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YuMe said it struck deals with Buick, Discover Boating and Mindshare that deliver interactive advertising to viewers watching programming on connected TVs from Samsung, LG and other consumer electronics manufacturers.

In the not-so-distant past, mobile operators would roll out next-generation networks only to find them drastically underutilized due to a dearth of compatible end-user equipment. This time around, as LTE is being deployed, LTE-capable handsets and other deviceds can readily be found, but that still does not mean customers are upgrading their services to LTE.

Two years after Time Warner Cable announced it would allow subscribers to watch cable programing on TVs from Samsung and Sony without using a cable set-top, the nation's second largest cable MSO said it is still working on streaming video to connected TVs.

Comcast is preparing to launch an Xfinity TV application for flash-enabled connected TVs manufactured by Samsung that will allow subscribers to navigate cable programming without using a set-top, a spokesman told FierceCable .

Apple's vetting of operators' LTE networks is apparently quite widespread, at least as far smaller operators are concerned. Tajikistan's leading operator, Babilon-Mobile, has been trying, so far unsuccessfully, to activate iPhone 5 handsets on its LTE network, according to Jafar Asimov, head of the operator's automation department

T-commerce technology vendor Delivery Agent said it secured a $5 million investment from Samsung's venture capital arm.