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01/04/2012
Surprise, Surprise: iPads Dominate Download World
Since iPad’s introduction in 2010, some 3 billion iPad apps have been downloaded by happy consumers, translating into 19 percent of all cumulative downloads by Apple users. According to ABI Research, the iPhone took as long as two years before being able to report such downloading success compared to the iPad that reached the major […]
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01/04/2012
Top Players Project 3Q12 ‘TV Everywhere’ Solution
A collaboration between EchoStar subsidiary Sling Media Inc., and Broadcom Corp., could pave the way for set-top box (STB) makers and consumer-electronics devices to offer consumers an Internet-based way of watching content on any device anywhere they want, with full authorization. To do this, the Sling Media SDK is being integrated into Broadcom’s latest STB […]
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01/04/2012
Bright House, Ma Bell Team For Interactive Ads
Bright House Media Strategies, the advertising division of Bright House Networks, will be working with AT&T AdWorks to create what it says will be a one-stop shop for local, regional and national spot-TV advertisers to reach the Orlando, Fla., and the Bakersfield, Calif., markets. This appears to be the second deal AT&T Adworks has struck […]
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01/03/2012
NTIA's New Year's Resolutions
In the coming year, the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will continue its focus on three key areas: expanding high speed Internet access and adoption, freeing up more spectrum for wireless broadband, and promoting policies that preserve the Internet as an engine for innovation and economic growth. Here are some numbers to […]
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01/03/2012
Volicon Adds Compliance Features To Observer Family
Observer Enterprise Version 6.0 is the newest release for Volicon’s video content logging and monitoring system. The update includes loudness-monitoring capabilities (to comply with the CALM Act), closed-caption support, and transport-stream monitoring and export. And it’s shipping today. The Volicon Observer family of products captures, stores, and indexes broadcast content from multiple channels. Transport-stream logging […]
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01/03/2012
The Upcoming CDN Juggling Act
Sometime during the next five years, content delivery networks (CDNs) are going to be faced with the challenge of delivering increasingly large volumes of over-the-top (OTT) video. This appears to be particularly true in the Asia Pacific region. According to research firm Informa, OTT video traffic accounted for 32.6 exabytes (EB) of network traffic on fixed […]