WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2011 Spring Technical Forum - hosted by Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

NEW YORK, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- By missing their self-imposed July deadline for making their networks tru2way-ready, U.S.

Interactive TV services based on EBIF will enable cable operators to compete with telco IPTV before tru2way is available, says Light Reading's Cable Industry Insider NEW YORK, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Rather than wait for tru2way to fully develop, cable operators are planning to roll out interactive TV services to compete with telco IPTV by deploying an existing technology that can deliver interactive features to legacy set-tops now being used by customers, according to the latest report published by Light Reading's Cable Industry Insider (www.lightreading.com/cable), a subscription research service from TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com). EBIF: Cable's Practical Approach to Interactive TV examines the prospects and challenges of using Enhanced Binary Interface Format (EBIF) to deliver interactive TV services and profiles 19 suppliers that support EBIF activity in various ways.

Amdocs unveils prototype of tru2way(R) functionality, demonstrates innovation and leadership at The Cable Show WASHINGTON, April 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems (CES), demonstrates its ongoing innovation in support of the broadband cable industry at The Cable Show.

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At The Cable Show today, Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) took the next step in enriching and personalizing the cable TV experience by announcing that its popular Interactive Media Manager (IMM) now supports the two main standards-based platforms in the cable industry, EBIF and tru2way(TM) technologies. With IMM, cable operators, content providers and media agencies can now quickly create new interactive TV applications such as enhanced TV (voting, competitions and polls) or interactive advertisement to augment the broadcast experience and to offer the TV viewer a real interactive and personal TV experience.