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Microsoft officially announced Thursday the appointment of Blake Krikorian, formerly CEO and co-founder of Sling Media, as corporate vice president for its Interactive Entertainment Business, which includes the Xbox Live service.

The announcement follows Microsoft’s acquisition of Krikorian's company, id8 Group R2 Studios, which was developing home-automation applications. Krikorian will report to Marc Whitten, chief product officer for IEB.

Las Vegas -- Samsung Electronics is showing off an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) HDTV here at the 2013 International CES that transmits four images simultaneously -- allowing two different viewers to watch two separate 3D videos.

The 75-inch “Multi-View” television also can let as many as four viewers watch four separate 2D images.

Las Vegas -- Expect TV Everywhere to become virtually everywhere this year -- but in a familiar refrain for ad-supported networks, the industry has yet to solve key issues surrounding advertising models and measurement.

That was the sentiment among industry executives on a panel here Tuesday at CES, the verbosely titled “The Television Ecosystem: Programming, Pay Services, Advertising and Multiplatform Distribution – Revenue and Strategies.”

Las Vegas -- Cox Communications heralded its forthcoming personalized, interactive app for mobile devices that lets subscribers watch video and control their viewing in new ways as an industry game-changer -- although initially the app will not deliver the full TV lineup.

Cox announced the next-generation mobile app, developed with Cisco Systems and NDS (now part of Cisco), at a press conference Monday at the Wynn Las Vegas hotel.

Las Vegas -- Cisco Systems said it has integrated the multiscreen-video elements of NDS -- which it acquired for $5 billion last year -- into Videoscape Unity, an expanded version of the video services delivery platform Cisco launched two years ago at CES.