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WebTV Hole Leaves Users Exposed
News The account information of some WebTV customers could have ended up in the wrong hands, as a result of a security flaw in the set top box's software. Microsoft, which owns WebTV, said Tuesday it has taken care of the flaw, which made it possible...
[September 15, 1999, 8:20]
WebTV Renews RealPlayer Support
News RealNetworks Inc.and Microsoft Corp.may be arch-enemies in the business of streaming media tools, but they are renewing their relationship where it comes to WebTV, Microsoft's television-based Internet access platform.
[July 2, 1999, 10:32]
Five Years Ago: WebTV Devices' Time Is Years Away - Forrester
News WebTV and like devices won't reach one million in sales until the year 2000, according to Forrester Research, a Masschusetts, US analyst. Forrester said that content providers are not optimising for WebTV devices because they don't offer critical...
[May 1, 2002, 6:01]
One Year Ago: WebTV Devices' Time Is Years Away - Forrester
News Microsoft may have paid close on half a million dollars for WebTV but a leading researcher doesn't believe the category will be worth much until the new millennium. WebTV and like devices won't reach one million in sales until the year 2000...
[May 1, 1998, 6:00]
WebTV Wants To Control Your Home
News WebTV, along with chip manufacturer Echelon and electric switch maker Leviton Manufacturing, this year plan to release a combined system that will let users network any device that plugs into an electrical outlet, sources close to the companies said.
[March 9, 1999, 7:08]
WebTV Founder's Next Act Unfolding
News WebTV is now part of MSN, Microsoft's sprawling online unit. Steve Perlman, who founded WebTV, will show off the technology behind his two-year-old company, Rearden Steel, at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
[January 2, 2002, 12:18]
WebTV Devices' Time Is Years Away - Forrester
News WebTV and like devices won't reach one million in sales until the year 2000, according to Forrester Research, a Masschusetts, US analyst. Forrester said that content providers are not optimising for WebTV devices because they don't offer critical...
[May 1, 1997, 14:24]
US Report: Is WebTV A Puppet In Microsoft Standards War?
News WebTV Networks originally planned to add support for Java, a cross-platform programming language created by Sun. The company also used to regularly update WebTV support for new versions of RealMedia, an audio/video technology promulgated by...
[November 9, 1998, 10:05]
MS To Bring WebTV To UK In October
News WebTV Networks is slated to set up here in October as Big Green seeks to make international - and financial - sense of its $425 million purchase. Microsoft's purchase of WebTV takes it into a pitched battle with Sun which recently acquired Diba, a...
[August 22, 1997, 14:16]
MS Could Deal With UK Pay TV Firm On WebTV
News The move would take the pair up against BIB, the BSB/BT startup, and could cloud the future of WebTV Networks, which is owned by Microsoft. WebTV is expected to debut in the UK in the next 12 months. A report in this morning's Financial Times...
[February 6, 1998, 14:23]
MSN To Take Over WebTV
News Confirming a long-running rumour, Microsoft said Thursday it is shifting management of its WebTV service to its MSN unit. MSN will assume responsibility for the WebTV Internet-on-TV service and will become the Internet service for WebTV's products...
[March 2, 2001, 11:48]
Intuit Says WebTV Buy Is MS's Leg Up To Digital TV
News "Microsoft wants to write the operating system for digital TV," Cook said today in a visit to London. My bet is that they're seeking the credentials to build that.
[April 7, 1997, 16:09]
MS Completes WebTV Buy
News WebTV hopes to have 250,000 subscribers by the end of this year. The Internet TV service provider will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft, taking the firm into a pitch battle with Sun which last week announced plans to purchase Diba, a...
[August 4, 1997, 9:21]
WebTV Blacks Out For 350,000
News All 350,000-plus subscribers were blocked from accessing the service when the registration server -- the computer that subscribers access to log on to the service -- went down on WebTV Networks' interactive TV service between approximately 7:30 PM...
[June 29, 1998, 10:33]
Old Hack Haunts WebTV
News An HTML hack -- which had previously allowed attackers to command users' machines to send forged email -- caused renewed headaches for Internet-over-TV provider WebTV Networks this past weekend. The new spin on an old security hole allows cyber...
[March 21, 2000, 9:19]
Startup First Out With TV/Web Browser
News WebTV Networks demonstrated its new product yesterday and revealed that Sony and Philips Consumer Electronics will sell machines that tap its technology from September. The WebTV system is based on an Integrated Device Technology 112MHz CPU and...
[July 11, 1996, 11:32]
Windows Me Has A Bug
News The bug which affects the program's WebTV for Windows application means that a machine running Windows ME is vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks. According to reports, Microsoft was informed in August that there were security problems with...
[September 15, 2000, 8:55]
MS Sees CE On Much More Than Palmtops
News Rather, the software Gargantua sees the operating system at the heart of a panoply of devices from embedded applications through cars, Web-enabled phones and WebTV sets, to cars. Floyd said that the next version of WebTV will use embedded CE...
[October 31, 1997, 14:30]
Microsoft Posts $3b Quarter
News The Redmond, Wash.giant reported net income of $663 million, or 50 cents per share, including a $296 million charge to write off in-process technology acquired with the purchase of WebTV Networks Inc.
[October 21, 1997, 9:49]
AOL Offers First Peek At TV Service
News While the company stressed how the service was different from Microsoft's WebTV Networks, demonstrations left no doubt that Microsoft and AOL are once again ready to go head-to-head. AOL's service outshines its rival WebTV Networks' in at least one...
[January 7, 2000, 9:32]
