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Interactive TV News Round-Up (VII): thePlatform, Alcatel-Lucent, TiVo, Zodiac Interactive

June 13, 2011
--thePlatform Teams with Alcatel-Lucent on Multiscreen Video Platform
--TiVo Unveils Two New Set-Tops to Power "Next Generation" of its Whole-Home Solution
--TiVo Revamps its iPad App with New Features Tailored for Cable Operators
--Zodiac Interactive to Demo New PowerUp Solutions at Cable Show
Due to the large volume of news being generated this week by the Cable Show, we are covering today's stories in abbreviated round-up/summary form: thePlatform and Alcatel-Lucent have announced that they have jointly developed a "multiscreen video platform that supports the delivery of live scheduled TV, video-on-demand (VOD) and 'TV Everywhere' services to a variety of screens, allowing pay-TV subscribers to access their video content in the home or on the go, on whichever device...

Interactive TV News Roundup (Part 2)

May 25, 2011
-- Oxygen Teams with Facebook for Paris Hilton Series -- Clikthrough Powers Hugo Boss Campaign -- Brightcove Launches App Cloud -- CableLabs Tests EBIF Apps -- France's Normandie TV Tests HbbTV Standard -- Univision Launches Web Novela -- SeaChange Debuts Advanced Ad Platform
Oxygen built a Facebook application viewers can use during the premiere of its new series starring Paris Hilton. "The World According to Paris," set to debut June 1, will include a live video stream and chat function on Facebook. The Facebook application is an extension of OxygenLive , the network's two-screen experience. More

Cablevision Deploys Zodiac's PowerUp Platform to Power Interactive TV Services

September 21, 2010
--Zodiac CEO, Brandon Brown, Discusses the Deployment with [itvt]
Interactive TV software developer, Zodiac Interactive , will announce today (Tuesday) that its PowerUp platform has been deployed in digital set-top boxes across its existing customer Cablevision 's entire tri-state service area (note: for some background on the Zodiac-Cablevision relationship, see the article published on itvt.com, November 5th). According to the company, its software is helping define and differentiate Cablevision's interactive TV applications and services, including iO TV Shortcuts (note: for more on the latter,...

News Round-Up (IV): Howcast, Interactivation, Stingray Digital, Ligos, Zodiac Interactive (EBIF)

August 08, 2010
--Howcast Claims Its Smartphone Apps Have Been Downloaded by over 2 Million Users
--Interactivation Sells Concert TV VOD Service to Canada's Stingray Digital
--Ligos Joins Zodiac Interactive's Partner Program, Will Use Zodiac's EBIF UA for its Ligos ETV Suite
Because the [itvt] editorial team has been on the road the past few weeks, we are covering recent news stories in summary/round-up form. We anticipate that it will take a few days for us to catch up with all the recent news: so if your company has sent us a press release or briefed us on an announcement, and you don't yet see your news covered in this issue, please bear with us. We apologize...

Zodiac Interactive Trumpets Its EBIF Deployments

January 19, 2010
--Is Eyeing Acquisitions, Plans to Launch Product to Enable Operators to Offer App Stores
Interactive TV software developer, Zodiac Interactive (note: the company recently launched version 2.5 of its PowerUp ITV Framework-- see the article published on itvt.com, January 12th ), announced Monday that its EBIF user agent is successfully operating in conjunction with applications from multiple vendors and development environments within the cable ITV ecosystem, including NDS for addressable EBIF-based interactive ads to individual Cisco (Scientific-Atlanta) set-top boxes. The company also says that its EBIF user agent is...

Zodiac PowerUp 2.5 Enables Interaction between Cable Set-Tops and Mobile and Internet Devices

January 12, 2010
Interactive TV software developer, Zodiac Interactive (note: the company's EBIF user agent is being deployed by MSO Cablevision-- see the article published on itvt.com, November 5th ), on Monday unveiled the latest version (2.5) of its PowerUp ITV framework , a cross-platform software that the company bills as unifying and enabling advanced interactive TV applications across multiple set-tops, including legacy boxes.

According to the company, PowerUp 2.5--which it says is available as...

Brandon Brown Named CEO of Zodiac Interactive

April 02, 2009
--Round-Up of Recent Zodiac Interactive News
Interactive TV software provider, Zodiac Interactive, has named Brandon Brown CEO. He replaces Zodiac's co-founder, Michael Rivkin, who will now become CTO. The company says that Brown will be tasked with identifying new business opportunities as it "moves into a new growth stage." "Brandon is a seasoned IT veteran, bringing to Zodiac more than 20 years' experience executing and growing profitable businesses for both commercial and open-source markets, and we're pleased to have his multinational...

Zodiac Interactive Develops ETV/EBIF Players for PowerTV, tru2way

January 01, 2009
Is Partnering with Ensequence
Interactive TV software company, Zodiac Interactive, says it has developed ETV/EBIF players for the Scientific-Atlanta (Cisco) PowerTV platform and tru2way. According to the company, it has been working with Ensequence to ensure that the latter's Create authoring software fully supports the EBIF player for PowerTV and that the player is fully compliant with the CableLabs ETV/EBIF IO4 standard. It says that the EBIF player for PowerTV is "widely available" today and has been successfully tested...

[itvt] Radio: Review of the 2008 NCTA Cable Show

May 23, 2008
In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow," a panel of interactive TV
experts-- Steve Borelli , VP of marketing and business development at
Integra5 ; industry analyst, Leslie Ellis (author of the popular
Multichannel News column, " Translation Please "); Will Kreth , director of product management for interactive TV at Time Warner Cable ; Alex

CableNET Line-Up Announced

April 29, 2008
The NCTA and CableLabs have announced the line-up of companies
that will be participating in CableNET, their annual showcase of new
cable technologies and products at the NCTA's Cable Show (takes
place May 18th-20th in New Orleans). A number of participating
companies, including UniSoft/Strategy & Technology, Sigma Designs
and Zodiac Interactive, will be demo'ing tru2way-based technologies,
and several other companies, including Digeo, Motorola,...