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Samsung has added a new app Karaoke Superstar to its Smart TV App Store that supports payments through PayPal.

LG Electronics has announced the launch of its integrated advertising platform on smart TVs.

A new report from Digital TV Research has projected the number of TV sets connected to the Internet will reach 551 million by 2016, up from 124 million at end-2010.

New Ofcom data shows that 97% of premises and 66% of the UK landmass can receive a 2G signal outdoors from all four 2G networks. This means that approximately 900,000 UK premises do not have a choice of all four 2G mobile networks.

Oli Newton, head of emerging platforms at Starcom MediaVest, says it is no longer right to use the singular definition of TV. TV is everything audio visual. As such we need to start thinking bigger and exploring the broader implications of how we get involved…

Google has released its Google TV update today. Sony internet-enabled TVs are the first to roll out the service, with Logitech to follow soon.

There is growing concerns over the impact the BBC’s iPlayer is having on the broadcasters licence fee.

The video-on-demand service, SeeSaw, which began its troubled existence a while back as Kangaroo, has closed after its new majority shareholder Criterion Capital Partners said other investors have failed to provide new funding.

I have it on good authority that Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired, recently prepared to present a ‘TV is Dead’ presentation at a major international conference, only to be given a last minute jolt when he was told that many of the assumptions he had made in his speech were completely at odds with the accepted data.

It has been reported this week that online video service YouTube’s top 5 channels are averaging the same amount of daily viewers as the top US cable channels.