Deals Of The Day 08/22/12

Evolution Digital and Rovi Corporation are working together to bring Rovi Guides to Evolution’s Universal Digital Transport Adapters (uDTAs), thus enabling cable subs to navigate “through the hundreds of SD and HD channels offered on these one-way devices,” they say…Google Offers is expanding its sponsorship of Boingo Wi-Fi from six New York subway stations and more than 200 Manhattan hotzones to 24 additional locations across the country. Starting today, Google Offers will sponsor free and discounted Wi-Fi offerings at eight malls and 16 airports in major cities nationwide, including Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., and Seattle…WAN provider Conterra Broadband Services joined Allied Fiber’s Dark Fiber Community. Says Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber, "Their experience and expertise at providing fiber-quality services throughout rural America will expand the community’s knowledge base, and their participation in this forum will be an asset to our members”…Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation inked a global distribution agreement with Hittite Microwave Corporation, a supplier of complete MMIC-based solutions for the communications market…Motorola Mobility is licensing the Reference Design Kit (RDK) from Comcast in a move it says “significantly improves the set-top box development cycle, driving the evolution of TV through innovative hardware and software technologies.