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The internal electronic module can add Internet connectivity to an existing TV chassis quickly, while improving the user experience, ensuring hard content protection and providing a means for late differentiation to address a fragmented market. The Connected TV market is currently growing at a fast pace, based on two technology solutions: either a single-chip approach or a modular two-board approach. The single-chip approach suffers from three main weaknesses: low responsiveness, weak content protection and poor...

The holidays are all about tradition, starting with overeating on Thanksgiving and shopping ‘til dropping on Black Friday. Far be it from me to play Grinch and rain on the parade of hopeful retailers who count on ridiculously low prices coupled with ridiculously low inventories to draw mobs of consumers out into the dawn hours to scratch and claw — and in the case of that retired high school linebacker, crack-back tackle — to get...

I like to catch up with people in the industry from time to time and find out what they do in time not-obsessed with the trials and travails of the interactive TV industry. Here, we see Bill Niemeyer , ITV strategist and veteran numbers-cruncher, practicing his driving skills around the track. Bill driving a (rented) Spec Miata race car at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma during an October 2009 Audi Club high performance driving school. This...

Verizon/Google Droid platform smartphone has a huge interactive digital signage piece in Times Square. You can also go on their Web page and see it streamed live here. Or, just watch the YouTube video from VerizonWireless TV about it. -- Tracy Swedlow, editor, [itvt]

It’s just a shame that the Mayans, those ancient seers, say the world is going to end in 2012. With development lead time and all, that’s just about when the auto industry will be introducing the first connected car. Then again, maybe, like counting numbers, the Mayans just got tired of putting dates on calendars and 2012 is nothing more than the end of mind, not the end of time. If the world doesn’t end...