Word: viacom
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...test and deploy itsworldwide interactive TV. Part of the deals: Hewlett-Packard and NEC will join General Instrument in developing TV set-top boxes compatible with the Microsoft's Tiger TV software system. Some industry analysts think Microsoft, seen as lagging behind similar interactive projects from Time Warner, Viacom,Bell Atlanticand others, might now be poised to pull ahead. The company's chief, Bill Gates, predicts a mass market for interactive television in five to eight years, but in January he'll be testing his system in Seattle.Post your opinion on theNew Mediabulletin board...
Software giant Microsoft today announced it would test its "Tiger" interactive TV software in Europe by early 1996 -- a several-city experiment well beyond the scope of its demo early next year in Seattle. The video server technology -- like similar highway efforts from Time Warner, Viacom, Bell Atlantic and others -- lets viewers retrieve programs, concerts and, for instance, watch a music video before buying CDs and concert tickets. TIME senior writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt says Microsoft's $8 billion capo, Bill Gates, is well positioned to repeat his software success in the next info revolution, and other giants want...
...flower. In 1992 he became a partner in the home-shopping channel QVC, a roadside fruit stand on the new information superhighway. Instead of instantly upgrading the network's programming, Diller used QVC as a piggy bank for the hostile raid on Paramount. For once, he was vanquished, by Viacom Inc., and when the battle was over Diller issued this statement, as prophetic as it was sardonic: "They won. We lost. Next...
...Last week, asked why Redstone would have wanted to get rid of Snyder, a source close to Davis compared him to Captain Queeg, saying, "It was a matter of how long before your patience runs out. He got more and more imperialistic." Frank Biondi, the president and CEO of Viacom and the man who fired Snyder, says simply, "Dick Snyder's operating philosophy and Viacom's operating philosophy were just at odds with each other...
Tyrannical but talented Simon & Schuster CEO booted by Viacom...