Vizio has a knack for making TVs with solid picture quality at reasonable prices, but its SmartCast platform has been an also-ran next to the likes of Samsung’s Tizen and LG’s WebOS. I’ve always ...

Public license requires users to keep open-source software publicly available Vizio allegedly failed to share source code (Reuters) - A New York-based nonprofit group has sued television maker Vizio ...

Vizio today announced an update to its smart TVs that will make an already speedy experience that much faster with a “reimagined” Vizio Home, which saw a rebrand from the old SmartCast in mid-2023 ...

For years, a foundation has been trying to enforce two open-source licenses against a Walmart subsidiary. There have been successes and a peculiarity.

The SFC is suing Vizio because its SmartCast OS is based on Linux. Linux's source code is protected under the GPL version 2 (GPLv2). Besides the Linux kernel, the other GPL'd and Lesser GPL (LGPL)'d ...

Meara covers streaming service news for CNET. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in journalism. When she's not writing, she likes to dote over her cat, sip black coffee ...