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TheWB.com Launched As Private Beta, Plus Facebook App

Early in March we brought you word that The WB, the original Warner Bros. television network which merged with UPN to form The CW, was putting together a new website to to host archival content as well as original Web-only productions. (The CW publish…


Sky TV Considering IPTV For Its Picnic Pay TV Service | As Well As A DSL Set-Top Box

BSkyB is looking to launch Picnic, a pay-TV service with Sky Sports 1, Sky Movies, Sky One, a children’s channel and a factual channel.

The current plan is to broadcast the channels at various times of the day on MPEG-2 streams, which would be sent …


Hulu Officially Launches Tomorrow

Tomorrow marks the day Hulu, a Web-based television project first piloted last year by Fox and NBC, is to be taken out of limited-release and put into full-fledged public profile, reports The New York Times, proving weekend speculation true.
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Microsoft Signs Silverlight Deal With Move Networks

Move Networks, a startup specializing in streaming video, has announced today at MIX08, a three-day conference being held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, that it is entering a “strategic partnership with Microsoft” to deploy its techno…


Samsung Demos Bridge Between TV And The Web

According to Richard Lawler of Engadget, Samsung is getting a lot closer to the point where the Internet and TV are to become far more integrated. It is doing so through software burrowed inside a device the company is calling See’N'Search.
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