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US Report: Interactive-TV Deals In The Works
News The biggest shoe yet to drop in the interactive-TV world may be called AOL-TV. By some measures the largest cable operator in the country, Time Warner has yet to spell out its grand plan for distributing interactive services.
[December 2, 1998, 6:10]
US Report: VCR-PC Hybrid Adds Up To Interactive TV
News Two big issues holding back interactive TV is monthly fees and privacy," said Jim Plant, director of marketing for Replay Networks. The Californian company next week begins testing its ReplayTV service which allows users of its appliances to pause...
[December 18, 1998, 10:58]
Dell Plans Web Sales For PCs
News The direct seller will next week roll out a pan-European programme that will emulate its parent's $1 million a day US interactive business with Web sites in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Scandinavia designed to make buying a Dell system as...
[April 29, 1997, 16:01]
Five Years Ago: Dell Plans Web Sales For PCs
News The direct seller will next week roll out a pan-European programme that will emulate its parent's $1 million a day US interactive business with Web sites in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Scandinavia designed to make buying a Dell system as...
[April 28, 2002, 7:01]
The Day Ahead: You'll Have A Cow Over This B2B IPO
News How a cattle B2B company came up with a name like eMerge Interactive is beyond us. There's a new B2B stock on deck and investors might just have a cow over the IPO of eMerge Interactive. As for market projections, eMerge cites the same B2B...
[February 2, 2000, 11:36]
The Day Ahead: B2B Execs Upbeat
News That would leave US Interactive as a prime cash generator in the future -- ICG only holds 3 percent of the company. Alexander noted that the portfolio went up, but we think it's interesting four companies -- eMerge Interactive, Onvia.com, US...
[June 2, 2000, 11:05]
Microsoft Patent-infringement Case To Go To Trial
News Judge Jeffrey White of US District Court for the Northern District of California denied three Microsoft motions for summary judgment in a suit filed by TV Interactive Data (TVI), a small Monte Sereno, California, company specializing in...
[October 14, 2004, 9:00]
The Day Ahead: Liberate Licks Chops As Microsoft TV Stumbles
News Europe is ahead of the US in interactive TV just like it is in wireless services. With news about Microsoft's interactive TV woes becoming almost a daily occurrence, competitors such as Liberate Technologies are ready to snag the customers the...
[September 6, 2000, 12:01]
The Day Ahead: Sizing Up The Internet Incubators
News It owns stakes in VerticalNet, Breakaway Solutions and US Interactive. Both Safeguard and Internet Capital made out nicely from the IPO of online cattle auctioneer eMerge Interactive Friday. Here's our list of top US publicly-traded venture capital...
[February 7, 2000, 11:56]
Deal Will Drive Music, Internet To TV
News The marriage of Internet giant America Online and media corporation Time Warner will yield interesting progeny, driving traditional Net content -- such as interactive data and digital music -- to the tube, said analysts and industry insiders on...
[January 11, 2000, 8:18]
Interactive TV Market Heats Up
News Unlike the US and continental Europe, where interactive television has failed to attract significant interest, UK consumers have given interactive television a warm welcome. In England 23 percent of households are expected to use some form of...
[April 30, 2001, 7:36]
Analysis: AOL/TW Match Made In Heaven?
News By the end of this year TW will have converted all its cable systems to digital interactive services and is (perhaps now that should be 'was') desperately looking for interactive content. AOL can provide interactive content while TW can provide...
[January 10, 2000, 17:55]
Consumers Face Digital TV Privacy Threat
News Interactive television has leapt to more than a 25 percent penetration in the UK in the past year, but is bringing with it concerns about privacy and security. Forrester estimates interactive television -- including interactive systems from BSkyB...
[March 27, 2001, 17:15]
Japan's DoCoMo Gets Base In London
News The moves increases the likelihood that DoCoMo with roll out its i-mode interactive mobile system in Europe. Check out ZDNet's Interactive Broadband Guide Although Europe is ahead of the US in developing broadband technologies, with GPRS already...
[September 29, 2000, 15:17]
Hackers A Step Closer To Unlocking IPhone
News In a second hack, enterprising hackers have gained access to an interactive shell through a serial connection. The hack resulted in a list of the commands the iPhone will accept through the interactive shell — should the permission issue be bypassed.
[July 10, 2007, 10:00]
AT&T Snubs Sun In Digital TV Plan
News At the heart of these services is Microsoft's TVPack, a client-server package that supports services from email to interactive entertainment, although details about this were sketchy. Microsoft's investment will help the telco bankroll the rapid...
[May 6, 1999, 16:35]
Offline Giants Eat Up Web Ad Space
News In the first three quarters of 2001, online ad spending dropped by 8 percent, according to the trade group Interactive Advertising Bureau. They'll also be able to watch Internet-only treatments of ads created by Frito-Lay's agency BBDO Worldwide...
[January 25, 2002, 12:12]
Exclusive: CallNet's Email For The Masses
News The service will make revenue through people's use of the interactive text services. Analysts point out however that interactive services are becoming more prevalent with the advent of digital TV, and question whether MailTV is aimed at the right...
[November 12, 1999, 11:00]
Classifieds Turn Into Net's Cash Cow
News That revenue accounted for 70 percent to 75 percent of total sales for the interactive division. Revenue from online classifieds spiked 176 percent from $205m in the first six months of 2000 to $564m for the same period this year, according to...
[November 30, 2001, 10:11]
Girl Power Hits E-commerce
News The increase will mean that men, who made up 72 percent of online buyers last year, will only account for 58 percent of buyers this year, according to the Holiday Survey conducted by Harris Interactive, a division of polling firm Harris Black...
[August 31, 1999, 7:00]
