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Tuesday February 14, 2012

FiOS Brings Web to TV in Upgrade

New Yorkers with Verizon FiOS service will soon have a more integrated television and Web experience with Verizon planning to upgrade its TV widgets platform and open it up to third party developers. To start, FiOS will bring Facebook and Twitter to TV screens and give the DVR access to YouTube and other online video sites through an "Interactive Media Guide". The new Twitter widget sounds the most interesting. It will be able to find and show you conversations that are happening in real time about the show you are watching.

Verizon currently has widgets for weather, traffic, headlines, horoscopes, community information amd a sports Fantasy Football widget by ESPN.

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