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uniView Technologies announces expansion with Mid-South Electric Cooperative (3AUG99) (PRNewswire)
- Ruel's Spotlight Website: Set-top.com portal for WebTV (4AUG99)
- Ruel's Spotlight Website: Hot Potato Software - Couch Surfer and Mind Charger Home (4AUG99)
The news page here previously visited Hot Potato, but WebTV viewer REDD Apple says to check it out again. - Abbey National and HSBC switching on TV banking in the UK (3AUG99) (BBC News)
- Senior Labour politician argues internet is cheaper for the future instead of digital TV for the BBC (3AUG99) (BBC News)
The BBC News reports, "Gerald Kaufman, the chairman of the powerful House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said he opposed the idea of a top-up licence fee to fund the BBC's move into digital TV." Kaufman instead "regarded the Internet as the way of the future and urged the [BBC] to invest more heavily in it." - Broadband to mean end of TV as we know it (3AUG99) (WIRED)
- Smart houses said to be gaining acceptance (2AUG99) (USA Today)
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Concurrent Controls announces release of Applica Multimedia home networking system as first to simultaneously deliver multimedia to multiple PC users (3AUG99) (PRNewswire)
- WebTV Classic versus Apple iMac comparison (3AUG99) (Mooneyham)
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Foote, Cone & Belding San Francisco awarded WebTV Networks advertising account (2AUG99) (PRNewswire)
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SCM Microsystems teams up with industry leaders to demo technology to enable retail sales via Cable TV (3AUG99) (PRNewswire)
- AOL to be internet anywhere including at the gasoline pump (3AUG99) (InfoBeat Daily)
InfoBeat reports that AOL announced a joint venture with Radiant Systems Inc. to bring AOL to pizza parlors, gift shops, and gas stations. Radiant Systems is a worldwide supplier of point-of-sale systems to retailers. The scenario is that there would be a monitor at the gas pump where you input your credit card to pay for the gas and log onto AOL at the same time to check local maps, restaurant guides, sports scores, news, and check email during the average three-and-a-half minutes you are at the pump putting gas in the car. - B3TV said to be first to make interactive e-commerce TV commercial (2AUG99) (PRNewswire)
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Order free Domino's Pizza right from your Remote Control while watching STAR TREK on UPN affiliate KBHK-TV (2AUG99) (PRNewswire)
- Instant messaging to be killer app for net devices (2AUG99) (allNetDevices)
Just based on my email, although not necessarily a killer app for TV set-tops, I would say consumers would really want instant messaging whether on set-tops or on other internet-connected information devices. -ruel - One million PC cable modems in North American and more on the way (2AUG99) (Standard Industry)
- Million PC cable modems in use (2AUG99) (PC World)
- One million PC cable modems in use (2AUG99) (InfoBeat Internet Daily)
InfoBeat reports Kinetic Strategies Inc. found there were more than one million households in the U.S. and Canada subscribing to cable modem services with approximately 70 percent of those households being in the U.S., more than 2,500 new cable modems being install every day, with Excite@Home having 620,000 customers, Road Runner having 340,000 customers, and independent cable operators serving the remaining customers. - Video-On-Demand: Videodrome to let you turn home videos into streaming videos on the net (2AUG99) (IWIRE)
- HGTV launching Do It Yourself television network and website (2AUG99) (Nando-AP)
AP quotes HGTV executive vice president Ed Spray as stating Do It Yourself (DIY) "is one of the first networks where the Web and the network are really co-developed. One is driving the other and they are equal in the development process." - Intel investing in China's TV web future by putting $50M in joint venture with Pacific Century Group to form Pacific Century CyberWorks(2AUG99) (ZDNN-Reuters) (alternate link)
- Another Asian market: India paves way for internet (2AUG99) (Standard Industry)
Although the TV set-top connection is not mentioned in the Standard Industry report, my previous email would seem to indicate that India is the next big market for Internet TV set-tops. -
Allion and Chunghwa Telecom team up to provide ADSL-based video-on-demand services in Taiwan (30JUL99) (PRNewswire)
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3DFX Voodoo3 3500 TV Tuner card ships to retail shelves worldwide (30JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- MyWeb to be the next China Internet dynamo (30JUL99) (allNetDevices) (alternate asia.internetnews link)
If you've been following this news page, then you know that MyWeb is one company to watch out for. And you'll also know why allNetDevice's managing editor David Haskin wrote in to say check out his report on MyWeb. David wrote in to say MyWeb claims to have all the pieces in place to become the leading vendor of hardware and access for Internet on TV for China and the rest of Asia. As previously reported on this news page, MyWeb has market presence in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Malaysia, and other emerging Asian markets. But watch out for Microsoft's "Venus".... - Microsoft expects "Venus" to bloom in China (29JUL99) (CNN-IDG)
- Golden Sachs study says Asia to have 64 million Internet users and $32 billion in e-commerce revenue by 2003 (30JUL99) (Asia CyberAtlas)
In reporting on the Golden Sachs study, Asia CyberAtlas says, "Television technology may well become the Internet access device of choice in Asia. There are 110 million cable TV subscribers in Asia and places like Singapore and Hong Kong are increasingly focusing on cable networks to provide Net services." - RUEL'S SOAPBOX RESPONSE to U.S. Dept. of Justice consideration of Microsoft Breakup (30JUL99) (Ruel.Net)
In short, Ruel thinks the DOJ folks are idiots to even consider breaking up Microsoft and that any such breakup could cause collateral damage and a setback to the developing interactive television and set-top industry. You may not like Microsoft, but Microsoft is too important as a player in the interactive television and set-top industry to be broken up - U.S. DOJ thinking about breaking up Microsoft (29JUL99) (WIRED)
- U.S. DOJ wants to break up Microsoft (29JUL99) (USA Today)
USA Today reports, "Bankers at [two leading investment banking firms], who requested anonymity, said Justice officials wanted an assessment of where the logical breakup points of Microsoft were and a valuation of what the market reaction would be. Both firms declined, worried about the impact of siding with a Justice Department that they say is viewed in the business community as interventionist."
USA Today quotes Kaye Scholer partner and antitrust lawyer Richard Steuer as stating, "If the government were to seek breakup as a remedy, it would face the argument that whatever may make sense as a matter of economic theory would not make sense as a business reality." - Liberate announces Initial Public Offering (28JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- Fox enters into deal with Wink to enable wink-able enhanced television broadcasts (29JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- Hughes makes deal with Wink to intro wink-able DirecTV boxes in 2000 (27JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- Newsworthy Plug: For Those Who Have Asked (and Demanded) Information About WebTV Classic Printer Adapters (29JUL99) (Ruel.Net)
- ScreamingMedia and FasTV form multimedia unit to deliver up-to-the-minute streaming video-on-demand content (29JUL99) (InternetNews)
- TiVo planning IPO (27JUL99) (CNET)
- TiVo gets
new investors: CBS, Disney (owner of ABC), Comcast, Cox, Liberty Media, Advance/Newhouse, Discovery, and TV Guide Interactive (27JUL99) (ZDNN)
TiVo already has NBC, Philips Electronics, DirecTV, and Showtime onboard the TiVo "personal television" bandwagon. TiVo makes digital recorder boxes. - Ruel's Review: AiTV Set-Top Box (27JUL99) (Ruel.Net)
- Inter-Con/PC intros Totebook 6000 DVD Internet set-top box (27JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- Panja "digibox": Net entertainment benefits without a PC (26JUL99) (Sun-Times)
- Surf the Net on TV: Frost & Sullivan study says interactive television to boom (27JUL99) (Variety)
- Frost & Sullivan: Market competition thickens with rising popularity for interactive television (26JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- WorldGate announces second quarter results (26JUL99) (PRNewswire)
"Ten cable systems have now commercially launched the WorldGate Service; eleven other systems are currently in trials with WorldGate. Overall, the Company now serves 7,305 subscribers, an increase of 157% from 2,846 subscribers reported at March 31, 1999. Also, there are 942 additional WorldGate activated boxes in homes with multiple boxes. While these boxes do not generate subscriber fees, they are capable of generating advertising, e-commerce, and Channel HyperLinking revenues. The number of WorldGate activated boxes totaled 8,247 at June 30, 1999." - Microsoft plugging into China by selling "Venus" set-tops in China by end of '99 (27JUL99) (Industry Standard)
- Forbes asks what's the point of interactive TV in China? (23JUL99) (Forbes)
According to the Forbes report, "OpenTV, a privately held interactive television software company based in Mountain View, Calif. has announced that it struck a deal with the China Broadcasting Film & Television Satellite Company (CBSat) to become the first provider of interactive TV on mainland China." - Zi licenses multi-language smart text input software to Research Institute of TV and Electro-Acoustics of the Ministry of Information Industries of the People's Republic of China for use in Chinese set-top boxes (26JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- Video-On-Demand: Roger Ebert on pirating movies via the net (23JUL99) (Yahoo! Internet Life)
- Kids prefer TV and Books to the Web (23JUL99) (Industry Standard)
- MbTV Networks and C-Cube to collaborate on digital video recorder reference platforms (26JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- MbTV adopts Seagate's SeaStream recording standard for personal television (20JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- SCM Microsystems to be primary smartcard supplier for Sun Microsystems (26JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- WorldGate subscribers shatter image of passive couch potatos (20JUL99) IPRNewswire)
- TCI Chicago's InnTelevision adds 1000 hotel rooms for interactive television (23JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- uniView to produce virtual store for Multi-Media Tutorial Services (22JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- Caldera's embedded Linux R&D to be continued by Lineo subsidary (20JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- Microsoft outlines home of the future (22JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- Gates sees software future in devices (23JUL99) (TechWeb)
- Advertiser DoubleClick CEO Kevin O'Connor says PC-TV is DOA (21JUL99) (WIRED)
However, Wired reports "O'Connor himself admitted, predicting the future is dicey." - Apple's QuickTime TV network for streaming video-on-demand (22JUL99) (CNN)
- nCUBE and DemandVideo form partnership to provide video-on-demand over two-way broadband networks (20JUL99) (PRNewswire)
- MyWeb joins Beijing Telegraph to provide TV internet access (20JUL99) (Mercury)
- China gets low-cost Net access via TV (20JUL99) (CNET)
- MyWeb and China's Beijing Telegraph to sell online TV access (20JUL99) (Excite-Reuters) (alternate link)
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