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If you’re a Dish Network subscriber that happens to have a Dish Hopper DVR and likes basketball, you will love this. Dish has announced a new second-screen and mobile app experie... More

Rovi Corporation, driving digital entertainment innovation, today announced that Hubee, a major supplier of multi-screen entertainment solutions for service providers, has selected... More

While television was once considered a passive activity, mobile technology has since turned media consumption into a busier pastime, with consumers constantly switching from screen... More

Daniel Danker, the BBC executive responsible for the hugely successful iPlayer online TV catch-up service, is leaving the corporation after three years to join Shazam. Danker will ... More

Let's call it the baby sitter's dilemma. If you go to someone's house and pick up the TV remote, chances are, you won't know how it works. You know the situation's bad when even a ... More

There's a slew of new entertainment formats coming to the market from Endemol, among them Does Someone Have to Go, a fly-on-the-wall series set in the workplace. Does Someone Have ... More

Home entertainment used to be so simple. With VHS it was the movie. DVDs opened the door to commentaries, deleted scenes and any number of bonuses that could fit on a single (or du... More

Companies like Google, Twitter and Nielsen — who respectively make money from digital advertising, want to make a lot more from digital ads, and get paid to provide data to justi... More

The Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4 may not see a second screen impact their respective systems, but it certainly looks like that innovation Nintendo brought with the Wii U is something... More

Tapping into mobile marketing’s potential and using it to achieve business success continues to be a highly contested topic. From botched QR code attempts and SMS disasters to ig... More

Second-screen smart-TV app developer Flingo said Tuesday that Chinese TV manufacturer Changhong has reached a deal to integrate Flingo's Samba interactive TV platform into its fort... More

March Madness games on the four networks will be Shazam-able, allowing viewers to check on how they are doing in the office pool and find out details on players that are causing th... More

YuMe, a leading provider of digital video brand advertising solutions, today launched an improved Placement Quality Index (PQI) with integrated brand safety metrics. The enhanced P... More

While the terms "social TV" and "second screen" are often used interchangeably, they are, in fact, two different experiences: Social TV is a subset of second screen - and a somewha... More

Second-screen devices combined with customised content, interactive apps and loyalty programmes will fuel the behaviour of social TV consumers over the next 24 months, according to... More

Speaking at TV Connect yesterday, BBC senior technologist for mobile and dual screen, Jeremy Kramskoy, said that common standards were important in terms of bringing down developme... More

At a SXSW Interactive panel titled "The Mobile 2nd Screen in Video Games & Beyond," executives from Samsung and Ubisoft presented a necessary establishing question: What, exact... More

Streaming video provider Roku is currently testing a second-screen application for tablets that the company hopes to release in the "near term," according to a company executive. E... More

Viggle will air its first TV commercial on Wednesday as the second-screen TV app, first introduced in January 2012, looks to move beyond word-of-mouth marketing. The 30-second spot... More

Is online video at its tipping point? That was the topic of several sessions this morning at the OnMedia NYC conference. Most of the panelists agreed that online video won't displa... More