- Verizon Adding Widgets, Web Video To Fios TV Starting today, subscribers will be able to choose from an expanded set of free Internet widgets, accessible through any Fios receiver or digital video recorder. And in a month or so, Fios viewers with the company's $19.99/month Home Media DVR will be able to watch Web videos from three sites.
- HSN EBIF App launched in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Interactive TV’s Present and Future to be Featured at The Cable Show ’09 With collaboration from consumer electronics companies, as well as information technology companies and software developers, the CableLabs tru2way specifications define advanced cable devices, including retail and leased devices, for cable operators, programmers, and advertisers to deploy interactive applications nationwide. EBIF (enhanced binary interchange format) defines a simplified data format for interactive applications that can run on legacy leased devices with more limited resources.
- Starz and Showtime Get Interactive TV Bugs Starz Entertainment and Showtime Networks are set to show off interactive TV applications for cable operators at next month's Cable Show '09.
- Interactive TV will transform advertising With the formation of Canoe Ventures in 2008 and the adoption of EBIF & tru2way by cable and IPTV providers, many of the barriers to the success of interactive television have been resolved.