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05/13/2011
BitTorrent Tests Large-File Transfers Via Personal Content Channels
BitTorrent has released the first beta version of its upcoming Project Chrysalis software with a new feature: personal content channels. Channels empower people to send massive files such as videos, high-resolution family photos and other personal content libraries to friends, family and other groups. Built-in social features encourage interaction among channel members, creating a mini […]
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05/13/2011
Samsung Demos Ultra-Low Power Next-Gen HDTVs
The increased definition of HDTV has motivated consumer premise manufacturers to move to ever-increasing TV sizes. With these increases in diagonal dimension, TV power consumption has grown at a rapid rate. The home TV is now a major consumer of power. At SID Display Week in Los Angeles, May 17-19, Samsung is exhibiting a technology, […]
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05/13/2011
NTT Docomo Encourages Tweets
NTT Docomo will leverage its mobile expertise, with support from Twitter, to develop innovative applications and services incorporating Twitter features for Docomo feature phones and smartphones. Real-time Tweets and other Twitter content will be added to the search results on the Docomo “i-mode” portal for feature phones and the “docomo market” portal for smartphones. Docomo […]
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05/13/2011
Out: Sameness. In: A Changed Industry Mindset
It’s Comcast vs. AT&T, Time Warner vs. Verizon, Centurylink vs. Cox or DISH vs. DirecTV or DISH & DirecTV against all of them – each claiming to have the better price, the better programming, the better platform or the better deal. “Sameness” is everywhere, and customers “get it!” With all of this market clutter, which […]
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05/12/2011
2011 CableFAXIES Awards
The Almighty CableFAXIE… Many have tried to match the power of the Faxie and some have paid the ultimate price for flying so close to the Sun. The honorees profiled below all are worthy of the coveted Faxie nod that literally has made careers and, we believe, promoted truth, justice and the American Way. Advertising […]
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05/12/2011
IHS: Pace Surpasses Motorola in Set-Top Box Deployments
In 2010, United Kingdom-based Pace became the world’s top seller of set-top boxes (STBs) in terms of unit shipments on an annual basis, surpassing Motorola, according to new IHS Screen Digest research. Pace’s STB shipments surged by 21.1 percent in 2010 to 20.7 million units, up from 17.1 million in 2009. Motorola’s shipments rose only […]