The dwarf rabbit reference was an inside joke among WebTV's hard-working engineers — Phil Goldman's pet house rabbit Bowser ( inspiration for the General Magic logo ) was often found roaming the WebTV building late into the night while the engineers were working — although WebTV actually received inquiries from real research groups conducting similar studies and seeking to exchange data.

WebTV Networks ' business model was to license a reference design to consumer electronics companies for a WebTV Internet Terminal, a set-top box that attached to a telephone line and automatically connected to the Internet through a dial-up modem.

Because WebTV was widely distributed in consumer electronic stores under the Sony and Philips brands for only US $ 325, its munitions classification was used to argue that the US should no longer consider devices incorporating strong encryption to be munitions, and should permit their export.

WebTV was announced on July 10, 1996, generating a large wave of press attention as not only the first television-based use of the World Wide Web, but also as the first consumer-electronics device to access the World Wide Web without a personal computer.

Despite the fact that the initial WebTV sales had been modest, Mundie expressed that Microsoft was impressed with WebTV and saw significant potential both in WebTV's product offering and in applying the technology to other Microsoft consumer and video product offerings.

In July 2001, six years after WebTV's founding, Microsoft rebranded WebTV as MSN TV, and the WebTV division was dissolved, although the WebTV engineers continued to work for Microsoft, many of them working on Microsoft's Xbox video game system or Microsoft IPTV technology, offering television programming over the internet.

* Interview and live video at wenn's rockt WebTV

The WebTV division began developing most of Microsoft's television-based products, including the first satellite Digital Video Recorders ( the DishPlayer for EchoStar's Dish Network and UltimateTV for DirecTV ), Microsoft's cable TV products, the Xbox 360 hardware, and Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV platform.

* " La société européenne " ( in French by Catherine Cathiard for TVDMA, the first WebTV of Law & Management Business and Entreprises )

Telidon had a more lasting legacy on the hardware side ; its NABTS communications system found re-use years later in WebTV for Windows.

It was also used for Microsoft's WebTV for Windows and Intel's Intercast.

MSN TV ( formerly WebTV ) is the name of both a thin client which uses a television for display ( rather than a computer monitor ), and the online service that supports it.

While most thin clients developed in the mid-1990s were positioned as diskless workstations for corporate intranets, WebTV was positioned as a consumer device for web access.

The WebTV product is an adapter that allows a television set to be connected to the Internet, primarily for web browsing and e-mail.

WebTV's income was derived from operating the WebTV Service, an Internet-based service for which it collected a fee from WebTV subscribers.

Because Sony had insisted upon exclusive distribution rights for the first year, WebTV had no other distribution partner in place, and just before WebTV was to close venture capital financing from Brentwood Associates, Sony sent WebTV a certified letter stating it had decided not to proceed with WebTV.

It was a critical juncture for WebTV, because the Brentwood financing had been predicated on the expectation of a future relationship with Sony, and if Brentwood had decided to not proceed with the financing after being told that Sony had backed out, WebTV would have gone bankrupt and Perlman would have lost everything.

The initial price for the WebTV set-top box was US $ 349 for the Sony version and US $ 329 for the Philips version, with a wireless keyboard available for about an extra US $ 50.

There was little difference between the first Sony and the Philips WebTV set-top boxes, except for the housing and packaging.

The product and service was developed by WebTV Networks, Inc., a company purchased by Microsoft Corporation and absorbed into MSN ( the Microsoft Network ).

WebTV Networks was purchased by Microsoft in 1996 and absorbed into the Microsoft Network.

Leak became the President of Microsoft's WebTV Network subsidiary.

Gates called Perlman at his home on Easter Sunday in March 1997, and Perlman described to Gates WebTV's next generation products in development, which would be the first consumer devices to incorporate hard disks, including the WebTV Plus, and the WebTV Digital Video Recorders.

They also launched an international service available exclusively online by logging into the Sky Angel Website called Sky Angel WebTV.

product In 2001, EchoStar sued Microsoft for failing to support the WebTV Dishplayer.

The World Factbook ( ISSN ; also known as the CIA World Factbook ) is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.

General maps exhibit many reference and location systems and often are produced in a series.

Contrary to normal practice the book was written after the TV series was produced, although the line " Basis for the acclaimed public television triumph " is written on the front cover, using the program transcripts as reference.

In reference to the dish barbecued dog in The Hollywood Hall of Shame, the authors explain that it was " a snack which produced a mixed reaction among the representatives of an industry that had given the world Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Benji, Phyllis Diller, and Muki the Wonder Hound.

Studies over several years covering the key mineral area of the Central Pacific resulted in a technical study on biodiversity, species ranges and gene flow in the abyssal Pacific nodule province, with emphasis on predicting and managing the impacts of deep seabed mining A workshop at Manoa, Hawaii, in October 2007 produced a rationale and recommendations for the establishment of " preservation reference areas " in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, where nodule mining would be prohibited in order to leave the natural environment intact.

Provides two sets of guidelines and reference bitstreams for testing the conformance of MPEG-1 audio and video decoders, as well as the bitstreams produced by an encoder.

The weapon was designed in 1943 by engineer Henryk Strąpoć and produced in several underground facilities ; the name is a reference to the resistance fighters who used the weapon.

The main implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group and serves as the formal reference to the PHP language.

In addition to games, educational and multimedia reference titles were produced, such as interactive encyclopedias, museum tours, etc.

The externally-generated field is usually that produced by a perturbing third body, often the Sun or the Moon in the frequent example-cases of points on or above the Earth's surface in a geocentric reference frame.

It is the extra loss produced by the introduction of the DUT between the 2 reference planes of the measurement.

The de facto reference resource for information and statistics on International NGOs ( INGOs ) and other transnational organisational forms is the Yearbook of International Organizations, produced by the Union of International Associations.

The first printed pattern book was produced in 1523, but they were not easily obtainable and a sampler was the most common form of reference available to many women.

In 1974, Dennis Main Wilson ( producer for the UK television show Till Death Us Do Part ) produced a short sketch series for Feldman on the BBC entitled Marty Back Together Again — a reference to reports about the star's health.

In the works produced for this room by Tintoretto, Christ is clearly the predominant figure ; perhaps a reference to the Senate ‘ conclave ’ which elected the Doge, seen as being under the protection of the Son of God.

Shochiku produced the film Café Lumière ( 珈琲時光 ), directed by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien as homage to Ozu, with direct reference to the late master's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), to premiere on Ozu's birthday.

The former is defined as the means of production in reference to private ownership over an economic enterprise based on socialized production and wage labor ; the latter is defined as consumer goods or goods produced by an individual.

But there is also reference that Pisco has been produced in the Chilean cities of Santiago and La Serena in mid 16th century.

The abbey also produced the famous Annals of Waverley, an important reference source for the period.

As well as being among the most authoritative readings of the work, the original analogue recording on the Mercury label remains an audiophile reference in vinyl, and the analogue-to-digital transfer produced by the original recording director Wilma Cozart for compact disc is also available from Mercury ( recording number 432 719-2 ).

In 1715, probably with some help from Pope, he produced What d ' ye call it ?, a dramatic skit on contemporary tragedy, with special reference to Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd.

Newton says that this thought experiment demonstrates that the centrifugal forces arise only when the water is in rotation with respect to the absolute space ( represented here by the earth's reference frame, or better, the distant stars ); instead, when the bucket was rotating with respect to the water no centrifugal forces were produced, this indicating that the latter was still with respect to the absolute space.

Popular explanations of the use of the word " Brown " include that it was a reference to either the colour of the walnut stocks, or to the characteristic brown colour that was produced by russeting, an early form of metal treatment.

The album was produced by Gareth Jones and was a more " dance oriented " effort than some of their more recent work with Clarke making reference to the new material sounding potentially a bit more like Andy Bell's 2005 solo effort Electric Blue.