Iacta: interaction via television

Our Mission is to make iTV users happy, and iTV operators money.

Iacta is a consulting and development team with more than fifteen years' experience in interactive television. We're iTV designers, programmers, and content creators with strong skills and experience on most of the major iTV platforms. Our roots are in television, advertising, software development, and project management. What makes us unique in the iTV industry is our five years' hands-on experience with tens of thousands of real (paying) iTV users.

We believe that iTV will only be successful when we as an industry understand and deliver the benefits that make iTV a compelling and rewarding experience for consumers. Our goal is to make our industry contribution and to participate in this success:

iTV Applications: Our flagship applications include Games4TV™ with more than two dozen iTV-designed games, and the Iacta CAST™ portal serving system. Iacta's applications are available for most iTV platforms worldwide.

iTV Research: we listen to and interact with real iTV users every day to understand the ways that iTV can add benefit to their lives. We publish our research so that we can share what we have learned, and we apply it to our own application development.

Consulting and Training: we assist other companies in making successful iTV by offering consulting in our areas of expertise, by assisting in project design and development, and by providing training in iTV design, development, and subscriber and community management.

The Work We've Done

Iacta's Games4TV™ is deployed with UPC Digital in Austria and The Netherlands on Liberate Standard on a pay-per-play basis. We provide a game center in selected high-end hotels through KoolConnect Technologies with the EnerOne (Inprimus/Liberate ISP) platform. Our beta site is the most popular game site for MSNTV users, serving over 2 million game plays each month. Iacta supplies Flash™ games to Digeo for trials on the Moxi platform, and provided the game center for AOLTV.

Iacta's CAST™ portal system is deployed with PrairieWave Communications, serving a customized portal with news, weather, sports, local movie listings, and customer service information to PrairieWave digital cable customers via the SA InView browser. The CES Award-winning How2TV customer information application is also powered by CAST for multiple computer platforms. We're experienced developers on most major iTV platforms deployed in cable, telco, and consumer electronics devices.

Our custom design and development work has included an online Community Center for Sony, an Electronic Program Guide for Americast, an adult literacy training program designed for iTV for the Center for Rehabilitation Technologies (Georgia Tech), and the interactive version of the Emmy-winning documentary Carrier: Fortress at Sea for Discovery Channel. We developed and served the iTV focus group chats for KnowledgeNetworks for public sector and consumer clients.

Our consulting work has included advising on the development of iTV corporate and product strategy, evaluating iTV browsers and other iTV technology, developing style guides and documentation, specifications for email and chat applications, and training designers and programmers in iTV service and interface design. Our clients have included Citicorp, Scientific-Atlanta, PowerTV, Matsushita, Liberate, ICTV, NetDevices and NextLevel.

Contact us

By phone: 562 869-3031

By email: info@iacta.com

Laura Buddine - laura@iacta.com

Brian C. Bock - brian@iacta.com

Iacta LLC
P.O. Box 4397
Downey, CA 90241

Iacta is located in the greater Los Angeles area. We're about 25 minutes from LAX, 35 minutes from Burbank Airport, and 15 minutes from Long Beach Airport.