San Francisco - OpenTV (NASD: OPTV), a provider of interactive TV software and services, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Ruzz TV, an Australia-based provider of software for television broadcasters.

New Orleans - OpenTV (NASD: OPTV), a provider of interactive TV software and services, said on Tuesday that NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has signed a deal to use its OpenTV Participate solution to power and manage its interactive TV applications across Web, mobile and set-top box platforms. The deal follows a successful test of OpenTV's system on a series of interactive TV application's for "Heroes" by NBC.com.

San Francisco - OpenTV (NASD: OPTV), a provider of interactive TV software and services, said on Monday that Auction Network, the first U.S. TV network devoted to the auction industry, will use its services to power its live Internet auction business and upcoming television launch. San Francisco-based OpenTV will handle all auction transactions, allowing viewers to interact in real-time with the TV programming via the Web, Internet telephony, mobile devices and eventually set-top boxes.

San Francisco - OpenTV (NASD: OPTV), a provider of interactive TV software and services, announced on Friday that it has settled its lawsuit against former competitor Liberate Technologies, with Liberate admitting that it infringed two OpenTV patents.

San Francisco - OpenTV, a provider of interactive TV software and services, said on Thursday that NBC is using its Participate platform to power live, PC-based interactive TV elements for its primetime show, "Heroes." The "two-screen" interactive service allows TV viewers to enter live polls and predict the outcome of storylines, with real-time statistics fed to their PCs.