ActiveVideo Networks (formerly ICTV), a company which offers
technologies that bring interactive Web media to television and which
claims that those technologies are now powering such hybrid services
for over a million cable and IPTV viewers, has announced an enhanced
version of its ActiveVideo Distribution Network. According to the
company, the new version of its platform will simplify and accelerate
the availability of Web-based programming and advertising on the
television and enable consumers to experience such services as
user-generated content, social media, Web-based channels, games and
other applications through virtually any network-connected device,
including Web-connected TV's, Blu-ray players, video game consoles,
and more, in addition to cable and IPTV set-top boxes (note: these
services are delivered to the television set as a single MPEG stream).
"While consumers today have a clear desire to experience Web media
on the television, they are often paralyzed by the need to choose among
a number of conflicting technological options," ActiveVideo president
and CEO, Jeff Miller, said in a prepared statement. "Our platform
simply utilizes the strength of the network and the MPEG-2, DivX or
H.264 decoders on every Web-connected device and set-top box,
enabling even the simplest CE products to deliver Web media in an
extraordinary, compelling viewing environment."

ActiveVideo Networks bills channels powered by its platform as
seamlessly combining broadband video, graphics, viewer interaction
and targeted interactive advertising: broadband-driven channels are
personalized in the network and delivered to the TV set via the
ActiveVideo Distribution Network, reducing the cost of program
production and keeping the features of high video quality, immediacy
and remote control navigation that viewers expect from television, the
company says. It claims that its technologies allow TV viewing to be
shaped by a wide range of entities, including traditional and Web-based
programmers, local cable affiliates, consumer electronics companies,
advertisers, social networks and viewers themselves. "The enormous
market fragmentation in Web-to-TV solutions makes it difficult for us
to author interactive and timely content for many diverse platforms,"
Ed Skolarus, VP of business and operations at ActiveVideo client, Fox
Reality Channel, said in a prepared statement. "This process is costly
and requires many resources. What's been needed to drive
cost-effective distribution and viewer adoption is a solution based on
existing Web technologies and video standards like MPEG that enables
us to create content once for any connected device."

• Social networking, allowing viewers to link their TV viewing with
  their online communities, in order to, for example, share
  recommendations of TV shows and other media.

• VOD menuing that lets viewers sample VOD content and easily
  search for titles, actors and genres of interest.

• Advertising showcases that can immerse viewers in dedicated
  advertiser locations that might offer personalizable experiences and
  support tcommerce.

• Casual gaming (through ActiveVideo's partner, TAG Networks) in a
  number of genres, including puzzle, arcade, card, word, trivia, sports
  and children's games.

In other ActiveVideo Networks news: The company has hired
veteran interactive advertising and marketing executive, Todd M.
Nisbet, to set up and lead a new department dedicated to
popularizing its services among advertisers (note: [itvt] has learned
that ActiveVideo Networks will be announcing another very
significant hire this coming Monday; we'll have full coverage of
this in our next issue).. Nisbet, who will hold the title, SVP of strategic relations, will be tasked with working with a range of media entities,
including marketers, agencies, programmers and managed and
unmanaged network operators, to launch what ActiveVideo Networks
describes as the "next phase" of its service's deployment: i.e. targeted,
actionable advertising and sponsorship. "ActiveVideo's high levels of
usage and the ability to deliver deeply personalized content to
individual consumers hold clear value to the advertising industry for
building brand awareness and driving transactions," Ed Forman,
ActiveVideo's EVP of products and services and chief strategy officer,
said in a prepared statement. "Todd M. Nisbet's interactive expertise
and his background with both clients and agencies will accelerate our
creation of advertising models and strategies that help programmers,
operators and CE manufacturers to monetize the ActiveVideo
experience." Added Nisbet: "The one-to-one ability to deliver the right
ad to the right viewer at the right time on television continues to be the
ultimate goal for the advertising community. The models we are
creating will help marketers to engage viewers in the living room using
the same standards-based creation, targeting and distribution
mechanisms that have spurred the growth of Web ads and commerce.
Relevancy is the advertising backbone of the ActiveVideo platform.
What we have deployed in the market today is proven to be better TV
for everyone."

According to ActiveVideo Networks, Nisbet, who will be based in New
York City, has been directly responsible for the launches of 18
interactive businesses, and has developed and marketed products and
brands globally for such companies as Disney, Prudential, AT&T and
IBM. In his new position, he will be responsible for nurturing the
company's incipient advertising business by promoting its services to
the advertising community and by working with programmers and
other partners to structure advertising campaigns. He will also serve as
a liaison between the advertising community and ActiveVideo's
business development, engineering and programming departments. He
holds a BA in communications from USC and an MBA (specializing in
corporate communications) from Seton Hall University.

ActiveVideo Networks claims that its platform can improve the
effectiveness of advertising on television by allowing deeper audience
engagement with brands through media-rich advertising showcases; by
adding transactional capabilities to commercials (note: transactions can
be conducted using standard remote controls); by providing accurate,
real-time audience-measurement data; by enabling advertisers to draw
on existing Web creative and development processes; and by enabling
the creation or modification of content once for distribution to every
set-top box and Web-connected TV device.

The company made a name for itself building interactive TV applications that would work on just about any existing set-top box provided by cable or IPTV services. Now ActiveVideo can work directly with content programmers to deliver web content, casual games and social networks to your television through Blu-Ray players, video game consoles, Internet-enabled TVs and more using standard remote controls.

ActiveVideo has a pretty slick interface to get content from the likes of blip.tv from the web to the TV, but they wouldn't let me film that particular bit of web video goodness. They did, however, do a demo showing how ActiveVideo combines live TV and web video for destinations like CNN:

http://www.ictv.it/file/vedi/746/antivirus-nod32

ICTV, a Silicon Valley-based company that offers solutions for
bringing Web media to television, has renamed itself ActiveVideo
Networks, in order to reflect the branding of its flagship product,
ActiveVideo, which has been the company's primary focus over the
past two years. (Note: the company's ActiveVideo technology mixes
linear and on-demand programming with broadband content from the
Internet, and delivers it to the television set as personalized MPEG
video streams. Because content can be created and modified using
standard Web tools and creatives, the company claims, network
operators, programmers and advertisers can create content once for
delivery via the company's ActiveVideo Distribution Network to any
cable or IPTV set-top box, regardless of hardware, software and EPG
differences. Viewers can then navigate through, and interact with, the
individual elements of the stream, using key clicks of their remote
controls. The company bills ActiveVideo channels as allowing
"network operators and programmers to provide an unlimited variety of
content in a personalized experience that includes access to entire
libraries of video, navigational elements, channel branding, targeted,
interactive banner advertisements, and links to ad showcases.")

The company announced its rebranding at the NCTA Cable Show and
tru2way Developers Conference in New Orleans last month.
"Television today is undergoing the single greatest transformation in its
history," Jeff Miller, president and CEO of ActiveVideo Networks, said
in a prepared statement. "As network operators and programmers are
driven by viewers to move beyond linear programming, the challenge is
to bring to television the array of voices and choices that viewers enjoy
on the Web. ActiveVideo Networks is uniquely positioned to enable
television to keep up with its audience." Added the company's
chairman, Gary Lauder: "Given the dramatic changes that the company
has undergone as we've grown to serve more than one million
households over the past few years, it's important that our name
accurately convey our vision of the future of TV. Our merger with
Switched Media, our launch of the ActiveVideo brand, our creation of
the ActiveMedia Group to develop programming, and even our move to
downtown San Jose, have positioned ActiveVideo Networks to be a
major contributor to a universe of unparalleled choice and control for
television viewers."

ICTV/ActiveVideo Networks bills the ActiveVideo platform as
allowing the TV viewing experience to be shaped by "a wide range of
entities," including traditional and broadband video programmers, local
cable affiliates, consumer electronics companies, advertisers, social
networks and audiences themselves. It claims that the platform
provides viewers with a "completely interactive" environment that
includes such features as rich interfaces, optimized for remote control
navigation; social networking; personal media; niche content; and
targeted, actionable advertising. Programmers that are currently
offering ActiveVideo services include Fox, CNN, HSN, TAG
Networks, Reuters, and AccuWeather.

In other ActiveVideo Networks news:

• At the Cable Show, the company unveiled a significantly expanded
  portfolio of ActiveVideo programming and applications. Its booth
  featured demos of around 20 applications (around three times the
  number it demo'd at the previous year's show), all of which leveraged
  various elements of the Web environment and were billed as enabling
  operators and programmers to attract audience interest and generate
  new targeted advertising revenues. The new apps on display included:
  1) social networking functionality that allows viewers to link their TV
  viewing with their online communities and share recommendations
  of TV shows, movies and other media; 2) VOD menuing that enables
  viewers to sample VOD content through rich media, trailers and
  metadata, and that also offers search functionality; and 3) various
  ActiveVideo channels and advertising showcases, which the company
  bills as immersing viewers in specific, relevant content to create
  customized and personalized experiences, and enabling them to learn
  more about a show or product (or make a purchase) via keyclicks on
  standard remote controls. Other apps on display included Personalized
  Mosaic, a customizable, video-rich navigational interface; a
  shop-by-remote application; games from TAG Networks; and
  high-definition, persona-based home screens. "Our evolution
  from ICTV to ActiveVideo Networks over the past year has reflected
  our growing ability to provide not just the technology, but also the
  content that will drive the next generation of television," Jeff Miller
  said in a prepared statement. "The dramatically increased number of
  applications, programming and partnerships we are demonstrating at
  the Cable Show underscores the unique ability of ActiveVideo to
  deliver television that keeps up with its audience."

  

• The company also used the Cable Show and the tru2way Developers
  Conference to demonstrate its commitment to the US cable industry's
  ETV standard. According to the company, its combined
  ActiveVideo/ETV solution "brings together the local execution of ETV
  applications and the power of server-side processing to enable
  operators to provide unparalleled interactive and personalized
  video-rich applications to any digital set-top box." Its demos at the
  show were designed to show how ETV and ActiveVideo, working in
  tandem, can be used to enable viewers to 1) "seamlessly" move
  between linear programs and an expansive interactive environment that
  can simultaneously include Web and linear video, advertising
  showcases, polling and other features; 2) jump from a linear
  commercial to an "advertainment" showcase of related video features
  and advertisements that also allows purchases; 3) continue watching
  linear programming and advertisements while engaging with interactive
  content; and 4) pause a VOD program, enter a related interactive
  feature or advertisement, and return to the program at the point they
  exited it. According to ActiveVideo Networks, its new ActiveVideo
  ETV client uses the standard User Agent to trigger and execute viewer
  experiences: the client is implemented as a standard EBIF application,
  the company says, with no ActiveVideo-specific integration work or
  code necessary in the set-top box. "The combination of ActiveVideo
  and ETV applications significantly strengthens cable's value
  proposition by creating an environment that can deliver high-value
  targeted, interactive advertising and rich video programming to any
  digital set-top box," Jeff Miller said in a prepared statement.

• The company has released the results of an initial study (note: the
  study used both online and broadcast metrics) which it says
  demonstrates the ability of its ActiveVideo Distribution Network to
  generate strong viewer involvement. The study utilized Unica's
  NetInsight Web analytics solution to generate actual usage data from
  set-top boxes, rather than relying on samples. It analyzed data on
  ActiveVideo usage collected in what the company describes as a "tier 2
  United States market," starting January 1st, 2008. According to
  ActiveVideo Networks, the study showed that 63% of
  ActiveVideo-enabled households have accessed content delivered by
  the service; that the average length of an ActiveVideo session during
  the period tracked by the study was 16 minutes, 25 seconds; and that
  more than 90% of viewers who accessed the service made repeat visits.
  In addition, ActiveVideo claims, the study showed that ActiveVideo
  has demonstrated an ability to perform favorably within the traditional
  cable programming environment: according to the company, during the
  measurement week of April 13th-19th, from 6:00 to 7:00PM on
  Saturday, April 19th, more than 6% of available households engaged
  with ActiveVideo content. That content achieved a 9.7 cumulative
  audience rating during that measurement week, the company says. In
  addition, ActiveVideo Networks claims that the study showed that
  ActiveVideo's average usage of 2 hours, 47 minutes per month was
  greater than that of a number of high-profile Web brands, including
  Google, eBay and YouTube. "While the data we have collected for this
  initial analysis reflect activity only in a single market, we believe that it
  underscores both the 'stickiness' of Web content and interactivity on
  television, and the value to advertisers of measurements that bridge the
  online and television environments," ActiveVideo Networks' chief
  strategy officer, Ed Forman, said in a prepared statement. "We're seeing
  that our ability to generate real viewer involvement and collect
  auditable results is creating an environment that can stimulate increased
  advertiser involvement with interactive television."

• The company says that, together with Camiant, a provider of policy
  control and application assurance technology for service providers, it
  has completed integration testing of a joint offering that the companies
  claim will simplify the delivery of new, Web media-based interactive
  TV services by cable operators. The offering integrates the
  ActiveVideo Distribution Network with Camiant's Universal Edge
  Resource Manager (UERM) solution, and, according to the companies
  the integration ensures that operators that use the UERM solution will
  be able to deploy ActiveVideo, thus "leveraging their existing
  investment in edge QAM's, and with no impact on existing services."
  "The deployment of interactive services that bring the Web media
  experience to the television is a threshold that is now being crossed by
  cable operators," Randy Fuller, Camiant's VP of business development,
  said in a prepared statement. "With the completion of our integration
  with ICTV, our Universal Edge Resource Manager solution is able to
  provide increased assurance that operators can deploy and generate new
  revenues from ActiveVideo while maintaining the highest quality of
  service across all product lines." Added ActiveVideo Networks' SVP of
  business development, Michael Taylor: "As cable operators deliver the
  advanced services that will help them to maintain their competitive
  edge, the network management and policy control that enable multiple
  services to share a single pool of bandwidth are becoming more critical
  than ever. The Camiant UERM solution significantly increases the
  ability of operators to efficiently deploy and manage ActiveVideo in a
  way that is complementary to switched digital video, VOD, EBIF and
  tru2way services."

"We renamed ourselves ActiveVideo Networks because the future of television isn't just TV, it's a lot more, it's something the viewer participates in. A future in which includes recommendations and a broader range of video content."

As part of this, ActiveVideo Networks is looking to broaden its capabilities to include giving users access to web video, photos and other social media through their TV sets.

Unlike upstart rival Sezmi, which wants you to purchase new hardware, ActiveVideo Networks specializes in creating interactive channels for programmers like CNN and Accuweather that can run on existing cable boxes. Forman said the company's service will be in 2-3 million households globally by the end of the year, and it will double the number of programmers with which it works to 40 from 20.

ICTV, a Silicon Valley-based company that offers solutions for
bringing Web media to television, announced last month that it has
signed a deal with iPanel Technologies, a provider of embedded
software platforms for digital and IPTV services and applications. The
deal is designed to increase the availability of ICTV's flagship
ActiveVideo technology and service in China and other Asia-Pacific
markets. (Note: ActiveVideo technology mixes linear and on-demand
programming with broadband content from the Internet, and delivers it
as personalized MPEG video streams. Because content can be created
and modified using standard Web tools and creatives, ICTV claims,
network operators, programmers and advertisers can create content
once for delivery via the company's ActiveVideo Distribution Network
to any cable or IPTV set-top box, regardless of hardware, software and
EPG differences. Viewers can then navigate through, and interact with,
the individual elements of the stream, using key clicks of their remote
controls. ICTV bills ActiveVideo channels as allowing "network
operators and programmers to provide an unlimited variety of content
in a personalized experience that includes access to entire libraries of
video, navigational elements, channel branding, targeted, interactive
banner advertisements, and links to ad showcases.")

Under the terms of their agreement, ICTV and iPanel will use iPanel's
middleware and browser to directly enable ActiveVideo interactive
streaming media, thus bringing what they describe as a "rich, actionable
media experience" to any set-top box running iPanel's software suite.
The companies will also collaborate on marketing and promoting their
combined solution to Asian cable and satellite operators, in conjunction
with each company's individual sales efforts. "Our customers recognize
the enormous importance of bringing the Web video experience
directly to the television," iPanel president, Xu Jiahong, said in a
prepared statement. "ICTV's innovative technological approach and the
breakthrough capabilities of ActiveVideo through iPanel's
overwhelming market share will help digital and IPTV service
providers in China and the Asia-Pacific region to improve broadly their
users' TV viewing experience and to increase significantly their
capability to generate targeted advertising revenues." Added ICTV
president and CEO, Jeff Miller: "iPanel's pre-eminent role in the
Asia-Pacific market--and particularly in China--will play a key role in
our ability to accelerate deployment of ActiveVideo to the largest and
most promising market for interactive programming, retailing and
advertising."

In other ICTV news:

• The company has appointed Mark Dawson as VP of programming
  services for its ActiveMedia Group. Dawson joins ICTV from
  Gemstar-TV Guide, where he was director of cross-platform TV
  guidance product management, and where his responsibilities included
  the launch of the company's My TV Guide suite of services. At ICTV,
  he will be responsible for driving the creation and launch of
  ActiveVideo programming, including original content, by the various
  broadcasters and content providers that have formed ActiveVideo
  programming partnerships with ICTV, including HSN, Fox, CNN, and
  Reuters. "The widespread deployment of interactive services to the
  television has been limited by fragmented approaches available to
  content providers, advertisers and ultimately the consumers," Dawson
  said in a prepared statement. "ActiveVideo is unique in its ability to
  offer a standards-based, end-to-end intuitive experience: programmers
  can author content once for every set-top box and Web-connected
  device, and viewers can personalize, navigate through and interact with
  television content just as they would on the Web." Prior to his stint at
  Gemstar-TV Guide, Dawson worked at Helio, Fox Sports Interactive
  Media, Microsoft, News Corp., and Fox Home Entertainment's Fox
  Interactive gaming division.

• The company has appointed Duncan Campbell as VP of business
  development. Campbell, who has worked at a number of cable channels
  and interactive TV companies, was most recently general manager and
  head of US operations at UK-based interactive TV production
  company, Two Way TV. At ICTV, he will be tasked with building
  relationships with broadcast, cable and new media programmers for the
  creation and deployment of new, interactive programming channels on
  the company's ActiveVideo Distribution Network. "Maintaining brand
  loyalty amidst an increasingly large array of Web content options has
  become a significant challenge for programmers," ICTV's SVP of
  business development, Michael Taylor, said in a prepared
  statement. "Duncan Campbell's background in production, advertising
  and the development of new opportunities for content providers
  uniquely enables him to discuss at a variety of corporate levels how
  ActiveVideo can keep viewers' attention on the television." Added
  Campbell: "One of the great challenges for programmers today is how
  to give television viewers the same levels of interactivity and
  personalization that they find on the Web. The fundamental simplicity
  of ActiveVideo--Web-based content creation and remote control
  navigation--enables the rapid development of programming in an
  environment that encourages viewer interaction." Prior to his stint at
  Two Way TV, Campbell worked for a year as a consultant to GSN, a
  channel that pioneered participation TV programming in the US, and
  spent six years in two executive positions at GoldPocket Interactive, the
  interactive TV company that was acquired by Tandberg Television in
  2006: as its VP of business development, programming and content
  production, and then as SVP of business development and advertising
  of its OneMedia division. His resume also includes stints working in
  production at CNN (where he was a producer for "Larry King Live"
  from 1989-1992), Fox News (where he was a senior producer), and
  HGTV (where he was an executive producer and show creator). He
  holds a BA in history and political science from Duke University.

ICTV, a Silicon Valley-based company that offers solutions for
bringing Web media to television, announced last month that it has
signed a deal with iPanel Technologies, a provider of embedded
software platforms for digital and IPTV services and applications. The
deal is designed to increase the availability of ICTV's flagship
ActiveVideo technology and service in China and other Asia-Pacific
markets. (Note: ActiveVideo technology mixes linear and on-demand
programming with broadband content from the Internet, and delivers it
as personalized MPEG video streams. Because content can be created
and modified using standard Web tools and creatives, ICTV claims,
network operators, programmers and advertisers can create content
once for delivery via the company's ActiveVideo Distribution Network
to any cable or IPTV set-top box, regardless of hardware, software and
EPG differences. Viewers can then navigate through, and interact with,
the individual elements of the stream, using key clicks of their remote
controls. ICTV bills ActiveVideo channels as allowing "network
operators and programmers to provide an unlimited variety of content
in a personalized experience that includes access to entire libraries of
video, navigational elements, channel branding, targeted, interactive
banner advertisements, and links to ad showcases.")

Under the terms of their agreement, ICTV and iPanel will use iPanel's
middleware and browser to directly enable ActiveVideo interactive
streaming media, thus bringing what they describe as a "rich, actionable
media experience" to any set-top box running iPanel's software suite.
The companies will also collaborate on marketing and promoting their
combined solution to Asian cable and satellite operators, in conjunction
with each company's individual sales efforts. "Our customers recognize
the enormous importance of bringing the Web video experience
directly to the television," iPanel president, Xu Jiahong, said in a
prepared statement. "ICTV's innovative technological approach and the
breakthrough capabilities of ActiveVideo through iPanel's
overwhelming market share will help digital and IPTV service
providers in China and the Asia-Pacific region to improve broadly their
users' TV viewing experience and to increase significantly their
capability to generate targeted advertising revenues." Added ICTV
president and CEO, Jeff Miller: "iPanel's pre-eminent role in the
Asia-Pacific market--and particularly in China--will play a key role in
our ability to accelerate deployment of ActiveVideo to the largest and
most promising market for interactive programming, retailing and
advertising."

In other ICTV news:

• The company has appointed Mark Dawson as VP of programming
  services for its ActiveMedia Group. Dawson joins ICTV from
  Gemstar-TV Guide, where he was director of cross-platform TV
  guidance product management, and where his responsibilities included
  the launch of the company's My TV Guide suite of services. At ICTV,
  he will be responsible for driving the creation and launch of
  ActiveVideo programming, including original content, by the various
  broadcasters and content providers that have formed ActiveVideo
  programming partnerships with ICTV, including HSN, Fox, CNN, and
  Reuters. "The widespread deployment of interactive services to the
  television has been limited by fragmented approaches available to
  content providers, advertisers and ultimately the consumers," Dawson
  said in a prepared statement. "ActiveVideo is unique in its ability to
  offer a standards-based, end-to-end intuitive experience: programmers
  can author content once for every set-top box and Web-connected
  device, and viewers can personalize, navigate through and interact with
  television content just as they would on the Web." Prior to his stint at
  Gemstar-TV Guide, Dawson worked at Helio, Fox Sports Interactive
  Media, Microsoft, News Corp., and Fox Home Entertainment's Fox
  Interactive gaming division.

• The company has appointed Duncan Campbell as VP of business
  development. Campbell, who has worked at a number of cable channels
  and interactive TV companies, was most recently general manager and
  head of US operations at UK-based interactive TV production
  company, Two Way TV. At ICTV, he will be tasked with building
  relationships with broadcast, cable and new media programmers for the
  creation and deployment of new, interactive programming channels on
  the company's ActiveVideo Distribution Network. "Maintaining brand
  loyalty amidst an increasingly large array of Web content options has
  become a significant challenge for programmers," ICTV's SVP of
  business development, Michael Taylor, said in a prepared
  statement. "Duncan Campbell's background in production, advertising
  and the development of new opportunities for content providers
  uniquely enables him to discuss at a variety of corporate levels how
  ActiveVideo can keep viewers' attention on the television." Added
  Campbell: "One of the great challenges for programmers today is how
  to give television viewers the same levels of interactivity and
  personalization that they find on the Web. The fundamental simplicity
  of ActiveVideo--Web-based content creation and remote control
  navigation--enables the rapid development of programming in an
  environment that encourages viewer interaction." Prior to his stint at
  Two Way TV, Campbell worked for a year as a consultant to GSN, a
  channel that pioneered participation TV programming in the US, and
  spent six years in two executive positions at GoldPocket Interactive, the
  interactive TV company that was acquired by Tandberg Television in
  2006: as its VP of business development, programming and content
  production, and then as SVP of business development and advertising
  of its OneMedia division. His resume also includes stints working in
  production at CNN (where he was a producer for "Larry King Live"
  from 1989-1992), Fox News (where he was a senior producer), and
  HGTV (where he was an executive producer and show creator). He
  holds a BA in history and political science from Duke University.

Bè! chi di voi non odia i Bot? Io sono il primo!Ma non odio solo i Bot, ma anche quella fastidiosa gente che rompe saturno e venere dalla mattina alla sera, quella gente che sta connessa ad internet SOLO ed UNICAMENTE per CHATTARE e quella gente che quando gli dai un Link ti chiede << E' un virus?>> !!! Devo dire che sono molto fastidiosi, specialmente quando hai lo status su ASSENTE e loro esigono che tu risponda alle loro richieste! Per non parlare di quelli che usano le faccine colorate che non ti fanno capire una H di quello che c'è scritto!! Comunque credo che Giuliana ha detto tutto... tranne quelli che chiamano Windows Live Messenger ancora  MSN  :| !

Nel frattempo volevo segnalarvi un bell'articolo uscito su Tom's Hardware che analizza le principali novità del nuovo panda rosso...l'ho letto con molta attenzione e mi è venuta subito l'acquolina in bocca.

Una delle cose che trovo decisamente interessanti è la possibilità di associare dei tag ai vari segnalibri memorizzati, per poi richiamere la lista degli indirizzi (in relazione ad un determinato tag) digitando semplicemente il tag sulla barra degli indirizzi.

E poi ci sono altre belle novità: zoom finalmente decente, download manager migliorato, miglioramenti dal punto di vista della sicurezza e soprattutto un alleggerimento in termini di occupazione di memoria.

Ma è inutile continuare...leggetevi la bella recensione di Tom's Hardware ed avrete tutto più chiaro. Ecco il link: http://www.tomshw.it/business.php?guide=200711301.

Non vi è bastato? Ok...allora eccovi un bel video-articolo preso da Icvt.it: http://www.ictv.it/file/vedi/405/firefox-3-beta.

Firefox 3...ti aspetto a braccia aperte.

Si è svolgo a Roma il Roma Caput Media sulla web television. Trovate uno speciale e delle interviste su ictv.it.