Samsung signs deal with USA Today for Web on TV
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Samsung and Sharp are trying web TV, but a cheaper version that what people have done in the past.
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Electronics retailer Best Buy Co   launched an online service in partnership with video  hosting site Mydeo on Tuesday, through which its customers can  store and share home movies and videos via the Internet.
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd's   Panasonic unit said on Monday it will work with Google  Inc  to develop televisions that will allow users to  watch Internet content such as photos and videos.
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General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal and News Corp. will start a Web-based network in September, letting viewers watch films and television shows and later purchase programs.
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NEW YORK: SBC Communications, the No. 2 US telecoms company, has agreed to pay US$400mil to Microsoft Corp for software that can deliver television via high-speed data lines, the New York Times reported yesterday.
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(InfoWorld) - Big names are coming to mobile video after a slow start for a service that has been touted as a perfect use for fast 3G (third-generation) networks. Three deals announced Monday brought prominent Hollywood figures and a major media company deeper into the business of mobile video. They will bring comedy, news, and other shows to small screens later this year. Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System International signed a deal with Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson in which the communications technology company would deliver a broad package of Turner content to mobile operators' portals and offer some directly to users with mobile browsers. Youth-oriented MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) Amp'd MobileÂ signed on partners including "King Kong" and "School of Rock" actor Jack Black and an executive producer of the science-fiction TV drama "The X-Files" to create original shows. Mobile media company FlycellÂ has formed a development and production company and reached a deal with two Hollywood producers to develop five scripts this year. Mobile operators already offer many video services, both live and on demand, but they aren't yet being used by most cellular customers. However, service providers have been lining up bigger partners and well-known content sources, such as the Sundance Institute, have been joining in. Verizon Wireless last yearÂ made a deal with Google's YouTubeÂ unit to show some of the user-generated video site's clips. Ericsson's deal with Turner encompasses news stories and video from the broadcasting company's CNN unit along with animation from the Cartoon Network cable TV channel and its Adult Swim brand. Turner will sell a package of content to carriers to include in their own mobile portals, and Ericsson will handle the technical side of delivering those offerings. The companies will also make some CNN material, namely text news and weather, available free on a mobile Web site for any browser. Turner already supplies some of this content to mobile operators an in individual basis, setting up a delivery system each time, said Brian Hickman, director of sales at Ericsson. Ericsson will adapt the content for multiple devices and streamline the process, he said. The companies will first start working with operators in Latin America and the Europe, Middle East and Africa region and plan to expand to other areas later. The free mobile-Web content can be blocked from users outside those areas, Hickman said. The services don't depend on having Ericsson network infrastructure, and Ericsson will seek similar deals with other media companies. Amp'd Mobile announced a deal with Black and two partners to develop an exclusive series of comedy shorts. Viewers will vote on the shows and determine which return and which are cancelled, the company said. Amp'd will also work with Icebox, co-founded by "The X-Files" executive producer Howard Gordon, which will produce an investigative news series about paranormal sightings around the world. Flycell's new production company, Flycell Productions, will work with an executive producer of the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" to develop scripts for seven, three-minute mobile shows. Flycell Productions also said it has already entered into co-production agreements for three mobile shows of its own.
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More compos coming Register Hardware reader Dave Page dropped us an email this week to show us just how good his brand new Samsung PS50Q7 50in plasma HD TV looks in his living room. Dave was the winner of last month's Register Hardware Samsung HDTV Competition, and we're pleased to report he's as pleased as punch with his plasma beast.â¦
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USA Today is plunging into a hot new Internet technology, offering users the ability to install "widgets" on their blogs and personal Web pages that contain news updates and other information from the newspaper.
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Akimbo Systems Inc., a startup that plans to deliver video over the Internet to television sets, has signed a deal for mainstream content from Time Warner Inc.'s Turner Broadcasting System.
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Samsung is close to producing a lighter, thinner, better television.
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SEOUL, South Korea  -- Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday that it has concluded a cross-licensing agreement on patents with Sweden's LM Ericsson in wireless communications technology.
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Wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson said Monday it has received a contract worth about $150 million US (122.4 million euros ) from Shandong Mobile Communication Co.
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Sprint Nextel Corp &lt;S.N&gt;, which recently said it would spend up to $5 billion on a mobile high-speed wireless standard by 2010, said it had awarded the New York WiMax market to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. &lt;005930.KS&gt;.
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The Italian deisgner is working on a TV and ultrathin cell phone, to be sold by Samsung.
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SBC said it signed a 10-year, $400 million agreement with Microsoft to provide next-generation television services using Microsoft&#39;s TV internet protocol television edition software platform.
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Microsoft has turned the channel on its slow-moving television software business by winning a key contract for its new Internet-based TV platform from SBC Communications.
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ABC News has reached a  content-sharing partnership with USA Today through the 2008  presidential elections.