Yahoo! Widgetized TV from Samsung

by Joe Stewart on Thu, 2009-01-08 12:43
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Yahoo! Widgets on Samsung TV Yahoo! is teaming up with Samsung to bring on demand content directly to the television from the internet. The TV adapted version of the Yahoo! Widget Engine is dubbed Internet@TV - Content Service.

TV Widgets will include Yahoo! content (Flickr, News, Weather and Finance), USA Today, YouTube, and eBay. Many other widgets are planned and announced too. Like on many other devices and platforms, a service from Netflix will be available. No word on that widget's features though. Many widgets will fit nicely in supplying information on demand. However, I wonder about those that really require more interaction like Twitter, eBay and MySpace.

Some more information at Yahoo's site - http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/

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Samsung HDTV powered by the Yahoo! Widget Engine

Submitted by HDTVReviews (not verified) on Tue, 2009-03-10 06:25.
Thanks for the post! TV Widgets now a days make it easy to interact with Internet content and services to complement and enhance the traditional TV viewing experience. Samsung Electronics Co.Ltd., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, and Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced a new Internet-based service to Samsung televisions available in the spring of 2009. Select models in Samsung's 2009 flat-panel HDTV line-up will be powered by the Yahoo! Widget Engine, a fifth-generation applications platform that enables TV watchers to interact with and enjoy a rich set of "TV Widgets.The lightweight Javascript and XML applications bring content, information and community features available on the Internet within easy reach of the remote control.

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