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05/10/2011
Motorola Acquires SunUp Digital to Boost Multi-Screen Abilities
Motorola Mobility has acquired SunUp Digital Systems, a software provider based in Santa Clara, California. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “Consumers are increasingly using companion devices to augment and personalize their entertainment experience, and with the acquisition of SunUp, Motorola Mobility strengthens its ability to enable service providers to rapidly create and manage […]
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05/10/2011
Charter Deploys One Million EBIF-Enabled Set-Tops
Charter Communications, which serves more than 5 million U.S. customers, has deployed 1 million Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF)-enabled digital set-top boxes in nearly all its communities utilizing Cisco set-top boxes. Charter worked closely with Concurrent and FourthWall Media in the EBIF platform’s rollout and validation. FourthWall Media supplied its standards-based, I05-compliant EBIF platform […]
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05/10/2011
Comcast Permits VOD on TiVo Boxes From Retail
TiVo and Comcast Corporation have struck an agreement to provide access to Comcast’s on demand content on TiVo Premiere set-top boxes sold at retail. Comcast customers in select markets will be able to use a TiVo Premiere box to watch on demand programs, along with linear TV and a range of broadband services, accessible through […]
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05/09/2011
Stand-Alone Mi-Fi Devices Proliferate, But Is There Enough Demand?
Comcast has launched a 4G/3G mobile hotspot (also known as a Mi-Fi device) that allows users to connect as many as five Wi-Fi-enabled devices to the Internet simultaneously. Comcast already has a 3G Mi-Fi device and, with the addition of 4G, new Xfinity Internet 2go customers who sign up for a qualifying Xfinity Internet 2go […]
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05/09/2011
Roku Hits 15 Million Channel Downloads
Roku says it has delivered 15 million channel downloads to its base of more than one million Roku viewers. The growth in channels installed has been driven by two factors: the expanding selection of entertainment in the Roku Channel Store; and accelerating sales fueled by the company’s recent move into U.S. retail stores. Roku predicts […]
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05/09/2011
Nokia Siemens Adds Accedian Service Assurance
Accedian Networks has partnered with Nokia Siemens Networks to integrate Accedians’ MetroNID demarcation device, and its MetroNODE 10GE Ethernet operations administration and maintenance (OAM) aggregation platform with Nokia’s solutions such as mobile backhaul, carrier Ethernet transport and multiservice IP backbone. "The data deluge in mobile networks is quite a challenge for mobile service providers,” said […]