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04/11/2012
Smartphone Shutoffs: Washington Responds To Public-Safety Pressure
A month ago, the “Today” show and Washington, D.C., Police Chief Cathy Lanier took the wireless industry to task regarding its reticence to turn off stolen smartphones, making them useless for resale and, thus, curbing the rising rate of street crimes involving the devices. The nation’s capital is a hot spot for such thefts, but […]
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04/10/2012
Windmill Powers New Video Cloud Offerings
Brightcove is integrating Alticast’s Windmill ecosystem into its Video Cloud online video platform, thus giving operators the ability to “add advanced interactivity to their existing systems while providing new revenue models and future-friendly expandability.” Based on a set of modular technologies, Alticast says Windmill enables operators to bring their content to any device in the […]
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04/10/2012
Hearst TV Taps Yospace For Mobile Content Delivery
Hearst-owned U.S. stations now are delivering short-form content, including news stories, to all mobile devices using a cloud service from Yospace. According to Yospace, its technology links into the broadcaster’s advertising response server to help ensure pre-roll advertising is targeted to the user, thus “strengthening the?revenue-earning opportunities.” The system has been live in 25 Hearst […]
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04/10/2012
Global M2M Subscriber Base Tops 100M
Sweden’s Berg Insight says the global number of mobile network connections used for wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) communication increased by 37 percent in 2011 to reach 108 million, with Asia-Pacific leading the way. That region recorded a year-on-year growth rate of 64 percent, reaching 34.5 million connections by year-end 2011. Europe and North America grew by […]
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04/10/2012
Digital Rapids Kicks Its Software Up A Notch
New enhancements to the Digital Rapids Stream software for the company’s StreamZ, StreamZHD and Flux encoding solutions include enhanced closed-caption support for adaptive bit rate (ABR) streaming and support for automated advertising insertion when streaming live with Adobe Flash technologies. ? ? Recently released software updates add support for closed captioning with Microsoft IIS Smooth Streaming […]
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04/10/2012
Hybrid TV In The Sooner State
Entone Inc. is teaming with BTC Broadband to explore a new broadband TV (BBTV) service model in Bixby, Okla. With FusionTV, BTC Broadband says it can offer a BBTV service that combines live Over-the-Air (OTA) television programs and full digital video recorder (DVR) capabilities, with additional cloud-based media services that include VUDU’s streaming library of […]