Smart Screen News Headlines

Out with the polar bears, in with the showgirls. On Tuesday, Coca-Cola launched an interactive campaign centered around its Super Bowl ad, which features cowboys, badlanders (a bik... More

Google spent considerable time discussing hardware during an earnings call yesterday. Read between the lines and it looks like Google is making a very strong commitment to Chromebo... More

While pay-TV operators around the world are getting keener and keener on offering multi-screen video services to their customers, content licensing remains the single biggest hurdl... More

175 million Tweets. 2.7 billion “Likes.” When it comes to social media, the data is pouring in – and those numbers are just per day! As the public’s use of social media gro... More

Today, TechCrunch received a tip that San Francisco-based social TV startups Dijit and Miso could be close to combining forces in what would be the latest round of consolidation in... More

Hi TOK.tvers! Did you watch the games  yesterday? If you missed them, you can find some TOK Football screenshots we took here. While, indeed, more and more people use our app to t... More

The future blending of TV and computing is getting more interesting all the time. According to a report from KurzweilAI.net, researchers at Akamai are busy working on a new technol... More

French private broadcaster TF1 has launched a new second screen app claiming a ‘world first’ with instant replay. Called Connect, the new app from MyTF1 offers four distinct fe... More

Wall-to-wall cameras and microphones are just not enough for the first-ever Big Brother Canada reality series, to bow here on February 27. Insight Productions and broadcaster Shaw ... More

Sky 1 and Warner/Shed owned Twenty-Twenty Television are working together on the pilot for an interactive quiz show using Monterosa’s LViS Studio platform to power the second scr... More

UKTV’s Eden channel has worked with Red Bee Media to create a fully integrated, multiplatform campaign to promote David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities, which debuts on Eden... More

Prior to CES, Flingo introduced its Samba platform, which allows users to connect their TVs and mobile devices through its proprietary automatic content recognition (ACR) technolog... More

Mobovivo, an award-winning, second screen software company and DRG, a leading independent distributor based in the UK, announced today that the Joking Around Comedy Channel app is ... More

Gracenote, a wholly owned, independent subsidiary of the Sony Corporation of America(SCA),has teamed with DG® (NASDAQ: DGIT), the world's leading ad management and distribution pl... More

The next big unscripted format coming out of Endemol may be getting its start in Apple's App Store instead of on a TV network. Endemol-owned prod-co 51 Minds Entertainment is teami... More

Smart-TV app developer Flingo said Wednesday that MStar Semiconductor has agreed to integrate Flingo’s new Samba multi-screen synchronization software into the new MStar system o... More

As a digital analyst, it’s my job to study how technology disrupts business markets and models. As an aspiring social scientist, I also study technology’s impact on culture and... More

In September we wrote about Viggle’s launch of the MyGuy app, their foray into social TV fantasy football. This playoff season, Viggle has partnered with Hall of Fame quarterback... More

ESPN Deportes launches #Redes, the first live multi-screen viewing experience geared towards the bilingual Hispanic sports fan. Presented by Bud Light, the new 60-minute program ga... More

CBS has the rights to this year’s Super Bowl broadcast, and the network is betting big on second-screen interaction for the game. Unlike some other social efforts, CBS isn’t co... More