A report from worldwide consulting firm Bain & Company claims that the use of Internet-connected TV sets are set to rise in the next few years to the extent which would see the percentage of households who own a set reach 60%. This statistic covers the citizens of countries and regions which participated in a survey conducted by Bain & Co., with over 3,000 users in the USA, France, India, [...]

Over one-and-a-half years after first announcing that they were working with Samsung to develop a smart TV, Google have claimed that they are now in final talks with the Seoul (South Korea)-based company for the development of a new connected TV that would be released in 2012. Samsung now claim to be in ‘last-stage’ talks with [...]

Online content advertising specialists Tremor Video are thought to be planning a change in their attentions towards connected TV (on Smart TV systems), claiming that their are fast developing into a vital area of promotional campaigns. Tremor, who claim to reach over 176 million unique viewers through online TV (143m) and video on mobile devices (33m), have revealed that they have signed official [...]

With connected TV sets currently developing at a fast rate, Apple have revealed their plans to pull a traditional one-up on the current market contenders, and possibly revealing what late co-founder Steve Jobs meant when he said he had ‘finally cracked it’. While Apple already have a connected set-top box (Apple TV), their planned product [...]

Australian telecommunications company Optus have teamed up with Internet pay-per-view provider FetchTV to officially launch a ‘combined IPTV service’ called MeTV, after having first announced the joint package five months previously. For Optus, a fully-owned subsidiary of Singaporean company SingTel, the move will be one that they will want to challenge rivals such as Telstra [...]

French international news network Euronews has revealed that they have agreed carriage rights with a number of big-name TV manufacturers, in an effort to expand their level of operation on connected TV’s. The channel, which is available in the UK on high-profile pay TV services such as Sky and Virgin Media, as well as a free online streaming service, which helps [...]