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Smart TV Alliance to open TV app ‘portal’

The Smart TV ecosystem is a bit of a wild west at the moment, with app developers forced to negotiate separate contracts with all manufacturers in order to get their apps on TVs. LG’s new Smart TV operating system on display at CES 2014. (Credit: LG Electronics) The Smart TV Alliance is hoping to change that with its Common Developer …

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MPAA joins Web standards group amid video DRM dispute

The movie business now will have a direct voice in a controversy about how to handle copy protection of videos on the Web. That’s because the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a group that creates Web standards, such as the HTML technology that underlies every Web page on the Internet. “Just …

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