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[Windows Vista Magazine | Home] Official Windows Magazine | The 2008 International CES Day 1: The ...: Under the agreement with Disney-ABC Television Group, later this month, all U.S. Xbox LIVE members will begin to have access to select TV shows and movies from the ABC Television Network, ABC Family, ABC News, Disney Channel and Toon Disney as part of an agreement with Disney-ABC Television Group. More than 500 hours of content, in both standard definition and high definition when available, will be offered including hit ABC Television shows “Lost,”

[Network World on Convergence] Microsoft's CES news: all about IPTV | NetworkWorld.com Community: Microsoft announced partnership deals with Disney-ABC Television Group, NBC Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) that marry the Internet, IPTV software and broadcast television. For instance, Microsoft and NBC Universal will .

[paidContent.org] Microsoft Targets Smaller Service Providers With New Mediaroom ...: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has had some trouble selling its Mediaroom IPTV platform to smaller service providers because of the cost but it's hoping that a new offering will help change that. The company said Wednesday that operators will .

[Daily IPTV - The IPTV Industry's Web Resource] CES 2008 Brings Lots of IPTV Innovations: The collaboration will enable the Mediaroom software to operate on set-top boxes using the Broadcom BCM7405 System-on-a-Chip. This will allow service providers and original-equipment manufacturers to support a range of features, such as whole-home digital-video recording, high-performance user interfaces and photo and music sharing.

[ReadWriteWeb] Bill Gates at CES: No Web Fridges, But You Can Watch TV on Your ...: Zune - since the November launch of Zune Social, currently in beta, Microsoft says that "more than 1.5 million people have joined the music-focused social network", which it says is proof that "Zune is tapping into consumers’ desire to share their musical passions with their broader community." However, Zune is clearly well below sales of the iPod - so probably not too much can be read into this.

[Beyond3D News] Beyond3D - CES: Microsoft signs XBox Live content agreements: Nothing too curious, here in Chicago (or more accurately Illinois) Comcast, the cable provider, has made many attempts to stall AT&Ts roll out of IPTV. They keep trying to get them classified as a cable provider and the current method, before the courts I believe, is that AT&T has to go city by city or county by county to ask permission to upgrade or run lines and drop boxes...:roll:

[paidContent.org] Microsoft's Content Announcement At CES; NBC Olympics; Disney/MGM ...: Staci is covering BIll Gates' keynote at CES, and some key announcements and details from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) on the content side: -- NBC Tieup: It is tying up with NBCU to power NBCOlympics.com for the upcoming 2008 Olympics.

[Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows (Old articles)] Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Consumer Electronics Show ...: "That's $1 billion more than Nintendo did on the Wii, and it's $2 billion more than Sony did on the PS3." Bach also highlighted Xbox Live, but failed to mention that the service was offline for much of the week following Christmas, angering customers and leading to a free game giveaway. There are now over 10 million consumers signed up for Xbox Live, though Microsoft failed to mention that most of them are not paying for Xbox Live Gold but are rather using the free version of the service.

[Daily IPTV - The IPTV Industry's Web Resource] IPTV Movers and Shakers: After the sell of Broadcast.com to Yahoo, he joined Microsoft, and formed its streaming media group, before moving around inside Microsoft to engineering and business sides, working with Media Center 05. Then, he returned to Silverlight, where he had started, and set out to build a cross-platform, cross-browser video player that will work seamlessly on Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari on both Macs and PCs.

[Business - cleveland.com] Entertainment central in Gates' CES speech - Cleveland Business ...: Microsoft will partner with NBC to offer interactive content from the 2008 Olympics at www.nbcolympics.com.X-Box Live. A partnership with Disney-ABC Television Group and MGM will bring extensive video content to X-Box live.

[Webware.com] Bill Gates on Web 2.0 at CES | Webware - CNET: Back also talked about Microsoft's Mediaroom, an IPTV service used around the world by 1 million people (i.e., not that many yet). Microsoft is doing an app with CNN around the presidential elections.

[WebProNews Feed] Bill Gates Rocks Out with Slash at CES | WebProNews: Bill is announcing a new partner for Silverlight: NBC's coverage of the 2008 Olympics. They will make available video of the events, live and on demand, courtesy of Silverlight.

[Guardian Unlimited: Technology] CES: Bill Gates bows out, with help from Slash | Technology ...: • ABC and Disney TV shows will be added to the Xbox Live video offering, some of which will be in HD. Shows include Ugly Betty and Lost and movies including Legally Blonde and Rocky will be added, as well as additional titles from United Artists.

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