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01/01/2011
Off The Couch How The iPad Is Evolutionizing Remote TV
Is there anyone in telecommunications who has not jumped on the iPad bandwagon? The uptake of this new electronic device has been breathtaking. When reporting it fiscal 2010 fourth-quarter earnings last month, Apple announced it sold 4.19 million iPads during the three-month ramp-up to the holiday season. That followed third-quarter sales of 3.27 million units, […]
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01/01/2011
Addressing The Consumer STB Transition
Apple TV. Google TV. Boxee. These are the newest Internet set-top boxes (STBs) released in the last few months. Add the Roku box, and we have an intricate competitive landscape for a just-realized industry. Steve Jobs claims that his Apple TV “hobby” has sold more than a quarter-million units, without getting serious about it. Logitech, […]
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01/01/2011
DISHing On EchoStar And Sling Technology
Now that operators have accepted the fact that video viewing is not the couch-only activity it used to be, who has been making the greatest strides when it comes to allowing subscribers to watch what they want, when they want, on the devices they want? Arguably, EchoStar (in conjunction with its Sling Media affiliate and […]
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01/01/2011
Got 'TV Everywhere' Authentication?
Television, and media content in general, traditionally has been time- and place-based. From the late 1940s through the early 1970s, the family would gather around the TV on Sunday night to watch Ed Sullivan; if you weren’t there at the right time, you missed it. Movies have a limited time run at your local theater; […]
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01/01/2011
Tom Wheeler Talks 'TV Everywhere'
Tom Wheeler is no stranger to the video world. Prior to joining investment firm Core Capital in 2005 as a managing director, he racked up nearly three decades of working in the telecom policy and business-development space. Wheeler founded multiple companies offering cable, wireless and video communications services; and he served as president of the […]
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01/01/2011
Understanding Constant Power- Per-Carrier
“Constant power-per-carrier operation causes a fair amount of confusion, largely because of the observed change in the upstream signal’s 'haystack' height.”