"Internet pioneer Spyglass Inc. (Nasdaq: SPYG) and personal
television creator TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO) announced today that
TiVo licensed Spyglass Device Mosaic 4.0 for use in its
next-generation software platform and service. Spyglass
Professional Services, a strategic Internet consulting group
focused on planning, designing and implementing Internet solutions
for interactive television, will work to port Spyglass Device
Mosaic to the Linux operating system and assist in the integration
of the technology with TiVo's Linux-based platform. This
integration will further allow multiple service offerings to run on
the TiVo platform, including the ability for TiVo and its partners
to author content for the TiVo service using standard protocols
such as HTML and JavaScript."
"This latest version of Spyglass Device Mosaic adds broad
support for the latest Internet standards within an extensible,
customizable architecture. Spyglass Device Mosaic also includes an
Advanced Television Enhancement Forum (ATVEF) compliant client.
ATVEF 1.0 support enables the delivery of interactive television
programming, in the form of synchronized broadcast and Internet
content, over both analog and digital video systems using
terrestrial, cable, satellite and Internet networks."
