Next step news delivery – Sky News’ TV widget
January 8th, 2010Posted by Laura Oliver in Broadcasting
Sky News feeds will be built in to viewers’ TV sets thanks to a new development from Yahoo and Samsung.
The Sky News TV widget, developed by the Yahoo Widget Engine, will be available on internet-connected TVs from Samsung. Selecting the TV widget will add a menu of the latest headlines and news stories from Sky to the programme being watched:
The widget will be available in just the UK from later this month. It will feature top stories, UK news, politics, sport, business, world news and showbiz news as channels and will be free to use with no requirement to subscribe to a Sky TV package.
March 8th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
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