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Applian Technologies Bloghttp://www.applian.com/blog [Applian Technologies Blog] Now, OpenTV, an IPTV middleware company, has announced that its CTO, Vincent Dureau, has joined Google at a "senior engineering role." Dureau was responsible for developing OpenTV's key technologies, global business relationships and, in the early days, building its engineering team from scratch. Most interestingly, Dureau took the lead of OpenTV's advanced advertising technologies, even penning a white paper that reads: "We believe that addressable advertising, where specific video ads are targeted to specific audiences will become central to advertising on digital television within the next 5 years...

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http://blog.itvt.com/my_weblog [[itvt] Bloggit] Announcing the Speakers, Presenters, and Judges... : The 3rd Annual Awards for Leadership in Interactive Television will be presented at a ceremony next Tuesday evening (April 11th) at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's (NCTA) 2006 National Show in Atlanta (note: the ceremony will take place 5:30PM-7:15PM in Room B213 of the Georgia World Congress Center;

http://www.voip-magazine.com [Voip-magazine.com] C-COR's IP Summit Puts the Consumer at the Heart of Innovation ...: Talking on the subject of HDTV, Vincent Dureau, CTO of OpenTV, said, "The difficulty is that you don't always know it's HD, and it's hard for the consumer to buy into something if they can't see it. I believe a killer product is HD movie rental, with a two year window of opportunity while the war between physical formats is resolved."

http://uk.biz.yahoo.com [Uk.biz.yahoo.com] C-COR's IP Summit Puts the Consumer at the Heart of Innovation ...: Talking on the subject of HDTV, Vincent Dureau, CTO of OpenTV, said, "The difficulty is that you don't always know it's HD, and it's hard for the consumer to buy into something if they can't see it. I believe a killer product is HD movie rental, with a two year window of opportunity while the war between physical formats is resolved."

http://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com [Twilight in the Valley of the Nerds] OpenTV CTO Defects to Google: At the top of the list was news that Dureau, 46, had “accepted a senior engineering role with Google Inc.” There’s no word yet from Google as to what Dureau will be doing at his new corporate home, but Google had been aggressively recruiting IPTV engineers earlier this year, looking for candidates with experience in content management systems, user interface development for content-rich applications, cable and IPTV headend systems, and embedded digital-video technology.

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