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A-LIST CLIENTS: To celebrate the April 8 launch of Lifetime's new show "The Client List," talent and execs mingled at the Sunset Tower Hotel in LA on April 4. Nancy Dubuc, pres & gm, Lifetime Nets, Kelly Atkinson, CMO, West, Time Warner Cable, Emory Walton, VP, Distribution, A+E Nets & Lori Conkling, evp, distribution, A+E Nets pictured. Photo cred: Alberto Rodriguez/Getty Images.
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05.16.2012
Evercor Offers LTE Public-Safety Solution Cassidian, an EADS company, and Alcatel-Lucent teamed to launch “Evercor,” a product based on 4G LTE technology that enables video, data and other media designed to improve the way the security professionals serve and protect their...
05.16.2012
Forget MTV. I Want My Wi-Fi. A survey of nearly 900 Americans commissioned by Broadcom revealed that 60 percent of respondents can’t go a full day without seeking a Wi-Fi connection. In fact, about a third of them said they couldn’t last an hour without Wi-Fi. And...
05.16.2012
Test Sets Target FTTH Deployments The MaxTester 610 Copper Test Set and MaxTester 635 Copper, DSL and Multiplay Test Set are the newest additions to EXFO's copper access test offering. The new test sets are aimed at service providers that want to deploy the latest ADSL2+ and VDSL2 technology...
05.16.2012
Avail-TVN Offers Content Marking, Stream Conditioning Digital-TV-services provider Avail-TVN is offering what it calls “sophisticated DAI content preparation services” that allow content providers to market advanced advertising and to monetize their VOD assets. Building on its Advanced Advertising...
05.16.2012
HitFix TV On Your iPad HitFix, a Los Angeles-based entertainment news provider, is offering its first iPad app, dubbed HitFix TV and aimed at “TV enthusiasts” who want news, reviews, recaps, real-time commentary and alerts regarding their favorite shows. In addition...
05.15.2012
LightSquared’s Bankruptcy Setback There was no thunder or lightning yesterday afternoon when beleaguered satellite-broadband wannabe LightSquared filed for Chapter 11, because nearly everyone expected it (for additional information, click here). The filing was made in the U.S. Bankruptcy...
05.15.2012
No More Peaceful Transatlantic Flights? Beyond the technical reasons for not allowing cellphone use in-flight in the United States is that passengers and crew alike have made it clear the skies are the last escape they have from constant conversation. That may be changing, now that Virgin Atlantic...
05.15.2012
ACA To FCC: OVDs Are Not MVPDs In a filing to the Federal Communications Commission’s Media Bureau, the American Cable Association (ACA) said that “continuing to refrain from classifying pure-play online video distributors (OVDs) as Multichannel Video Programming Distributors...
05.15.2012
P-Chip Powers Small-Cell/Macro-Cell LTE Antennas Ubidyne, a developer of wireless dynamic digital active antenna technology, will be showing off its chip-based power amplifier solution for active antenna design at the LTE Summit later this month in Barcelona. The company says its P-Chip powers its latest...
05.15.2012
Harmonic Intros File-Based Transcoder The ProMedia Xpress high-performance file-based transcoder from Harmonic Inc. uses the company’s H.264 codec technology to deliver better video quality without impeding transcoding speeds. “Facilitating cost-effective, faster-than-real-time...
05.14.2012
Mobile Apps Handle 300 Video Hours/Month Texas-based Belo Corp. has redesigned its Android and iOS smartphone apps to provide weather, traffic and breaking news on mobile devices in a better way. Belo owns and operates 20 television stations (nine in the top...
05.14.2012
Lenovo Puts HD Sound On Smart TVs, But Only In China High-def-audio provider DTS Inc. says Lenovo has integrated its audio into the Lenovo K91 Smart TV, but the box only is available in China right now. Notes Brian Towne, executive vice president/COO at DTS Inc., “Whether the consumer is listening...
05.14.2012
New Bandwidth Buy/Sell Platform Epsilon Capacity Exchange (eCX), a new bandwidth-trading platform, initially will be available to more than 400 network operators worldwide that currently are pre-connected to the Epsilon Global Network Exchange. The service will be delivered by the...
05.14.2012
TSC17x/18x STB SoC Family Debuts In Boston Entropic Communications Inc., a provider of semiconductor solutions for the connected home, says its latest generation of set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions offer cable and IP markets a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processors with...
05.14.2012
Satellite Services Set For 1M Users The eighth edition of NSR’s Mobile Satellite Services report projects the sector will sustain its current robust growth by serving users with a mix of MSS, fixed satellite service (FSS) and high-throughput satellites (HTS)-based solutions. Despite...
05.11.2012
Verizon Announces Major Infrastructure Upgrades Verizon says it’s building more control-plane technology into its network infrastructure to allow electronic devices on its optical network to communicate more easily with each other, to simplify operations and to achieve near real-time provisioning of...
05.11.2012
Polycom, SeaChange Wrap Division Divestitures Polycom Inc. is shedding its enterprise wireless voice solutions business, selling it to an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners Inc. for gross proceeds of approximately $110 million in cash (subject to certain adjustments set forth in the agreement). The sale...
05.11.2012
Testing Duo Prepares For VoLTE Reality The Agilent PXT wireless communications test set from Agilent Technologies now is available for testing voice quality on Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) 4G phones with the Brüel & Kjær PULSE Audio Analyzer and Head and Torso Simulator (HATS). The...
05.11.2012
New Funds Earmarked For Mobile, Connected TV Ensequence is nearly $26 million to the good, closing an investment deal it says will “help accelerate its expansion into mobile and connected TV.” This newest funding round was led by Myrian Capital, a venture and capital management firm chaired...
05.11.2012
Coming Soon: A Whole New Boston 'T'(ech) Party If you don’t see or hear anything new at this year’s Cable Show in Boston (May 21-23), it will be your own fault. Next-generation content interfaces, new approaches for delivering IP content to connected devices and solutions for helping customers...
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