During the 1990s, everyone wanted to surf the information super-highway — also known as the World Wide Web or just ‘Internet’ — but not everyone was interested in getting one of those newfangled ...

Back in 1997, Microsoft purchased WebTV for $503 million dollars during the Web 1.0 boom. Microsoft later rebranded WebTV into MSN TV back in 2001, which was a service that featured a dedicated ...

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a weekly column about the future of technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment. Last week he asked TiVo to take a long, hard look in the mirror ...

WebTV is on track despite some setbacks and slower-than-expected subscriber growth, according to new president Bruce Leak, who predicts that the company's enhanced television services will come online ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it is getting out of the smart TV game, shuttering the long-running MSN TV service which predicted the rise of internet-connected set-top boxes but launched a decade or so ...

Consumer demand for interactive TV has yet to meet industry expectations, but that isn't stopping another hopeful from gambling on the ill-defined and elusive market. Steve Perlman, who founded WebTV, ...

Locked in a financial dispute with Microsoft Corp., Sony Corp. has pulled the plug on two of the most popular interactive TV shows--the interactive versions of “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune.” It’s ...

The interactive TV service began life in the mid-'90s as WebTV, one of the first set-top box services to offer Internet access via television sets. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News.

Microsoft has renamed its struggling WebTV service MSN TV in a push to accelerate its integration with MSN's content and Internet services. WebTV offers television-based e-mail and Web-surfing ...

Boy, this Internet thing must be frustrating for marketing types. After more than five years in the white-hot glare of media attention – five years as the Next Big Thing – the goose still refuses to ...

WS.WebTV is an affordable and very complete solution. It is a platform that not only allows companies and individuals to have their own video portal (WebTV / VMS / Video CMS) but also, through ...

Boy, this Internet thing must be frustrating for marketing types. After more than five years in the white-hot glare of media attention – five years as the Next Big Thing – the goose still refuses to ...