Narayan plans to embed future versions of the TeleCruz chipset with broadband speed and VCR-like capabilities.
Narayan is also targeting India, China, South Africa and Brazil, where TV sets far outnumber PCs.
Narayan, an electrical engineer, became interested in interactive TV while working at Cirrus Logic in 1995.
K. Narayan never made the big money that famous authors are supposed to have.
As Mr Narayan shows, they are interacting with their homelands in more creative ways.
K. Narayan, the blind Ved Mehta and the very cosmopolitan duo of Nayantara Sahgal and Anita Desai.
Narayan says when you have a platform, it is all about control of the applications on that platform.
Dr Goutam Narayan of Durrell Wildlife and EcoSystems-India is the man credited with the success of the programme.
Mr Narayan chose his own wife, although the custom was, and often still is, for an arranged marriage.
Mr Narayan also argues for a system of proportional representation to break the link between constituency and candidate.
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Narayan, 39, hopes to tap the market for TV sets, which has twice the volume in the U.S. alone.
Narayan's chipset, made by Toshiba, is inferior to that of set-tops or PCs.
The type of drug involved in Miss Narayan's death has not been disclosed.
Mr Narayan was often mentioned as a likely Nobel winner, but like Graham Greene never got beyond the shortlists.
Narayan hopes that the boxless masses will relegate the family TV to the bedroom and buy a new TeleCruz set for the den.
"This is one of the worst crises facing the state, " said Dr Jaiprakash Narayan, who heads the non-governmental organisation Lok Satta.
College student Isobel Narayan, 16, was found dead at her family home in Didsbury, Manchester, in December 2011 after taking the drugs.
Hari Narayan Singh, an assistant superintendent of police, was in the control room that oversees the running of the festival that day.
District magistrate Narayan Swarup Nigam told AFP that methanol, sometimes used as a fuel, had been found in at least 20 victims.
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An embarrassed Mr Narayan said he had not been privy to them.
Next up at the D: All Things Digital conference here in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, is Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayan.
Narayan got a vote of confidence from Gemstar-TV Guide, the leader in interactive TV guides, which tried to buy the company in 1998.
In 1965, he acted in Guide, based on R K Narayan's novel about a tourist guide who seduces a dancer unhappy with her marriage.
Miss Narayan had looked up forums giving guidance on assisted suicide for people with terminal illnesses in the months before her death, the court heard.
As the daughter of Prince Narayan of Cooch Behar, in West Bengal, she grew up with dozens of staff and governesses recommended by Queen Mary.
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Narayan Naik, of London Business School, is one who thinks not.
By the time Nepalese authorities caught up with Hari Narayan Lam in 2003, this organ broker had convinced 50 dirt-poor Nepalese to part with a kidney.
Based on an English novel by famous Indian writer RK Narayan, Guide is the story of a tourist guide who falls in love with a married woman.
The U.S. market may one day open up for Narayan if the cable industry settles on a standard for interactive TV, which regulators have said must happen by 2005.
Dr Narayan and his team of wildlife experts have achieved their success with support from the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (DWCT), a Jersey-based conservation organisation started by naturalist Gerald Durrell.
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