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| 05.24.2007 |
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GET Real, Says GET Interactive
When there's a struggle to build revenue, someone inevitably steps up to fill the moneybags. While technology companies such as Vyyo (formerly the Terayon part) and RGB Networks work with TV-specific models to insert unavoidable advertising onto screens...
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| 04.12.2007 |
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Speaking of Wireless Plays
NextWave Wireless created some small ripples in the wireless pond this week when said it would plunk down up to $135 million to acquire IPWireless, the industry's largest provider and biggest booster of TD-CDMA gear. Most obviously, this meant that IPWireless...
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| 04.12.2007 |
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Explay Projects Big Business for Mobile Video
The telecommunications industry tends to overthink everything - often overlooking the easiest answer. For instance, how many times have you heard "Who wants to watch television on a 2-inch screen?" as a reason why TV on a mobile phone won't ever...
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| 03.15.2007 |
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If You're Not Already Overloaded ...
For the growing number of wireless users who are not completely, voyeuristically immersed in the lives of their friends and acquaintances, a new service from Tivantis called GotZapp may be the answer. GotZapp is a social network that uses the Zirada mobile...
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| 03.01.2007 |
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The Content King
Seamless content on demand, mobile TV, seamless content mobility, portable content players: All these popular concepts have in one thing in common - content. With all eyes on content, now is the right time for the cable industry to look upstream, beyond the...
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| 02.23.2007 |
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Ojo Backs Into H.263
WorldGate Communications, while continuing to push the standalone video phone concept, opened the door a crack to other video-centric communications devices by making its high-performance Ojo phones "backward compatible" with older video phone...
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| 02.15.2007 |
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Unlocking the Video Treasure Chest
Cable operators have buried treasure – aka recorded media – in DVR-enabled set-top boxes in their consumers' homes, and they should give consumers the keys to retrieve it and do with it what they'd like, including carrying it out of the house...
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| 02.15.2007 |
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Digital Signals: Breaking Up Better Be Hard to Do
For those of you who may have missed it while fighting winter storms and sundry strains of influenza, competition has arrived. The hype's over: Verizon is serious about television, and cable is serious about telephony, and the satellite guys know that HD is...
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| 01.03.2007 |
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Cox's Smithpeters on Sprint JV
Last month, we profiled Cox's Craig Smithpeters, manager, advanced technology and standards, in CT's Pipeline, but ran out of room to include his thoughts on the cable operators' joint venture with Sprint Nextel. Here's what Smithpeters had to say: Is the...
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| 12.18.2006 |
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Creators, All of Us
It’s not a secret that over-the-top Web players are using cable’s $100 billion broadband infrastructure to offer video. Yes, most cable operators view them as freeloaders and worry that potential net neutrality rules could effectively sanction...
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| 11.16.2006 |
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Who Controls the Content?
Web-developed content is reminiscent of the early days of cable when 38 networks were pushing for space within a 36-channel universe. In those days, of course, cable operators had ready answers for subs screaming "I want my MTV" … a headshake...
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| 11.13.2006 |
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Next Gen Cable
Get the latest on... Mobile video OCAP Wireless FMC...
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| 11.02.2006 |
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All Battles Start in the Home
With apologies to George Orwell, telecommunications home networking is beginning to resemble Animal Farm, to wit: "Wires Good, Wireless Bad" seems to be a growing video transport mantra. Unlike the humans in Animal Farm, the wireless guys can't be...
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| 10.30.2006 |
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The Quest for Three-Screen Service
The triple play? Old hat. The quad play? On the way. But what about "three screen service?" In-Stat analyst Gerry Kaufhold assures us he didn't invent the term "three screen service," but that it will be come ubiquitous in the not too...
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| 10.26.2006 |
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The Mouse Starts to Roar as a Channel Changer
Here's a news flash: Television viewers don't need a television to view television. Some, in fact, don't even want one. According to a Consumer Internet Barometer produced by The Conference Board and TNS, a pair of custom research companies, lean-forward...
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| 10.19.2006 |
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Mobile TV: An Idea That Won’t Go Away
As the holiday buying season approaches with big box stores hawking TV sets that are just slightly larger than most football fields, the idea of putting video content onto microscopic mobile phone screens is more resilient than a werewolf being peppered by...
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| 09.25.2006 |
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BPL: A Threat or (in-building) Friend?
Broadband over powerline (BPL) technology: Is it a competitor to cable? A source of signal interference? Or a possible collaborator? As noted in last week’s issue of CT’s Pipeline, the emerging BPL industry, which gathered at an event last week ago in...
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| 08.17.2006 |
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Verizon Rolls Out Multi-Room DVRs
Joe Ambeault, Verizon's director of interactive TV applications, likes to tell his team the following story: At the turn of the previous century when auto manufacturers were trying to figure out how to build a car, the top requested feature from consumers was...
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| 06.12.2006 |
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The Sprint JV: Controlled Aggressiveness
Let's say it's the year 2012 and you're a Comcast customer who wants to settle in for an evening of home entertainment after a long day of telecommuting. You grab your mobile phone, as it's become the most important tool for managing your entertainment and...
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| 05.11.2006 |
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DVR Users Migrating to HD
According to a recent study, customers are starting to shift from standard definition digital video recorders (DVRs) to high definition DVRs, particularly in the United States. IMS Research estimated that HD DVRS made up 29 percent of the total worldwide...
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