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- MSN TV returns to the DR goldmine.(Cover Story)
- After a successful first run in direct response in 2002, Microsoft's MSN TV division is launching yet another DR campaign for the new and improved MSN TV 2 this month. How did one of America's biggest corporations become such a believer in this mark After...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- WebTV clicks on 'TV Guide.' (Internet-based television listings for WebTV subscribers)(Brief Article)
- TVGuide's revamped iguide will lead subscribers through WebTV's television content, starting this week. WebTV and TV Guide struck a deal to offer TV Guide's Web-based television listings (www.tvguide.com) to WebTV subscribers. The reworked si TVGuide's revamped iguide will...
- Research articles 1997-01-20
- Sony, Philips license WebTV - WebTV Networks launches TV-based online service - Internet/Web/Online Service Information
- New York--Will consumers soon be shouting, "I want my WebTV?" Sony and Philips certainly hope so. WebTV Networks, a year-old company started by three techies from Apple Computer, launched its TV-based on-line service last week, featuring set-top boxes from the two consumer electronics giants.
- Research articles 1996-07-15
- WebTV to allow Internet access without a PC. (WebTV Networks Inc.)(Mediaware)
- Philips Consumer Electronics and Sony Electronics are the first two companies to license the design for a set-top Internet box developed by WebTV Networks, a Palo Alto, Calif., company (VB, 7/26). According to WebTV co-founder and president Steven Pe Philips Consumer Electronics and Sony Electronics are...
- Research articles 1996-08-16
- Whatever happened to WebTV?(Microsoft, America Online, and other firms battling for a share of the emerging Internet/interactive television market)(Brief Article)
- IN APRIL 1997, Microsoft spent $425m buying WebTV, a Silicon Valley start-up that brought the Internet to the television. The purchase was billed as the beginning of Microsoft's takeover of the TV business. Three years on, only 1% of American househo IN APRIL 1997, Microsoft spent...
- Research articles 2000-09-16
- Microsoft to the rescue: Web TV's. (acquires WebTV Networks)
- Microsoft Corp. will acquire WebTV Networks for $425 million in cash and stock. The acquisition is expected to help expand the market for Web TV's service and to fuel its sales. WebTV provides Internet and e-mail via television sets to consumers. The compMicrosoft Corp. will acquire WebTV Networks for $425...
- Research articles 1997-04-14
- WebTV Networks and Fujitsu announce joint venture to bring television Internet access to Japan
- TOKYO--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 16, 1996--WebTV Networks Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd. today announced an agreement in principle to form a joint venture company to establish a television-based Internet service in Japan, using the innovative technology developed by WebTV Networks.
- Research articles 1996-12-16
- 'Lazy' interactive TV a likely hit
- Forrester research report predicts interactive programming will ramp up in three years The killer applications driving interactive TV will be the "lazy" ones, simple electronic-commerce functions and other basic interactions with networ Forrester research report predicts interactive programming will ramp up...
- Research articles 1998-08-03
- WebTV Networks, Sony and Philips announce first of free upgrades, including RealAudio, to extend TV Internet experience
- PALO ALTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 18, 1996--
- Research articles 1996-11-18
- Microsoft demos Web TV platform.
- Microsoft Corp. unveiled more of its digital TV vision of the future at the Western Cable Show last week--in Windows, of course. The Microsoft WebTV television software platform for broadband access and digital TV services aims at doing it all ...
- Research articles 1998-12-07
- HP Announces Availability of First Non-PC Printer Designed Exclusively for Internet Printing From the Television; HP's New DeskJet 670TV Printer Brings Internet-optimized Printing for $229 to WebTV Plus System and WebTV System
- PALO ALTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 16, 1997-- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that the DeskJet 670TV printer, the industry's first and only printer designed exclusively for non-PC Internet devices, is scheduled to be available to customers in the United States beginning Oct. 31. The printer is expected to sell for about...
- Research articles 1997-09-16
- AOL Eyes TV Without Broadband.
- America Online is preparing to bring what it calls "AOL TV" to market on the dial-up access platform, betting it can do better than Microsoft Corp.'s WebTV without waiting for broadband. AOL has been planning to deliver content to TV ...
- Research articles 1998-12-14
- DBS Services Bank on Interactive TV.
- LAS VEGAS -- Direct broadcast satellite companies DirecTV Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. placed their bets on new interactive-television services at the recent Consumer Electronics Show here. The DBS players are counting on new high-t LAS VEGAS --...
- Research articles 1999-01-18
- Web via TV heats up the battle for consumers' time.
- If Bill Gates believes there's a business in accessing the Internet over TV, who's going to argue with him? Microsoft's recent $1 billion investment in Comcast Corp., the nation's fourth-largest cable-TV system operator, and its $425 million acquisi If Bill Gates believes there's a business...
- Research articles 1997-06-23
- AOL TV.(Brief Article)
- Dulles, Va. www.aol.com What is it? America Online's attempt to one-up WebTV with a set-top that not only provides Internet access, but also an electronic program guide and Web content...
- Research articles 1999-09-06
- Battle of the boxes. (Microsoft demonstrated its WebTV set-top box at a meeting of UK television executives; British Interactive Broadcasting also showed off its set-top box)(Brief Article)
- BRITAIN'S television bosses gathered at the end of September in the medieval glory of King's College, Cambridge, under the august banner of the Royal Television Society, as they do every two years, to agree that British television is better than anybodBRITAIN'S television bosses gathered at the end...
- Research articles 1997-10-04
- 'AOLTV' Sees Mid-July Launch For Interactive-Television Test.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- America Online Inc. announced plans last week to launch its new interactive-television service, "AOLTV," in eight test markets next month, including such secondary cities as Baltimore, Phoenix and Sacramento, Calif. Philips Consumer America Online Inc. announced plans last...
- Research articles 2000-06-26
- Sony to offer set-top box for television Internet access by the fall; Company enters technology agreement with WebTV
- PARK RIDGE, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 10, 1996--Sony Electronics Inc. announced today that it will introduce a set-top box for television Internet access this fall, as a result of a technology licensing agreement with WebTV Networks, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif.
- Research articles 1996-07-10
- AOLTV could jump-start ITV.(Brief Article)
- But consumer enthusiam for the narrowband TV experience is far from assured The interactive-television market has been heavy on technology and light on content, and America Online's entry into the business, AOLTV, might jump-start creation of But consumer...
- Research articles 2000-06-26
- Personal Web Systems Raises $1.2 Million For Web-to-TV Browser
- Ready for WebTV 2.0? Personal Web Systems, a tech firm that’s developing a web-to-TV browser add-on, has raised $1.2 million worth of a proposed $1.8 million round of funding, per an SEC filing. Founder and CEO Gordon Campbell, a former Intel CMO, confirmed that the round was a mix...
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