Google TV is a Smart TV platform developed to create an interactive experience between the viewer and Google’s website. The television platform integrates the Google Chrome browser, which provides a way for users to access content and access networks such as HBO and CNBC. To take the television experience to the next level, developers began [...]
iMediaShare combines media sharing technology with online video aggregation, which is a roundabout way of saying you can use your mobile device to send Internet video to your TV. There are other ways to get this job done, but this app promises to make it as intuitive and effortless as possible; and, with some exceptions, [...]
By now, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Viggle, the TV check-in app that gives you rewards for watching. In just over a year, Viggle raised enough industry interest to warrant a $70 million deal with GetGlue, but the deal fell through, and GetGlue suddenly got some snazzy (and long-awaited) updates that make it even more of [...]
With Dijit, You’ll Run out of Fingers before You Run out of Features In the small pond of universal remote apps, Dijit is already the biggest fish. In the rapidly-overflowing pond of social TV apps, Dijit can hold their own with anyone. But having recently acquired Miso, Dijit may be poised to conquer the TV-related [...]
If you have HBO and a mobile device, you should have HBO GO–the app that serves up everything HBO is cooking. But is this a full course meal or just another take-out dinner? HBO GO is available on a number of platforms, including apps for desktop browsers, set-top boxes, and game consoles. We’ll focus on [...]
Do you need some TV on your mobile device? Are you overwhelmed by all that unknown online TV programming, or hesitant to shell out for Netflix or Amazon Prime? Crackle may be the answer. In addition to providing a sleek website portal for free movies and television shows, Crackle has developed service for Smart TVs [...]
A Really Great App, Poorly Executed Even before I tested Can I Stream It?, its developer, Urban Pixels, won points from me for the app name. Sure, Can I Stream It? (CISI) won’t be easily verbified like Googling or Facebooking, but it lets you know what the app does: type in the name of a [...]
Yahoo! hasn’t been considered on the cutting edge of online services for some time, but that hasn’t stopped the company from trying. In April 2011, Yahoo! beat out Facebook and Twitter to acquire IntoNow for over $20 Million when the startup was only 3 months old. Why the intense interest from all these companies; and [...]
Sometimes really great apps for iOS and Android cost a few dollars. Often, this allows the apps to avoid ad-driven content. They may cost a couple bucks because of their specialized topics, narrow focus, or to recoup the high costs of development. Sometimes, however, the best of both worlds come together and a really great [...]
Television has transformed into a new beast in the last decade. In addition to the brilliant shows we love, the characters and story lines we’re addicted to, technological developments have given TV an entirely new dimension. It’s called Social TV, and the effects are viral. Ynon Kreiz, CEO of the Endemol Group1, told a packed [...]
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