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05/24/2012
Content Discovery Via Voice Controls
Rovi Corporation is partnering with Nuance Communications Inc. “to further accelerate voice-activated discovery and guidance applications for cable service providers and consumer-electronics manufacturers.” Nuance has licensed and will be integrating Rovi’s entertainment data with Dragon TV (Nuance’s voice-and-language-understanding platform for set-top boxes and connected TVs) to provide TV makers and cablecos access to Rovi-indexed content […]
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05/24/2012
Entropic MoCA 2.0 Production Version Moves Forward
Connected-home semiconductor provider Entropic Communications Inc. now is in the production-shipment stage for its MoCA 2.0 (Multimedia over Coax) silicon?and software solution. The company claims to be the first company to deliver MoCA 2.0 production silicon. Production silicon, software and reference platforms are available now. Entropic says its production version has been tested to the […]
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05/24/2012
Beyond Wi-Fi: More Home-Networking Education Needed
As the number of connected media devices grows, home networking will continue to gain importance in consumers’ expanding digital lifestyle. By 2014, shipments of core home-networking equipment (home gateways/routers, adapters, bridges, NICs, embedded LAN, NAS) and networked-enabled media devices (consumer-electronics devices with network connectivity, excluding computers and mobile devices) will top 1 billion units. According […]
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05/24/2012
Facebook HDTV? There’s An App For That
Beverly Hills-based streaming HDTV provider FilmOn.TV has a new app — FilmOn Live TV – that allows users to chat with friends and share live TV in HD simultaneously on Facebook. The Facebook app can be downloaded from FilmOnFacebook.com; FilmOn.TV subscriptions start at $11.95 a month. The FilmOn.TV Web cable television service is delivered through […]
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05/24/2012
Sagemcom’s Solutions Now Part Of Affinegy Mix
Affinegy’s next-generation of software products for auto-provisioning, self-care and management of the connected home now includes products from its recent acquisition of Sagemcom’s TR-069 Solutions Business. The upgraded, integrated portfolio includes: ? ? >> Operations Portal – an advanced TR-069 ACS for management of devices, services and subscribers that features alarm management, OSGI value-add application management […]
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05/24/2012
Emerging Markets = Satellite Pay-TV Growth
The satellite pay-TV industry took in revenues close to $90 billion in 2011, up from $79 billion in 2010, and those numbers could reach close to $150 billion in 2021 – mostly due to subscriber take-up in such emerging markets as Latin America, Central Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. According to Euroconsult, […]