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tvplus.com voted best new idea at CableLabs conference

ATLANTA, GA - Attendees at CableLabs' winter conference picked tvplus.com as the best new idea most likely to succeed in the cable market place.The company, formerly known as Spot411, displayed audio recognition technology to allow any Internet-enabled device with a microphone to automatically identify a television program or movie that is currently on TV.The technology was unveiled as part of the Innovation Showcase segment of conference.  Alcatel-Lucent, BigBand Networks, Cisco, Gracenote, Motorola, RGB, RightScale, Sandvine, Technicolor, and VideoSurf also demonstrated new technology, and key trends were technologies designed to search video content, cloud computing and IP migration strategies.www.cablelabs.com