Interactive TV Headlines Round-Up (IV): PlayJam, Dish Network, Roku, TV of Tomorrow Show, Shaw, Gravitas Ventures, Simple.tv, Kickstarter, Swisscom, thePlatform, NBCUniversal

As most of you are probably aware, [itvt]'s daily news reporting has been on hiatus for the past few weeks, because our editorial team has been working on the TV of Tomorrow Show and then taking a post-event break. We plan to cover the news we have missed via a series of headline round-ups, and then to resume daily news production. We expect it will take us a couple of weeks to catch up with all recent developments, so if you have sent us a press release or briefed us about a piece of news, and don't yet see it covered here, please bear with us.

• Connected-TV Games Company, PlayJam, Names Criterion Software Co-Founder, Adam Billyard, CTO
• Dish Network's DISHWorld International Programming Service Launches on Roku
• Report: Roku to Launch in Germany and Spain
• Roku CEO, Anthony Wood, Predicts Demise of Blu-ray within Four Years at The TV of Tomorrow Show 2012
• Shaw Communications in VOD Deal with Gravitas Ventures
• Simple.tv Uses Kickstarter to Raise $226,000+ to Launch its Flagship DVR
• Swisscom Enables Remote Access to DVR Recordings
• NBCUniversal's USA Network, Syfy and Oxygen to Use thePlatform's mpx Video-Management System
• thePlatform Targets Mid-Sized Businesses with mpx Essentials