank Magid Associates… Read more »
Tablets featured prominently in the connected consumer space during the second quarter of 2012, both as a product category in their own right and as a component of broader platform strategies… Read more »
In my Weekly Update this week I give Microsoft its props for its latest digital living room moves. But there is plenty more connected-TV action to come. Apple’s Worldwide Developers… Read more »
Once the SmartGlass SDK is available, developers will have what amounts to a write-once, deploy-anywhere development environment to work in. Presumably, apps can be written to the SmartGlass APIs without having… Read more »
Living room platform environments will change dramatically over the next few years. While the installed base and near-term opportunities are dominated by legacy set-top boxes driven by cable, telephone and satellite… Read more »
The Internet is expanding the amount of available content at almost incomprehensible rates, but the difficulty of navigating through all of that content has quickly soured the TV-viewing experience. To understand… Read more »
Set-top box shipments will climb past 135 million in 2012 and will clear 150 million by 2015, according to iSuppli, which means the device has a critical presence in the living… Read more »
Could the future of TV lie not in smart sets but dumb ones? Speaking at the Ad Age Digital conference today, Sony Corp. of America CFO Rob Wiesenthal makes a surprisingly… Read more »
As Steve Jobs famously noted two years ago, the problem facing Apple in trying to crack the TV business was not a matter of technology but the lack of a viable… Read more »
It’s not quite the same as being spotted in the wild, but reports out of Canada this morning suggest the long-rumored Apple smart TV is well beyond the rumor stage. Rogers… Read more »