Seoul, South Korea - A group of consumer electronics, technology and broadcast companies have formed dotTV, a consortium that aims to bring interactive elements like social networking and online video to the TV viewing experience.

Hoofddorp, the Netherlands - Irdeto, a unit of media group Naspers that provides content security technology for digital TV, IPTV and mobile platforms, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Virginia-based Cloakware, a developer of software security technology.

Baltimore - Digital rights management technology developer SafeNet announced that it has partnered with Irdeto, a provider of content security for digital TV, IPTV and mobile, to offer security technology for mobile TV platforms that combines conditional access with digital rights management. Amsterdam-based Irdeto claims more than a million mobile TV conditional access users in South Korea, South Africa and Germany, while Baltimore-based SafeNet offered what it says was the world's first commercial DRM deployment for mobile TV in the U.K. The companies plans to test their combined system at the bmcoforum TestCamp in Berlin in June.