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--theChanner Launches Social Music TV App for iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android--Turner Teams with Adobe, FreeWheel on "TV Everywhere" Solution for Verizon FiOS TV Online--Widevine in OTT Deals with LOVEFiLM, mgMEDIA

--Report: Amazon Attempting to Launch Subscription-Based Broadband VOD Service--Report: New Apple TV Device to Feature Netflix Access--BeeSmart Announces New Release of its Interactive TV Middleware--Boxee Invites Users to Choose Tagline for its Boxee Box--Epix Live Lets Viewers Interact with On-Screen Talent--Netgem Upgrades Telekom Slovenia's Legacy IPTV Infrastructure--SingTel Launches TV App Store, Video Search Engine--Softel Launches MultiText for Streamlined Multilanguage Subtitle and Caption Processing--Yoostar Now Available for Mac

There are two types of people in this world. I learned this week that you can actually draw a big fat line down the middle of all humanity. Standing on one side of that line are the vast majority of humans on the Earth. These are the people who, when I said, "I'm going to Comic-Con 2010 for my book tour," replied: "Comi-Wha?" Now, on the other side of this line stand the proud few who, when I said, "I'm going to Comic-Con 2010 for my book tour," their eyes lit up, their pulse quickened and they replied...

Interactive TV application development company, Ensequence, said Monday that shopping channel, QVC, has tapped its Ensequence Managed Services Group and its iTV Manager Programmer Edition technology to develop an EBIF-based, bound, tcommerce application (note: Ensequence also developed an EBIF version of rival HSN tcommerce app, Shop by Remote--see the article published on itvt.com, December 3rd; Shop by Remote, which launched nearly four years ago, is currently available on Comcast, Oceanic Time Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS TV and DISH Network). The first commercial deployment of the app is slated for...

It was the bells. During the initial meeting, and throughout the day, he kept hearing a bell ring. At the top of the hour. At the bottom of the hour. In the middle of the hour. All the time! It reminded him of an insane high school bell schedule where classes alternated start and stop times to cut down traffic in the hallways. Finally he asked, "What's with the bells?" And when he heard the answer, he was hooked: "Every time a bell rings, somebody ordered a music video and we made $2.50." And that's how ANDY ORGEL left the comfort zone of established network management (an original start-up executive at MTV, A&E, Nickelodeon and The Movie Channel) to jump into the

--ABC News, Starz Release iPad Applications--Multiple Companies and Organizations Submit Comments to FCC's AllVid Inquiry--Alcatel-Lucent Launches Compact Microsoft Mediaroom-Based IPTV Solution for Smaller Operators--BBC Releases Red-Button Programming Schedule through July 30th

--BBC's New Five-Year Deal for British Open Includes Red-Button, iPlayer Coverage--BBC Releases iPlayer Usage Statistics for June--Boxee Releases Video Demo of Boxee Box--Cedar Point Joins itaas's istart Program to Facilitate Deployment of its EBIF Communications Apps

--Clicker Media Study: Most Broadcast Content Is Made Available Online, but Only for a Short Time--Tim Kring's Conspiracy for Good Kicks Off in London--DECE Unveils Consumer Brand--Digital TV Labs Offering Bespoke Conformance Testing for CI+ Operators

--Dreampark Announces its Booth Plans for IBC 2010--Epix Hires Ex-Showtime Exec, Signs First-Look Deal with Albie Hecht's Worldwide Biggies--Pan-European Interactive TV Project, FASCINATE, Receives EUR 9.35 Million of EU Funding--Gotuit Powering Broadband Video Portal for Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance"

--Hulu Plus Preview Launches on PlayStation3--Interactive Online Video Advertising Company, Jivox, Claims 400% Year-over-Year Revenue Growth--Luxoft Publishes Free EBIF Tutorials for Developers--Microsoft Cancels its Avatar-Driven Xbox Live Interactive TV Game Show, "1 vs 100 Live"

--NDS Announces its Booth Plans for IBC 2010--Netflix Extends Deal with Warner Bros., Will Launch Streaming Service in Canada--News Over Wireless Creating Yahoo! TV Widgets for over 30 Local TV Stations--Ooyala Supports Silverlight, Demo's Interactive Video Capabilities

--Reports: Orange May Join Project Canvas, Five May Re-Join--Redbox Planning to Offer Video Streaming--MP3tunes Support Lets Roku Customers Play their Personal Music Collections on the TV--S3 Group Trumpeting its Work on Sky's New HD Set-Top Boxes

--Sigma Designs Launches "Low-Cost" Set-Top Box Solution for Microsoft Mediaroom--Ski Channel in VOD Deal with Comcast--SnagFilms Plans to Increase Distribution, Starting with VOD Deals with Comcast, Verizon FiOS TV--SyFy Launches Three iPhone Apps

--Time Warner Cable Marks Comic-Con with VOD Offering--Transgaming Secures First Deal for its Video-Games-on-TV Service, GameTreeTV--TubeMogul Offering Online Video Analytics Free of Charge--Comcast's Social TV Platform, Tunerfish, Offering Badges for HBO's "True Blood"

--TVNZ Commissions Second Season of Emmy-Winning Interactive Online Series, "Reservoir Hill"--WealthTV Offering 3D Episode on Verizon FiOS TV's VOD Platform--Satellite VOD Company, XStreamHD, in Distribution Deal with Lionsgate--Zappware in Interactive TV Deal with Swiss Cable Operator, naxoo

One of the highlights of my trip to the UK was a dinner I had with Dale Herigstad, the chief creative officer for Schematic, the global interactive agency. But Dale also seems to be almost everybody'sJet Set favorite TV designer. Pretty much everyone I've ever talked to loves Dale. Really. I'm not kidding. It's hard to get people to say bad things about him. And what's not to like?

By Brian David Johnson, Consumer Experience Architect at Intel and author of "Screen Future"